It’s an affluent school, and many kids were headed out to big after parties. Most kids had arrived by 9:30, and most made their exit around 11:30. Accordingly, a school dance should be quick mixed and remix / drop heavy, especially with all of the low-key hip hop that has come out recently. Outside of TV or the internet, how many DJs has the average 16 or 17 year old (who can’t go out to bars and clubs) seen in real life? Maybe 10? The only thing they have to compare it to is the mega touring DJs. I think kids think of DJs and immediately think of the big festival guys, so I tried to give them a “festival experience” with lots of remixes, big drops, and fast transitions between songs. It’s an “it’s their dance, play their songs” kind of attitude, which isn’t always how every school views things. I’ve worked with this school before, and their attitude has always been “as long as the curse words aren’t there, we don’t care what song plays” - regardless of its message or content. Read More: 100 wedding songs to add to your playlist in 2020 I’d hire the kids that made this list to DJ weddings under my umbrella. I’m not sure if this list came from one student, or many, but I’d take a list like this over the top 20-25 songs I would probably be planning to play anyway. It’s a huge list, but I probably had 80% of the songs already. They sent this list on a Friday, end of January 2020, around 2 pm and I worked on it prepping songs Friday night and Saturday afternoon, going through line by line, finding clean versions when needed, and checking my record pools and library for remixes. After a high school had booked me to play an event recently, I reached out to the school (on a Monday) and let them know to have their dance planning committee send me a (school approved) list of songs. You also need to rely on your record pools.Īnd sometimes you’ll get a detailed playlist from the students. Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, and now Tik Tok, are places kids are going first to hear new music. While the kids are still familiar with the top 40 / top 100 chart stuff, they pull a lot of new stuff online that never makes the airwaves. Choosing school dance songs requires lots of research.
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