DJ: "IT'S ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT!"Me: "SHOUTOUT TO THE BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS!! WOO!!"
My friends: ...um?
Me: So this is 2019.
Me, 12:15am as someone stumblecrashes past me: "The time is now officially Shitshow O'Clock."
Non-industry friend: "Oh, do you want to leave?"
Industry friend: "You merely adopted the shitshow. We were born in it, molded by it."
Me, 2:45am, as DJ whom I'm not empowered to fire plays "Cotton Pickin' Joe": "THE NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODES HAVE BEEN SET TO 0000 SINCE 1970. DO IT NOW. BURN IT ALL. CLEANSE THE WORLD WITH NEUTRONS."
May the Blessings of the Bomb Almighty, and the Fellowship of the Holy Fallout, descend upon us all. This day and forever more.
Congregation: [singing] Amen!
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Isn’t playing that song in public a capital offense?
I presume this fine fellow is now on your extensive “DJ Shitlist.”
A DJ who plays that song should probably be renamed "DJ Shitlist".
One of the horrible things about actually caring about music is that so many peoples' taste is in their ass, including people I have to work with.
Corollary being that if all the musical selections were up to me, we'd have been closed a long time ago.
However, I woke up angry because of that fucking song. I hate it so much. And not only because it's just an objectively terrible song, but because I still work with people who think "isn't that precious and funny" or something.
Songs that stultifyingly offensive make me reconsider why I actually like music in the first place. It is like a negative energy that drives all the good out of the world.
Yeah, I was sorry to see that 2018 was so bad that you just gave up the music roundup. Almost all new music I have discovered in the past few years has come from the jwz mixtapes, so I appreciate your dedication to promoting what you like.
So, I appreciate all of the work you put into the bog. It's one of the few web publications that I have read consistently since the about:jwz days.
Most recently, I use your "Landfill Capitalism" series to focus people on the horror of dockless scooters and bikes. It's almost to the point where that topic needs its own tag.
Under no circumstances do I think it's my business to correct anybody here, but upon first read, I thought I'd read Cotton Eye Joe (by the ever so tastefully named Rednex; not to be confused with Cotten-Eyed Joe, a "traditional" "folk" song, although I guess the former is loosely a cover of the latter). It wasn't until I was passing a link to this post to a friend that I noted that jwz actually wrote "Cotton Pickin' Joe" which… is that also a thing?
I mean there's this, which is pretty funny, but seems less likely to have raised our host's ire, let alone be something a modern, presumably white, male "turntablist" would have decided to mix in at 02:45 local of a NYE party.
Whatever. Fuck that song in all its variants, and fuck all the DJs who choose to play mash-ups that include it every god damned Saturday.
I agree with all of that.
I think that I understand the reasons you are, generally and by choice, "not empowered to fire" jerkwad DJs in your club.
I think it'd be really neat if you didn't have to put up with hearing that racist bullshit in your house. I think maybe your customers are the right people to tell the DJs booked in your house to stop being racist assholes. (I would, if I were there, but I'm way over here in US Eastern time.)
Oh, I forgot: "Industry friend" is correct, and disturbingly self-aware to still be doing that for a living. Good on them.
I lost it at "we were singing songs and shit."
Doubleplus points the Phonogram image. Everyone rightly loves WicDiv, but Phonogram is all
Phonogram is the greatest. It captures obsession with music so perfectly.
I couldn't really get into the WicDiv story.
I was wondering what that was, ordering a copy now. Also, dammit, those rednex songs are bringing back some bad musical memories. At least now I know the swedes were to blame, which makes so much more sense.