If you ever wondered 'what click bait' and "worthless filler content" looks like - that's The Knots most blatant example of it.
Seriously? The 'Hokey Pokey' ?? I can recall only 1 wedding in the last 40 years that I played that song - and that reception had over a dozen small kids in attendance. It was a must play from the bride. If someone feels compelled to put the Hokey Pokey on their do not play list then I'd be curious where they've been living the past quarter century, and why they failed to graduate middle-school and yet, are old enough to get married,
Every song on that list not also a childish line dance is over-played because PEOPLE LIKE THEM. Are the Village People overplayed? YES. . . . . and people have been pointing that out since 1979 - and you know what? It's still as equally likely to show up on the must play list as it is the don't play list.
Unlike "The Knot' (so named because they want you to get your panties in a bunch over nothing) I trust most DJs know how to play fresh and still make diligent use of the songs that might be anthems for certain clients and their patrons. You like the YMCA ? I'll play it for you. It's that simple. If the bride loves one of these songs - then every one at her wedding proabbaly already knows that and they all chose to party with her becasue she's fun.
Here's the REAL thruth about overplayed songs at weddings:
By the time most people get married - they have been away from the party scene for quite a while. No longer in college, and not surround by people with nothing better to do than drink and party on the weekends - these people now have jobs and responsibilities. Their thoughts however, still remain with that period they best rememeber as their 'party personna.' A 30 year old bride is going to be quite fond of songs that are 10-15 years old. A 45 year old mom at her daughters bat mitzvah is going to request songs from late 90's and 2000's - along with the same Taylor Swift cuts her daughter listend to relentlessy while growing up.
Sorry, 'The Knot' - but, as publishers you may know how to sift recurrency from pop culture and online narcissim, but you don't know jack about real people and what makes them tick. Nor does the knot really understand DJs, who despite their intention to be cuttijng edge unwittingly choose and promote new songs to play on the basis of recurring texture and similarity to prior hits. Bruno Marrs sounds like _____________, Dua Lipa sound like ________________.
Go ahead - check your recent play lists and truly consider WHY you chose the songs that you did. If we're truly insightful then we know that we're simply knitting the same sweater in a different color or fabric because what worked 40 years ago is still a tool of the trade in music today. New hits are sewn from the same threads that weave our past.
There's really no such thing as over-played.
Seriously? The 'Hokey Pokey' ?? I can recall only 1 wedding in the last 40 years that I played that song - and that reception had over a dozen small kids in attendance. It was a must play from the bride. If someone feels compelled to put the Hokey Pokey on their do not play list then I'd be curious where they've been living the past quarter century, and why they failed to graduate middle-school and yet, are old enough to get married,
Every song on that list not also a childish line dance is over-played because PEOPLE LIKE THEM. Are the Village People overplayed? YES. . . . . and people have been pointing that out since 1979 - and you know what? It's still as equally likely to show up on the must play list as it is the don't play list.
Unlike "The Knot' (so named because they want you to get your panties in a bunch over nothing) I trust most DJs know how to play fresh and still make diligent use of the songs that might be anthems for certain clients and their patrons. You like the YMCA ? I'll play it for you. It's that simple. If the bride loves one of these songs - then every one at her wedding proabbaly already knows that and they all chose to party with her becasue she's fun.
Here's the REAL thruth about overplayed songs at weddings:
By the time most people get married - they have been away from the party scene for quite a while. No longer in college, and not surround by people with nothing better to do than drink and party on the weekends - these people now have jobs and responsibilities. Their thoughts however, still remain with that period they best rememeber as their 'party personna.' A 30 year old bride is going to be quite fond of songs that are 10-15 years old. A 45 year old mom at her daughters bat mitzvah is going to request songs from late 90's and 2000's - along with the same Taylor Swift cuts her daughter listend to relentlessy while growing up.
Sorry, 'The Knot' - but, as publishers you may know how to sift recurrency from pop culture and online narcissim, but you don't know jack about real people and what makes them tick. Nor does the knot really understand DJs, who despite their intention to be cuttijng edge unwittingly choose and promote new songs to play on the basis of recurring texture and similarity to prior hits. Bruno Marrs sounds like _____________, Dua Lipa sound like ________________.
Go ahead - check your recent play lists and truly consider WHY you chose the songs that you did. If we're truly insightful then we know that we're simply knitting the same sweater in a different color or fabric because what worked 40 years ago is still a tool of the trade in music today. New hits are sewn from the same threads that weave our past.
There's really no such thing as over-played.
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