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| - I had the pleasure of having a birthday party here this year, we had originally planned on going to XO Karaoke down the street but were turned away because they were overbooked. So we hoofed it down the street in the rain and sleet to BMB, and had a blast.
The first thing I noticed here was the decor, which I blithely described at the time as "if Martha Stewart threw a rave" - there are flashing and colored lights everywhere, but then also lots of dried flower arrangements. The combination is both jarring and amazing.
We had someone walk over and book a room for an hour or so later, the staff was very accommodating, although they did require a deposit on the room. It seems that they have a lot of space, with several floors of private rooms. Yes, this is the karaoke place where only you and your friends get to sing, as you're in your own little private room.
The staff member lead us down into the basement after double checking that we wanted a drinking room (heck yes!). They then carefully explained to us how to use the remote, which was unfortunately in Korean. The karaoke books, too, were mostly in Korean, although they did have a large enough selection of English pop songs to keep us occupied for an hour and a half. The best thing happened when we initially tried to program in a song, which was that some random video started playing of this beautiful Korean woman singing over shots of some sort of park. We were having fun already! The videos that show on the big screen are all completely unrelated to the song, so you can sing say "Like a Virgin" and the screen will show shots of puppies running in a field.
Once we got a hang of the remote it was a blast. We had our own crazy lighting going on, there was enough room for the ten or so of us to spread out on the the couches, sing and dance. The machine lets you pre-program a bunch of songs even while someone is singing, although we were not able to figure out a few other things like adjusting the volume (or how occasionally our pre-programmed songs would disappear.
The bar was just outside our room and we were sure to make use of that feature. The bar staff were especially awesome and even gave me a shot because it was my birthday. After the first hour was up the machine essentially went into sleep mode until we used the special white phone near the door to call upstairs. We ended up asking to stay longer and had a great time. About thirty minutes later they came in and said someone was booked in the room, and asked us if we wanted to switch to another room. We said we were fine and called it a night. The best part was that the bill at the end of the night was very reasonable. If you have a group of ten or so people, everyone only needs to throw in $6 for one hour. There are also smaller, cheaper rooms available, but I think the more people the more fun it is.
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