The microphone is in your hand and the DJ is waiting for a song number. You know you're good at about forty songs, passable at another twenty, and unreliable at ten more that you keep forgetting are unreliable. That knowledge lives in your head until the moment you need it, which is when the crowd is watching and you're blanking on what to call.
The Confidence Level That Actually Matters
Confidence Level is the honest self-assessment that most performers refuse to make in writing because it forces them to admit they don't own a song they like to think they own. A song rated high confidence means you know every word, you know the key change, you know where you're going to lose the crowd if they don't know it and you have to carry it. A song rated low confidence belongs on the rotation as practice material, not as the song you call when there's a crowd.
Pace captures the tempo and energy profile — the distinction between a slow ballad that requires sustained breath control and a fast-paced number where word density is the challenge. Genre does the categorical work of mixing sets: a DJ or self-managed rotation that's all one genre eventually loses room energy.
Date Last Sung, 2nd Previous Date, 3rd Previous Date, and 4th Previous Date create the rotation history across four sessions. A song that hasn't been sung in three months has had that many weeks of lyric decay, which for most non-professional performers means the second verse is now unreliable. The date history tells you which songs need a rehearsal run before you call them in a live setting.
Venue Intelligence and Requests
Trouble Clef Karaoke is the venue-specific performance field — a flag or note for how a particular track runs in this specific karaoke system. Different karaoke libraries have different track quality, different key settings, different arrangements for the same song. A track that runs perfectly in one library may be transposed a half-step down in another, which moves a comfortable key into an uncomfortable one.
Request from Charley is the social obligation field — the song that was requested by a specific person and needs to be in the active consideration set for nights when Charley's in the room. Managing social dynamics at karaoke is as much a part of the performance as the singing.
Track Name, Video Link, and Lyrics are the resource fields. Video Link attached to the song record means the practice session before a night out is a structured run-through of specific songs, not a YouTube search. The lyrics field — whether typed or linked — handles the songs where verse two is always the failure point and a quick scan before hitting the stage fixes it.