I've basically been given two wedding jobs. The first is to prevent any roving bands of Visigoths from sacking the reception; I'm hoping that 21st century America just takes care of that for me. The second is to come up with some tunes to which the reception attendees can get crunkin'.
I have a vast, varied collection of music; my iPod says it's got about 10,000 songs on it right now. Surely from that, I could get some wedding jamz, right? I really don't know. You know all of that stuff on the radio that people like to dance to? I don't have any of that. Much of my music features fat weirdos shaking their fists at society's institutions. The rest features the same fat weirdos talking about getting drunk, or lamenting their ability to get drunk now that society's institutions have disenfranchised them. Good music for many occasions, but I don't see my second cousins throwing up devil horns and shaking a tail feather to the sweet strains of Steve Earle or the Minutemen.
I'm trying to fix all of this. Step 1: get acquainted with hip hop. I've bought/borrowed a ton of this stuff lately and I'm actually liking a lot of it; if the CIA were bugging my car right now, they'd probably assume that I'm the president of the Lil Wayne fan club. People of all ages dance to this stuff though?
Newsflash: rappers like to discuss fornication in frank terms. Sometimes, they're so into the subject, they drop the f/c/other c/t/w bomb into the title of the song. I have no problem with my wedding being that kind of wingding, but I'm guessing that the folks who are actually attending/paying for the event may disagree. This leads me to a question: is there an easy way to get Young Jeezy's works translated into Portuguese?
The answer here is probably to take this whole hip hop idea and dial it back to a family-friendly level. Think four hours of the Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff.
Posted by Cody at September 15, 2008 8:59 PM