What to email about.
I'm a one-person operation running this site as a hobby, so my reply speed varies and my interest level varies more. To save us both time, here's a rough sense of what I love getting in my inbox and what I quietly delete without reading.
Yes, please
- Corrections, factual or grammatical
- Karaoke songs you think I missed in the canon
- Bar recommendations, anywhere in the world
- Stories from your own karaoke nights
- Disagreements (especially about song rankings)
- Questions I might be able to answer in a future post
Please don't
- SEO outreach, "guest post" pitches, link exchanges
- Generative-AI content offers
- Sponsorship inquiries (the site has no ads on purpose)
- Crypto, NFT, or "Web3" anything
- Press releases for products I haven't asked about
- Anything that begins with "Hi Dear"
Frequently asked.
Do you take freelance work or guest gigs?
Occasionally, for the right thing. I have hosted karaoke nights for friends-of-friends in the Buffalo area at standard hosting rates. I do not write paid content for other publications. Email me if you want to talk.
Can I republish your articles on my site?
No, sorry. The work here is hand-written and I'd rather it stay on Karaokee. You're welcome to quote a few sentences with a link back, the way you would for any other publication.
Why don't you have comments?
Email is a better filter. The signal-to-noise ratio in comment threads on a small hobby site is brutal, and I'd rather get five thoughtful messages a month than fifty drive-by reactions a day.
Do you have an RSS feed?
Not yet. It's on my list. The site is updated infrequently enough that bookmarking the homepage and checking once a month works fine.
Will you review my karaoke product?
Almost certainly not, but you can ask. I have a strong preference for writing about gear I've bought and used myself, not gear that arrived in a free PR package.
Can I send you a song to add to your karaoke playlist?
Yes, always. I keep a running list. No promises about whether it makes it into a future post, but obscure recommendations are some of my favorite emails.
One last thing.
If you read something on the site that hit, told you something you didn't know, made you laugh, or pushed you to actually go to a karaoke night you'd been talking yourself out of — I would love to hear about it. Those are the emails that keep me writing. The site has no metrics dashboard, no sponsor reports, no growth chart on my desk. The only feedback loop is the one that comes through that inbox up there. So if something landed, please tell me. I'll write back.