Do you like singing karaoke style?

I don’t go to karaoke personally, but I know a lot of people that do!

I would absolutely love to sing karaoke, but I cannot sing very well (thanks to being traumatized by my third grade teacher, who drove the love of singing out of me, by humiliating me in public) and I am rather shy. It looks like so much fun, but I could never bring myself to do it, although I enjoy listening to other people do it.

If you have the right venue and the right group of people in the right part of town, it can work out marvelously. I don’t know why, but in my town Asians, especially Filipinos seems to be drawn to karaoke. There’s whole sections of the Asian parts of our city that are full of karaoke clubs, way more so than in the rest of the city.

If your friend decides to open a club, have him do some type of surveying to find out the demagraphics for the folks who love karaoke.

Then don’t just have it be a karaoke bar (bars are a real turn off for me, the fact that karaoke is usually in bars and I don’t drink and don’t like to be around drunks or in dark sleazy places) have it be a restaurant that serves some type of themed food. Maybe it’s a tapas restaurant, or a small plates, or a place that specializes in fun, interesting appetizers and fun drinks restaurant or a burgers and dogs place with lots of interesting takes on burgers and dogs, or a fancy toppings pizza restaurant.

The place should have a killer sound system (maybe with some type of auto-tune ajustment feature for those who want/need it) and some big screens onto which you can project the singers doing their thing. Have great lighting, great ambience, great furniture etc. Make it a really fun place to be whether you are going to sing or not and they will come.

Possible name for the Venue (feel free to steal it) Oh Say Can You Sing? And have it be a restaurant that serves new takes on old American comfort foods like mac and cheese, burgers and dogs, fries and rings, meat loaf, fried chicken, egg salad sandwiches, grilled cheese, spaghetti and meatballs and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

@Kardamom Thanks! I would definitely repeat these ideas to my friend. Very helpful!

I love Karaoke, but a local place I went to a few years ago seemed to be far too serious about it. I want to just go and have fun, not worry about the quality of the product.
My daughter likes a Karaoke bar where the Karaoke is free, unless you want to sing Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing, for which you have to pay $5. And someone ends up doing that every night.

I love karaoke, but I am not a fan of karaoke places that are solely for karaoke. I like bars that have karaoke and dancing as well as just hanging out.

I hate karaoke. It’s where all of the tone deaf go to congregate.

There’s a huge karaoke subculture in NYC, with contests and everything. the regular kind is OK, but we also have live band karaoke, and karaoke for different genres. There’s a metal one on the Lower East Side, I think, or there was until recently.

I kind of got traumatized off of it after I tried it in 6th grade and some random assholes were saying things like “that kid sounds like a girl!”. I mean, it was true, but it hurt my feelings… :(

But I actually think it’s kind of fun. I can’t sing very well, but I’m not tone deaf. I can carry a tune; I can sing on-key. And now that I’ve been studying Japanese (and I’ve always loved Japanese music), I’d really like to sing to some Japanese songs.

I LOVE singing Karaoke! It kind of sucks that none of my friends do though. last couple times I ended up going alone.

@FluffyChicken That’s why I was trying to suggest to the OP that they tell their friend to make a karaoke club that is also something more, like a yummy restaurant. That way, the non-singers would be more likely to go there too. What kind of place would your non-singing friends enjoy going to?