According to my extensive Wikipedia research, there are 35,684 "song rooms"--or private karaoke rooms--currently operating in South Korea. Everyday 1.9 million Koreans sing their hearts out to a room of their nearest and dearest. In Ann Arbor, Michigan, there are currently two operating song rooms visited by at least four people in a given night. And yes, those four people were me and three friends.
Stephanie's sole (to my knowledge) birthday wish for her celebratory girls' night out was to karaoke for the first time. Her wish was my command...
...if by "karaoke" she meant to gather in a tiny private room above a nondescript Korean cafe while belting out terrible (by which I mean awesome) songs as song lyrics bounced along a flat screen TV that simultaneously broadcast a series of tragic Korean dramas that were completely at odds with our cheerful karaoke songs. In short, it was amazing.
Let's just say that there was a tambourine involved. And diva hands.
And yes, even the Macarena.
Well done team, well done. We discovered that the best karaoke song of the evening was, hands down, "That Thing You Do" (I dare you not to sing along to that, so catchy!). We even scored a 99/100 on that one (this karaoke place scores how well you do on each song, Rock Band-style). Have you ever been karaoke'ing? If so, what is your go-to song? My shortlist = Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" or Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline."
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