What’s your go-to Karaoke song?

No trip to Japan would be complete without a visit to Karaoke – or so we’ve been told.  My mom’s cousin, Tatsuyuki, met us at our hotel and we ventured to a Karaoke spot – an 8 story high building with small rooms along small hallways, accessed by an even smaller elevator.

When we entered the building, Tatsuyuki took care of business – reserving a room and ordering drinks.  Then we headed to our tiny karaoke room – that was really hot.  Like Nick said, “it made an already uncomfortable situation, even more uncomfortable.”  Someone was NOT looking forward to singing 🙂

Tatsuyuki broke the ice with a rousing rendition of “I left my heart in San Francisco.”  Since he had originally thought we were from LA, I think this was a complete coincidence.

Then it was our turn.  And we kinda froze.  Since none of us were seasoned karaoke-ists, we had no real go-to song.  I mean, when I was around 5 or 6, I think my go to song was Locomotion and Kokomo.  I guess I had a thing for o’s?  But we came up empty.  Eventually we settled on Don’t Stop Believing, Buddy Holly (Weezer), and Piano Man.  At which point I realized I knew very few of the lyrics to Piano Man.

We interspersed our picks with music videos of Tatsuyuki’s son – Naoto – who dances for a couple Japanese boy bands.  Which was fun. (he’s on the top row, 2nd from the right)
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