← back to the archive // episode file

What Are Your Go-To Karaoke Songs?

#karaoke#beatmania#wonderwall#endlesslove#magicmic
the transcript auto-captions · entered into evidence

0:00 [Music] Speaking of singing, hey, do you guys like karaoke? Yeah, >> not really. >> Not at all. Do you sing in the shower? >> No. >> You're just sad in the shower? >> Another day. >> Another day existing. >> Is it because you're like averely talented singer? Because I think if you're really bad, you like it. Or if you're really good, you like it. >> Maybe. >> Maybe you fall right in the middle. >> I like karaoke. >> Maybe. >> I think I like karaoke if I'm wasted. >> I think that's the Yeah, that's the best way. >> I think that's why you like karaoke. >> Be sober, >> right? >> I don't like it. I don't really like it as a like let's see who's good at singing. I like it as let's see who's

0:50 the most fun. >> The people who take it that seriously though ruin the vibe. >> Well, that's what I I We used to have friends that would be like let's go karaoke because they really want to show you like that >> I like it because it's the feelings. You get the feelings out >> and then you know like um >> when you sing the feelings and then everyone knows that feeling you're talking about cuz they can remember that point in their life >> and then everyone's just like you almost can't even hear the person on the mic cuz everyone else is singing this all that. >> Yeah, that's how it should be, man. Yeah. Go off. >> Nonbart answer I would have expected. >> Why? Cuz I'm a ████ robot. You son of a ████ >> Yeah, that was extremely poetic and like human. >> I am a human. Uh, >> I am human. >> Error. >> Incorrect. Let me take that back. >> By the way, we should try to go karaoke sometime. That sounds like a bad idea. But, >> uh, that being said, what when you do

1:40 karaoke, do you guys have like go-to songs? >> Wonder Wall. >> Yeah. Macarena >> Oasis. That is a good one. It's like just like easy enough to like not sound terrible and everybody knows it. >> Everybody will sing along with you for a Wonder Wall. That's a classic. Yeah. You know what song is ████ annoying, but then you can't help it if it comes on, everyone does it, but it's ████ annoying. You're like, why the ████ did anyone choose this ████ song? And then whoever does it is also extra cringe for even choosing it. >> I'm scared. >> It's the um paradise. >> No, no, the uh the Eminem song with Dr. Dre with >> Forget about Dre. >> Yeah. >> Oh, >> why did you choose it? Everyone's going on hell. You know, my favorite skills, >> my favorite place to do forget about Dre though, cuz there's a specific hack that I like to do when I do that.

2:30 >> Oh, you're that ████ >> Yeah, but I do that in Asia where their English isn't good. >> Oh, so you can make fun of him. >> No, so that it it looks impressive as ████ >> That ████ is so fast weapon. >> That's hell funny, dude. >> Do again, man. That's crazy, >> dude. It's really really fun when people don't speak English as their first language and you do forget about Dre. >> It's ████ funny. >> But you wouldn't know cuz you don't travel like me. >> I don't travel like you and I don't do karaoke cuz it's for human beings. >> You know, you know what it is for Filipinos is they always pick um >> Selenion. >> But yeah, look like from that era, but also like old Frank Sinatra, they love they love My Way. I did it. I never even heard the real version for years. I only

3:22 heard it as a Filipino accent, >> like a freaking old grandpa singing it. And I I was like, "Oh, the real song is actually pretty good." >> But the freaking they just love putting that on or they put on a lot of ABBA, >> but like not the normal tracks. They'll love Chikatita cuz it sounds Tagalog. >> Yeah. There's a lot of like funny uh like really old or Whitney Houston they love even though they have no shot most of the time at some of those notes. Yeah, it's really fun. >> What about the Bohemian Rap City? >> Oh man, that's I got to take a breather. That's so ████ long. >> Yeah, >> I got to go do something in the middle. >> That in the car is fun. >> Oh, like like Wayne's World basically. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> What other songs? Oasis Wonder Wall was a good one. >> I like Oasis. Um >> I don't know. One time I went to a Kyogi

4:12 place and they had a it was when I was I think it was in China and they had the song from it so obscure but there's a Nintendo 64 game called uh Mystical Ninja Goiman >> and in that game they would play full Japanese songs in the game. Uh and there's a theme for when the robot comes out and I knew every single word. >> Wait ████ And for some reason, I think it's a real song and I didn't know that. And I was like, "Hey, that's from the thing." And I played it and I sung the whole thing and then people were like, "What the f███?" Like, "How do you know that?" >> Yeah, cuz it's not a known song at all, but it's uh >> it's like ████ Captain Planet's theme song or something. >> It's like Well, cuz I guess I guess that Goeon song might be based on like it it might not be the first time that song

5:02 was like debuted. Maybe it's just like they're using it. But I just knew it from the video game >> cuz there were like whole songs in it. Karaoke. >> How do you say that one? Everybody just screams. Oh yeah. >> Everybody screams. Yeah. >> What about um Panic at the Disco? >> I timed it. Yeah. >> Like songs that everybody can sing is like the best ones to do. >> Call Daddy W. Fun to see though. Those are fun to see. Yeah. >> You know what's really funny is like when we were at >> Solo is funny. You think everybody's going to sing with you. You're like, "S███." >> When you're at Smelly Cat or like the Kogan Bar and and someone not black has to skip the N word, it's so funny. Like to watch them like like make sure they don't say it is so funny >> cuz the whole crowd goes

5:54 do it. >> Everyone's like, "You could do it. >> You could do it. It's art. It's used in art." >> Yeah, dude. That part's really funny. Uh, the Killers. >> What song? >> Bright. Yeah, that's a good one, too. >> Oh, >> I haven't. I've done karaoke like two times in my life. >> When was the last time everybody did karaoke? >> Yeah. I don't >> But that's cuz you actually just sing, right? So, you just >> Yeah. I mean, we were in bands and stuff. >> Child last time I did karaoke. >> Child. >> I was just twinkle twinkle. >> I think it's because >> child I mean like high school. >> It's prevalent in like Korean and Chinese culture type stuff, too. It's very Asian. Do you sing in the car? >> Yeah. >> What do you Which ones do you like? >> Dr. Dre for sure. >> Dr. My god. >> Still Dr.

6:45 [Music] >> I was walking by. >> Driving. >> Yeah. It's fun to sing rap ████ for karaoke. >> Mhm. >> And fail. >> And fail miserably. >> My go-to's always been Macarena though. 100%. >> Macarena. >> Yeah. cuz we would as a joke like when when I was like uh at Aerys's house they used to do karaoke all the time cuz it was Filipino family and it was the magic mic one that gives you a score at the end >> and I would always try to get the highest score on Macaras. So I would just do it over and over until I really knew the words >> and then uh and then I realized that the magic mic >> 3 hours later >> Yeah. I realized that the magic mic actually just scores you on how loud you are. So if you just go the whole time it'll get 100. >> Oh. So it's not even about if you're like key. >> It's not smart enough to know that it's a freaking tool from the You just have to be loud and constant.

7:36 >> So >> yeah. So I really thought I was like I was like, "Yo, yo, I got a 99 on Marina." I made a huge deal out of it. And then we just started. >> So you don't even say any lyrics. You just go >> and it always scores you 100. I'm like, damn. >> Yeah. But that's always a fun. >> Imagine that only works on that song. >> I know it for that old ass mic. You just have to like make it loud. And the best were the uh music videos on cheap karaoke. I don't know if you ever seen that. >> Yeah, it's like random B-roll. >> Yeah. If you have cheap Chinese karaoke, the music videos are like photos of cows slow panning. >> Yeah. >> Looks like a ████ Rola commercial. >> I'll give you a really fun karaoke trivia. So, there's a old If you find like an old laser disc karaoke of endless love, you know, like my endless love. >> Um Yeah. Yeah. And there's um there's a

8:27 video that went on it once they started doing really good videos for Karaoke. Basically, they would shoot music videos that are not real. So, there's one of Endless Love where it's a ballet duo >> and it's a guy and girl and they're just doing ballet the whole time. It's so crappy, but halfway through a ████ titty pops out and it stays out. >> What the ████ >> And they don't even address it. >> They don't fix it. >> No, it's like clearly an accident. >> So, she just keeps dancing with the titty out. >> Yeah. I've never seen it anywhere else, but at the laser disc that we had at Aerys's, she's like going like this and her ████ nipples all the way out. >> Must be in France or something. >> I don't know if you'll find that. It's pretty deep cut. >> I'd rather do like DDR or Guitar Hero. >> Rock Band. Rock Band was so fun. Remember that Rock Band? >> I know, but Guitar Hero had better songs. >> That's true. Yeah, it had better songs.

9:18 >> Guitar Hero was really fun. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Rock. >> Beat Mania was really fun. >> Beat Mania was so fun. The keyboard, dude. Beat Mania is basically a turntable and a bunch of buttons >> and you have to like scratch and hit the buttons to the thing. >> That's if you could afford that. Otherwise, you would play on your literal PC keyboard. >> Oh, yeah. >> I was playing Beat Man on a keyboard, >> dude. Beat Manny was really fun. It had weird songs though that you've never heard of, but it was really fun. >> All the small things. Is that Smash Mouth? >> Yeah. >> Dude, those songs >> That's Smash Mouth. >> System of a Down Smash. System of a Down. Actually, >> it's like drinking culture. So, when you're like drunk and everyone's screaming together, it's so fun. >> And then you play the freaking Imagine when you're at a bar full of uh white people and then Come on, Eileen comes

10:09 on. You're going to feel like that's a private heaven. >> Like the mood gets so heightened. That's like their national anthem. Yeah. >> You don't know the song? Come on. >> That's not our >> You don't know the song. >> If you heard it, if you heard it, you >> think if you heard it, >> what? >> That's a white people anthem. >> Well, one of them. Yeah, they love that song. They love Come on, Eileen. >> Come on. >> Come on, Eileene. >> Oh, come on. >> Come on. Come on. I was like, "What kind of nerdy ass song?" >> A ████ perverted song. >> I swear I'm human. I swear I'm human. >> I am like you.

// end of tape