| Wedding
Reception, Company Party, High School dance or whatever it is you are
putting on, think about the music genre. The formula is pretty
simple - there is none! Think about the age of the people at the
event.
 Age is the one most important factor in
the choice of music for the evening, not what the bride or groom likes to
hear. Sure I'm making reference to a wedding reception but this goes
the same for any event. Here's an example. I hear it all the
time at wedding receptions, generally when the dance floor has a good
amount of happy people dancing, "I'm the brides mother(or sister),
turn this polka crap off and play what I want to hear".
WHATEVER!! Think about it O' great one, look on the dance floor and
tell me that your older crowd as well as the fun youngsters aren't having
a blast right now trying out a polka, and you want to ruin it for
them. Tell me that you paid a professional money so you can tell
them how much better you are. Tell me you have REALLY though about
what everybody else may be enjoying to hear for a few songs in the
evening. The point is that you need to let everybody enjoy the wide
range of music, don't only schedule songs that you would like to
hear. If you don't remember this then a lot of mixed members of your
crowd will do one or all of the following:
1) Talk about how terrible the DJ is with
their music selection.
2) Leave out of music boredom.
3) Hide the fact that they aren't having a great time they could be
having.
Of course there are special songs that
you would like to hear for sure, just don't narrow the music selection to
one format that you only want to hear.
Now let's say you are a high school, this
is pretty much the same for you except...make sure you tell the DJ what is
not preferred to hear. A lot of songs that are popular on the radio
are sexually oriented, some of them are acceptable but some are certainly
not. Your DJ should be professional enough to understand this, make
sure and let them know anyways, just for your security.
Recap:
1) Pick out music that flows well with the age group attending.
2) Let the DJ run the show, they are the professional you've hired.
3) Tell the DJ company if you want no songs with sexual or vulgar
reference beforehand.
Learn to enjoy a wide variety of music
that your entire crowd will enjoy and the compliments will flow like beer! |
