Music | The Karaoke Quotient | A Formula For Determining The Best Karaoke Song Of All Time | Overthinking It

I'll be sure to bring the spreadsheet along next time we go karaoke-ing.

Music | The Karaoke Quotient | A Formula For Determining The Best Karaoke Song Of All Time | Overthinking It: We have an intuitive understanding of why some songs work and some don’t–too long, too repetitive, too hard to sing or rap–and that mostly serves us well. However, I wasn’t content with this. Surely there must be a way to advance beyond these vague ideas about karaoke song choice. If only there were some mathematical formula for determining karaoke song quality, then singers everywhere would have a consistent and reliable methodology for choosing songs well and avoiding the embarassment of stinking up the place with “Yellow Submarine.”

And part 2:

Music | The Karaoke Quotient, Part 2: Is "Summer Nights" The Best Karaoke Song Of All Time? | Overthinking It