I love karaoke and have spent years painstakingly crafting and empirically testing a list of perfect tracks. These are those tracks.Â
EASY (low-effort crowd pleasers):Â
Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus
Cool by Gwen Stefani
Hand in my Pocket by Alanis MorissetteÂ
Torn by Natalie ImbrugliaÂ
INTERMEDIATE (either stylistically harder or easy but requires moxie):Â
Laid by James
I Touch Myself by the DivinylsÂ
Cherry Bomb by the RunawaysÂ
Common People by Pulp HARD (requires moxie and technical skill):Â
Hook by Blues TravellerÂ
Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind(If you pull off Semi-Charmed Life in a public karaoke setting, you are potentially about to fuck the most bitches that anyone has ever fucked. Personal note: I can run this track start to finish without so much as GLANCING at the lyrics..)
BONUS: I'm So Tired by Fugazi. In my opinion, this is the funniest karaoke track ever. Play it really straight.
A master at writing genre fiction as literary fiction. Multiple narratives, stellar characters, a time-hopping, pre- and post-apocalyptic plot, and a killer miniseries adaptation to watch once you’re finished
I only saw her perform twice, but I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone else live more than once (though I obviously would like to see a lot of them live again). At least I can say one of the times I saw her was her very first US performance 🥹💔
