About the middle school dance I DJed

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I totally underestimated how many kids in Peoria would want to listen to Chingy, apparently. For the most part they hated anything vaguely reminiscent of rock and roll or non-hip hop pop, and were EXTREMELY vocal on the matter (not a real suprise). What killed me was that they went apeshit for all two dancehall-ish songs.

Biggest songs of the night (by far):
Sean Paul "Get Busy"
Nina Sky "Move Ya Body"
Usher & others "Yeah"
Chingy "Right Thurr"
Ciara "Goodies" (I figured this would be big)

Thanks to everyone that helped me compile a playlist. Time to have nightmares about a million kids storming the DJ booth...

― Steev (Steev), Saturday, 16 October 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

word.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Saturday, 16 October 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I once DJ'd a middle school dance, many years ago, when I was in high school. A girl of about 12 asked me if I had "Big Balls." I didn't know it was a song.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Saturday, 16 October 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i want to play the lil jon "lean back" remix and snoop's "drop it like it's hot" to someone real soon

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 16 October 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Let it be known middle-schoolers aren't Rockist!!

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Sunday, 17 October 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was in (the Canadian equivalent of) middle-school, REM, Pearl Jam and GnR were cool. *memories*

― The TAO that can be Posted is not the TAO! (The Tao that can be Posted is), Sunday, 17 October 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but not at the dances, right?

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 17 October 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Let it be known middle-schoolers aren't Rockist!!

At least the ones w/ the balls to dance in middle school, anyway.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 17 October 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i won a 'masters of rock' vinyl lp at one of my middle school dances, only song i remember on it was dokken 'breaking the chains'.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 17 October 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if Snoop & Pharell's "Drop It Like It's Hot" will be a middle school hit, like Lean Back. The production is tight and the chorus sticks with you, but I wouldn't know how people will dance to it. I wonder if it going to take off or be like Grindin' which only kind of took off.

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

In my experience, middle school kids tend to only like/dance to songs they know beforehand.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, if they didn't know it they literally booed it off.

― Steev (Steev), Sunday, 17 October 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

not just middle school kids, most people. sometimes our night is promoted so erratically that it feels like the crowd were stranded in the Atlantic for 40 years and got swept onto a dancefloor in Dublin by a hurricane.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 17 October 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It's much easier to dance to something you know, for some reason. They booed your choices? Man, if adults did that to me (and I might do the same thing to kinds) they would get a very unpleasant set for the rest of the night. Like, Metal Machine Music maybe.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 17 October 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's much easier to dance to something you know

thats not true for everyone. the last two times i went out the djs plaeyd tracks i knew very well (flat beat / deep burnt) and i stoped dancing imediately. i supose its because ive always listened to them while siting down.

― :|, Sunday, 17 October 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Arrgh i was at my mum's house the other day and my brother and his friend were playing the Shola Ama remix of Mario Winans on repeat for like 2 hours, non stop. It was dark.

― 2tekz, Sunday, 17 October 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

thats not true for everyone

Oh, absolutely. For some reason I thought I said that I find it easier, which I do, but didn't say. And clearly just knowing something doesn't make it easy to dance to - have you tried dancing to accoustic Bob Dylan? I have and it's hard as hell.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 17 October 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Let it be known middle-schoolers aren't Rockist!!

Rockists are a dying breed. If this shows anything, it's that hip-hopism is on the ascent.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 17 October 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

rockism is still very alive with this generation of neo-hipsters who didn't grow up listening to nirvana. witness the smashing sucess of the fuckin gray album

― jake b. (cerybut), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

not that not listening to nirvana = rockist and listening to nirvana /= not-rockist by any means, it was more of a chronological marker

― jake b. (cerybut), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

rockism is still very alive with this generation of neo-hipsters who didn't grow up listening to nirvana. witness the smashing sucess of the fuckin gray album

elaborate, please.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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