Karaoke taps into a deep human need for connection in darkness—either spiritual or actual. Even the people who claim not to like karaoke realize that they are the ones at fault. They are too embarrassed, too worried about singing poorly, or too supposedly introverted to enjoy such an apparently extroverted activity. But even these sad people tend to like going out just to watch, just to be around all that good energy.
Luckily for everyone, Seattle enjoys several extremely premium karaoke spots. The best places for performative style karaoke are Crescent Lounge, Baranof, Bush Garden, and Ozzie’s. Hula Hula used to be great, but things have gone downhill since they moved to Capitol Hill and spruced up the joint by introducing iPads and apps into their (confusing) system.
