Duets: Can You Karaoke To 'Hamilton'? Plus, Acceptable Journey Songs!
Back this week with karaoke advice to carry you through the weekend, it’s Duets–your very own karaoke advice column where there’s only one rule: Absolutely No “Don’t Stop Believin’”.
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Why do people love Journey so much? Weddings... bars... karaoke.... I'm over it.
–Michelle
Girl, I feel you. I think people choose to sing “Don’t Stop Believin’,” AKA the No. 1 karaoke offense, because they know at a basic bar joint it’ll be a hit. Karaoke is ultimately about crowd-pleasing–much like any performance–and it’s a (bad!) song that everyone knows. And honestly? Blame Glee.
But while that song remains Journey’s worst offense by far, that doesn’t mean the band doesn’t have other songs to offer. Journey happens to have quite the collection of slow ballads–songs perfect for karaoke, because they build slowly into giant choruses that the entire bar knows. Next time you’re looking for something crowd-pleasing, I beg of you to move away from the cliché, and toward something more like “Faithfully” (“I’m for-ev-er youuuuuuurs”) or “Open Arms” (“And now I come...to you....with op...en....arms”) or, even, “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” (“If. He. Ev-er. Hurts. You”). Just because we’re banning the ballad of small town girls in lonely worlds doesn’t mean we have to write off Journey altogether.
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