So I'm out DJ'ing a happy and rocking wedding this past Saturday, it was about an hour or hour and a half in and things were actually going pretty well at this point. The crowd was digging Top 40, Oldies and Country. I'd sampled them all and great success, so naturally you keep doing what's working. At this point in time I'm throwing down some Top 40 right after some good ole Oldies. Dance floor is fairly packed and people are having a good time - except for one individual! I'm at my booth and we'll refer to this guy as the Drunken Sailor, conversation below:
Drunken Sailor: What's with this music?
Me: What do you mean? (In my head I'm thinking, look around - people are dancing and it's totally working)
Drunken Sailor: Well, you're not playing any modern stuff!!!
Me: What do you mean "modern stuff"? (I guess he was kind of right, I was playing something from 2011 - which people were happily dancing and reacting too. So I'm thinking "OK, I guess I'll play more Top 40 - today stuff)
Drunken Sailor: You know Modern STUFF!
Me: You want Pitbull, LMFAO, Will.i.am. like what do you want?
Drunken Sailor: NO!!! None of this beaty $h!t, MODERN STUFF - you know AC/DC!!!
Me: .....(Stunned WTF look filled with a large pause)
Drunken Sailor: You know, play something people can dance to - like Johnny Cash!!
Me: .....(Stunned WTF look filled with a large pause)
Drunken Sailor: Never mind - you don't know what you're doing anyway!!!
Me: HA HA HA HA!!!
So awesome. I like Johnny Cash, he's got some great tunes, but they're not really dancey tunes - more like great background, sing along songs, but they're hardly fill the dance floor type songs - even at a Country wedding. I've seen peeps fill the floor for Jackson, but they were in a circle singing it to each other - so pretty different. But hey what do I know? I don't know what I'm doing anyway! Ha ha ha!
As the night wore on, peeps weren't really reacting to Country or at least less than they were at the start and Top 40 and Oldies were filling the floor, so that's where I kept going. Best part was anytime I played some "beaty $h!t" he'd look at me and give me the finger - BAHAHAHAHAHA!!! It got to the point where I'd look at him when I dropped a new track and give him the "how do you like me now?" look, to which he'd promptly raise a finger to the air - ha ha ha - so much fun being a DJ!!! Keep in mind, the crowd was reacting to what I was playing and the floor was panning out just as it should. If it was empty, yeah dude's got me, but it certainly wasn't the case!