Rich FourFour DJ'd a sweet 16 birthday party and gained some generational insight...
Choice quote:
‘My favorite request of the night came from some sweaty kid, who between heavy, aerobic breaths, wheezed at me, “Taylor. Swift. Now.” I couldn’t help him out. Another kid came up while Stardust’s “Music Sounds Better With You” was playing, mimed shooting himself in the head and said, “Bad song! Bad song!” I guess it wasn’t techno enough for him. When Dan played Missy Elliott’s “We Run This,” a kid came up and asked for “Jump On It.” He was referring to the Sugarhill Gang’s “Apache,” but I didn’t know what he meant at first and when I asked him who the performer was, he said, “MC Hammer?” I get the feeling that to these kids, any hip-hop before 1990 was performed by MC Hammer.’
If the kids today think “Music Sounds Better With You” is a “bad song” I have ZERO interest in reproducing.