Junior prom

Stilettoprefer · #1 05-01-2011, 10:13 AM

So I went to junior prom last night with my amazing girlfriend, and I realized how much DJ's at school dances suck. Not ONE song I knew. Usually they at least play one good classic rock/ metal song (you shook me all night long, etc.), but this guy just kept up with the cruddy top 100 stuff then at the end of the night said "last song!!!!!" and played some Taio Cruz song.

Didn't keep the night from being awesome though

we had an incredible dinner that the girly and her mother made, and went to dessert after the dance with a group of friends, and her mother took a TON of pictures. One pic included the girly and I sitting in my car about to leave for the ballroom while she leaned over the hood and took pictures of us sitting there haha.

Overall fantastic night, just disappointing to me the direction that high schoolers taste in music is headed. Way too much computerized instrumentation and vocal modulation for my taste. But maybe i'm just lame for liking legitimate instrumentation and good singing more than computerized thumping on pedal tones.

Cabazon · #2 05-01-2011, 10:23 AM

I don't know about saying the direction their musical taste is heading. When I was in high school, everything was already fully butchered in terms of what music was popular.

bassist11 · #3 05-01-2011, 11:15 AM

That's how I remember my high school proms, top 100 stuff. That was 5 years ago. The DJ just plays what will get people on the dance floor having a good time.

Yes, I agree with you in that I would rather listen to classic rock and the likes but have you ever tried to dance to Master of Puppets? Doesn't work too well....

But yeah there are lots of good songs out there that are fun to dance to and aren't the likes of Taio Cruz and Miley Cyrus. So your DJ did fail you in that area..

KeithBMI · #4 05-01-2011, 11:37 AM

I LIKE THE WAY YOU GRIND WITH THAT BOOTY ON ME. SHORTY, YOU A DIME. WHY YOU LOOKIN' LONELY?

Also, as a DJ I take offense to this entire thread. Good day, sir.

Kwesi · #5 05-01-2011, 11:50 AM

If the DJ didn't hit this, he failed.

YouTube - Aaron Mcclelland Feat. Akil Song: Hearts On Fire (Long Edit) Full Song

blendermassacre · #6 05-01-2011, 12:03 PM

Have you ever considered the fact that songs are in the top100 because a lot of people like them? If we would agree that is a fact, then why wouldn't a DJ play songs that a lot of people like? Even, lets say, the majority of people? I too was the kid walking around my highschool with my AC/DC shirt, but I knew full good and well that I was in the minority.

elgecko · #7 05-01-2011, 12:06 PM

Right on! You'll be watching Matlock and telling kids to get off your lawn in no time!

Relic · #8 05-01-2011, 12:21 PM

My senior prom was in 1983 (AD)... by the end of the night, I was very proud of the fact that I was able to resist the urge to hang myself to escape the pain of the music selection they were spinning.

5StringBlues · #9 05-01-2011, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by elgecko

Right on! You'll be watching Matlock and telling kids to get off your lawn in no time!

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Originally Posted by Relic

My senior prom was in 1983 (AD)...

I thought you were supposed to be old........

**colcifer** · #10 05-01-2011, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Kwesi

If the DJ didn't hit this, he failed.

YouTube - Aaron Mcclelland Feat. Akil Song: Hearts On Fire (Long Edit) Full Song

What is that!? The synth work is ok but...

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Originally Posted by Relic

My senior prom was in 1983 (AD)...

1983 was an ok year for music IIRC. The Joni album from that year kicks *** in any case.

I'll go away now.

D.M.N. · #11 05-01-2011, 01:55 PM

You know, I had a similar issue with my school dances, just junky electrocrap (although, apparently at the last one, someone finally discovered dubstep and played a bunch of that). But guess what, I found a solution!

Stop. Going.

Seriously, I just don't go anymore. The only way I will possibly consider going is if there's a live band, and since that never happens...........

Fassa Albrecht · #12 05-01-2011, 02:11 PM

I must admit I only attended one of the three big proms that my various schools and colleges have held. It's expensive and generally boring.

Hell, for my uni one, I was tempted to volunteer to do the music myself.

KeithBMI · #13 05-01-2011, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht

I must admit I only attended one of the three big proms that my various schools and colleges have held. It's expensive and generally boring.

Hell, for my uni one, I was tempted to volunteer to do the music myself.

They're usually more fun when you have a date.

ZING!

Fassa Albrecht · #14 05-01-2011, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by KeithBMI

They're usually more fun when you have a date.

ZING!

At the time of my prom, I had a date.

Relic · #15 05-01-2011, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by colcifer

1983 was an ok year for music IIRC. The Joni album from that year kicks *** in any case.

I'll go away now.

Music from that era was fine, it was the choice of tunes at the prom that was the killer...

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Originally Posted by 5StringBlues

I thought you were supposed to be old........

Well there's real chronological age, there's mental age, and then there's TBOT age...

I'm good with the first one, bad with the second, and according to the last I'm pushing centenarian status...

**jmattbassplaya** · #16 05-01-2011, 03:37 PM

Honestly, it's a lot easier to get into pop music than it is to fight it and resist it. Learn to like it because girls like it, and they will grind your junk to it - It's why I like it

Hoover · #17 05-01-2011, 05:14 PM

If the thing you remember about your junior prom is the music, you're doing it wrong.

pie_man_25 · #18 05-01-2011, 05:26 PM

People are entitled to their taste in music. I consider myself quite the rock buff, but I can't STAND AC/DC, hearing you talking trash about somebody else's music seems rather asinine to me because there are a few things I can criticize about AC/DC. I'm not saying your taste sucks just because I disagree with it, now am I? I will agree with you in that I dislike the majority of people's taste in music, but it's always good to remember that one man's trash is another man's treasure - my GF LOVES Taylor Swift, I LOVE Cerebral Bore, so instead we listen to the Pillows together and call it a date.

I DO understand your plight though - some of those high school dances I was dragged to could really have used something just a little more hard rockin'. I also find it perplexing that people call coors light a good beer, but that's their opinion, and I guess it means more steamwhistle for me.

Sonic_Death · #19 05-01-2011, 05:27 PM

For my Junior Prom, a group of 20-30 of me and my friends held an "Anti-Prom" where we got together in a friends backyard that night and hung out, had our friends band play, listened to music, and just generally had a good time.

I am still glad I made that decision, especially considering my school's junior prom was on a boat that year. No thank you! There's something inherently aggravating about being stuck on a boat with a ton of people that you dislike, and the terrible music I am sure they played would've just made it worse.

tycobb73 · #20 05-02-2011, 05:39 AM

Didn't go. Didn't go to my senior one either. And 20 years later I really don't care. I can understand it if you're dating osmeone but I wasn't.