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We're going to make the standard list of "Songs we must have," but we're coming up with a pretty lengthy "Stuff you'd better not play or you won't get paid" list too! It seems like we hear a lot of these things at weddings lately and we just cringe. Too typical, too cheesy, or just not our style in general.
Some of what we don't want - a few are my picks, a few his, and a few just mutually disliked:
Anything by the Beatles, Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, ABBA, Fleetwood Mac (except "Landslide," which is my song with my dad and I'm not compromising)
YMCA
Electric Slide (and whatever that cha cha slide thing is)
We are Family
Celebrate Good Times (or Celebration, or whatever it's called)
The Locomotion
Chicken Dance
Macarena
I'm Yours by Jason Mraz (I caved, he doesn't like this one)
I Swear by All4One
Happy Together by The Turtles (my song with my ex)
What's on your "I don't care who requests it, you'd better not play it!!!" list?
Country music. It went on the do not play list in big bold capital letters.
We also vetoed the group dances like YMCA, chicken dance, macarena, etc.
No hokie pokie! Yes, I actually was at a wedding that played this. I felt like I was in elementary school.
We had one song on our do not play list, and that is Sweet Caroline. We are huge Yankees fans, and we even walked into the reception to New York, New York. A lot of our relatives are Red Sox fans. I would have screamed if I had to hear Sweet Caroline.
@MichiganBride2012: Oh GAWD, someone played "Strokin'" at a wedding reception? I'm adding that to the list immediately.
@BichoneFrise: The Hokey Pokey is for roller skating :o) ADDED.
@sweetcrackers: oh yes! I've heard it at several (unfortunately!) not sure what that says about the people I hang out with . . lol
Cotton Eye Joe. Hands down, my number one choice for annoying song at weddings. Who decided that even qualified for a wedding playlist? Eww.
No YMCA.
We're not banning country music (there will be a few songs), but we're not doing like EVERY other wedding I've attended this year, where they had ALL country. I mean, literally ALL country.
NO Sugarland attempting to rap (Stuck like glue). Yeah, I'm sure if you've gone to a wedding in recent years, you know what I'm talking about.
We will not be doing our first dance to a cheesy, 80s, Luther Vandross song. My step-cousin didn't pick a first dance song, and "Here and Now" is what the DJ chose. Really?
Butterfly Kisses. I HATE that song. My father and I are dancing to "Mack the Knife".
Single Ladies. At EVERY wedding I've been to this year, the bouquet toss has been to "Single Ladies". It makes sense, yes, but it's so played out!
@GroovyHippieChick: Strokin by Clarence Carter is guaranteed to make me laugh at a moment's notice, but not appropriate for a reception. Thanks for making me laugh at my desk. I love that song!
Wow you ladies are picky! The only do not play songs on our list were the hokey pokey and chicken dance.
@Gabrielle123: not picky, I'm just old and crotchety - you kids turn that music down!!
and get off my lawn!!
PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC WHITE BOY.
I WILL VOMIT, THEN THROW A VASE.
Also, I really hate line dances. And if you have to have a song that says "CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES, COME ON!" to indicate that "there's a party goin' on right here!", it probably isn't a party.
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@GroovyHippieChick: Lol!
I agree with a lot of these suggestions. I'm going to try to limit the swearing/bitches 'n' ho's songs since we'll be having a LOT of older people at our wedding.
Too bad, since I would have LOVED to do a bouquet toss to "Move, Bitch" by Ludacris, hahaha.
Oh man. Pretty much all the songs listed so far are on our "must play" list! Lol! We love the classic wedding stuff and Cotton Eye Joe is our number one must have.
I'm vetoing all rap, most currently popular dance stuff, and anything by the Black Eye Peas. We're going with some rock n roll :) And a bit of polka, since we're German and from Wisconsin... it's unavoidable.
YMCA
Macarena
It's Raining Men
We Are Family
The Electric Slide
The Perculator
Cha Cha Slide
Celebrate
Shout
Pretty much any country music
Pretty much any super sappy music
All Usher songs (OVERPLAYED!)
Single Ladies by Beyonce or Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. (Thankfully we are ommiting the garter and bouquet toss so no problem there!)
WHAAAAT???? You don't want Strokin' played at your reception? Oh my :P
I probably will ask them not to play Big Booty Hoes or Sexual Healing... but I'm pretty laid back about everything else. There will be rugby players there so it doesn't matter what song is being played- these guys will shout the lyrics at the top of their lungs & can make even the most innocent song seem raunchy. I've learned to just go with it and laugh.
I need this thread!
My FMIL is a part time wedding DJ in the cheesiest form! Her work partner has offered to DJ our wedding for free... which really helps because we are having an incredibly DIY event on a VERY STRICT budget. However, we were/are prepared to pay for our OWN DJ. This is mainly because we aren't big fans of their work. I've been to several events they've DJ'd and they all included the Chicken dance, YMCA, etc. EVEN PROPS!
When his mom said the DJ offered, we said that would be great, but we just want music ... nothing group related, choreographed and no line dancing... including the chicken dance. Definitely no props. She INSISTED that happen saying that is when everyone gets out on the dance floor... yada yada.
FI and I are still dead set against this... and are actually contemplating just choosing & paying for our own DJ to avoid this.
The Chicken Dance....AHHH!! I know its fun for the kids but that song drives. me. cray cray!
P.S. Speaking of DJ horror stories: My friend was a BM in her best friends wedding and the DJ played "There's Some Hoes in this House" as the bridal party entrance. The parents FLIPPED.
Sorry, FILs, but anything country or written in the 70s is off limits! I also am severly limiting the number of slow songs (except when food is served)--even our first dance is pretty fast paced.
And definitely nothing that calls for a line dance or has a predetermined dance routine--blech, this isn't my bat mitzvah!
@rubyroad10: LMFAO! I just about died laughing and FI was like, "What is so funny?" I also agree, but forgot to mention, Celebration will not be on the playlist, either. My FCIL insisted that I put that on her wedding playlist and made me play it twice at the reception because she loves it so much!
@Juliepants: We've gotta limit the rap too, which makes me sad because I wanted to dance to "Back the Ass up", lmao! We're gonna play Disco Inferno by 50 Cent, but I'll be using the edited version as not to offend. I think "Move Bitch" is awesome for the bouquet toss, but the edited version of that is no fun, whatsoever.
@Legallyblondiebride: I hope you were using sarcasm font when you typed that... but sadly it seems as though you're serious. I'd be PISSED if I had to walk in to any song referring to any 'hoes' as it is pretty disrespectful :/
@DaneLady: Nope, totally serious. I wasn't at the wedding, but from what I heard there were quite a few pissed off and offended people at that. Apparently the bride and groom didn't pick the entrance song so the DJ was "Forced to improvise." With "There's Some Hoes in this House?" Really?
@Legallyblondiebride: Oh yes, "Shout" and "The Twist" are two gems I heard at a wedding the other month. No way!
I'd be PISSED if the DJ picked that song for our entrance! I mean, as a DJ (which is a CAREER), you should be an expert at matching songs to events. Anyone with a brain should know that songs about "hoes" and wedding entrance (or wedding, period) do not mingle. I would have been demanding a refund.
All your stories are killing me - the explicit songs, really? WOW. I'd have throttled the DJ with an extension cord for that "Hoes in the House" debacle.
I LOVE that someone else is thinking like me. Here is my list of overplayed songs at events that I could do without on my wedding day:
Love Shack
Brick House
Like A Virgin
Shout
Celebrate
anything country
My FH and I are music nerds though, so I don't doubt that we would make the playlists for each part of the wedding ourselves.
Some of these stories are hilarious (probably becuase they didn't happen to me) but they're starting to scare me.
I guess the moral of the story is to have a HUGE do not play list and pick all entrance and first dance songs as one cannot always rely on the "professionals" to be so.
SO SCARY!!!
@Legallyblondiebride: Improvise??? That's the best he could come up with?!?!?!
DO NOT WANT: ANYTHING Country, Cotton Eyed Joe, Cha Cha Slide(the WORST, ugh), YMCA, Chicken Dance, Hokey pokey, pretty much anything from the 70's... Hmmm. I think I'm going to have more "do not Plays" than "must plays" lol
@Legallyblondiebride: Oh..............................my GOD! That is just awful! Honestly, a song about hoes is the best he could come up with.
@Pinksapphire: Oh I know re: the edited version! Move, *awkward scream*, get out the way....it's just not the same. And what's with the oddly placed dogs barking!?
@DaneLady: I know. I don't even know what to say about it other than yes, it really did happen. I thought she was making it up at first until a few other people said the same thing. <sigh>
My cousin got drunk at his sister's wedding and requested, "Family Tradition" by Hank Williams. I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with the content of the song, but it's not exactly wedding "appropriate". I mean, if you're having a laid back event and your family is pretty cool about stuff like that, it'd be funny. But, my cousin's sister was having a very formal event with a lot of haughty, church people. Needless to say, everyone kind of just sat in silence while my drunk as a skunk cousin drug his sister all around the dancefloor (she was so embarrassed).
So, I'd recommend everyone talk to their DJ about which songs to allow requests for.
@BoiledPNut: My step-cousin got married in September and she and her groom were the ones who made the music situation miserable. They wanted all country. The specified that to the DJ. Well, we sat around and dealt with it while we ate, but after eating (it was a SEVEN HOUR RECEPTION) we got bored. So, some of us started requesting dance songs. The DJ played about an hour of good dance stuff. Then, I saw the bride, groom in tow, huffing and puffing over to the DJ who abruptly turned the music off and started a country song. I don't mind country, if it's mixed in with other genres. I wouldn't want just one genre on my wedding playlist, as my taste is ecclectic.
@GroovyHippieChick: OMG, I'd die if I heard that at a wedding...I never thought about it but now I guess I have to add Strockin to my DO NOT play list. Along with the Chicken Dance.
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