brought to you by procrastinating on an essay.

[fyi, I have an extremely elaborate headcanon of what happens post-book series that is slowly making its way into fic form, so this is referencing the characters as they are sometime around current day (2026) where the descendants are all in their mid twenties according to the canonical timeline.]

Matt

This man is not a singer and only does karaoke For The Bit ™️

His music app is completely dominated by Dad rock... they are the only songs he knows well

With that in mind, Matt sings *drumroll*

Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden

(badly and as if there was a gun to his head)

Laurie

I think Laurie listens to music mostly as background noise

That being said she has one or two songs that are comfort listens that she knows pretty well.

The song that she usually sings when cajoled into doing karaoke is...

St. Teresa by Joan Osborne

(shyly when sober, passionately when tipsy, mediocrely sung at all levels of sobriety)

Fen

Is into a surprising range of music

downright REFUSES to participate in karaoke unless he has either been bullied into playing along or is drunk enough to want to do it.

After a few drinks the rest of the descendants are shocked when Fen takes the stage and absolutely belts out...

Bitin' List by Tyler Childers

(surprisingly well. When sober Fen sees the video in the morning he swears off alcohol.)

Ray

Ray doesn't want to be here but he's here because he's a good sport.

Listens to either emo rock or singer/songwriter music.

After being heckled onto the stage by his sister, he sings...

Teenagers by My Chemical Romance

(he sings with effort, but is consistently flat.)

Rayna

Rayna is here to laugh at her friends.

In all honesty, she's fairly excited to suprize the gang with her own song/performance.

She swaggers up on stage and absolute rips out...

Labyrinth by Showing Teeth

(Yeah, she knows how to metal scream... she appreciates the shocked looks on her friends faces as she flawlessly performs both the screams and the clean singing. Very smug after.)

Baldwin

Let's be real, Baldwin is the reason they're at the karaoke bar in the first place...

This guy will listen to anything, jam out to anything, and only has a few very specific songs he doesn't like.

Considering that I think Baldwin would choose chaos first every time, he would sing...

Don't Stop Skankin' by Reel Big Fish

(Yes, the only words are "don't stop skankin'" and "pick it up"... the time he isn't bellowing out the only two lines is spent energetically dancing.)

Owen

The gang is suprized by how excited Owen is. He's getting REALLY into this.

Owen listens to and loves a ton of different and distinct genres.

The song he decides on (an agonizing decision) is...

Momento Mori: The Most Important Thing In The World by Will Wood

(sung well, halfway through he gets into the performance. Baldwin knows Will Wood too and is singing along under his breath. Everyone else is concerned.)