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Old 5th-April-2005, 08:58 PM   #63 (permalink)
David Bailey
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Re: Dancing by numbers....

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Originally Posted by MartinHarper
What you actually wrote was "no interesting music". What you apparently meant was "no difficult music". If you write what you mean, then that'll probably help the discussion along a bit.
Again, we hit commercial reality. One of the aims of improving retention for new starters of modern jive is to emphasize the "modern" part of it. To prove to new punters* that MJ can be danced to any(-ish) pop track, and so get them to connect to the dance, relate it to their own club experiences, and hopefully come again, I imagine most DJs pretty much have to play more modern, standard pop tracks, at least early on.

And "difficult" is not exactly the same as "interesting", sure - but they're not too far apart in this sense I feel.

* who are paying more than the freestylers, and have as much "right" to the venue and the music they want as any "oldtimers" do.
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