I've been wondering this for years, OP. I guess I always assumed they all had a little screen on the machines with the lyrics. All this bluetooth and YouTube stuff seems like it would make for a really janky karaoke experience.

Does anyone remember those cable channels that were karaoke channels? We used to love those for afterparties in our 20s. Only people with the fancy cable subscriptions seemed to have them. Now I'm wondering if they still exist!

You need to get one with a screen that connects to the WiFi, not just Bluetooth through someone's phone. It's much more convenient. Then you just look up songs by searching YouTube and including the phrase "karaoke version."

We use a phone, the lyrics of the songs are on Spotify if you scroll down below the picture of the album and name of the song.

Also we do karaoke at a Korean place and everything there is on youtube - just google "Friends in Low Places" karaoke and you get the karaoke style.

We got one for Christmas and its been a big hit with my kid and friends.

There's are some online subscriptions you can get for karaoke songs. My friend do that, but I don't remember the name of the company. I think there are monthly or annual fees and then on their home karaoke system that attached to a laptop or iPad they can queue up a song list. I think on the screen you can also do things like autotune.

There are also a ton of karaoke versions of songs on YouTube.

I'll try to remember to ask them but they've had their system at least a decade so it might not be relevant. keep us posted here what you find out!

I want to get a karaoke machine so I’ve been looking on Amazon and I am confused on them. This is probs dumb question but it seems like many use your music from your phone…how do you get the lyrics to read? Or the singers voice being softer so that you are the singing voice? I can’t figure out how these can actually work.