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Most Popular Karaoke Songs in Desi Parlance

 

 

Hugh Jackman, Jackie Chan and Taylor Swift swear by it. Even Mandy Moore confessed she had a perfectly happy childhood karaoke-ing to Madonna. With so many karaoke bars in town, let your hair down and march down to give some lip-service to the nearest bar. Here’s a leg up from us – a compilation of all-time favourites and some surprises when it comes to karaoke-ing your way through town; we’ve even youtubed the lyrics for you so you won’t get caught like Cameron Diaz in My Best Friend’s Wedding!

 

Sugar Town – 500 Days of Summer

Who wouldn’t want to live in the bubbly world of Zooey Deschanel-meets-Gordon Lewitt. We say stay hungover over this for a while yet, at the expense of doing adorkable stuff in front of love interest who randomly asked you out on a is-this-a-date-or-no and now you’re a little too drunk to save yourself from singing the one song that won’t get you any bonus points. We say, it’s worth it, just coz you got to sing it on stage swaying from side to side, officer.

 

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I Want to Break Free – Queen

A song that inevitably features in the beginning, middle and end of a karaoke session (on a bad day for us, all three of them.) Post the second time; we excuse you if you’d rather sing its well known Malayali loving parody. We like our Appam Meen Curry too, you see.

 

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Zombie – The Cranberries

The song is the bane of college music society selectors who have to bear Glee inspired freshmen-hopefuls rendering screeching versions. It can also be called the boon of karaoke enthusiasts. Give in to your heart’s desire, and sing along. And then, maybe not too much. Sing aloud You can’t find the tears that ain’t coming post a breakup and you might find emotionally spazzed out friends in the audience doing ‘em shifty eyes. Nada Nada.

 

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Adele Someone Like You

There is some closure to be gotten from going up on stage and singing Someone Like You (doing the shifty eyes-shuffling feet routine already ahem ahem). Score to you if you can word them at the speed she does and don’t skip beats ha! No seriously. It’s a feat. You will be remembered in Adele karaoke history.

 

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Rockstar Nickelback

Of course you’re a rockstar. ‘Least on stage with the ultimate feel good song you can have the credit card with no limit and your own star on Hollywood Boulevard.  Sure, there is a huge danger it might stay with you for a week’s worth of shower sessions before you’re done with it. Make that a week’s worth of shower sessions for whoever was present there.

 

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Ice Ice Baby –Vanilla Ice

If you can groove and sing this number at the same time, respect. No one got swag better that evening than you, bro. Best part, any non-singer can karaoke off to this one and not bother about being out-of-tune.

 

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Beatles – Hey Jude

Sometimes, if you did the rounds of karaoke bars in Delhi off late, you will not be blamed for thinking that’s the only song the boys-with-mops came up with. Of all the easily sing-along songs they have written, Hey Jude remains a perennial favourite for unfathomable reasons.

 

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No Doubt – Don’t Speak

Yes, THAT song. Someone has to sing it. You cannot fight it. You cannot will that annoying somebody Darth Vader style from preening on stage in her still shrill voice. We got you. There is little to be done about it.

 

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Drops of Jupiter – Train

This song falls right into the One Direction/Daniel Powter/John Mayer category. Puppy love loves me this genre. Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance, five hour phone conversation? Falls right in line with no love, no pride, no deep-fried chicken.. wait did someone say chicken and fried together?

 

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Dont Cha – Pussycat Dolls

The Pussycat Dolls are dead. Long live Pussycat dolls. You might have screamed yourself hoarse about how women have been objectified in this song, but it still remains one of those catchy numbers of theirs that has relevance even when you don’t have the video.

 

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Here Without You – 3 Doors Down

Definitely an end of the evening song when you’re drunk enough to handle the onslaught of hurt, rejected lovers pretending to pick arbitrary songs (see what they did there?) at the pretext of karaoke. What you need, my man, is a talk with that bartender down there. No seriously. Lovely song and all that.

 

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Mr Brightside The Killers

This is for the choir friendly, sensitive song that will always incite polite laughter and awkward silences afterwards. Go ahead, sing it, we know you want to show off your singing prowess, wink wink.

 

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I Kissed A Girl Katy Perry

Boys. Before you go up on stage and state the obvious, (and get pelted for stating the said obvious) let your female friends handle this number. Oomphy and gender-bender-ey (I wish Katy Perry weren’t so apologetic about it though) this song has got it all. Also, bonus points for being easy to sing.

 

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Whitney Houston I Wanna Dance With Somebody

Glee made this song for us, and Tanmay Bhat ruined it. A spunky number, which will make the club get up and dance, (and forget all about you *cough-warning-cough*) this remains a very popular song for karaoke, especially if back up vocalists are present to up the ante. As Tanmay hath said so very profoundly, Eyy Whitney Houston, thumka lagaa!

 

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