Okay So for new years i agreed to spin at my buddies house party. So i spent a day cobbling up my collection of Club music, the cheesy stuff that the girls like cuz i figure…hell if i keep them happy then the guys will start dancing in hopes to get laid…you know the usual routine.
The night was going pretty decent…then in the night i got some of the STRANGEST request i have ever heard.
Rammstein, Du Hast
Landslide by stevie nicks
I honestly did not know what to say…
What are some of the strangest requests u guys have heard.
the crowd that night was “dark”. luckily the place where i was dj’ing at had wi-fi so i downloaded it from itunes. i don’t mind downloading music on the fly as long as it gets people dancing. .. 2 weeks later i did another party and some one asked for that same song… i guess i didn’t waste $.99
About a year ago I was Djing at a huge house party way out in the cuts (dirt parking lot, entry fee, wristbands, etc.). It reminded me of a renegade rave combined with a club. But anyhow, this same drunk guy kept asking me to play anything from Flogging Molly. I only had the CDs I brought with me, i.e. no Flogging Molly, and I told him that…repeatedly.
He asked if he could hook his iPod up and play it, but I had no cord and wouldn’t have let him if I did.
He kept asking about every 15 minutes for an hour or two and then finally disappeared. Only to reappear later in the night, with his newly burned CD…that he made just for me. I told him I’d play whatever he put on there and that was the end of it. Never played any of it though; didn’t feel appropriate to play Flogging Molly in between hip hop or electro house and kill a dance floor.
For me, it was to play Skrillex at a Wedding… The person who requested it was the bride’s nephew… the Bride and groom were about 40 years old… so imagine how that would’ve gone down! lol
HAHAHA That’s amazing! I’m doing a sweet 16 this weekend and the girl asked me to play “Top 40, hiphop, spanish music, and skrillex. No dubstep except for Skrillex” When I got her email I couldn’t help but laugh.
On NYE right in the middle of my progressive psytrance set, some random sexy blonde asked me to play “something by rihanna” and battered her eyelids at me. Told her to get the F$#@ away from me and continued to rock the shit out of the bar
you have more integrity as an artist than I do. I’m pretty sure it’s one of the reasons I started playing everything my rihanna haha.
I’ve never had any really weird requests, but I did have a girl ask for Gaga, which I played since it was a slow night at the bar, and then she proceeded to dance like Elaine from Seinfeld. Pretty funny shit.
I think this will be the most epic problem for DJ’s, ever, EVER.
There will be always at least one person in crowd who will come and ask something, ALWAYS, and even if you will be in separate booth, they will find the way to make a request, becouse they think that we are like a jukebox.
Only problem is, jukebox alteast gets something for that
And if you will not make the request 80% your dead
I had a small group of south american girls in the bar once [not too common in central london] who kept asking for latino music or reggaeton. I kept telling them that I didn’t have any of that kind of stuff, but I’d try and find something…
So I found one reggaeton tune in my itunes that was fairly suitable and dropped it.
Everyone in the bar was jumping up and down to it, except the girls who requested it.
The people that ask for the tunes NEVER dance to them when you actually play them.
In another thread I said a gay audience was a demanding audience… pales into insignificance compared to a hen night (bachelorette party)
“have you got Mandy by Barry Manilow” I got dogs abuse for not having it, same with Queen We will rock you. Trying to explain I was a house music dj got me nowhere
The worst bit of that night was being asked for Dolly Parton 9 to 5 (the worst bit being I actually found it and played it) They loved it and went on to ask for Sneaky Sound System.
One night when me and my buddy were doing a “live-set”. (meaning we are booked as AUDIOSTALKERS playing or OWN tracks… ON STAGE..)
This girl gets UP on stage, walks UP to us taps my buddy on the shoulder, saying
-“what music is this?!”
-“well, uhm its our music” he responds
-“its not that good, could you please play something else?” she says and turns away and walks down…
