Karaoke Songs for Karaoke Night!!
Karaoke Songs By Artist:
*’s = karaoke cd’s on the way via mail.. may or may not be here by karaoke night date..
| Song Title | Artist |
| Bye Bye Bye | ’N Sync |
| When I’m Gone | 3 Doors Down |
| Because Of You (remix version) | 98 Degrees |
| Beautiful Life | Ace Of Base |
| The Sign | Ace Of Base |
| Take On Me | A-HA |
| Hand In My Pocket | Alanis Morisette |
| Ironic | Alanis Morisette |
| Thank U (remix version) | Alanis Morisette |
| Uninvited (remix version) | Alanis Morisette |
| You Learn (remix version) | Alanis Morisette |
| You Oughta Know | Alanis Morisette |
| Black Velvet | Alannah Myles |
| Fallin’ | Alicia Keys |
| Rush | Aly & AJ |
| Breathe (2 am) | Anna Nalick |
| RESPECT | Aretha Franklin |
| Boyfriend | Ashlee Simpson |
| The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling) | Atomic Kitten |
| Don’t Tell Me | Avril Lavigne |
| I’m With You | Avril Lavigne |
| Taking Care Of Business | B.T.O. |
| I’ll Never Break Your Heart (remix version) | Backstreet Boys |
| Quit Playin’ Games | Backstreet Boys |
| Testing 1, 2, 3 | Barenaked Ladies |
| Stand By Me | Ben E. King |
| *Wind Beneath My Wings | Bette Midler |
| Halo | Beyonce |
| Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) | Beyonce |
| Baby Boy | Beyonce & Sean Paul |
| Check On It | Beyonce feat. Slim Thug |
| Rock Around The Clock | Bill Haley & The Comets |
| The Time Of My Life | Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes |
| Your Loving Arms | Billy Ray Martin |
| Lean On Me | Bill Withers |
| My Humps | Black Eyed Peas |
| Where’s The Love? | Black Eyed Peas |
| Splish Splash | Bobby Darin |
| Blue Velvet | Bobby Vinton |
| Roses Are Red | Bobby Vinton |
| Living On A Prayer | Bon Jovi |
| Amanda | Boston |
| I’ll Make Love To You | Boys II Men |
| Have You Ever (remix version) | Brandy |
| Baby One More Time | Britney Spears |
| Baby One More Time (remix version) | Britney Spears |
| I’m A Slave For You | Britney Spears |
| Toxic | Britney Spears |
| Inside Your Heaven | Carrie Underwood |
| Because You Loved Me | Celine Dion |
| My Heart Will Go On | Celine Dion |
| Run It! | Chris Brown |
| Beautiful | Christina Aguilera |
| Genie In A Bottle (remix version) | Christina Aguilera |
| The Voice Within | Christina Aguilera |
| What A Girl Wants | Christina Aguilera |
| Johnny B. Goode | Chuck Berry |
| Speed Of Sound | Coldplay |
| Viva La Vida | Coldplay |
| Where The Boys Are | Connie Francis |
| It’s Only Make Believe | Conway Twitty |
| Do You Really Want To Hurt Me | Culture Club |
| Listen To Your Heart | D.H.T. |
| Have A Nice Life | Dana Dawson |
| Feels Like Tonight | Daughtry |
| What About Now | Daughtry |
| Crush | David Archuletta |
| Light On | David Cook |
| Time Of My Life | David Cook |
| Breakfast At Tiffany’s | Deep Blue Something |
| Smoke On The Water | Deep Purple |
| Love Bites | Def Leppard |
| Pour Some Sugar On Me | Def Leppard |
| Runaway | Del Shannon |
| Here We Go Again | Demi Lovato |
| Independent Women Part 1 (Charlie’s Angels) | Destiny’s Child |
| L L Lies (remix version) | Diana King |
| White Flag | Dido |
| Runaround Sue | Dion |
| Heaven | DJ Sammy |
| American Pie | Don McLean |
| Electric Avenue | Eddy Grant |
| Blue Eyes | Elton John |
| Crocodile Rock | Elton John |
| Daniel | Elton John |
| Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart | Elton John |
| Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me | Elton John |
| Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | Elton John |
| Rocket Man | Elton John |
| Sacrifice | Elton John |
| All Shook Up | Elvis Presley |
| Blue Suede Shoes | Elvis Presley |
| Can’t Help Falling In Love | Elvis Presley |
| Don’t Be Cruel | Elvis Presley |
| Heartbreak Hotel | Elvis Presley |
| Hound Dog | Elvis Presley |
| Unbelievable | EMF |
| Lose Yourself | Eminem |
| Addicted | Enrique Iglesias |
| Hungry Eyes | Eric Carmen |
| Carrie | Europe |
| The Final Countdown | Europe |
| Here Comes The Rain Again | Eurythmics |
| Going Under | Evanescence |
| Breathe | Faith Hill |
| There You’ll Be (Pearl Harbor) | Faith Hill |
| Dance Dance | Fall Out Boy |
| Sugar We’re Going Down | Fall Out Boy |
| Big Girls Don’t Cry | Fergie |
| She Drives Me Crazy | Fine Young Cannibals |
| 100 Years | Five For Fighting |
| Don’t Stop | Fleetwood Mac |
| All Right Now | Free |
| When There Was Me And You | Gabriella |
| Faith | George Michael |
| Slide (remix version) | Goo Goo Dolls |
| Hollaback Girl | Gwen Stefani |
| Maneater | Hall & Oates |
| Girl In The Band | Haylie Duff |
| We’re All In This Together | High School Musical Cast |
| Come Clean | Hilary Duff |
| I Can’t Wait | Hilary Duff |
| So Yesterday | Hilary Duff |
| Theme Song To Lizzie McGuire | Hilary Duff |
| What Dreams Are Made Of | Hilary Duff |
| Why Not | Hilary Duff |
| New Sensation | INXS |
| Fame | Irene Cara |
| What A Feeling (Flashdance) | Irene Cara |
| Virtual Insanity (remix version) | Jamiroquai |
| Together Again | Janet Jackson |
| Me And Bobby McGee | Janis Joplin |
| I’m Yours | Jason Mraz |
| Somebody To Love | Jefferson Airplane |
| Baby I Love You | Jennifer Lopez |
| If You Had My Love (remix version) | Jennifer Lopez |
| Jenny From The Block | Jennifer Lopez |
| Play | Jennifer Lopez |
| Great Balls Of Fire | Jerry Lee Lewis |
| Right Here, Right Now | Jesus Jones |
| 2 Become 1 | Jewel |
| The Middle | Jimmy Eat World |
| *I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll | Joan Jett |
| Ordinary People | John Legend |
| Your Body Is A Wonderland | John Mayer |
| Greased Lightnin’ | John Travolta |
| Summer Nights | John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John |
| You’re The One That I Want | John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John |
| We Go Together | John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John & Cast |
| Battlefield | Jordin Sparks |
| Over The Rainbow | Judy Garland |
| Crazy (Save The Last Dance) | K-Ci and Jo-Jo |
| Gold Digger | Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx |
| Over The Rainbow | Katharine McPhee |
| Hot N Cold | Katy Perry |
| Waking Up In Vegas | Katy Perry |
| A Moment Like This | Kelly Clarkson |
| Behind These Hazel Eyes | Kelly Clarkson |
| Walk Away | Kelly Clarkson |
| Let It Rock | Kevin Rudolph feat. Lil Wayne |
| Use Somebody | Kings Of Leon |
| Be My Lover (remix version) | La Bouche |
| Sweet Dreams | La Bouche |
| Just Dance | Lady Gaga |
| Poker Face | Lady Gaga |
| Call Me | Le Click |
| How Do I Live | LeAnn Rimes |
| Better In Time | Leona Lewis |
| Bleeding Love | Leona Lewis |
| It’s My Party | Lesley Gore |
| You And Me | Lifehouse |
| Pimpin’ All Over The World | Ludacris |
| Like A Virgin | Madonna |
| Material Girl | Madonna |
| You Sang To Me (Runaway Bride) | Marc Anthony |
| My All | Mariah Carey |
| Vision Of Love | Mariah Carey |
| We Belong Together | Mariah Carey |
| Dancing In The Street | Martha & The Vandellas |
| Heat Wave | Martha & The Vandellas |
| U Can’t Touch This | MC Hammer |
| Shake It | Metro Station |
| *Another Part Of Me | Michael Jackson |
| *Bad | Michael Jackson |
| *Beat It | Michael Jackson |
| *Ben | Michael Jackson |
| *Billie Jean | Michael Jackson |
| *Black Or White | Michael Jackson |
| *Dirty Diana | Michael Jackson |
| *Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough | Michael Jackson |
| *I Just Can’t Stop Loving You | Michael Jackson |
| *I’ll Be There | Michael Jackson |
| *Remember The Time | Michael Jackson |
| *Rock With You | Michael Jackson |
| *Way You Make Me Feel | Michael Jackson |
| *You Are Not Alone | Michael Jackson |
| *You Rock My World | Michael Jackson |
| Are You Happy Now | Michelle Branch |
| Girl You Know It’s True | Milli Vanilli |
| Torn | Natalie Imbruglia |
| Pocket Full Of Sunshine | Natasha Bedingfield |
| Unwritten | Natasha Bedingfield |
| Dilemma | Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland |
| Promiscuous | Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland |
| What’s Left Of Me | Nick Lachey |
| If Today Was Your Last Day | Nickelback |
| Photograph | Nickelback |
| Savin’ Me | Nickelback |
| Don’t Speak | No Doubt |
| Hella Good (Keep On Dancin’) | No Doubt |
| It’s My Life | No Doubt |
| Just A Girl | No Doubt |
| Don’t Know Why | Norah Jones |
| Hopelessly Devoted To You | Olivia Newton-John |
| Hey Ya! | Outkast |
| Alive | P.O.D. |
| *Hit Me With Your Best Shot | Pat Benatar |
| Lonely Day | Paul Anka |
| Every Time You Go Away | Paul Young |
| Where Have All The Cowboys Gone | Paula Cole |
| When A Man Loves A Woman | Percy Sledge |
| Leaving On A Jet Plane | Peter, Paul & Mary |
| Baby I Love Your Way | Peter Frampton |
| Downtown | Petula Clark |
| Get The Party Started | Pink |
| Just Like A Pill | Pink |
| So What | Pink |
| Trouble | Pink |
| I’m So Excited | Pointer Sisters |
| Every Rose Has Its Thorn | Poison |
| Don’t Cha | Pussycat Dolls |
| Bohemian Rhapsody | Queen |
| Don’t Stop Me Now | Queen |
| Hammer To Fall | Queen |
| I Want It All | Queen |
| Radio Ga Ga | Queen |
| Tie Your Mother Down | Queen |
| We Are The Champions | Queen |
| We Will Rock You | Queen |
| I Believe I Can Fly | R. Kelly |
| The World’s Greatest | R. Kelly |
| Losing My Religion | R.E.M. |
| Shiny Happy People | R.E.M. |
| Never Gonna Give You Up | Rick Astley |
| Together Forever | Rick Astley |
| *Jessie’s Girl | Rick Springfield |
| Livin’ La Vida Loca (remix version) | Ricky Martin |
| Travelin’ Man | Ricky Nelson |
| Disturbia | Rihanna |
| SOS | Rihanna |
| *Addicted To Love | Robert Palmer |
| Bop To The Top | Ryan & Sharpay |
| What I’ve Been Looking For | Ryan & Sharpay |
| Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) | Samantha Fox |
| Touch Me | Samantha Fox |
| Why Don’t You & I | Santana feat. Chad Kroeger |
| The Game Of Love | Santana feat. Michelle Branch |
| Smooth | Santana feat. Rob Thomas |
| Fallen | Sarah McLachlan |
| Stupid | Sarah McLachlan |
| Wind Of Change | Scorpions |
| Born To Hand Jive | Sha-Na-Na |
| Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay | Sha-Na-Na |
| Get My Party On | Shaggy ft. Chaka Khan |
| Man! I Feel Like A Woman | Shania Twain |
| Second Chance | Shinedown |
| Baby Got Back | Sir Mix-A-Lot |
| Kiss Me (remix version) | Sixpence None The Richer |
| All Star (Shrek) | Smash Mouth |
| Right Here | Staind |
| Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee | Stockard Channing |
| Every Morning (remix version) | Sugar Ray |
| Daydreamin’ | Tatyana Ali |
| Prove Your Love | Taylor Dayne |
| Supermodel | Taylor Dayne |
| Tell It To My Heart | Taylor Dayne |
| Do I Make You Proud | Taylor Hicks |
| Love Story | Taylor Swift |
| You Belong With Me | Taylor Swift |
| I Want You | Thalia & Fat Joe |
| Gives You Hell | The All-American Rejects |
| Move Along | The All-American Rejects |
| *Love Shack | The B-52′s |
| Walk Like An Egyptian | The Bangles |
| California Girls | The Beach Boys |
| Can’t Buy Me Love | The Beatles |
| Let It Be | The Beatles |
| We’ve Only Just Begun | The Carpenters |
| Best Of My Love | The Emotions |
| Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch | The Four Tops |
| Over My Head (Cable Car) | The Fray |
| You Found Me | The Fray |
| Killing Me Softly | The Fugees |
| Mr. Brightside | The Killers |
| Louie Louie | The Kingsmen |
| California Dreamin’ | The Mamas & The Papas |
| Blue Moon | The Marcels |
| I’m A Believer | The Monkees |
| Only You | The Platters |
| Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | The Platters |
| *Every Breath You Take | The Police |
| Unchained Melody | The Righteous Brothers |
| I’m A Man Of Constant Sorrow | The Soggy Bottom Boys |
| Wannabe | The Spice Girls |
| Baby Love | The Supremes |
| Stop! In The Name Of Love | The Supremes |
| *She Blinded Me With Science | Thomas Dolby |
| Whatever You Like | TI |
| Apologize | Timbaland feat. OneRepublic |
| What’s Love Got To Do With It | Tina Turner |
| It’s Not Unusual | Tom Jones |
| Drops Of Jupiter | Train |
| Get’cha Head In The Game | Troy |
| Breaking Free | Troy & Gabriella |
| Start Of Something New | Troy & Gabriella |
| Start Of Something New (duet with Troy) | Troy & Gabriella |
| I Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You | Troy, Gabriella, Ryan & Sharpay |
| U Got It Bad | Usher |
| A Thousand Miles | Vanessa Carlton |
| Wake Me Up (Before You Go-Go) | WHAM! |
| *Here I Go Again | Whitesnake |
| I Wanna Dance With Somebody | Whitney Houston |
| I Will Always Love You | Whitney Houston |
| Saving All My Love For You | Whitney Houston |
| Kansas City | Wilbert Harrison |
| Mustang Sally | Wilson Pickett |
My Summer (and beyond) Reading List
Since I’m finally done school, I should now have actual free time to do one of my favourite things in the world… and that would be to…. READ! I like to keep lists of books that catch my interest so that I don’t forget about them before I have time to read them.
So this will be the place where I will do such that.
Books I own:
The Carrie Diaries – Candace Bushnell (summer)
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult (summer)
At First Sight – Nicholas Sparks
A Complicated Kindness – Miriam Toews
Dewey – Vicki Myron
Books I don’t own:
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (summer) (summer)
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner – Stephenie Meyer (summer) (summer)
Dracula in Love – Karen Essex
Something Borrowed – Emily Giffin
Kings of the Earth – Jon Clinch
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake – Aimee Bender
The Book of Negroes – Lawrence Hill
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it – Maile Meloy
My Name is Mary Sutter – Robin Oliveira
The Madonnas of Echo Park – Brando Skyhorse
Dombey and Son – Charles Dickens
Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
so far…. 4 books down… one of which (My Sister’s Keeper) I had been reading since the movie came out!! It was during school so the reading was very sporadic. So glad to finally finish it.
Finally started taking books out of the library as opposed to always buying them, you would think when someone is trying to get a career in libraries that they would probably use them eh!? haha
Now about to start Dracula in Love, the same classic story, but from the point of view of the famous heroine (Mina Murray). Pretty excited, not gonna lie!
..to be continued..
Favourite passage from “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult
“If there was a religion of Annaism, and I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: in the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was just a slice of herself, and her tips were as sharp as a knife. By accident, because that is the way most things happen, she poked a hole in the night and spilled a million stars, like a fountain of tears.
Horrified, the moon tried to swallow them up. And sometimes this worked, because she got fatter and rounder. But mostly it didn’t, because there were just so many. The stars kept coming, until they made the sky so bright that the sun got jealous. He invited the stars to his side of the world, where it was always bright. What he didn’t tell them, though, was that in the daytime, they’d never be seen. So the stupid ones leaped from the sky to the ground, and they froze under the weight of their own foolishness.
The moon did her best. She carved each of these blocks of sorrow into a man or a woman. She spent the rest of her time watching out so that her other stars wouldn’t fall. She spent the rest of her time holding on to whatever scraps she had left.“
<3
Peter Wong
Peter Wong is awesome. My life would not be the same without him. He brings me great joy.
Pirate Radio: One of the best movies I’ve seen in a while!
Movie Review: Pirate Radio
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans,Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh
Directed by: Richard Curtis
Plot description (from Yahoo movies): In the 1960s a group of 8 rogue DJs on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the love of music. The songs they played united and defined an entire generation and drove the British government crazy. By playing rock ‘n roll they were standing up against the British government who did everything in their power to shut them down.
My take: This movie has been out for a couple of weeks now and I never really had a huge urge to see it. I mean it looked good but I was never begging anyone to go watch it with me. Turns out me and my parents all had a free night on this splendid Thursday, and lucky for us because it is the last night that my theatre is playing the film! So right from the get-go I was obviously grooving to the music, of course I knew that it was going to be a major part of the movie because I came into it knowing very well what it was all about. I honestly think that I had a smile plastered on my face for the entire duration of Pirate Radio. The cast was brilliant and the writing was really well done – there were so so so many hilarious parts (lots of British humour so it probably doesn’t appeal to every single person).
For me one of the greatest surprises was somewhat new-to-the-scene actor Thomas Sturridge who plays Young Carl, a boy sent to the boat by his mother supposedly for his bad behaviour at school. Thomas is oh so charming and his boyish good looks really don’t hurt too much either! While watching this movie I had the same kind of heart warming feeling that I get everytime I watch ‘Love Actually’ (one of my absolute favourite movies)! They share a couple of the same actors [Bill Nighy & Emma Thompson] and of course they both have mainly British ensemble casts. Well turns out that they both share the same director as well! No wonder I got that lovey dovey Love Actually vibe.
Pirate Radio is definitely going down in the love of my life movies book (a book that I obviously do not actually have..). Music junkies all over the world have surely taken to this gem in the same fashion as I have!
<3 <3 <3 <3 .5
Songs to match my life
You know those songs out there that can define a moment in your life? Or they can just impact you so much that you feel that initial feeling that you had the first time you heard it every single time thereafter?
Here is the place that I will stencil those songs. I do not want their presence to ever leave my side.
- Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap [I first heard this song while watching the movie "500 Days of Summer." The lyrics are great but more than that is the way the music moves throughout the song. The lead singer has an amazing voice as well.]
- Change In My Life – Hanson [This is off of the Take the Walk EP. It is a gospel cover and is done so acappella. Everything about it is absolutely stunning and there's nothing I love more than to listen to it playing really loudly while I sing to it - trying to sing a different part of the harmony each time. They way those boys' voices mesh together sends shivers down my spine everytime.]
- So You Can Cry – Ne-Yo [I don't think anyone truly knows about my love & appreciation for Ne-Yo. This is one of my favourite songs off of his album "Year of the Gentleman." It has a bluesy feel to it and in a way it almost reminds me of a Stevie Wonder song?? I can't really explain why, but I just get that vibe from the song.]
- Alone In The World – Everybody Else [Saw them sing this live when they opened for Hanson on the 'The Walk' tour. Love this song the most on their acoustic album. The lyrics are simple and yet very fitting. The melody is beautiful as well.]
- Hands Down – Dashboard Confessional [This song stirs up many emotions.. happy, sad & everything in between. I've loved it since the first time I heard it. It's definitely one of my 'go to songs']
*that is all for now, but I will surely be updating this post as I think of more songs to add that match my life at any given moment.
New book alert: Jeff Wall!
A new book on the work of renowned photographer Jeff Wall has just hit the shelves. Be sure to get a look at the masterpieces that Wall has captured in his lifetime.
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- *Jeff Wall
