kellaroot

On Friday, I joined some ladies for some epic karaoke at a dive bar in Brooklyn that must be the best bar ever, because I kept tweeting about it all night (sorry Twitter followers).

Now I love karaoke and take it pretty seriously, but I rely on a mental list of “standards” that I fall back on such as anything in the Carrie Underwood repertoire, TI’s ‘What You Know’ (which has been replaced for the time being with Usher ‘Love in the Club’ — always a crowd fave) and Whitney Houston (which I was able to hone using our SingStar game at home).

When I’m in the situation I pretty much freeze and can’t really improv when it comes to choosing new, fun songs. If I try to go off book I’ll pick something like Miley Cyrus’s ‘The Climb’ and regret it later. For the past few years I’ve tried to keep a running list of songs that when I hear out and about in my normal life and think “Man, this is a good karaoke jam,” I can have it ready for my next karaoke adventure. Apparently, I’ve failed at making this list because on Friday when I opened the “Karaoke” note on my phone, I only saw one song name staring up at me: “Groove Is In The Heart.” At that moment, keeping my karaoke song list became a late-breaking New Year’s resolution to help make my karaoke adventures more spontaneous and fun.

I didn’t sing that song, and when on earth I added it to my list, I have no idea.  Maybe I’ll do it next time, though.