The Student Council at my school has been running a fundraiser all week for the special olympics, here was thier idea. The play mmmm bop by Hansen over the intercome during all passing periods and before and after school. I gave them a loop of the annoying chorus and they BLAST it. They also speed it up chipmunk style and sloooooow it down Barry white style - the idea is to annoy. The only way to "stop the bop" is to raise $1,200...no money = annoying bop all week long.
Last night I DJ'd the winter ball dance and throughout the night I would cut into mmmm bop and tell them the first $5 bill I got, or $10 bill I got would stop the bop. I also charged $1 per request and raised another $100. This morning at 9 AM we finally stopped the bop - the whole JH cheered!
The dance was huge hit. Traditionally the turnout is weak, but all the kids came and danced like crazy. One thing that went over well is a interaction technique I picked up from my boy Jnichol. Play the song "Here" by hello goodbye....it starts "I like, where we are....when we drive, in your car..." with that little tap drum beat. Have the kids face you and get thier hands above their heads and clapping to the beat. Tell them when you say jump they are all going to bounce to the beat. When the upbeat section of the song hits "when you are the one..." tell them to JUMP...hit the strobes and watch the WHOLE crowd bounce to the beat - it's priceless. I use VDJ to set the three cue points at the points in the song where the "jump" takes place - works great.
Other songs that went over really well with the 8th and 9th graders -
Since you've been gone - Told the ladies to give me thier best Clarkson impression and belt it out - they did.
Cupid shuffle
Baby got back - although my principal was eyeing me on this one (he's lame)
get low (clean edit of course)
shorty is a 10
Low
Tootsie roll vs. shorty like mine mix
crank dat (twice, the second time was the last song of the night - they turned all the lights on prematurley but didn't faze the kids. Everyone did the supaman in the glaring light anyway)
Sandstorm (they freaked out to this - big "mosh pit")
wanna be - spice girls (I had one of the "too cool for school" boys come up and say "play something better" so I announced "Derrick keeps bugging me to play his favorite song so here it is" and went into it. The crowd and teachers got a kick out of it and Derrick was in the middle of all the ladies dancing around)
Barbie girl
Apologize - good, slow, current
Also had a dance contest, big circle at mid court, 7 contestants danceing a mix of music from the ages - rock around the clock, footloose, ice ice baby, hampster dance, peanut butter jelly. Winners got free concessions and a glow necklace.
all in all a great gig!
Last night I DJ'd the winter ball dance and throughout the night I would cut into mmmm bop and tell them the first $5 bill I got, or $10 bill I got would stop the bop. I also charged $1 per request and raised another $100. This morning at 9 AM we finally stopped the bop - the whole JH cheered!
The dance was huge hit. Traditionally the turnout is weak, but all the kids came and danced like crazy. One thing that went over well is a interaction technique I picked up from my boy Jnichol. Play the song "Here" by hello goodbye....it starts "I like, where we are....when we drive, in your car..." with that little tap drum beat. Have the kids face you and get thier hands above their heads and clapping to the beat. Tell them when you say jump they are all going to bounce to the beat. When the upbeat section of the song hits "when you are the one..." tell them to JUMP...hit the strobes and watch the WHOLE crowd bounce to the beat - it's priceless. I use VDJ to set the three cue points at the points in the song where the "jump" takes place - works great.
Other songs that went over really well with the 8th and 9th graders -
Since you've been gone - Told the ladies to give me thier best Clarkson impression and belt it out - they did.
Cupid shuffle
Baby got back - although my principal was eyeing me on this one (he's lame)
get low (clean edit of course)
shorty is a 10
Low
Tootsie roll vs. shorty like mine mix
crank dat (twice, the second time was the last song of the night - they turned all the lights on prematurley but didn't faze the kids. Everyone did the supaman in the glaring light anyway)
Sandstorm (they freaked out to this - big "mosh pit")
wanna be - spice girls (I had one of the "too cool for school" boys come up and say "play something better" so I announced "Derrick keeps bugging me to play his favorite song so here it is" and went into it. The crowd and teachers got a kick out of it and Derrick was in the middle of all the ladies dancing around)
Barbie girl
Apologize - good, slow, current
Also had a dance contest, big circle at mid court, 7 contestants danceing a mix of music from the ages - rock around the clock, footloose, ice ice baby, hampster dance, peanut butter jelly. Winners got free concessions and a glow necklace.
all in all a great gig!
