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2000 to 2009

2000s karaoke songs

Indie anthems, pop punk and chart R&B. The decade everyone under forty knows every word of without ever deciding to learn them.

The two thousands are doing now what the eighties did fifteen years ago. They have crossed from recent to nostalgic, and rooms respond to them accordingly. If most of the people out with you are under forty, this is the highest hit rate page on the site.

The decade's karaoke strength is its pop punk and indie end. Those songs were written to be shouted by people who cannot sing, in a narrow range, at a tempo that carries you along. They are close to unloseable.

The R&B and chart pop of the same decade is the opposite. It is built on melisma, the runs and turns a trained voice decorates a melody with, and attempting those without the technique is the fastest way to make a simple song sound difficult. Sing the plain melody underneath instead. It works far better than it has any right to.

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# Song · What it evokes Range low → high Difficulty Length
  1. 1 Mr. BrightsideGroupTalk-sing The Killers2004Indiekey C#148 bpm Barely a melody, entirely a shout, and the whole room does it with you. The words come fast but they never go high. 3:43
  2. 2 Valerie Amy Winehouse2007Soulkey Fm97 bpm Fast, warm and rhythmic, with a chorus the room knows cold. The speed is the only real obstacle. 3:54
  3. 3 Before He Cheats Carrie Underwood2005Countrykey F#m148 bpm The verses are almost spat and the chorus is a genuine belt. Great fun, and harder than it sounds on the radio. 3:20
  4. 4 Chicken FriedTalk-sing Zac Brown Band2008Countrykey F#86 bpm Warm, mid-tempo and built entirely around a list, which makes the words easy to hold on to. 3:40
  5. 5 PictureDuet Kid Rock2002Hard Rockkey G98 bpm A conversational country duet in a low, easy range for both parts, and the phrasing is close to speech. 4:59
  6. 6 Toxic Britney Spears2003Popkey Cm144 bpm The verses whisper and the chorus leaps. That jump is the whole difficulty, and it arrives quickly. 3:20
  7. 7 Since U Been Gone Kelly Clarkson2004Popkey G136 bpm Built to be shouted rather than sung, with a chorus that gathers the whole room in. 3:09
  8. 8 Complicated Avril Lavigne2002Popkey F77 bpm Flat, slightly bored delivery is the correct interpretation, which suits an untrained voice perfectly. 4:05
  9. 9 Sk8er Boi Avril Lavigne2002Popkey C149 bpm Almost entirely shouted, fast, and funnier now than it was at the time. 3:24
  10. 10 Halo Beyoncé2008Pop Soars from the first chorus and never really comes back down. Beautiful, and unrelenting. 5:33
  11. 11 Crazy in Love Beyoncé2003Pop The horn hook does the heavy lifting and the crowd shouts the intro, but the verses move fast. 6:55
  12. 12 Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) Beyoncé2008Pop More chant than melody, and the choreography is what the room is watching anyway. 5:41
  13. 13 Poker Face Lady Gaga2008Popkey E119 bpm More hook than melody, and the nonsense syllables in the chorus are the part the room is waiting for. 3:59
  14. 14 Bad Romance Lady Gaga2009Popkey C119 bpm Theatrical and demanding, but the chant that opens it buys you enormous goodwill before you sing a note. 4:55
  15. 15 Love Story Taylor Swift2008Countrykey D119 bpm Narrative, mid-tempo and forgiving, with a final key change that is gentle rather than punishing. 3:56
  16. 16 You Belong with Me Taylor Swift2008Countrykey F#130 bpm Conversational verses and a chorus you can shout. Nothing in it reaches for anything. 3:51
  17. 17 Bye Bye ByeGroup *NSYNC2000Pop86 bpm The choreography is the performance and everyone in the room can do the arm movement. 3:20
  18. 18 Hey Ya!Talk-sing OutKast2003Hip-Hop Rapped, sung and shouted in roughly equal parts, at a tempo that never lets up. 3:55
  19. 19 Chasing Cars Snow Patrol2006Alternative Rockkey A104 bpm Almost nothing happens for four minutes, which is exactly why it works. The melody circles the same few notes. 4:28
  20. 20 Umbrella Rihanna2007Pop The hook is a single word repeated, and the room supplies it every time. 4:36
  21. 21 RehabTalk-sing Amy Winehouse2006Soulkey C72 bpm Low, brassy and conversational, with a chorus that is more of a retort than a melody. 3:35
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2000s karaoke songs: your questions answered

What are good 2000s karaoke songs?

Mr. Brightside and Since U Been Gone are the two most reliable. Both are built for shouting along, both in a narrow range.

Why is 2000s R&B hard to sing at karaoke?

It relies on melisma, the vocal runs a trained singer improvises. Sing the straight melody instead of attempting the runs.

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