Wedding DJs vs. Wedding Bands

opinion about it, we'll do an episode about it. We both love to talk, we love to argue, and we love you, so without anything else, let's let's get into the show. Hey, everybody, welcome to Hold Up. It's the Show with Josh Johnson. That that's me. I'm a writer for The Daily Show and I'm joined by a correspondent for The Daily Show. And on this show, we talk about the hard hitting, important issues that are going on in all of our lives. Okay, today we're coming in hot.

We're coming in he because we're both very passionate about today's topic. Has to do with matrimony, has to do with lifelong commitment, has to do with a lot of a lot of a lot of stuff that ideally is only ever gonna happen one time. But depending on who you are, sometimes it happens five. You know, some people are hard to get along with with others. Today we're talking about wedding DJs versus wedding bands, all right, and uh, don't say just let the people know. I'm not even

asking for your arguments. I'm just saying, let people know where you stand. I don't want to give the people a second to think where I stand play the fake in music. Y'all know where I stand. You know where I stand. You know I'm behind no damn fan. You know I'm DJ all the way. What did you even talk about? What did you even tome abat? Okay, of course I'm tem D because I like having a good tied. You, on the other hand, want to listen to acoustic guitar

all night? The fuck? No acoustic guitar? Yeah that sounds right. That's in a band, right, So let's get started. Okay, all right, Because you're coming at wedding bands like it's just one guy that you didn't invite to a party with a guitar. That's not what's happening, all right. These

bands have brass, they have percussion, they have lead singers. Okay, we've all been in a shopping mall right, we've all been in a business where you were listening to what's the correct term for it, where it's like someone has remade a song, but you don't know why they did it. Okay, Like it's the wrong girl singing Britney spears because not Brittney Critney sang the song. It's a cover. Right. I don't want to pay a group of adults to not

do their own music, you see what I'm saying. Like y'all became like I have a hard time believing in a group of people who learned the skill. Right. Playing an instrument is difficult. That's why all of us can't do it. Everybody can talk, but not everyone can learn an instrument. I was supposed to learning a saxosphone in the fourth grade when we moved back to Miami, so I couldn't, right, But I can play with a recorder

just as good as everybody else. I can read music because I sang you know, the train singer, and I know enough about a piano or I can. I can't play the accompaniment, but I can play the vocal part of my other song. Right, Playing a piano is difficult. You need both hands. Playing the drums is very hard. Guitar all that, and they got two hands on something

that ain't easy. So you sat up and learned this skill to be paid to play someone else's music professionally, I'm supposed to hear your rendition of Survivor, I'm supposed to hear a wedding band rendition of Beyonce. Why would I want that? Why would I spend my hard earned money. I'm trying to celebrate hon trap this man. It took me so long to meet this bastard. He's late. If you're listen, if the man who I'm going to marry is listening to this, you're late, bro, You're fucking late.

Where have you been? Okay? I'm very annoyed. But if I suppent the time I found a venue, how to put out a dress out of, fed a bunch of people. Now I'm supposed to spend the rest of my evening listen to a budget of middle aged people do their own rendition of Rundy. I'm out here. Okay. So you brought up some interesting points, brought up some things that are better. Maybe maybe atlet but I don't think so. Okay, because, first of all, you brought up singing other people's songs.

That's not always the case. Oh they're they're oh oh oh, they don't want to get original music. For some people I've never even heard of, Well, why would you hire them for your wedding if you never even heard them? There are bands that people like that they get to play their wedding. You're still a wedding band even if you're a famous band. What's a band that plays at a wedding? What's a well known band. Who's a well known band that plays at a wedding? Any band that's

hired by Saudi prince. Okay, okay, first of all, they take care of you. Back up, back up, Yeah, only a Saudi princess, Saudi prince money, Not just a Saudi prince. You're a regular money if you're a regular person, huh, with a regular budget. Okay, Not somebody who's living your life based off of fossil fuels okay, ground up dinosaurs and a gas tank. Okay, if you a regular human being on a regular wedding budget. What is a band that people would know that you can hire for your wedding?

Any local band they enjoy, who enjoys a local No no, no, no, no, no no. People enjoy local things, I'm sure they do. That does not mean that everybody at my wedding is gonna know who they are or even care. But why is it important to know they are if they're good? But if they're it doesn't matter. There was didn't know who making the stallion was, but she was good. Now everybody knows who she is, but everyone. But my question is, but stay before people knew who she was, then you're

hiring a local rapper for your wedding. Everybody was local, Like I was a local comic before I got in this here television. You were a local comic before you got them at their television, you know. So I'm not saying that people don't hire local band. What I'm saying is that their repertoire. The reason I'm not a fan, mainly of the wedding band is that they don't know

all the songs. They know their songs. And now, if I'm a fan of this band, but the people at my wedding are a fan of this band, that means if my wedding, the guests of my wedding are subjected to the song of this band, that they have never heard of, right subjected to because because it's fine, they're able to enjoy whatever. A band only knows the songs are had plenty of friends and bands because I have a lot of white friends. They know their songs and

then the songs they learned how to play. After that, there's no more songs. So depending on how long your reception is. So say they got ten songs, billy probably know about thirty songs. Right, They couldn't know more. They need to know more. If their a wedding band, they should no more. But there's certain things that they can't play. You go than the demographics, right, I can't. But I want to hear No Hands by Wacker Flocker. I don't know a band is gonna play that, And I don't

want to hear a band play that. Well, you don't know that. You don't want to hear a band play no no, no no, no. There was that one white boy that was playing that was doing it in the acoustic version of it, to the point that Wacker Flocking took I'm on the road. I'm not saying that I don't. What I'm saying is is that the music that they imagine their catalog of music is limited because they can only play a certain amount of songs. But if you have a DJ, you have all of the music. So

this is the thing. This is where I think DJs can fall short. There's two ways in which I think DJs really can hit rock bottom as far as the reception goes. Not one of them, yeah, absolutely rock bott One of them is a DJ. Just like you're talking about wedding bands. A DJ has to have the right rhythm and they have to feel out the mood of the reception. Okay, that's a talent that not everybody has. A lot of people can make sure the songs don't skip. A lot can A lot of people can make sure

the songs don't skip, but some people don't know. It's like, all right, we just played this song. Maybe not this song next, you know, No, that's because that goes out. Listen. As someone who has dated a lot of DJs, dated slapt with Tomato Tomato, I've done both. Right. A good DJ, yeah, Yeah, they're gonna be paying attention to the flow of the party. They're gonna be paying attention to beasts per minute. They're gonna know how to ample party up, going bring a

party down and it's an end of the night. You see what I'm saying. Like I was at an event last night and the DJ and this is what the number of DJs I have food in my life? Like, DJs to me are almost like journalists, right, there's no listen. Think about the number of times that you've been interviewed by somebody and been like, you didn't go to school,

you're not trained in this. Like like when we were only dealing in newspaper and periodicals, you had to have just you know, schooling training and gunction all right, just being a real fucking nosy to become a journalist. Now anybody would internet connection in Google docs can call themselves a journalist. The number of times I have been in an interview and been like, ah, did you do any research?

Did you any research? Like, it's the number of times I've been an interview and I could tell someone does not know what they're doing. You want to be called a journalist more than you're trying to be a journalist. It's like when those comics that first started out that only want to hang out in the green room, like you've been doing stand up for three months, Get the hell out of the green room. You're not a comic. You're someone who's performed on Here's someone who's gotten on

stage and said words, you're not a comic. So what I'm saying is, we've all seen shitty people try to do a thing. And this DJ last night they called I call them the anti crowd DJ, or they will play you've had We've all experienced the anti crowd DJ. And this is someone who takes a popular song from whenever, from whatever. They'll play it long enough for you to get excited about it, like, Okay, that's my soult and they I think they wait for somebody to go that's

my soul, and they never get them. Let them get to the part where they say saw somebody like oh in between songs, yeah no, no, no, no. If you're the person who's enjoying the song and you get ready to say, oh that's my song, this DJ is watching you and they're watching you go that's my and then they change it m and then they'll do it again with it this ang and then change it and then they do it again another and then and then the song they let the play all the way out is

a song that nobody is enjoying. I will tell you this. That thing that you're describing right there, I think that comes from people who used to do radio and then they started DJ because if you remember back in the day when we were kids and there wasn't this like um ultimate access to music, right, actually you can have

was on the radio. Radio DJs would tease out the upcoming song like whatever new thing was about to drop, they play like fifteen seconds of it, and and it would be how they keep you listening to their show. They'd be like, oh, and stay tuned for the new drake and you know whatever, right, So that would just happen over and over and over again. Then finally they play no, no, I'm with you. But that's just where the person like learned that skill and so they're just

carrying it over. But it's a it's a very weird thing. It's not conducive with parties. But that's also why I'm not defending radio DJs or wedding DJs. Well, but I feel like for that to come from that, eventually the radio DJ played the song m like allegally there was a payoff for them doing this. This is just hey, you know you know this, this you know this song, you know this mego song? Did you really like? Mhmm? Here's fifteen seconds of you know why do you know?

Mama told me? And then it's gone. I'm like, but I love seventeen five. I want to do your some colored T shirt like it's I'm with you surely rude. So it's like those DJs are annoying. Um I called the antichrid. DJ is also the number of DJs that I have booed. Oh. I feel like you should show some wedding band because you're coming at DJs way harder

than I am. What I'm saying is that DJ's have their ups and there their pros and their cons, but there's more prose to having a DJ because, like say, you have like my wedding, because we're speaking into existence that I'm going to have a wedding. Okay, okay, this is what we're trying to do. I'm trying to talk better. I'm trying to be less pessimistic but sometimes being you know, trying to because I always think the worst of a situation. So instead of being disappointed when it goes bad, I

get to be surprised when it goes well. Now I kind of feel like that's not probably the best way to think. No, No, it's it's it's not conducive with getting and what you want and feeling how you want to feel, right, because usually I've just been a lot of time being disappointed and hoping that something will change it, right, as opposed to being optimistic and then being disappointed. But like, don't realize that. I hope it's hard. So I hope it's very hard. And I also think that you know,

like this, I completely agree with what you're saying. Hope it's difficult, which is why I feel like you either take the hopeful route, or if you're really trying to get there, you're trying to manifest it, you go the grind route. Okay, you go ahead. No, I'm just saying, I'm just saying it's a possibility. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, you find a man this out here, doing this thing, getting it, just getting the grind drilled into

his lifestyle, you know what I'm saying. So then when you meet him, he's like dout say, I want to I want to sit and chat with you, I want to be around you and everything, but I can't even I gotta go right now, because the grind is out there. All right. Here is home, but you can't stay home. Sometimes you got to grind it out, you know. Sometimes you gotta leave that person that you're with go grind. But I just got him, And why is he leaving

me to grind? A no, no, no, no no. The one of the reasons you like him, it's because he put the grind in. Okay, So then you're what is he gonna be done grinding? What is he gonna be ground? He'll be ground when he is completely and forever no longer broke, all right, But until he's there, don't you want to grinder? Or do you just want do you just want somebody who you have to spot for dinner? Okay, so let that grind. I'm also grinding, but we are

grinding needs to stink up. Hey, Hey, I'm just telling you the way it is out there. I hope for you that the grinding sinks up. I hope you where you should go. He has to go, all right, but more than likely when you have to go, that may be his only time to rest. And he really shouldn't be resting. He should be out there grinding, all right. If you see him sleep and you wake him up, you tell him sleep is for the week. Listen. You know the scariest thing I've ever heard is I'll sleep

what I'm dead. M hmm. I feel like that's one of the most toxic things that we have been taught as a society. That and um, he's only being mean to you because he likes you. Uh. There's so many girls that have been been very, very awful situations because of that phrase. Um. Yeah, because he might just be mean. He might just be mad. He might just be mad. And look, let me tell you right now, if he's being mean, he's not grinding. If he's out here grinding,

he doesn't have time to be mean. Okay, when you grinded, you just have time to grind and to sleep and to be a good man. I'm gonna sleep because I understand that being sleep he can make you cranky. And I don't want some sleep deprived man, because you know what happens with the man's grinding and sleep deprived, he dropping off that d like he should be okay, And at the end of the day, that's part of the grind too. Though part of the part of the grind, it is how can it not be all right, it's one.

It's one of the main things. All we really need as humans is water, shelter, food, and the smash that's true is a synonym for what grinding. I cannot waste that this book comes out here. You're you are a terrist. So one day I'm gonna get married, and this is the thing with the good DJ. Right. So I have

friends and family of various ethnic backgrounds. Right, my wedding is going to have a very large amount my best friend, one of my good friends, like their families my family, and their mom is my mom, like and it's all like my family is gonna consist of like a very small group of black people. Yeah, and then I don't know out fifty of my Mexican family, right, m So the music at my wedding it's going to be very different,

you see what I'm saying. So it's like I have down South stuff and then pop stuff and then wrap stuff, and then Latin music is going to be played. So I need a DJ because I'm want to be playing various genres of music from various errors, right, Like you might be playing that La Vaka song and then there's comma La Floor. You know what I'm saying, because I enjoyed both of those songs, but also there might be a bad thug time any song. And then gloriala Pimp.

I love her, by the way, have you heard of her? She's great, she has a very she's from Memphis. She has a very deep voice. She's a tiny little thing. She's so adorable, but her voice is deep. But she has this song and a lot of the song was like he got ninety nine problems in the biggest wins knee and like you can just hear her small smiling and it makes me so happen because also it's like, I don't want to be the biggest problem, right, I want to be thirty seven of these problems. That's not true.

I don't want to be any of his problems. I want to be in solutions. But if you can choose, because listen, I don't know, have you ever heard it song by Prince the Beautiful Ones? No, listen. Princes has a song called Beautiful Ones and the chorus is that the beautiful Ones will hurt you every time and just the thing I want. And I just hope that if my future husband is listening, then he finds the humor

what I'm about to say. But for everyone listening, listen to the song, the beautiful ones and the thing about somebody who broke your heart. Don't you want them? Sitting in the dark listening to that song thinking about you. You don't want that for your life. You don't want that for yourself. You know what's abody? Just sit in the dark crying, going babite baby baby, Oh my god, so happy. I think I'm all right. The thing about a wedding band that bad because I feel like we've

we've we've gone awry as usual. The thing with a wedding band that I will say, there is an energy in the room, but that can't be matched by just playing a song out in what energy. Every time I've been at a wedding with a band, I've been annoyed. And also any time I'm at a wedding with a band, it seems like that the band either didn't there. I've

been to some nice white weddings with bands. There's never been the black wet with a band, but it's always first of all, once the swing music starts, I gotta go. Also a band start playing genres the music that I don't listen to I don't enjoy I don't know how to dance too so and they're always gonna play a chicken dance, which is fine, but like, I don't know what energy you're talking about. Any time I've ever been at a wedding with a band, so they start playing,

how the people leave? So my band heads know what I'm talking about? Band heads? What are you talking about? The band heads hired a band for their wedding and what I'm talking about the people who play in bands for weddings that I'm talking about the people who have been to a wedding with a band that the band went off, No, exactly what I'm talking about. Gim an example of a band going off at a wedding. I

have never enjoyed a band at a wedding ever. Just because you hate bands at weddings they're the worst, They're not the worst they are. DJs be the worst. I've had DJs be absolutely insane. We've all had off, We've all seen awful dj They've been a clubs a deep with bad DJs. I have booed DJs. I have recruited people to boo a DJ. Just okay, as all the bood of bad people don't realize booing is actually very cathartic and it's informative. You've never booed before. I'm not

gonna say I've never booed. Actually, I'm just trying to make sure that you booed, because someone who's booed knows what I'm talking about. Would you rather boo one person playing bad music or boo a bunch of people who are trying to live their dream booing one motherfucker who didn't play the song you wanted. Fine, but booing a wedding band? What what? What? So? Look, I'm saying DJ is too accessible, all right, just like you said it is,

iPod whatever. It's so accessible that some people that are both bad at checking the vibe of the room and being a DJ get to be DJ sometimes hired for a wedding bands. Though, since bands have to include people who understand and play instruments and know how to play different songs, you're already starting at a level that's a bit higher than these terrible DJs. No, because just because you and a band have decided you can play a song doesn't mean you can play it well. You're playing it,

not not. I would rather hear play. There's nothing worse than the bad cover of a song. Also, you all of the wrong tempo, you're all the wrong key. The singer is the wrong singer for this song is either too low or too high for them. So they're not good at singing. This band is not good at playing. Because when you have a bad DJ, you can get to the point where, because this is the other thing about wedding DJs, you can give them a playlist right. Also you can get sample of their sets. You can

see them DJ somewhere else in the same way. Did you listen before anything? All wedding entertainment should be vetted. See a set from this DJ. Listen to this band before you hire them. Because it's home. I'm at a wedding and there's a bad DJ or a bad band, my first thing is they must have been affordable. I didn't say what I was gonna say, is it affordable?

Don't shake your head. I was being nice. Whenever I'm at a wedding and the DJ or the band is bad, I know that you did not go see this person. You didn't get a video of them performing. You didn't get it. You did not you had no idea what their skills set was before you hired them, and that is unforgivable. Period. It's not unforgivable such an intense thing, but that's how I feel. Also, like bad food at a wedding. You should have tasted this food. You should

have tried this cake. I know you tried the cake. I should have had a cold by the way, because it's gonna come out cold. It's gonna be cold. So the best wedding food I've had is wedding food that I knew was going to be good even if it got cold. Because no matter how many if you have a big wedding, no matter how prepared you are, serving the plates means it's gonna be lukewarm, which means it might be cold by the time I get to it.

And see, I know people think that a buffet is tacky, but when you're serving that many people, that's the only way to ensure that person has hot food. Yeah, if you don't care about hot food, then like, don't do the buffet. It's fine. But if you care about it tasting the way it would taste for you when you were having the sample, Hey, you gotta you gotta just I mean, but that's a that's a totally different thing.

I'm I'm just saying that when I have watched bands, there's been it's been fun, and there's been um, what do you say? How do you say it? There's been something about the band being there that was you know, it's for you, it's special because it's unique. You know, Wow, that's the same song as they played for everybody at every wedding they performance. No, they're feeding off of the crowd and they're not. It's a band. They can only play so many songs. They have to learn songs. They

don't know all the songs. It's not special court, it's here's the here's the song we're gonna play. Almost bands, listen. I've dated dudes and bands. I've known people in bands. Bands have the same way that comics have set lists. Bands have set lists, and if you're hiring a band, you usually have to go, these are the songs that we we want you. These are the songs you know how to play. These the songs we want you to play.

It's not a special curated thing them Fucker's no thirty songs and then and we're gonna play the them in whatever order did you pay for fifteen? Because think about it, Say a band knows thirty songs, a wedding reception lasts how long? Four hours? Yeah, if you got a wedding reception the last four hours, say a song is about five minutes, that's forty eight songs. H Most bands don't know that many songs. But the bands also take breaks, just like DJ's take breaks. Right, But a DJ, listen

to DJ takes a break, they put on music. When a band takes a break. There's no one playing an instrument. That's all your music. No, no, no, no no. There's a different vibe in place with a band then with a DJ. If only that depends on the people in the band. That's what I'm saying. If your band isn't vibing with the people, because some bands treat that ship just like doing a shift at McDonald's. All right, we're

in here, let's play these songs. Get this thousand dollars that we're gonna split up among the six of us and get that all out of here. So, if it's you have to find the band that wants to connect with the audience, that wants to create an experience. You have to get the right band, because a lot of it falls on if you're creating this experience or whatever. Because I'm telling you, most wedding bands i've seen, they're

not even really talking to people. They don't take requests because they can't take requests because they only know thirties songs and you probably only paid for fifteen. This is where I'm coming from. I think you would be surprised at the whether you're talking about bands or DJ's, I think you'd be surprised at how similar the set list

is for both those people. I understand DJs have access to more songs, but when you actually look at a four to three hour wedding reception, I think you'd be surprised at how basic and how popular the songs that DJ plays are because there are songs that a band would probably know, but a band has to know the popular songs, So a band doesn't have the opportunity to play these off cuts that they can only play the hits because they're a cover band anyway, and then and

they're doing the like aren't most wedding bands cover bands? No, no, no, no, some of them. Some of them are straight up like um jazz bands. Some of them are like rock bands as far as the genre. They're playing new jazz. Yeah, they'll play new jazz. If you if you hire a jazz band for your wedding, they're coming at you with stuff you've never heard before because you like jazz, do you?

I mean like they I understand they have to hit you with jazz classics because that's the genre that you want within, stuff that people will be able to dance to. But you'd be surprised at how like some of them just instrumental wise, take the singer out of it for a second. Some of them are just playing mood music. That's sure a DJ could do and everybody could talk over whatever, but sometimes it's just nice to watch somebody

play an instrument is good at it, it is. But also wedding DJ just DJ more affordable overall because it's one dude. It's one human being, or it's one woman. How identified it's one human being. And then ain't back in the day where you gotta bring in the crates and crates of music. Okay, a nobody walking in with crate and nobody really scratching records like they used to. I would love for somebody to just bring a crate and you're like, what's in that? As like the eighties exactly?

Wasn't that crate the nineties? But yeah, like more crates? I got six more crates. What's so? What do you need us to bring out a dolly or something? Na, no, no, I got my dolly with me. Oh okay, um, I brought a wagon. Uh now this he's a will a barrel full of vinyls, full of loose vinyl not even in a container. It's like, what is this? This whole thing looks scratched off. Let's play it in five out god, because that's when I found it about the history like scratching.

It's like you had to buy two or the same album, and if it was really popular, he said he bought one of them. You just scratched. That's why I like with scratching, it like a record at least it was like somewhat salvageable. Can you scratch the CD? There's a Bone a Harmony CD that I used to fall asleep with somebody, but I used to fall asleep just to

think about that just hurt my heart. I used to fall asleep listening to and there was a scratch at one particular part in the song, and whenever I heard that song without the scratch, I was like, oh, yeah, that's not supposed to Yeah, you get a feeling, you get like, what's that. I find that when I make a playlist and then I playlist something out of order that's on the same album. When I actually listened to the album and the song I'm expecting doesn't come next,

it's genuinely jarring. Yes, Like, even if I love almost all of an album, when I actually grabbed the album and I'm like, let me put some of this on playlist. Usually my two favorite songs are never next to each other. So then you place something you love it, and then you get used to the other thing that you love coming behind it. But then someone you're just at somebody's house and they're letting an album play in the background. They're just chilling, and then you're like, this is completely

out of order. Who did this? Who did this? The artist did it? My bad. The first album I got that wasn't a rap album was justin Timberlake's first album, Justified, And that's when I found out that rappers love sketch comedy. Yeah, because it was just thirteen songs. And then I was like,

where are the sketches? Because the only thing I ever had was like Bone Thugs and Harmony CDs or like you know, Crazy Bone solo album or More Thugs album, More t I s. You know, it's like the first time I got a non wrapped you know, or sucking busy, But like I had a lot of Bone Thugs and Harmony albums, which you can obviously hear from this, but I heard. I was like, where are the skits? Just a term like I do his job? Like I was very concerned, and I found out that if it's not

a rap album, they probably won't be. Britney Scars don't have any sketches either, Like it's not like at leash Keys didn't have any sketches either. And I'm just like when did rappers do these? Think you just love comedy, like that's what I'm just like, very good. But for me, it's just I can go. I want to be able if I'm paying you to play music at these hair nuptials. Okay, I'm up here feeding all of these people. I I'm brought in shoes, but you know, it's like I got

all kind of snacks. Is a party in this bitch. I just changed it to a different outfit because I'm about the party in these beach Okay hmm. I want to be able to walk up to you and go I want to hear anything, you know how the last song you played, so listen. I wanna be able to walk up to a human being that I'm gonna paid money because they gotta eat right, sit there and eat, do you. I did not know that sometimes at weddings people don't look like the photographer and the DJ eat. Yeah, no,

that's wild. I have heard about that, but yeah, who are these people? All I'm saying is that I should be able to walk up to a DJ and being like, listen, I want to hear Reba's fancy and then walk up to you later and be like, listen, I want to hear big old freak from Megan the Stallion. And I needed to be able to come from the same person, So I don't want to hear a band do Megan

the Stallion. That's the thing. You wouldn't be impressed if about no, no, no no. If a band had the musicality to perfectly capture the instrumental and if a singer had the pipes to pull off a well known song that isn't usually played at weddings. I'm not interested in hearing a cover. I don't enjoy covers mostly it's like I want to like it reminds me of that music

kind of. Hey. Also, I've always been confused by like the covers you would actually hear like the music music m I'm like, I'm gonna start by and I'm like, wait a minute, this is who's sang this song? And it really is it really? Less money? I guess I'm always confused them, like how is it legal? I think it's what I'm always confused about. You have to pay a royalty for the recording, but then just for the performance.

I don't think that you have to pay anything because it just it would be like you having to pay to sing the song you like in the shower, because if it's a recording, you can get mechanical royalties off of it. You can make money off of your version of this song. But you didn't write it and you didn't do the original recording, so you have to pay the people who basically to the original work. But I think that for then, why does not let the original

work be the work? Why are you paying for I think I think that some people, there are some people who have really great covers there are, and it's part of their catalog because maybe how they made a name for themselves is that they proved that they were as good of a singer as this person, and then they

broke like broke off into their own original stuff. So I could see how if if one of those really hit how you would want to You're like, hey, it's worth paying this person who originally created the royalties so that I can get my shine off of the fact

that I sing this thing very well. Or I mean, we all know the best cover of any song of all time is Whitney Houston doing We'll Always Love You, because like they interviewed Dolly Parton, and Dolly part was like, She's like, I wrote it, but that's Whitney Houston song because she said she said the first time she heard it on the radio, I think in the interview said she almost ran off the road she was driving in her car. It was like, not like it was very bad.

So I feel like this is a good place to, you know, kick it off to you the listener. I feel like, maybe, look, admittedly, this time I don't know if I made enough wedding band points, but I said in my piece, I think that wedding bands are great, and I think that for the length of your reception,

hopefully you find one. Just like it's your responsibility to find a DJ that knows vibes, it's your responsibility to find a wedding band that actually, no, was a lot of songs and it's done weddings before and just can bring that energy. I think there is an energy in the room. I'll say it again. I really do believe it. I've witnessed it. I'm not saying there is an energy in a room like someone who is playing music in

a room has to be able to capture that. I'm just saying that I haven't been in a situation where a band has caught the vibe because a lot of times that I've seen bands perform at a wedding, I've seen people go and then there's never anybody on the dance floor that it's like it's no one you're here, because there's but also there's people that really because I've been a waiting like, oh my god, don't say there's a band you gotta dance. No, I don't know how

to swing dance, Emily. We want know what you think. Yeah, is it? Is it wedding DJ for you? Is it wedding band for you? Have you been to a great wedding that had one or the other. Please let us know if you have been to a wedding with a good band, send me the name of this band. Call your friend and be like, hey, branded what was that band? You edit your wedding twenty five years ago? There's some loud black lady that wants to know if your your band was trashed. Just I just want to say, I

just want to see it. I just want to see I want to see it. If you are a good wedding band, don't send me really because what I've got you but that I feel like that's a that's a mixed message, because no, no, no no, no no. Because this is the thing is, if you're a good wedding band and you send me your link, you're like, hey, I'm a good wedding band. If I don't think you're a good wedding band, you're not gonna get the response that you want. You're opening yourself up to criticism that you

don't need. So if you think you're a good wedding band, don't come to me, Go to Josh. We're like, hey, Josh, I'm a good wedding band. Tell don't say we're a good wedding band, and then Josh can listen to you. And then then Josh can be like, hey, I proved my point, and if you are a good wedding band, I will come back on this show, back on this platform. Okay. When people talk about having a podcast in their platform, it annoys me. Also when people talk about their brand

on a punch people in the face. But if you're a good wedding band, you send you send your demo to Josh. Josh fox with it, he considered to me. And if I funk with it, the next episode that we're doing after, I will listen to your band and be like, you know what, Bobby and the Sun chokes pretty great band. Okay, So I will I will advertise for your band. If you're a good wedding band, we

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