Society & Culture 21st Birthday Party

[Caesar]

Even so, it makes them inattentive to the job.

I don't know, maybe other people feel different. But the ground rules when I hire are no alcohol, no dancing, stay behind the table while you're on the clock and don't hang around when it's you're finished.

For most of the professionals that's par for the course anyway.

 

[HarryTiger]

Bit of AQUA, Eiffel 65, Crazy Frog etc. etc. You know.... the hits...

Are you taking the piss? You played hits from the late 90s at a 21st in 2010?

The attendees would have been about 10 years old back when those songs were big.

 

[ClarkeM]

Are you taking the piss? You played hits from the late 90s at a 21st in 2010?

The attendees would have been about 10 years old back when those songs were big.

*facepalm*

 

[HarryTiger]

*facepalm*

Boom Boom Boom shake da room?

 

[ClarkeM]

You know it

 

[THRILLHO]

Find it really pretentious when the band or DJ is drinking beer at a party. Even worse is when you see a bartender drinking beer or doing shots at a club like they're having the time of their life.

 

[RoJo Junior]

Bit of AQUA, Eiffel 65, Crazy Frog etc. etc. You know.... the hits...

Vengaboys, 5ive, S-Club 7 & Bomfunk MC's best be part of the etc.

 

[Damon_3388]

Find it really pretentious when the band or DJ is drinking beer at a party. Even worse is when you see a bartender drinking beer or doing shots at a club like they're having the time of their life.

For some reason it just comes across really w***erish when DJs and bar staff do that, and those partying/drinking with them come across that way too. Like they're all some local celebrities part of some exclusive club, when they're just staff earning minimum wage, or are the pissed mates of the staff earning minimum wage.

I always find that late '90s/early 2000s pop music totally cringeworthy. I grew up with it (I was born in 1988), but I never liked it. As a pre-teen/early, I was listening to Rage Against the Machine and Pantera almost religiously, and totally detested the pop music of the time. I've expanded my tastes considerably since then, and have an appreciation of nearly all genres of music, but that particular era of pop music is just really terrible IMO. The only thing more cringeworthy than the actual pop music from that era for me is the people who still like it.

To be honest, isn't a DJ who plays popular/relatively well-known songs just a glorified CD changer? What actual skill (beyond knowing how to work the sound system) is involved?

 

[the_interloper]

For some reason it just comes across really w***erish when DJs and bar staff do that, and those partying/drinking with them come across that way too. Like they're all some local celebrities part of some exclusive club, when they're just staff earning minimum wage, or are the pissed mates of the staff earning minimum wage.

I always find that late '90s/early 2000s pop music totally cringeworthy. I grew up with it (I was born in 1988), but I never liked it. As a pre-teen/early, I was listening to Rage Against the Machine and Pantera almost religiously, and totally detested the pop music of the time. I've expanded my tastes considerably since then, and have an appreciation of nearly all genres of music, but that particular era of pop music is just really terrible IMO. The only thing more cringeworthy than the actual pop music from that era for me is the people who still like it.

To be honest, isn't a DJ who plays popular/relatively well-known songs just a glorified CD changer? What actual skill (beyond knowing how to work the sound system) is involved?

The answer is, bugger all! Even for big name djs i don't think they do much, it's more about good track selection (turntablists however have talent imo).

 

[pacemaker]

The answer is, bugger all! Even for big name djs i don't think they do much, it's more about good track selection (turntablists however have talent imo).

If this is the case call me DJ Pacey. I often do this on the computer, in the Car, on the Ipod. Reckon I could make a living out of it?