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Why Do Top 40 DJs Have to Suck? I'm So Thankful for Our Scene.
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| Forever Forward |
For the second time this year, I ventured into one of those typical Toronto clubs. Like many of you, I don't get excited for paying cover to enter these establishments, but I will occasionally end up at one for a friend's birthday. Of course, I make the best of the situation: put a smile on my face, hope to meet a cool chick, have a great time catching up with friends--it's particularly engaging to talk with friends on the same wavelength who don't understand why people select these venues for their special nights--and dance the little the DJ will allow me. But tonight's DJ really struck me. He was so ing awful that it boggled my mind why anyone would pay money (or maybe I'm mistaken and he was playing for free) for his services. And then I realized that almost every standard club I've been to in recent years has had a terrible DJ. Why do these DJs have to suck? Is it simply because the club owners don't want to pay for a quality act? I'm not asking for Digweed, but just someone with a general sense of flow. The reality is that top 40 and pop music don't HAVE to suck. Some tunes are catchy, and with proper programming and mixing, cool vibes could be created. Certainly, some flow could be achieved so that dancing would be possible. I know I've heard pop mashups on YouTube that sound pretty awesome. However, the current state of the Southwestern Ontario standard club scene doesn't seem to support dancing at all.
Dancing almost looks out of place at these venues as though you have to be really crazy or drunk to abandon your stiff-legged stance and boogie. And, I guess you really do have to be one of those two--crazy or drunk: I tried to dance, but when ADDJ goes from 189bpm down to 80bpm and then 30 seconds later jumps to 140, only to switch to 100bpm 40 seconds after that, dancing becomes a bit of an act in futility.
I know there's some research that's gone into bar psychology and switching songs at a rapid rate to trick people into thinking more time has passed so that they consume more alcoholic beverages, but I'm of the mind that a club that offers a quality product will have a better chance at retaining clientele and achieving longevity. After all, how many of these standard clubs even see their two-year anniversary?
Anyways, I know these places just aren't my element. Some drunk girls seem to have the time of their lives inside the doors of these clubs. Nonetheless, leaving one of these places leaves me no desire to ever return and makes me grateful for the incredible electronic dance music scene that exists in our city. I know TOTA sometimes gets caught up in bitching that we've seen Chus & Ceballos and Dubfire too many times, but Toronto truly is one of the world's best places to dance to great music. You just have to know which places to avoid. |
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| WittyHandle |
| quote: | Originally posted by Forever Forward
Some drunk girls seem to have the time of their lives inside the doors of these clubs. |
They're usually faking it. |
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| Sly_Guy |
just trying to cater to everyone. You can't get the flow out of a house music club when you can't be assured everyone in the club actually likes house. So you get the 'catch all' kinda clubs where you're trying to appease the hip hop crowd, the rock crowd, the pop crowd, and the electronic music crowd all at once.
Birthdays I'm found are set in these places simply because even among groups of friends, a universally accepted musical style is rare. People will choose to go to them because they feel if they don't they risk alienating some of their 'friends' who are less likely to come out if the club is too specialized. |
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| Spin Laden |
you get awesome flow and then you get mostly dudes that will be content to dance together in the dance pit with their water and not give a if there's hot chicks to hit on because the music's so damn good.
The bar makes no money of these/us guys :p |
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| LightsOut |
| Where'd you go? |
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| WittyHandle |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spin Laden
you get awesome flow and then you get mostly dudes that will be content to dance together in the dance pit with their water and not give a if there's hot chicks to hit on because the music's so damn good.
The bar makes no money of these/us guys :p |
That's why places like that should (and often do) have higher cover charges. |
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| Sly_Guy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spin Laden
you get awesome flow and then you get mostly dudes that will be content to dance together in the dance pit with their water and not give a if there's hot chicks to hit on because the music's so damn good.
The bar makes no money of these/us guys :p |
hence why cover is like $30. |
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| Yohan |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sly_Guy
hence why cover is like $30. |
$30 cover for a Top40 club? Put a jagged dildo with shards glued on into my ass |
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| Sleightful |
| Nemo Saltat Sobrius. The people who get really into it at these clubs are the ones whose blood is primarily alcohol or they've taken less than legal drugs before entering. |
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| Forever Forward |
| quote: | Originally posted by LightsOut
Where'd you go? |
Bloke & 4th? I think that's what it's called. |
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| Sly_Guy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yohan
$30 cover for a Top40 club? Put a jagged dildo with shards glued on into my ass |
lol, no, was in reference to our style of club's cover charges. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
IMO when people are going to a TOP 40 club they are not going there to see a particular DJ...and in reality they could care less how well the music blends together....they just want to hear their favourite tunes and just have fun in their own way. It may not be my way but to each their own. Can anyone name an International Top 40 DJ that has come to Toronto? Are there even DJs that you would call International Top 40 DJs.
One might even say that those going to the Top 40 clubs are going more for the music than those going to see particular DJs. |
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