This has been one of those weeks. You know the kind… everything seems to be going wrong, when you can´t catch a break, for whatever reason, work, school, significant other, you find yourself down in the dumps and wanting to lay around in bed all day watching really bad daytime television. It´s definitely the pits, and when I´m feeling like this, I usually find the only way to drag myself out of that kind of pathetic low is by listening to some kind of peppy feel good music (usually that I can torture whoever is around me by singing along).

Enter this week´s featured karaoke.

 I happen to adore 80´s music, especially when I need a pick me up. It´s always full of energy. Even 80´s ballads make me happy, whether or not it´s because they are so cheesy you can´t help but laugh at them. But the best part about 80´s music is that it´s so darn great to sing along with, which, I´m sure the users of Red Karaoke can sympathize, always makes me feel good. So this week I found myself listening nonstop to some 80´s classics (Journey, Bon jovi and the like), but above all one song I couldn´t turn off, ´cause it just made me feel too good. Take Me Home Tonight has got to be the one song, no matter where I am, that I can´t help but sing along too… and therefore can´t help but feel downright pleased with life.

Take Me Home Tonight was released in 1986 by 80´s rocker Eddie Money. The single was pretty well received, reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the #1 spot on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. It´s classic 80´s, not too many twists, a lively song about some guy trying to convince a girl that they are destined to spend the night together (apparently based on an actual old friend of the band who always needed a place to crash). In the original, there´s a fun little reference to The Ronette´s previous hit, Be My Baby, in the chorus when Money sings, ¨Just like Ronnie sang…¨ after which, Ronnie Spector actually sings, ¨Be my little baby.¨ Maybe nothing special as far as 80´s singles go, but it happens to be my favorite.

It´s not a huge challenge, but I offer Take Me Home Tonight up as the karaoke of the week, in hopes that recording this song will be as fun for Red Karaoke users as it is for me to sing. Heck, it´s been covered enough by artists from like Lovesick Radio, Hinder, Jamestown story and the list goes on… add your own recording to the list. Check out the forum thread and post your rendition there.

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