The Search for the Perfect Videoke Song
I have yet to find the perfect videoke song for my voice. I would often do Spice Girls or Britney (“Sometimes” is a favorite), but I still haven’t found the song that I actually feel like I could sing well.
I used to be super conscious about singing videoke in front of a lot of people. When I was younger, I was part of the choir, so people kind of expected me to have a good voice. But I figured out long ago that my voice was made for group singing, and wasn’t meant to be a solo act. Thrust a mic in my hand, and my voice changes. It’s weird, but it really happens. Perhaps I’m the singing equivalent of a choker?
I’ve kind of outgrown the shyness, and now just go for it whenever there’s videoke, but it doesn’t mean that I’m able to show off my vocal prowess (not that there is anything solid to show off to begin with)—I’ve just realized that videoke isn’t about who can do a Christina Aguilera song best; rather, it’s simply about having fun.
Over the weekend, my co-workers and I celebrated our art director’s birthday by going videoke-ing, and I just let loose and sang off-key without caring. I whipped out my Pussycat Dolls moves as I sang “Don’t Cha,” and shook my booty to Beyonce’s “Check on It.” (The others programmed it for me, but I ended up dancing to it because it was just way too hard to sing.) So it seems that my videoke talent lies not in the singing, but in the dancing.
Still, it’d be nice to find a signature song. I’ve been wanting to do the Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself” but I haven’t found a videoke place that’s got it in its lineup. I tried “Heaven Is a Place on Earth,” and I think I did OK. But there’s got to be that one song that I could nail, the way my dad does “My Way” perfectly. Any suggestions?