Weddings Bride Insists on Explicit Lyrics in Song..

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Jon Tuck said:
That music guy is really some music guy. Steve do you play Blueberry Hill? Do You play grease megamix? Do you play Billy Squier- Stroke? I could go on but Im off to business class.
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Jon - I'm not going to go through all of this again....

Answer the same question I asked Anna.....

This isn't about songs with innuendo or cute songs with double entendres...
 
thatmusicguy said:
Jon - I'm not going to go through all of this again....

Answer the same question I asked Anna.....

This isn't about songs with innuendo or cute songs with double entendres...
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For me, I wouldn't play the Grease MegaMix (explicit language), but I would play Blueberry Hill. When I taught high school theater we talked about doing Grease as the musical. When I told the kids that we would have to dump or edit many of the songs, they decided to go another direction.

Mike
 
thatmusicguy said:
Jeff - the point is ...where do you draw the line......Do you allow your young children to use the F bomb.....If not, why is OK then to play a song with the F bomb...because the customer paid me to?.. Oh..that's a good lesson for the youngsters....It's OK to give that guy a b job, as long as you're paid for it.....
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That's comparing apples to oranges. Teaching my children is my job teaching a group of intoxicated adults isn't my job...and playing edits, if it makes you feel better that's great, but it really serves no purpose if the words are known

Should I run out on the floor during Mony Mony and stop the people from yelling out what they yell is that my job too. By the good moral standard that song is fine to play nothing even really suggestive in that song no more than Brown Eyed Girl or BGB

As Scott said it very rarley comes up and when it does I will suggest the edit
 
At my company we learned a long time ago that it is not up to us to tell people what is appropriate for them. In my paperwork it says that we will provide "Tasteful entertainment for all ages". Then I explain that "Tasteful" is defined by them when we discuss the music. You don't know what is a family joke or tradition. If a bride is paying me $1300 to DJ her wedding I have a very hard time telling her that I won't play the music that she wants to hear, weather I like it or not.
 
Wow, I'm glad i don't have to be the guy to tell people what the can and cannot have.

Maybe i'm just too use to the music of today. But around here, At 11:30 p.m.
After the wedding crowd has polished off 2 or 3 half barrells of barley pop,

The Dan Band really isn't going to offend anyone who's still in attendence.

The only way to really offend people around here??
Tell them there's no more free beer when there only half drunk!!!
 
See, the above is where I think you guys get it wrong. I don't tell them what they can't have; I tell them what I do and don't do.... they can have what they want.... it will just be with a different DJ... big difference in my eyes.
 
thatmusicguy said:
You don't need balls to play them...anyone can do that....

it's society's lack of balls that has gotten us to where we have to debate playing obscene music....
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Right or wrong, it takes bigger balls to go against the grain, but it needs to be done if that is what you stand for.
 
without getting into a testicular circumference contest, i believe in papa's right to refuse any show he wishes, just as i believe in someone's right to have any music they want at their event and my right to not become the music morality police.
 
Any bride that would subject her guests to songs like crazybitch etc is not taking alot of her guests into consideration and is being a thoughtless bitch, music sets the mood and songs like this are ugly.
 
lets dance said:
Any bride that would subject her guests to songs like crazybitch etc is not taking alot of her guests into consideration and is being a thoughtless bitch, music sets the mood and songs like this are ugly.
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I agree that is why I thought it was horrible to have to play "Here Comes The Muffin Man" at a wedding once!

Or the fact that some DJ's will play the "Chicken Dance" at a wedding (if requested) what a horrible thought! I didn't even know the Chicken Dance had lyrics until I played it at a teen event many years ago!

I don't want to be a Chicken
I Don't want to be no Duck

All I want to do is just F**k, F**k, F**k!

I was devasted by this display!:sqerr:
 
my right to not become the music morality police.
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Scott, I ordinarily follow and admire your cool collected line of thinking to the ends of the earth and back, however this quotation seems very much out of character.

"Morality police"?

Methinks it's choice, both business and personal. Police denotes the law, black or white, and that anyone who make a personal stance differs is the "police" as in a very negative connotation.

Basically, I could give a pituitary gland less what one's moral standards are as long as they are not inflicted upon me without my consent. If I object, it can (and would) be done in such a fashion as to make it quite uncomfortable for the perpetrator to do it again. It is just that such a person (as me) that I would fear should I ever acquiesce to actually playing a track with obvious "shock jock" or gratuitous vulgarities.

It is precisely why I choose not to play the I95 song for bridal party introductions even though the bride and/or groom might be the often lyrically referred to jerk. :sqwink:
 
Papa Deuce said:
See, the above is where I think you guys get it wrong. I don't tell them what they can't have; I tell them what I do and don't do.... they can have what they want.... it will just be with a different DJ... big difference in my eyes.
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That is all I am saying. There are plenty of DJs out there that will play whatever you want to hear and any business person has the right to refuse service to anyone on any grounds.

Mike
 
Cap Capello said:
Scott, I ordinarily follow and admire your cool collected line of thinking to the ends of the earth and back, however this quotation seems very much out of character.

"Morality police"?

Methinks it's choice, both business and personal. Police denotes the law, black or white, and that anyone who make a personal stance differs is the "police" as in a very negative connotation.

Basically, I could give a pituitary gland less what one's moral standards are as long as they are not inflicted upon me without my consent. If I object, it can (and would) be done in such a fashion as to make it quite uncomfortable for the perpetrator to do it again. It is just that such a person (as me) that I would fear should I ever acquiesce to actually playing a track with obvious "shock jock" or gratuitous vulgarities.

It is precisely why I choose not to play the I95 song for bridal party introductions even though the bride and/or groom might be the often lyrically referred to jerk. :sqwink:
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Cap,
thanks for the kind words. Your views are always well thought out and filled with sense that unfortunetly is sometimes uncommon among mobile DJ's. As far as not wanting to be the "music morality police", It was my feable attempt at humor. I seriously do respect any dj's right to not play a song if they don't want to just as I respect a customer's right to hear a song they'd like.
 
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