Bride's Request

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BlueLineDJ

BlueLineDJ

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Take a gander at this song my bride had my play at last weekend's wedding. Luckily it was late in the night when I finally got around to playing it. When she requested it early on I swore she said Miley Cyrus so I played party in the USA. When she came back up later she clarified herself. Needless to say I was shocked at the lyrics. I had never heard this one before.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0-AfcttAY
 
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Sounds like something they found in college as a joke. It's been out since 2016 and only has 1.4mm views on YouTube.

But I would have been super uncomfortable playing that at a wedding. Hell, I'd be uncomfortable playing that in a nightclub.

Back in my day it was Insane Clown Posse stuff... apparently now we have this.
 
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Never gets played by me at any private event.

If it were regionally popular, I might drop it on the right club audience but even that'd be a stretch.

Pure crap.
 
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. Edith Sitwell

... unwarranted profanity implies mental laziness. James Carlos Blake

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust. Raja Krishnamoorthi
 
I wouldn't have played it. It doesn't matter who requests a song - the liability for any unwanted backlash will land on the DJ or audio operator who decide do let it pass. The bride can play that from her boom box after I leave.

It's a lewd misogynistic attack on Miley Cyrus - who's best known as a former Disney kid, AND a double standard of course - because there is no white male musician's career that could survive that recording.

I don't have any songs in my library that I need to worry about. Eventually I also plan to get rid of crap I've never played - mostly rhythm, rap and hip hop that has a demonstrated ZERO value. The record pools typically run 80/20 (80% being songs that don't become well known or popular.) It's nice to get the music ahead of the curve but sucks to have a hard drive full of extraneous crap.
 
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There's no mention how old the bride is? This is what a lot of young people listen to today and don't see a thing wrong with such lyrics. The problem is how far freedom of speech has gotten out of control. This is what I mean when I say a lot of so called artist today don't have any real talent. I was laughing when I played part of it. For me though I wouldn't play it because I wouldn't be the DJ for that wedding.
 
This is a great reason why it's important to get all details from the client before either agreeing to do the event or so this doesn't happen at the event. That song would highly offend a lot of the guest attending the wedding. The bride wasn't thinking of the people attending the wedding. She was only thinking of what she wanted.
 
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Now why is it a crime then if you threaten to ******* ? You should have the right and freedom to say this according to you? When does it stop being freedom of speech and just down right vulgar? That song is sicking and a DJ should not play that song at any event! It's bad enough when you hear someone blasting such garbage from their radio in their vehicle.

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MIXMASTERMACHOM said:
Now why is it a crime then if you threaten to ******* ? You should have the right and freedom to say this according to you? When does it stop being freedom of speech and just down right vulgar? That song is sicking and a DJ should not play that song at any event! It's bad enough when you hear someone blasting such garbage from their radio in their vehicle.
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First off it's illegal to say you are going to kill anyone. I don't think you know how Freedom of Speech works. You are free to say anything you aren't free from the consequences of what you say
 
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Not true - Constitutional rights exist to prohibit the government from applying consequences to speech or ideas it doesn't approve.
Wishing someone would die is an idea, soliciting their death is a criminal act. While government officials continue to exploit cancel culture for a power grab - it's roots lie with left-wing fascists, socialists, and the most arrogant or ignorant of our population, many of whom make up our current press and media.

We would be better off if most of the elderly and deranged political leaders on this globe had already died of old age. The world is crazy because the people leading it and broadcasting about it have lost their most basic faculties (assuming they had any to begin with.)
 
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"...To Play Or NOT To Play..."

I've played some strange things at the end of the wedding.
But only when the circumstances are perfect for the moment.

You know....
old, stuffy people get too drunk or too tired and go home.
Parents have all left the event.
It was a casual wedding....in a tent.
Only a handful remain, along with the bride and groom. (who are tired).

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When the tent wedding I was doing got rained out...
most people left before my end time.

I ended up playing nohing but Pink Floyd for an hour,
while the bride and groom got stoned.

Tell you what...you not only make a new client...
you make a new friend.


SO.....
We all have to decide to "play or not play"
based on our own personality.
And then live with the consequences, or enjoy the spoils..
 
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How many on here use a wedding planner form? What I mean is a form detailing things about a wedding. In there having songs they want and don't want for the wedding. Also what can help also is having in the contract that you only play clean edited music. Again before agreeing to do the wedding I say a serious discussion is needed to avoid such a thing from happening if you agree to do the wedding. Such a song may be very offensive to certain guest attending the wedding and others it's not a big deal.

Now some won't have that in their contract because to them it's not a big deal. It's what they think as normal.
 
Mixy, How many pages to your planning form?
Didn't someone on a forum send you their forms to use?
 
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