Pop Quiz: What's Your Go-To Karaoke Song?

The TRL Pop Quiz works like this: our editors are posed a music-related question and have only 15 minutes and just 100 words to statistics, pick and explain their answers. This week's question: which song is your automatic choice for karaoke?


At my last birthday party, my companions and I sang the one and only “Breaking Free” from High School Musical. Anything from HSM is a go for me as the songs are easy to sing and each person around my age is somewhat nostalgic for them. Other good ones are “We’re All in This Together”, “Get’cha Head in The Game” and “Bop To The Top”. Plus, the fact that almost all people know the words without even looking at the screen makes it even more fun! –Landyn Pan


While several people get uncomfortable doing karaoke, it’s a place that feels very much like residence for me. My companions and I have turned to karaoke to fill the void we have of missing singing and performing on a typical basis. I’m an enormous fan of contemporary, belty ballads and I have two go-to songs: “Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here” by the remix queen Deborah Cox and the show-stopping number “And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going” from Dreamgirls. I habitually wonder if a ballad will bring down the mood, although they haven’t failed me however! –Kristen Maldonado


“Wagon Wheel” by Old Crow Medicine Show is my karaoke go-to. As a mediocre singer, I like a group pleaser that encourages other people to sing along and this fits the bill. There’s not a lot of note variation in this song so you could sort of talk-sing it -- both major pluses for me, not to say I just love the song, typically. Most crucial of all, I already know all of the words.  Pull this out at your next karaoke night, and I guarantee every midwesterner in the joint will scream with joy. –Leah Williams


Give me a microphone, a partner and the instrumental to “If I Perish Young” by The Musical group Perry and you’re in for a full-blown efficiency by yours truly. Unlike most who just hope to have fun, I probably take karaoke a little bit also seriously. It’s my chance to pretend I’m on my world tour, captivating a group of 60,000, and “If I Perish Young” lets me give it my all and show off my vocal prowess (or lack thereof). Plus, the harmonies make it prime duet material, however rehearsals are encouraged to get it brilliant. —Matt Gehring


This isn’t what you would call a crowd-pleaser, although “Young Americans” is although an anthem for our disillusioned decade, telling the sad story of two people pining for more than what their damaged hearts and dashed dreams can give. They’re desperate, irritated and confused, feeling betrayed by a nation that had promised them a brighter future as Watergate, unpaid expenditures, and the ghosts of America’s past all loom large. Still, David Bowie resolves to tear via confusion; he supports the these people frantically search for their souls. Is there a more suitable song to be belting aloud in 2018? –Gus Turner