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| - I am super confused with what I remember - maybe it's nostalgia glasses for something else. August used to be my hands down favorite place for karaoke in AZ, but small changes or disappointments here and there stacked up to make everything worse.
Super easy to make a reservation - we can do it over the phone. For a friend's birthday, we called a couple days in advance for their largest room - 12 people. For almost 3 hours and 15 people, came out to about $10/person. For a prorated rate, not bad!
I don't remember what old system they had before, but whatever they changed to is launch Windows 10 - looks pretty but buggy as hell. So much harder to find anything. This is one of the few places I've seen without the iPad or remote (not a deal breaker). To search, you gotta type the first letter of every word (New Kids On The Block = NKOTB). But most the time it's not even alphabetized. And when you find your artist, super obvious picks might not even be there, like All Star for Smash Mouth. Really cool selection for Chinese, Japanese and other Asian language songs though.
Not sure what happened to the sound system - it actually sounds kind of worse. Three years ago belting "My Heart Will Go On" was hilarious. This time it just sounded kind of staticky and hurt my ears (no regrets though).
Though the first two hours were great, our tail end picks showed us their system is straight up broken. Three songs in a row our lyrics were desynced to the music video. We ended on Maroon 5's "This Love". Music video was synced to the lyrics, but the instrumental was lagging FIVE BEATS. ON 4/4 TIME. WHY IS IT SUCH AN AWKWARD SPACE BEHIND!?!?!?
Everything else before then was bearable, but that ending just made it super sad. Hope they can fix their issues before/if we stop by again. Still better than most karaoke in the area, due to lack of competition.
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