As the title SingStar Pop suggests, the 30 songs included in Sony's superlative Karaoke Revolution knock-off are decidedly sugary, some custom made for a flash-in-the-pan, like Ashlee Simpson's Invisible (bet you'll lip synch better than she) and Avril Lavigne's Sk8er Boi. However, most have lasted well beyond Billboard's flavor-of-the-month and remain steadfast in their re-croonability, tunes like U2's Vertigo, Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, and Hoobastank's The Reason.

What's more, SingStar Pop has you singing over the original recordings and videos of each song, not generic knock-offs by a studio cover band and made manifest by computer-generated nobodies.

And further one-upping Konami's Revolution titles, SingStar Pop is more versatile as it incorporates the EyeToy camera into gameplay, allows for co-operative or competitive duets and, best of all, allows you to pull the songs off the SingStar Rocks game simply by swapping out for the original game's disc on-the-fly, effectively doubling you're sing-along options for those karaoke house parties.

Obviously, you need to have both an affinity embarrassing yourself in public and a fondness for pop music to warrant picking up a copy of SingStar Pop. But, if that's the case, it doesn't get much better than this.

TIP: If you fumble the lyrics in SingStar Pop (or SingStar Rock, or any current karaoke game for the matter), don't collapse in a puddle of your own ineptitude. Try humming your way through the rest of it -- or all of it --, as the games don't score you on diction.