Alexis M.
Yelp
You know what I discovered yesterday? 1.) While I have been to karaoke once before, I definitely had the time of my life while doing it at Beats Karaoke and that 2.) I love karaoke overall as it is truly addictive-lol. Add the fact that I was going to engage in this activity with two great people (Kemi A. and Mei.C.) that I always have fun with and it summed up to everyone enjoying themselves!
Beats Karaoke is located in Williamsburg conveniently across the street from Williamsburg Cinema. The first floor has a bar area that you can order drinks from while singing karaoke as the words form on the large tv screen placed there. It was quiet and not busy when we walked in so staff allowed us to be placed in one of the larger karaoke rooms that Mei selected (seats around 10 people). There are multiple karaoke rooms of various sizes great for a date with someone, couples, small and larger groups. We were very comfortable as we had space to spread out and it allowed us to be able to dance while we sang/rapped....Yes, we busted out our best dance moves-lol.
When you check-in on Yelp, you receive a free liquor shot. Beats Karaoke also has a drink menu. You are able to bring in outside food so we munched on some while taking turns individually singing as well as "performing" in duos as well as a trio. Beats Karaoke has lighting settings, disco balls, etc. that create the illusion that you are at a disco party-lol. Inside of each karaoke room is a tv screen so you can sing/rap words.of the songs, some tamborines, microphones and music books listing various songs by artist as well as by title of the song. Once we looked into the books and selected songs, we had to press the numbered code into the remote that identifies that song so that the music and words will appear. Boy did we sing and rap, rap, rap-lol. Everything from Mary J. Blige, Beyonce, Rihanna, Monica, Vanilla
Ice (Yes, definitely Ice, Ice Baby-lol), Nick Jonas, Bruno Mars, Britney Spears, Bell, Biv, Devoe-(Yes to song Poison any day), DMX, 50 Cent and of course my favorite Prince....Yes, karaoke is addictive!-lol. We had a two hour time slot....one minute we were about 15 minutes into our session and the next thing I know we only had 4 minutes left! So what did we do? We ended with Montell Jordan "This Is How We Do It" because that is how we roll-lol.
Beats Karaoke was a good place for us to do karaoke....Cannot wait until the next time!