Michael Buble The Next Kenny G?

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Kirby Ball

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It seems like everytime we do pics for a wedding and not the music, the DJs use way too much Michael Buble as they did with Kenny G in the last century...:sqwink:

As much as I like Buble's sound, I find myself severely limiting if not eliminating his music from my cocktail/dinner music.

Do you think that his over exposure will put him into the same :puke: status as Kenny G finds himself in now?
 
There are waaayyyyy too many other better songs for cocktail/dinner hours other than Michael Buble and Kenny G that regular DJs don't use. Its more of a "follow fashion" thing!:sqrolleyes:
 
Lack of creativity ;)
 
If you want a Sinatra sound there are so many options - why stay with Buble alone? Rod Stewart on the American Songbook sets, and for a relativly unknown - Matt Dusk from the Discovery show American Casino is amazing.

And I don't say that just because my ex was in love with him...
 
The way I'm looking at it is; there is way too much music out there to over rely on any one artist, whether it be Buble, Sinatra, Dino, etc., etc.

But unfortunately there are many of our brethren that think it's ok just to slap a disc in of a specific artist and just let it run, or they will play way too many selections from a given artist.

Like I said earlier, we run into this numerous times when we aren't doing the music and have noticed that Michael Buble is getting played to the point where I'm wondering if there will be a time in the not so distant future, where he'll be dismissed due to the over saturation by others in our industry.
 
Kirby Ball said:
But unfortunately there are many of our brethren that think it's ok just to slap a disc in of a specific artist and just let it run, or they will play way too many selections from a given artist.
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When Kenny's "Breathless" CD came out, it was acceptable to play one artist's CD all the way through dinner. Recordable CDs weren't available yet, so custom-burning a dinner music compilation wasn't an option.

What's worse is that couples would actually tell us to play Kenny G during dinner, full well knowing that they were going to get an entire album's worth.

Fortunately, times and technology have changed.
 
I've always found it interesting that so many DJs still have canned dinner music CDs. I've gotten to the point where I have two playlists of dinner music that I take as my basic outline and add and rearrange songs as I see fit. One is mostly modern rock / pop without a beat that makes you want to go dance - but it does get your butt ready.... The other is warmer and slower. Standards like Sinatra, Manilow, Billy Joel... All depends on how I see the group.

And I'll mix it up from there.
 
A lot of weddings can be very different. Sometimes Michael Buble type stuff might be inappropriate. I did a wedding last week the bride & groom were very young , early 20s or late teens as were quite a few of the guests. I didnt feel Buble was a good fit for the age group, so instead i played slow r&b/pop jams from the 90s to today.

I played :
Atomic Kitten - Eternal flame
Lauryn Hill - Cant take my eyes off you
Britney - Sometimes

etc..
They loved it!
 
What we use for dinner depends completely on the client for the night.

With regards to Buble, well...if a DJ needs to rely on him for dinner music, maybe they should think about a different profession or hobby. Like has been mentioned before there's just too much good stuff out there...heck we even use the soundtracks from the TV show "Glee."

Now for throwing in a cd and letting it play, well if we're offered to eat and it's a jazz type dinner thing, we use a best of Cole Porter cd where it's a bunch of different artists doing his works. It works out quite well.
 
I would feel the same about Sinatra or Dean Martin and Kenny G. If you give people the impression that you are just "throwing a CD in" of any artist and letting it play, it could have a negative effect.

With us, most artists rarely get played more than once or twice during dinner and cocktail. If they do, they are spaced out pretty well. If they are played more than twice, it's usually because its requested by the bride and groom.

Right now, there are 464 songs in my dinner/cocktail category. Typically I will grab some songs from there, mix in bride/groom requests, and then add others that I believe will be good for that specific crowd.

Right now, there are four buble songs in that category....Home, Everything, You don't know me, and Quando, Quando, Quando.
 
I make up a few CDs to suit certain critera and change them each show
 
Make a playlist of dinner music with different artists and that's it, there are so many songs done by different artists that were originally released by the Rat Pack you can have hours of interesting music that will bring a little spice to the evening before the dancing gets underway.
 
I was just talking about this today- Michael Buble specifically. I was lamenting how it seems every housewife in the country swoons at the very thought of MB. My reaction is usually to think that hey, if you like Swing/Vocal/Jazz music, nobody did it better than the old school artists- Sinatra, Darin, Nat King Cole, etc.

We were listening to Bobby Darin at the time. BTW the guy's got lots of GREAT songs beyond the overplayed "Mack The Knife" and "Splish Splash". Anyway I switched over to some Michael Buble songs and there is just NO comparison!

So yeah, I put Buble and Kenny G in the same camp not in that they are just overplayed but that they both are also watered down, easily digestible, radio ready, unchallenging, cheap knock offs of those that came before them.

So y'all can KEEP your Michael Bubles and Steve Tyrells. I'll stick with Louis Armstrong, Ella, Louis Prima, Chet Baker, etc. In fairness, it's not easy to compete with the masters. Diana Krall, Harry Connick and a few others are at least are worthy of mention when it comes to modern Jazz/Vocal artists.

My guess is, the reason Buble appeals so strongly to the female contingent is because he sings in such an effeminate way.

Los Angeles Disc Jockey
 
los angeles dj said:
My guess is, the reason Buble appeals so strongly to the female contingent is because he sings in such an effeminate way.

Los Angeles Disc Jockey
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Nah, it's his concerts that make the female contingent swoon. The guy's got talent for sure, but he knows who his audience is and he knows what they want to see.
 
Kirby Ball said:
The way I'm looking at it is; there is way too much music out there to over rely on any one artist, whether it be Buble, Sinatra, Dino, etc., etc.

But unfortunately there are many of our brethren that think it's ok just to slap a disc in of a specific artist and just let it run, or they will play way too many selections from a given artist.

Like I said earlier, we run into this numerous times when we aren't doing the music and have noticed that Michael Buble is getting played to the point where I'm wondering if there will be a time in the not so distant future, where he'll be dismissed due to the over saturation by others in our industry.
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In general, I believe the bar has been raised, which will prevent this situation. I believe the days of just slapping in a disc of any one artists' music is pretty much over.
 
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