The top 40 lines a DJ hates to hear
Audience interaction is great… but there’s always someone who just doesn’t understand the art of making requests. How many of these lines sound familiar to you?
1. Play some real music.
2. Play something that somebody actually wants to hear.
3. Play something faster, more upbeat.
4. Play something we can dance to.
5. Play something with a beat.
6. Don’t play any crap.
7. Shut this off! (so what if the dancefloor is full).
8. Nobody likes this; it sucks and you suck.
9. I need a song, but I don’t know what it’s called.
10. Throw on some Zeppelin, it’ll get the place rockin’.
11. Thanks, now play the whole CD.
12. So it skips, play it anyway!
13. Play it! Or I’ll knock you into next week!
14. Don’t play it, ‘cause my friend is here and she’ll cry.
15. It’s the only song my boyfriend knows how to dance to.
16. Play it and I’ll love you forever.
17. There’s fifty bucks in it for you (yea… right).
18. Next, next, next, next. Play it next. It’s gotta be next!
19. Don’t play it next, wait ‘till I come back.
20. You didn’t just play it! I’ve been here all night and I haven’t heard it.
21. Play it again, no one will notice.
22. Don’t play that, everybody’s sick of it.
23. Nobody cares what you play, they just wanna drink.
24. Everybody’ll dance. Everybody wants to hear it.
25. Play it next ‘cause we’re gonna leave right away.
26. Play it now or we’ll leave.
27. It’s a request… you have to play it.
28. Play it or I’ll have you fired.
29. Hey, remember who’s paying you!
30. We can’t hear it in the back; turn it up.
31. It’s too loud up front, turn it down.
32. What songs you got?
33. I think it’s the third or fourth song… just play the whole CD.
34. You know the song… it goes “Da Dun Da Da De Da…”
35. There’s some guy singing and a guitar.
36. You’re the DJ, you should know it.
37. What do you mean you don’t have it; sure you have it.
38. I held the tape recorder real close to the TV, it should sound fine.
39. You’ve got time for one more.
40. Just one more and then we’ll leave. Really we will.
