Singaporean KTV

Today is my teammate Eileen’s birthday, and she invited me to go to the KTV with her and her friends from the office – Di from our team, and Su, How Yang and Michael from the neighboring cubicles. Funny coincidence that exactly a year ago, Jen, my teammate then, also had her birthday and we also celebrated it the same way, only we call it videoke in the Philippines.

Coincidentally, this month’s Reader’s Digest features an article dedicated to the Karaoke. The article mentioned that it was invented by a Japanese man named Daisuke Inoue back in 1969. The first ever karaoke machine was made from an eight-track player, a miniature guitar amplifier and a coin box and its name, karaoke literally meant “empty orchestra” – the Japanese music industry term for backing tapes used by singers who performed without a band.

It was my first time to go to a KTV in Singapore. We went to Planet KTV in Orchard, and a room for four “golden hours” inclusive of a couple of drinks/head and some chips and fruit slices costs around S$20 per pax. It looks just like the videoke places back home. The songs offered, though, were more on Chinese and English songs, with a few selections of Malay, Indian, Indonesian, Thai and Tagalog songs. They started singing some Chinese songs and I was stunned when they started singing the Chinese version of “Way Back Into Love.” They asked me to choose a Tagalog song since they have never heard one before. Their Tagalog list was limited to songs starting with letter D and E, and so I thought it best to pick Dadalhin rather than Di Ko Kayang Tanggapin. As I sang, they started waving their arms and laughing, and I could not help but be amused because the song is supposed to be a sad one. When I was done, they told me, “You’re quite good leh!” and “Filipinos are good singers!” Wow, such low standards in singing? LOL.

Here is a list of songs that I love to punch in during KTV/videoke sessions. At the end of the day, what you really want to sing are songs that everyone can either sing or dance along with.

Personal Faves (meaning, my voice can handle it)
All or Nothing by O Town
Before I Let You Go by Freestyle
Looking Through the Eyes of Love by Melissa Manchester

Senti
Lost in Your Eyes by Debbie Gibson
If I Believe by Patti Austin
I’ll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me by MYMP
4 Seasons of Loneliness by Boyz II Men
Bakit Ngayon Ka Lang by Freestyle and Pops Fernandez
Again by Janet Jackson

Will Get People Singing
Total Eclipse of the Heart
Lucky by Britney Spears
Umbrella by Rihanna
I Never Really Loved You Anyway by the Corrs
Magasin by Eraserheads
You’re in Love by Wilson Phillips
Can’t Fight the Moonlight by LeAnne Rhimes
Torn by Natalie Imbruglia
Bitch by Meredith Brooks
Crazy for You by Madonna

Will Get People Moving
Fame
Dangerous by Roxette
Borderline by Madonna
You Give Love a Bad Name by Bon Jovi
Narda by Kamikaze
Lakas Tama by Siakol
Kisapmata by Rivermaya
Laklak by Teeth
Beautiful Liar by Beyonce and Shakira
Womanizer by Britney Spears

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