Karaoke Week is Upon Us 🎙

• [David Arquette Would Love to Serenade You With Some David Bowie](#toc_item_0) • [What Do Celebs Sing?](#toc_item_1) • [The Origins of Karaoke](#toc_item_2) • [Tell Me a Karaoke Story](#toc_item_3) • [All the Karaoke Night Munchies You Need](#toc_item_4) • [Snack Time](#toc_item_5) • [People Are Looking Up These Lyrics With Alarming Frequency](#toc_item_6) • [The Words of the Moment](#toc_item_7) • [How to Build Your Own Karaoke Bar at Home](#toc_item_8) • [Make Your Home a Bar!](#toc_item_9) [( [] Well, just like that, in a blink of an eye, it got cold and I got pale. I’m going back to New York soon, gonna watch the leaves change and let one tear fall down my (pale...) cheek in remembrance of lost youth. Then it’s takeout and 90s movies for the rest of the fall/winter to keep the sparkle in my eyes through the distanced malaise. Honestly, I think it will be kind of nice to curl up next to a roaring video of a fireplace and just veg. Pro-hack for urban quarantine: If you put on some gentle folky music and make a soup with potatoes in it, it feels like you’re in the country. But enough about me. It’s an exciting time for Thrillist, because today, and for a little while, the content’s gonna be all about….drumroll...KARAOKE. I know what you’re thinking: isn’t karaoke one of the most dangerous things you could do right now? Yes, but that’s what makes it fun, and we have to keep invoking its memory if we’re gonna get through this insane time. Today’s newsletter includes some celebrity karaoke playlists, a list of the best karaoke snacks, an article about karaoke’s Japanese roots, an article about the most searched lyrics right now, and some karaoke cocktail essentials. This is going to give me a new lease on life. I’m going to sing “Arms Wide Open” by Creed alone in my room along with a Youtube video while eating some day-old pie and call it a “lifestyle” experience. Let me know if you wanna hear. [-Ned Riseley, Newsletter Contributor]( [ [( karaoke week [] [David Arquette Would Love to Serenade You With Some David Bowie]( And Charlie Puth likes singing Whitney Houston. A few weeks ago I followed Charlie Puth on Instagram in what many critics are calling “a very random move,” considering that I do not listen to Charlie Puth. Ah well, this article is all about what different celebrities like to sing at karaoke. I think that would be a fun game, incidentally: someone names a celebrity and then the other players have to pair them with a karaoke song. I want to hear Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson sing “Landslide.” Could be beautiful. [] [What Do Celebs Sing?]( [( [( karaoke week [] [The Origins of Karaoke]( It’s easy to forget, in a world that’s saturated with karaoke, from James Corden sing-a-longs to drunken Williamsburg birthday parties, that karaoke has a long and storied history. It was invented in the 1970s in Japan, and continues to be a huge part of the culture there. This piece by Frankie Caracciolo looks at the history of the pastime and has some anecdotes from Japanese karaoke enthusiasts about what singing karaoke means to them. [] [Tell Me a Karaoke Story]( [( [( karaoke week [] [All the Karaoke Night Munchies You Need]( Now that we're road tripping instead of luxuriating in hotels -- and/or reading the news more often -- getting quality shut eye is a bit more difficult than it was last year at this time. But we shouldn't have to rely on sleep medications to put us out night after night. We should be able to rely on *checks notes* PepsiCo's newest relaxation beverage, Driftwell? [] [Snack Time]( [( *Sponsored Ads List [( karaoke week [] [People Are Looking Up These Lyrics With Alarming Frequency]( I would have thought the most searched lyric of the current moment was the lyrics to [“Rhinestone Cowboy” by Glen Campbell](, but apparently I’m out of touch (for the first time ever). Look at this list to see all of the lyrics that people are searching for in 2020. Perhaps it holds some kind of symbolic key to the deeper meaning of this year. Perhaps our salvation as a human race is embedded in the lyrics of these songs. Maybe WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW, IS LOVE, SWEET LOVE. [] [The Words of the Moment]( [( *720x300 Ad Banner [( karaoke week [] [How to Build Your Own Karaoke Bar at Home]( A big part of karaoke culture is the beverages that make singing in public possible. Those tend to be of the alcoholic variety, though I suppose it’s also important to remember to stay hydrated to keep those cords lubricated for the key changes in “Love on Top.” This article has a great list of all the essential items for making your own at-home bar for karaoke fun. If you need me, I will be eating shrimp chips and drinking a “La Bamba” under a blacklight while queuing up a synth-heavy karaoke version of “Both Sides Now” by Joni Mitchell (to be accompanied by a slideshow of pictures from socially cramped gatherings from 2018). [] [Make Your Home a Bar!]( [( *Footer 728x90 Thrillist Editorial - Favorable reviews cannot be bought. Read our [Terms & Conditions](, [Privacy Policy]( Delivered by Thrillist.com, 568 Broadway, Suite 507, New York, NY 10012 [212.966.2263]( Sent to {EMAIL}. Add themove@newsletter.thrillist.com to your safe-sender list so our emails get to your inbox. [View On The Web]( [Content Settings]( [Unsubscribe](