DJ SG

Typical Friday night:

Drunken half-conscious girl: “Can I request a song?”
DJ SG: “Sure, you can *request* a song.” Translation – sure, you can ask for me to play a song, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to play it.
Girl: “Can you play Britney Spears?”
DJ SG: “Um, sure I’ll get to it.”
Girl: “I wanna hear it next!”
DJ SG: “I’ll see what I can do.”
Girl: “C’mooooooooooooonnnn.. everyone will get craaaaaaaa-shhhhezsssyyeeeee”
DJ SG: “Which song?”
Girl: “Ahh sayed BRRRRRIIIIIITTTTNNNEEEEEEEYYYY” as she seemingly gets more drunk.
DJ SG: “Which Britney song?”
Girl: “CIRRRRRRRCCCUUUUSSSS!!!” and then she falls backward as the alcohol takes it’s toll.

More times than not I feel rather obligated to play these songs, because I ultimately like making the ladies feel good (wink!), but there are some songs out there that get an INCREDIBLE amount of requests that completely suck. I’m talking about absolute club killers.

These songs get mad requests at my Friday spot.. and they always stop the dancefloor to a standstill with half the people scratching their heads and the other half standing around as if it weren’t playing.

Cupid – Cupid Shuffle

For whatever it’s worth, the dance is catchy, so people want to show it off and go nuts when the track hits the speakers. Unfortunately for my Friday night spot, MOST people don’t know it. What happens is you get two douchebags who know it, so they do the dance for approximately 20 seconds before realizing no one else knows it and they’re all watching them, so they stop.

Any Young Jeezy song

Okay dude, I get it… You want to prove how “street” you are by requesting Young Jeezy in the club and when it comes on, you’ll be karaoke’ing along. But trust me, nobody really wants it.

Britney Spears – Circus

This song is actually an anomaly to me. It’s a Britney Spears song, and to me it’s just as good as “Womanizer” (both are guilty pleasures of mine). But for some reason every time I play it the dance floor falls flat. And it’s really weird because I get at least 5 requests within the first hour of my set every Friday night. Go figure. Maybe girls just want to hear it and envision themselves being Britney dancing on that stage but don’t actually want to dance to it.

See you on Friday at Moondoggies and we’ll see if I play any of these because people kept asking for them. Holla!