Plain And Simple, Define Cheese

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HiDefDJ

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In your opinion what is cheese. It can be a song, a routine or anything else that a mobile DJ does that you would consider cheesy.
 
This is not plain and simple.....

Is wearing Aloha Shirts, and making people do the limbo cheesy or expected?
 
CHEESE IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

playing "stripper" music for the garter.....CHEESY
wearing the dated polyester blue tuxedo....CHEESY
passing out the 7 goofy hats for Y.M.C.A = super-cheesy
playing the YMCA = cheesy
sounding like a swarmy game show host "Guy Smiley" from Sesame St = CHEESY

I'm sure I can think of some more examples.....but they aren't going to be "cheesy" with every customer.

YMMV (Your mileage may vary...)
 
CHEESE IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

playing "stripper" music for the garter.....CHEESY
wearing the dated polyester blue tuxedo....CHEESY
passing out the 7 goofy hats for Y.M.C.A = super-cheesy
playing the YMCA = cheesy
sounding like a swarmy game show host "Guy Smiley" from Sesame St = CHEESY

I'm sure I can think of some more examples.....but they aren't going to be "cheesy" with every customer.

YMMV (Your mileage may vary...)


Exactly what I'm looking for. I want to hear everyone's definition of cheesy.
 
I think Matt said it best right here.

CHEESE IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
 
I agree with Matt and Steve here. Just like the term bottomfeeder, there is no specific definition. With reguards to my business, its up to my clients if they wants cheese or not. I am more than willing to be cheesy. Personally, I like being groovy!

In a lot of ways one of my favorite DJs to watch and Ive learned so much from could be considered Cheesy in some ways, Scott Favor. He is a genius in our field, and just a neat man to know. I own his interactive DVD sets, and they are an invaluable tool!

Groovielou
 
When I see the words "high energy" or "highly interactive" the cheese alert bells immediately go off.
 
For me, CHEESE is anything that is NOT "good" or "cool", but IS fun. Or, sometimes, it's just freaking lame, like most of the songs that the majority of people at a wedding like.

ie:

ICE ICE BABY [fun]

KRIS KROSS (before they became "gangsta" rappers) [fun]

Most Of My Jokes [?]

OLD TIME ROCK & ROLL [lame]

Signaling To The DJ To Play YMCA By "Doing The Y", and signaling to play the BIRD DANCE By "Flapping Your Wings" [fun to the person doing it, but lame to me]

A Girl Showing Up To A Wedding In A Fancy Dress And Then Changing Into A Spandex Suit For The Dancing [lame]

"I Am The Beholder!" [?]
 
cheese1 /t?iz/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[cheez] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, cheesed, chees·ing.
–noun 1. the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.
2. a definite mass of this substance, often in the shape of a wheel or cylinder.
3. something of similar shape or consistency, as a mass of pomace in cider-making.
4. Informal. partly digested milk curds sometimes spit up by infants.
5. cheeses, any of several mallows, esp. Malva neglecta, a sprawling,weedy plant having small lavender or white flowers and round, flat, segmented fruits thought to resemble little wheels of cheese.
6. Slang: Vulgar. smegma.
7. Metalworking. a. a transverse section cut from an ingot, as for making into a tire.
b. an ingot or billet made into a convex, circular form by blows at the ends.

8. a low curtsy.
–verb (used without object) 9. Informal. (of infants) to spit up partly digested milk curds.
–verb (used with object) 10. Metalworking. to forge (an ingot or billet) into a cheese


Hows that

PS do yourself a favour and dont look up Smegma
 
In my opinion, cheese is everything that is cliche' at almost every wedding:

The Chicken Dance
Macarena
YMCA
Old Time Rock and Roll
Sweet Caroline
Mony Mony
etc...

I don't mind playing any of it, and they're always a big hit when I do. In this area of the United States, it's pretty much expected that these songs get played. I don't know if the other Ohio DJs want to chime in on this but his has been my experience.

In every meeting with a potential client, I always ask them whether they want it or not. The majority in this area want it. Perhaps it's a geographical thing.