to be annoyed that karaoke seems to be mostly for mainstream white guys

[NotQuiteCockney]

We're going out tonight, and DH pointed me at the website for the karaoke place, so I could see what music there was.

There's no Belle and Seb. There's no Public Enemy. There's no Liz Phair or PJ Harvey. Grrr.

eh?

who

Not quite sure Liz Phair or PJ Harvey, would be considered as 'black' music?

Karaoke is hideous anyway.

So what is there? Belle and Seb not really mainstream karaoke music anyway.

There's karaoke Kate Bush, which has got to be weirder, surely?

I know Belle and Seb isn't mainstream - hence the use of the term "mainstream" in the tread titles. Yes, Liz Phair and PJ aren't black, but they're not men. There's no Billie Holiday, either. No Ani Defranco (lots of gay man music though, so I didn't add 'straight' to my list of qualifiers).

(This is private room karaoke, not the public stuff - I've not tried the public stuff, it sounds scary. The small room stuff is fun.)

Look, karaoke is mainstream. YABU.

Actually, is this thread a piss-take?

Ah, but I want to sing Belle and Seb. I don't want to sing Britney.

I don't think it's a piss-take entirely, I'm just having a whinge.

pmsl at karaoke Public Enemy
YABU and a bit silly

We did private karaoke a fortnight ago and sang things like:

Wham
Diana Ross
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
Elaine Paige and Barbara Streisand
Irene Cara
Barry Manilow

Not your kind of thing?

Don't go then?

C'mon now PJ Harvey is bad enough when she sings it herself, the idea of karaoke PJ is unthinkable

Yes, I am being silly, a bit.

Who or what is Irene Cara?

Wham is fine. The rest scare me, a bit.

i have no idea who those cool hip young people are.

i have sung salt n pepa on karaoke...does that count?

im just picturing it.."i'll show you my gun, my uzi weighs a ton, because im public enemy number one" i think i'd like public enemy karaoke actually lol

omg can you imagine karaoke public enemy

fight the power

Shame it's not xmas yet, you culd have done fairytale of new york

isn't the whole point of karaoke to get steaming drunk, clasp your best friend round the neck and racously sing "i will survive"

tis not the time for navel gazing introspection

Find a karaoke where you can sing Belle and Seb?

I would have thought mainstream pubs/clubs etc have mainstream karaoke. If you want hip hop etc, go to a hip hop pub/club

Irene Cara sang 'fame'
You have to sing that at karaoke, tis the law

Irene Cara fame you know

live forever and whatnot

Actually, we have some MC Hammer on the Wii that you can sing along with and it's bloody difficult. It sounds easy, but it's really really hard.

Come on, surely Billie Holiday isn't too much to ask for. They had a tiny bit of Nina Simone. No Jacques Brel. I didn't even bother looking for Gainsbourg. (Should have put English-speaking in the title, I guess! )