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DaniBites
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Just for fun, what songs are on your DO NOT PLAY list
Mine includes:
Mambo #5
The Macarena
YMCA
Cha Cha Slide
The Electric Slide
Basically anything that includes group dancing
Drop it like it's Hot
What about you guys? I can't be the only one who hates group dances can I? I feel grinchy.
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Re: Just for fun, what songs are on your DO NOT PLAY list
Nickelback
Creed
Any country
Group dances (electric slide, Macarena, etc.)
Meatloaf
Any songs from Grease
Village People
Bon Jovi
- Anything by Chris Brown, R. Kelly, Justin Beiber, One Direction (and other such boy bands)
- Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight
- Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines
- Any choreographed dances (i.e. Macarena, Electric Slide, Chicken Dance, Cha Cha Slide, Cupid Shuffle, Hokey Pokey, Achy Breaky Heart, etc.)
- Hardcore or gangsta rap
- Songs with blatantly inappropriate lyrics
Limbo
Hokey Pokey
Macarena
Chicken Dance
Electric Slide
YMCA
Rap
Hip hop
Country
For starters.
I am putting (so far), NO:
Chris Brown
Rhianna
Bon Jovi (Fiance doesn't like it)
No explicit rap
No group dances
This sounds like my list, except ours didn't restrict Robin Thicke (would have if we thought about it) or Eric Clapton. And our restricted choreographed dance list specifically included YMCA and Gangnam style.
Our requested music styles were primarily classic rock and country. 80% of our guests were over the age of 60. 15% were in their 30's. The rest were under age of 10.
Our DJ sucked... YMCA and Gangnam Style were both played, even though they were specifically on our do not play list. Our guests enjoyed it so we didn't really bitch about it. And I will admit it was cute watching the kids do them. If electric slide or any of those were played we would have put a stop to it. BUT, when he started playing some rap stuff that was SO not wedding appropriate, our wedding coordinator was kind enough to chew him out for us and set him back on the correct musical path.
DJ Horror Story
Not a wedding, but a work Xmas party. We hired the DJ the venue recommended.
My first red flag ran high up the pole when I asked him to e-mail me an invoice (before the event), so our corporate office could have a check cut for him to give at the end of the party. He told me he does not have an e-mail address and asked for our address to snail-mail it to us.
In the same conversation, he asked if he could bring his g/f. That floored me a bit. In my brief stunned silence, he threw in that she helped him out with the DJing. I stalled him and told him I would need to ask one of the higher ups and would get back to him. We did allow it, but emphasized we would be providing only him with a meal. I also told him our event was cocktail attire and asked for him to make sure she was dressed appropriately. It was one of those sticky situations where I felt like it was a rude and very "un-etiquette approved" thing to say, but I also didn't want her showing up in jeans and a grungy t-shirt.
The night arrived. DJ's g/f is dressed appropriately (phew). During the cocktail hour, he is playing a lot of old-timey mellow or classical music. That was okay. Then dinner starts. He basically put on a CD of Anne Murray and let it roll. Yes, omg yes, I could not make this up. He played Anne Murray throughout the ENTIRE dinner.
Don't get me wrong, I Iikes me some Anne Murray. One song would have been lovely. But an entire CD's worth all at one time was a bit much and a bit lazy, lol.
Dinner's over and now people are ready to dance. He (finally) switches away from Anne Murray, but stays with that same type of music. One of my coworkers goes up to him and requests he play something more modern and upbeat. The very next song? Caribbean Queen by Billy Ocean. I s**t you not.
He did get a bit better after that because the guests learned to go up to him and request specific songs. But my coworkers and I laughed about the Anne Murray dinner many times over the next couple months...and then we laughed again as next year's December started to near.
I am from a very country background so two-stepping will be loud and proud at our reception. I saw cotton eyed joe mentioned above. It will be on my "please play" list (not the remix version some people use, but one of the older ones). Some of my best memories as a kid was dancing this with my parents and getting away with shouting BULL**** when the time came.
I'm the fuck out.
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- “Thrift Shop”
- Anything Justin Bieber or Taylor Swift
- “Boot Scootin’ Boogie”
- “Achy Breaky Heart”
- Any line or group dances (ala Chicken Dance, Electric Slide, etc.)
My MOTHER wanted the whole wedding party to learn the Thriller dance & perform it at the reception. I promptly shut that down. I love my mom, but just, no.
I have a very similar list to those of the PPs.
- YMCA
- Cha Cha Slide
- Cupid Shuffle
- Basically any "group dancing"
I do, however, want to play fun music that everyone can enjoy & dance to if they please.
There are so many awesomely bad songs on this thread!
H really didnt want Dont Stop Believin'
We are banning any hip hop or rap, I put Beyonce because her voice makes my ears bleed....I can't remember off the top of my head what else I put down, lol.
Happy is our recessional song. I'm sick to death of it, but FI wanted it so there we have it.