by Flack » Thu Mar 17, 2016 7:49 am
My 20-something niece asked me if I would DJ her wedding this weekend. There are two types or calibers of wedding DJs: the kind that both DJs and MCs the entire wedding reception, and the kind that hook up their laptops and play some mp3s for people to dance to. The former costs $500-$1,000 while the latter is usually done for free by family members who know how broke their nieces are. You can guess which tier my niece has ordered.
After attending graduate school for two semesters now with students literally half my age, it has been made painfully aware to me that I am out of touch with people in their 20s. My Star Wars is their Harry Potter. They think black and white television was just a myth. They wax nostalgic about their first video game system, the Nintendo 64. Their favorite version of "I Love Rock and Roll" is the one by Britney Spears.
Knowing that I have no idea what kind of music my niece enjoys, I asked her to provide me a playlist of suggested songs. I have spent the past several days obtaining these songs, and the past 24 hours "screening" them. Screening them sounds like a very old fuddy-duddy thing to do (even to me, a very old fuddy-duddy), but some of the songs set my alarm bells off. For example:
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I wouldn't call this song "offensive" per se, but all I can see in my mind is a room full of old people sitting around listening to some guy singing about strokin' it to the east and strokin' it to the west and asking people when's the last time they made love, and having everyone look at me and wonder why the hell I would play that at a wedding.
Here is what she has picked for the "Daddy/Daughter" dance:
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Maybe I am too used to this politically correct world, but I will crawl under the table if there are any Native Americans in the room when this song is playing.
And then there's this gem:
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Again, call me old fashioned, but I just can't imagine seeing the mother of the bride (or groom) out on the floor while I play this song about girls popping their pussies out on the dance floor and how the rapper is going to fuck them all because their pussies are wet. Mazel tov!!
So here I am, the day before the wedding, going through 80 songs, dumping a few, and replacing them with ones that at least aren't offensive.
Britney Spears' version of "I Love Rock and Roll" never sounded so good.
My 20-something niece asked me if I would DJ her wedding this weekend. There are two types or calibers of wedding DJs: the kind that both DJs and MCs the entire wedding reception, and the kind that hook up their laptops and play some mp3s for people to dance to. The former costs $500-$1,000 while the latter is usually done for free by family members who know how broke their nieces are. You can guess which tier my niece has ordered.
After attending graduate school for two semesters now with students literally half my age, it has been made painfully aware to me that I am out of touch with people in their 20s. My Star Wars is their Harry Potter. They think black and white television was just a myth. They wax nostalgic about their first video game system, the Nintendo 64. Their favorite version of "I Love Rock and Roll" is the one by Britney Spears.
Knowing that I have no idea what kind of music my niece enjoys, I asked her to provide me a playlist of suggested songs. I have spent the past several days obtaining these songs, and the past 24 hours "screening" them. Screening them sounds like a very old fuddy-duddy thing to do (even to me, a very old fuddy-duddy), but some of the songs set my alarm bells off. For example:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7gMkiOPSeA[/youtube]
I wouldn't call this song "offensive" per se, but all I can see in my mind is a room full of old people sitting around listening to some guy singing about strokin' it to the east and strokin' it to the west and asking people when's the last time they made love, and having everyone look at me and wonder why the hell I would play that at a wedding.
Here is what she has picked for the "Daddy/Daughter" dance:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKhi9ITkRgA[/youtube]
Maybe I am too used to this politically correct world, but I will crawl under the table if there are any Native Americans in the room when this song is playing.
And then there's this gem:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQhAYJCDJGU[/youtube]
Again, call me old fashioned, but I just can't imagine seeing the mother of the bride (or groom) out on the floor while I play this song about girls popping their pussies out on the dance floor and how the rapper is going to fuck them all because their pussies are wet. Mazel tov!!
So here I am, the day before the wedding, going through 80 songs, dumping a few, and replacing them with ones that at least aren't offensive.
Britney Spears' version of "I Love Rock and Roll" never sounded so good.