I’m not sure there’s KARAOKE outside of Korea and Japan, and I do really like to go to karaoke and having fun. It’s really big thing in my country and very popular place to hang out with friends.
So I’m wondering, are there KARAOKE in many Europe counties or not.
And thanks for tolerating my weird English 🙂
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I’m sure there are places with karaoke nights in Vienna (city of 2 million) but I don’t know anybody who goes to such places.
I have never been to one and to be honest I am not much interested in ever going. I would be too embarrassed to sing in front of people. 😉
It’s popular but my impression is that it’s a bit different to the karaoke in Japan and South Korea. I’ve never done it myself but instead of having a private room for your friends you sing in front of the whole restaurant.
Karoke is nowhere near as popular as it is in Korea/Japan and the format is different.
In Korea they’re private rooms and you pay by the hour and/or have to buy overpriced food/drinks. In most countries outside Asia (including here in Switzerland) Karaoke will usually be one/two nights a week where a pub/restaurant will have an open mic and a “DJ” (usually they’ll just stream the music track from Youtube) and you have to sing in front of everyone.
So there’s a long queue of drunk people, and in my experience they value “fun” over ability to sing.
We got 7 Karaoke bars in whole country and all of them are in western part. So yeah not popular at all and most people probablly never even heard about it.
No really popular at all, a band playing live music in a pub is very popular though
It is not very popular, but it does exist and is quite widespread, usually in the form of theme nights organised by bars and clubs.
Not really. But it exists, people sing karaoke in private homes rather than in public buildings. No advertising here either, unlike Japan
It’s very popular in my area, but it’s not like you do it over there afaik. Pubs might have a karaoke evening once or twice per week, but there’s no private rooms and stuff like I’ve seen in asian countries.
exists, but it’s very rare and not popular. You won’t find karaoke bars, at most some pubs/clubs will have a karaoke night now and then
It is but it’s different here. No private booths, the stage is public and anyone can sing, but everyone also will hear it. Karaoke bars and singing are popular with older people and the songs are usually old timey finnish rock classics. Young people don’t really do karaoke here.
Quite a few clubs have an occasional Karaoke Night, but it’s usually just to cover up the fact that they didn’t manage to book anyone in time. And it’s in front of everyone, there’s no private room to do your thing. It’s “who wants to come up? here’s the sign-up sheet”.
Yeah, karaoke rooms are popular for hen dos or christmas night out sort of things. I don’t really view it as a good way to hang out with friends like you said as it’s typically very loud and drunken.
Yes, it’s extremely popular. I would say that about 1 of 10 bars/restaurants offer it or even fully KARAOKE based. At least in my small town
Karaoke machines were actually quite popular in Spain back in the 90s. Many bars installed professional ones, people bought home versions for parties, and there were even TV contests based on them. Private rooms like the ones in Japan and Korea existed but they were rare, this was a social activity that called for as many witnesses of your bad singing as possible. When the decade ended so did this fad, although a bunch of karaoke places survive to this day, and it is still part of a few TV programs.
Yes its quite popular. Bars/ pubs often do a kareoke night, though the quality of the singing is exactly what you’d expect for a pub full of heavily drunken people
No, not at all. Though I’m fascinated with the amount of science, technology, and engineering that goes into it.
Yeah, we have karaoke in the UK. It’s more like the older ones you get in izakaya and not karaoke boxes (jankara, karaoke ban ban, karaoke manekineko). It’s not normally a dedicated karaoke bar though. Normally it’s a special event at a pub, maybe once a week. We also generally don’t do karaoke sober or in the day.
By the way.
Is karaoke popular… = O
Does karaoke popular… = X
I’m Dutch and I’ve almost never heard a person mentioned karaoke.
I had the impression, karaoke in Korea/Japan is mostly about having an excuse to get drunk and casual with some close friends. And flirty.
We don’t need such excuses over here in Europe. And it’s not about flirting at all.
Here in Germany, if a bar offers karaoke, it’s *open mic* and you have to sing in front of all people. It’s meant to be cheesy and embarassing and often those people who sing are pretty blotto.
In other German bars, all the people in the bar would suddenly start singing football chants, folk songs or similar when they are sufficiently primed and someone started.
I’ve seen that karaoke meetings between friends are popular in Korean dramas or Japanese anime, but here not so much. Too be honest I don’t even know such a place.
I’m getting the impression it’s more popular in America than it is anywhere in Europe.
I wish Japanese-Korean style karaoke was popular here. Getting together and singing songs which you like sounds like a super fun way to spend with friends. However, a thought just crossed my mind – it’s veeeery popular to be a part of choir in Latvia and participate in all kinds of singing activities. Maybe people are spending much time by singing in choirs so much, that private karaoke rooms don’t even need to be considered? Of course, it’s a completely different take on singing, as karaoke is more relaxed and more of an entertainment.
There are no private room (or they are pretty damn rare), and it isn’t as popular as in Korea or Japan, but it does exist. Some bars have it. I’ve been to a couple of parties with friends where we’d book the entire pub/bar and do Karaoke. More often than not it’s not even a specialized machine. Rather, it’s just a mic and some YouTube video, but it gets the job done.
It’s fairly common in bars and such. People also do it at home, although I would require substantial amounts of alcohol to do it myself
It’s very popular here. There used to be karaoke players you could buy for your home. I don’t think we have any dedicated karaoke bars, but most restaurants have a machine.