From the Irony Department

[davidklecha]

I wanted to post this Sunday, but I forgot what had inspired me to post something by the time I got close to a computer. But, aha!, I remembered on the bus this morning.

So, let's say that you're a DJ at a dance/ball function for a bunch of Marines who have just found out that they're going away for a year. They'll say good-bye to wives, family, and friends other than the guys in green for a year. They could face much of that year, wracked with uncertainty, wondering whether or not their wife or girlfriend or whatever is cheating on them, or falling out of love, or whatever.

So what do you play?

Break up songs, you cheated on me songs, and falling out of love songs. And make them all slow, so people are tempted to dance to them, despite the depressing lyrics.

Sewiouswy, Pom-Pom.

Comments

[pewtergryphon.livejournal.com]

Ah, let me guess-- a Country-Western DJ?

If so, you should've seen it coming. That's 80% of the Ouevre.

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

Actually, no. Traditional club/dance/prom type stuff. He just happened to pick all the most depressing songs. Although... the one that kicked it all off was "If Tomorrow Never Comes" by Garth Brooks... it just went downhill from there.

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

Well, that sucks. Of course, almost all my music is country. I'll have to dig through my collection and see if I can find 3-4 hours of non-breakup stuff. Finest Kind had a very nice song about a sailor whose girl waits for him a year or more.

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

See... what gets me is that it's not like there's not plenty of music out there that he could have played. It's not like we restricted him to both kinds--Country AND Western--or something like that. Forty, fifty years of uplifting love rock, not to mention every eighties power ballad ever, and he picks those songs.

[vaxanova.livejournal.com]

Lovely. Just what you all wanted to hear.

Wonder if he plays circus music at funerals.