Singing along with a wide range of popular songs while waiting for your EV to charge is now possible with the karaoke feature offered in select Ford vehicles, giving GM’s cross-town rival a leg up on fun features for its latest models.
The Stingray Karaoke App will come first to the Ford F-150 Lightning all-electric pickup truck, the Blue Oval says, with the Mustang Mach-E next to receive the new feature with the 2025 Ford Explorer, 2025 Lincoln Aviator, 2025 Lincoln Nautilus  and 2025 Lincoln Navigator to follow.
The available musical lineup will range across multiple genres, including “family-friendly” songs, rhythm and blues, country music, rock’n’roll, and several kinds of pop music, including K-Pop and J-Pop. Ford says the interface is offered in 38 languages, with special characters shown on the screen for 10 of them, including Cyrillic for Russian, Thai script for Thai, the Hebrew alphabet for Hebrew, and so on.
The Ford karaoke feature can be used both while the vehicle is parked and when it is driving down the road. In order to ensure the driver isn’t being distracted by karaoke, the feature can only be activated when the vehicle is motion if a person is seated and buckled in to the passenger seat and scans a special QR code.
Stingray’s U.S. division president, Jim Riley, says that “expanding Stingray’s entertainment services to Ford vehicles marks a significant step in our mission to enrich the in-car experience.” The songs offered in the Stingray Karaoke App are searchable by several parameters, including singer name, genre, song title, and so on. Users can add their own songs to the app and create various playlists if desired.
The feature does not require any new hardware in recent Ford vehicles and will be delivered via a software update. This update will soon be made available on all vehicles equipped with the Ford and Lincoln Digital Experience, in addition to the F-150 Lightning and Mach-E.
Please tell us in the comments below if you’d like a karaoke feature in The General’s vehicles, too, so you could sing along with your favorite singers while your Cadillac Lyriq or Chevy Blazer EV is charging.
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Ford should probably focus on fixing their insane recall rate first
Agree 100%. Farley needs to STOP BRAGGING about their trucks and fix QC issues before claiming best in class. They have a habit of lying a lot as well with regards to Power….just look at the lower rated Godzilla (that also had a habit of blowing cams and lifters previously…)
Absurd. Just sing along to your playlist if you’re inclined to sing. Ford is a MESS.
Buying a Ford for the option to sing karaoke is ridiculous, what ever happened to 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
Wow, this world has gone nuts. Gen Z is going to love this…🙄
If I am not wrong, Ford and GMC/Chevrolet and EVEN Toyota are being run by Generation Z people (and next disaster would be Gen Alpha and Beta)..who are lazy and do not take pride in their work, unlike 20 years ago.
Best way is to stick with older products.
These things will appeal to immature adolescents and colleg kids…but to adults..this is USELESS.
And, I forgot to add, these Generation Z people (and the generation Alpha and Beta that follow), only want to have “FUN” as in…being with immature women and etc…so these stupid and useless features will appeal to their minds….Karaoke will appeal to SILLY adolescent fantasies where vehicle reliability is NOT a concern…
10-20 years ago, quality products such as the Caprice and Crown Victoria were made, and their successful reputation SHOWS how good they were…being even used as Police Cars in Kuwait and Oman in the case of the latter. Now, with Generation Z, all quality products at companies, particularly Ford (and also to a lesser extent GMC/Chevrolet and Toyota) are stupid rolling computers….
The Mustang is marketed towards young people (both men and women as a look cool vehicle), while the Corvette is marketed towards successful senior retirees and businessmen, and it shows in the advertising in the case of Ford.
Now, If Farley goes a step further and adds paid”adult” content as an option…he could face a MIGHTY lawsuit that will bring down Ford terribly…hopefully it does not come to that level…but with his STUPID ideas and recalls…I do not know where he will go next. Thankfully, I will likely NEVER purchase a Ford unless it was a Panther platform car.
Heck No !! There are to many distractions now while driving..How many more accidents do you want to see ?..What’s next Movies in the HUD ?
I’m with you brother!!!
IMO, GM vehicles rose and hit a high plateau of reliability, style, and features between 2000-2010 or so. To me, that is the only era to consider for vehicles. After that, they ramped up the software controls (such as cylinder deactivation…. which we now seeing is NOT good for the engines, stop/start, etc), added gimmicks (like turbo-charging and 8, 9, 10-speed transmissions), and started with the infotainment systems that also control HVAC and other systems, rather than sticking with SEPARATE controls, for simplicity sake and ease of repair. Result is that reliability, durability, and longevity have suffered.
It was also after that that the experienced engineers who were enthusiastic about building BETTER vehicles were jettisoned in favor of cheaper new hires who had ZERO history behind them, and so made some “dumb” mistakes that experienced professionals would have never made. And the brand has suffered since. You can track all of this back to execs who were making awful decisions (like the wholesale move to FWD in the 1980’s and cost-cutting) and refusing to stand up to the myriad of regulations unleashed on the industry by the government.
And you are right; it seems as if those now in control have no pride and don’t even feel they need to contribute to see it succeed against competitors.
There are a few bright spots: at least LS V8 engines are still being developed, built, and offered. However, now for regular buyers, there are no sporty car options for those excellent V8’s; at least Ford is keeping the Mustang alive for now. And we finally have a RWD EV (Blazer) to look forward to, if we want to go that route. It is good the Camaro is finally gone; the entire run from 2009-2024 were terrible cars IMO. No human factors engineering at all. Poor visibility and way too high of a beltline… no way to rest your left arm on the window sill! But GM refused to allow a modern-day (even retro-look) Monte Carlo SS or GTO on that platform strictly for internal political reasons. And the consumer suffered as a result.
I have had no reason to purchase a “new” vehicle since 2008. The products since then have not appealed to me at all. As a result, I have bought only used vehicles from that final “golden era”.
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awesome. more distractions!
I agree with all of the above.
The app is available on Google Play as “Stingray Karaoke Party” and has songs as far back as the 1950s, which is my era. As a child I remember sing along cartoons and to “follow the bouncing ball”.
Yeah more distractions are a great idea. I’m sure someone will figure out how to defeat the passenger requirement and even if they don’t I’m sure it won’t be any distraction with a passenger.
The government wants to keep adding safety features and regulations and then this shows up.
And while we’re at it, the government wants to add more pedestrian safety measures to vehicles. How about telling people to get their head out of their ass and pay attention.
Right… they won’t give us the BASICS (AM Stereo and HD Radio), but instead try to force us into subscription services (like SiriusXM) or give you an option like this crap.
The ONLY GM car I ever had with AM Stereo was my 1988 Chevy Monte Carlo SS… the upgraded Delco radio with equalizer also included AM Stereo. But I have never seen an option for an HD radio from GM. (I don’t know about Ford.)
Ford deserves a little credit, as back in the day, they offered both a cassette player AND a CD player in the Mustang! (Unfortunately I believe both were “read-only”; you couldn’t record live radio onto either cassette or CD.)
The strangest radio I had from GM was in my 1972 Chevy Chevelle SS. t was a Delco AM radio with 8-track tape player. Now you figure…. 8-tracks were stereo, but yet they paired it with an AM radio rather than an AM/FM Stereo radio!
I’m just glad it is Ford that is offering this, rather than GM…
You’re looking at this wrong, it allows you to sing your cares away while waiting for a wrecker to take the pos back to the dealership