Beyond the DJ Booth
Brian B and Joe Bunn tackle questions about the private event DJ industry, share music, gear/gadgets, and stories from their gigs.
Beyond the DJ Booth
Creating Magic Moments: The Timeless Power of Perfect Ballad Selection
Brian B takes us back to his origin story as a teenage karaoke host with frosted tips in late-90s California, revealing how this unlikely start built the foundation for his DJ empire. With disarming honesty, he explains the perfect karaoke host paradox: "You can't suck, but you can't be so good that people are intimidated." This delicate balance created the stage presence and crowd reading skills that would later positively impact his career.
The conversation shifts to practical business strategies as Brian and Joe break down the economics of weeknight entertainment. They calculate how a DJ willing to hustle can build a six-figure income by combining weeknight trivia or karaoke gigs ($200 for 3 hours) with weekend weddings. It's a masterclass in entrepreneurship disguised as casual conversation, offering real pathways to financial stability in the entertainment industry.
When a listener asks about tackling marathon four-hour dance sets, Brian B reveals his secret weapon: carefully crafted "mini-sets" or "routines" that can be mixed and matched throughout the night. This approach prevents the common DJ mistake of frontloading all the best material and ensures consistent energy from start to finish. The hosts then share their holy grail of timeless ballads that work across all generations, from Righteous Brothers classics to slowed-down EDM tracks that create unexpected perfect moments.
Gear Corner brings practical solutions to common DJ problems, with a reviews of a pair of Bose noise-canceling earbuds and an unexpected find: a portable electric nail trimmer perfect for DJs concerned about hand photos. It's these blend of big picture career advice and practical everyday solutions that makes Beyond the DJ Booth essential listening for any entertainment professional looking to elevate their game.
Want their curated playlist of perfect multi-generational ballads? Comment "timeless" on Joe's Instagram reel and discover the songs that connect 20-somethings and 80-year-olds on the same dance floor.
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Welcome to Beyond the DJ Booth Podcast. I'm one of the co-hosts, Brian B, and this is Joseph Bunn Wow.
Speaker 2:Formal name again Formal name. I'll take it Joseph Bunn's here. How you doing?
Speaker 1:I'm good man, Feeling good since the last episode 30 seconds ago 30 seconds ago that we just wrapped. I don't know why it's a go-to for me. I just always like to ask how you're doing.
Speaker 2:I feel for me. I just always like to ask how you're doing. I feel pretty good. I started watching the show last night, uh adolescence.
Speaker 1:Have you seen this on netflix? I've heard about it, everyone's telling me it's super disturbing.
Speaker 2:I only got through the first one but like, oh, how many episodes is it?
Speaker 1:I don't know, uh, I thought it was just like one documentary. No, it's like a series. Yeah, it's a show, it's not a it's not true?
Speaker 3:I don't think, oh Like how it's just disturbing man.
Speaker 2:It's about a 13-year-old that's suspected of murder.
Speaker 3:That's as far as I've gotten oh my God, Not sure. See how many episodes there are in Saquon. You like Beavis and Butthead what you like. Beavis and Butthead yeah, I love Beavis and Butthead.
Speaker 2:Mike Judge effects is it a comedy?
Speaker 3:yeah, comedy cartoon, but like adult cartoon okay it's about this mushroom. It's pretty cool all right.
Speaker 2:Do you have to be high to like it, or okay, it's?
Speaker 3:about, like, the pharmaceutical industry. Okay, it's really good because I'm watching white lotus now.
Speaker 1:I'm caught up on that yeah, I don't know how you have time I finished severance, I started this other one called paradise.
Speaker 2:But I don't really like to watch shows at the same time because the storylines get confusing to me Anyway, but I noticed I had to turn the subtitles on, which is very rare for me, but they had heavy British accents or either Scottish maybe, and it was like everything when you were saying how you doing it's like you're all right, You're all right, that's like. They must say that 50 times Like any that all right, you're all right, that's like. They must say that 50 times like any, that's like a hello, like it's.
Speaker 3:It's the most common greeting. It sounds yeah, you're all right love.
Speaker 2:You're all right anyway. Just made me think of that. Um, so I learned something interesting about you last week.
Speaker 1:You did yeah I told you yeah oh, we're playing trivia.
Speaker 2:Oh, and we, we are at this um pizza place, slash bar, right by my house. Brian picked me up and we're there, and I don't know how this topic comes up, but I find out you used to host karaoke. Yeah, talk to us about that. I mean how old are you at this point and what city are you living in? 18, 19 years old.
Speaker 1:You're Cali, california. Yeah, this was Frosted Tips, frosted Tips. Old near cali california. Yeah, uh, this was frosted tips. The frosted tips frosted tips, so it's the same bar that I used to dj at. Okay, and actually they never started. They started with karaoke first.
Speaker 1:It was a karaoke bar that eventually turned into dancing okay, and so the marketing manager at pioneer at the time we were friends and so he said hey, you want to come out and shadow me and do some karaoke stuff? And I'm like I was in a band, so I kind of already sang a little bit. I mean, I wasn't a lead singer by any stretch, but I could carry a tune. And so I go to this thing and, man, that is a whole nother world so these were like the off nights.
Speaker 2:This would have been like friday, saturday this would have been like tuesday no, no, this was a friday to start.
Speaker 1:Then when I came in to start djing there, they had me on saturdays. It was doing so well that they moved the karaoke to thursday. Okay, so I was doing djing friday, saturday at this bar. Yeah. Then they moved karaoke to wednesday and I was doing thursday friday saturday dancing, so I was there four nights a week okay.
Speaker 2:So this was my favorite part, like what and, and I didn't really know, you could sing. Tell us your go-tos, what were your, because this is gonna shock people. I've never done karaoke, never, nah, wow, I don't want to you kind of okay.
Speaker 1:So the key to being a good karaoke host like drunk, yes well well the thing is to be good, a good karaoke host has to be able to carry a tune. You can't suck, but you can't be so good that people are like, oh, I'm not doing that oh, you gotta be kind of so I'm like the perfect kind of host yeah, because I'm not great. Yeah, I'm not terrible, right.
Speaker 2:So people feel like they got a little bit of confidence, sure you know kind of come in there, sure um, it was 90s alternative, oh yeah so slide goo goo dolls was like a go-to.
Speaker 1:Why don't you slide that vertical Vertical Horizons? Oh God, I love that song.
Speaker 2:Everything, she.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everything she wants, yeah, and then you Only Get what you Give oh New Radicals.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, I was pretty much.
Speaker 1:That was the era of all of that, you know. So it was like Wow, oh, and then the one that I would shine.
Speaker 2:I can't even do it now, because I don't remember, no, oh, one week bare naked ladies when we do the rap yeah, chickity, chinese, the chinese chicken that's pretty much all I remember now at this point, but I used to have it down but the thing is, you space it out what do you mean? What do you mean?
Speaker 1:like you don't sing all these songs in a row, sure, when you see a dip or you're like, if you see like the same person if people just write on paper, paper, paper, paper they turned it in back, then yeah, you have the professional karaoke singers or who they think they are Sure, so they'll give you like 10 slips at one time.
Speaker 1:I'm like, I'm like I call you up for 10 songs in a row, Right? So that's when I have to kind of interject myself into the order and sing so it doesn't sound like it's this person's you know concert. But I will say it was a great foray into learning what songs work for DJing on mobiles, because they're all sing-along songs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, right and those are the ones that did the best. Yeah, so you kind of learned real quickly what songs could work at a wedding or whatnot. Number one and number two it's a great place to get gratuity, because people always want to move up in the order. Oh, so I would prime that tip jar with, like you know, 20s and 50s in there. I'm like, well, hey, the last person put in a, it was me but you know you don't know that off the get it's so loose there.
Speaker 1:So you can really test like jokes material if you want to throw that in there.
Speaker 2:So that was like a good foray into, like getting me into MC. I feel like it's a, you know, if there's any things, one I I would think it would be a great way to polish your mc chops thousand percent, because there are lulls, there are, you know, breaks. You do want to be on the mic but don't want to be, you know, too awkward. You want to keep it moving, right, right. And then I also and I've told my guys, you know there's several guys that work here everybody that works at bun dj company has another job, just period, and you know, people often express hey, man, you know, I just I hate my job and I wish I could do this full time and I'm like you could, but you're gonna have to go out there and hustle up these weekday shows, yeah, and it's going to be karaoke or what we were at the other night, trivia. Yeah, that guy could have been a dj. He was doing that.
Speaker 2:Uh, you know what where did uh bowling, you know, become invented or whatever you know he was doing that kind of voice like this?
Speaker 1:but you had a good point. You said that that night that like he was on from 7 to 9 30 at the latest, it stopped at like 9 9, 30 yep probably made Easily, I'm guessing.
Speaker 2:I would guess the same. I think the gear probably stayed there. Yeah, I think he walked in with the questions they had. This particular version was on our phones to answer. He tallied it. Read the thing he made $200. Well, let's just say if he did that four nights a week, that's $800.
Speaker 3:For three hours, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:That's including driving there. Yeah, 800 times four, 3,200. I mean 3,200 times 12, I mean made $40,000.
Speaker 1:Right, Plus, I had a wedding on a Saturday or whatever. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean you could be making six figures.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But you're going to have to get out there and either do trivia or karaoke. You're going to have to basically go door to door say, hey, do you have a slow night? I'd love to try this trivia thing. I'd love to try this game show.
Speaker 1:I'd love to try this karaoke thing and you're going to have to build it and the cool thing about that is if it's consistent, you get this like with karaoke. I can tell you for sure you get the regulars man. They get to know you, you know their songs you know. So you can kind of get it in there and the bar thinks you're a hero, right?
Speaker 2:Because nobody was there Right.
Speaker 1:And karaoke and trivia are great because you're sitting drinking right Eating food. You're not like at a club where you're dancing. You know what I mean. Right, you're making them money the longer they're there.
Speaker 2:Dude, this is I mean. When I left Wilmington in 99 and moved here to Raleigh, those club gigs and again this was DJing, not karaoke or trivia were exactly what I just explained to you. I would go in a bar on Hillsborough Street, so here in Raleigh, you know which is the college the main drag for college and I would go in this place the Big Bad Wolf Tuesday night.
Speaker 2:I mean there were three people in there and I'd be like, hey, man, I feel like we could do a DJ night in here and this was like really the starting point of a DJ even being a thing, and like they had a booth and they, you know, they probably did okay on the weekends and I'm gonna go around and I literally would go to those wooden things around campus and put flyers up and there was no social media, there was no text blast, email blast, Like we had nothing. But first week there'd be 20 of my friends there and then 20 became 40. 40 became 80. 80 became you know, 300 lying down the block.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I got.
Speaker 2:Brian, my friend, sitting there at the door taking $5 cover from everybody.
Speaker 1:And that was my money.
Speaker 2:I kept you know, so I'd go home with $1,500 minimum.
Speaker 1:That's awesome.
Speaker 2:I would do that two or three nights a week. You know, as what was I back then? 20, 27, something like that, 26, 27, just crushing it, just cash money, you know, and they would keep the bar, yeah, like, and it was a huge win for them, yeah, and a huge win for me.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
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Speaker 1:I got another gear corner for you. Sure, all right. So I lost my AirPods recently.
Speaker 2:I'm concerned that you've gone to another brand, but let's hear it, let's hear it and let me tell you. I'm very particular about the old school style of AirPods because they fit my ears, not the long ones, not the long ones I hate because they not the long ones, not the long ones. I hate the long ones, the shorties with the with the rubber tip.
Speaker 1:No, I'm sorry, I guess they are the longer ones. Then yes, the old school ones because they stay in my ear better, but they don't interesting whenever I listen to music. They never sound great, but you look poor though when you're wearing the. I know, but they stay in there, they don't pop out. They don't pop out, okay. So I I lost them, and this is like my eighth pair I've lost over a course of years, because it says airpods number eight on my oh no, it does yeah so because in case I ever find them, you know, I'm like ah, maybe I'll have them in there, but then I started deleting them all just the other day.
Speaker 3:I'm like get rid of all these.
Speaker 1:I'm never gonna get them again so I started putting on the social media. I was like, hey, who has? Good airpods, yeah, or or earbuds I guess it would be shout out casey rush where's he out michigan, I don't know that's my boy, though, good dude bows now. These are not cheap I will tell you 500 ish. Okay, but they had a deal at the airport at that little.
Speaker 2:It's called emotion I think whatever, yeah 250, so it was half price.
Speaker 1:So I was like I really can't pass this up, to at least try it. Sure sucks, great, okay, but these are premium. Do they have a name? They uh, I can give you the actual. They'll all have the link up there. But the the the basics.
Speaker 1:They're noise canceling number one which is really great, but you can also turn them on to atmosphere so you can hear what's happening. Sure, the bass in them are great, the battery life is great. I now use them everywhere and you can get those on amazon as well. Any idea what the? I think I just kind of mentioned it but it's yeah, you did. So it's actually $5.98 on Amazon, Wow you got them for $2.50? $2.50,. They had a deal. That's the only reason I got it, because I was like I wouldn't spend 500 bucks on it.
Speaker 3:There's no way I would lose it anyways.
Speaker 2:I know myself with them, so highly recommend it. They're definitely nice. The case is a little bit bigger. Yeah, the the bud itself is about the same right, I don't want to put it in, but the air cance, the noise cancellation.
Speaker 1:I didn't realize how crucial that was I didn't have that on the old. I know airpods right so I could always hear. But to listen to music travel on a plane, yeah, it's crazy how it can block out so much it does do great crying babies and stuff. That's number one okay, I'm going to two for today, okay, two for this is kind of bougie, oh, bougie, but not bougie.
Speaker 1:Okay, what's the one area that you think you get photographed the most at a dj gig? What part of your body do you get? Oh, either my hands around your hands right yeah, so I was always getting frustrated because you know I'm, I know that, so I'm like I got to make sure my nails are in on point. Oh, wow, right, okay, but when I would bring that little clipper with me, I'm like I'm always snagging it on stuff. I hate it.
Speaker 2:Electric nail trimmer, Stop it bro.
Speaker 1:So this is the little holder that holds all the nail stuff that you drop off. It's empty, don't worry.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm going to in there. No way.
Speaker 1:I wish mine were longer try it you can try it, just put it on the top part and then basically, this holds. It holds it down for the um, for the speed I feel like I have to use this.
Speaker 2:You got to. Oh wait. Well, and also, man like bro, have you ever been somewhere like in public and seen people cutting their nails?
Speaker 1:oh yeah, that's gross, that's disgusting. Dog, public is crazy.
Speaker 2:Right, it's got two speeds, okay if you hit it again to go faster so if I just put my nail in here, oh it's, it's a buzzer, yes, it's not a clipper. It's not a clipper like a sander, like a sander kind of. Yeah, I kind of like this. I told you I didn't know if I'd like it or not. Oh, I see exactly what you're saying, dog.
Speaker 1:This is nice now hit the double speed. Now we're going to hear the high speed. This thing is going nuts now but let me get my save yourself some money on a manicure. You don't got to do it at all damn bro then you just hold down that side button to turn it off.
Speaker 2:I feel like you found a gym, the thing is going off, and then you just dump it. Yeah, you're done. Um, you want my price? Yeah, what do you think?
Speaker 1:I'm 1999, 1999 I can't remember, so I gotta, I gotta, look it up okay, I feel like I'm close on this one 1999. Let's see what we got here. We have 28.99. Okay, so I keep it in my snack bag. I thought you mean it was gonna. No, that's the thing, because I always sometimes get it like uh, cut and, like you know, hung on something yeah, yeah this doesn't. This is like a full-on sander damn, he said a sander bro.
Speaker 2:This is nice. This is so small, and the only thing I think about with you and all the gadgets is when you pull them out, are they actually charged up? Because I feel like everything you have is it's wireless.
Speaker 1:It is I mean, if you're, I'm using them so minimally, right, right, like so I I I mean, I've had this thing for a couple months now.
Speaker 2:I feel the same. I'm just like an overcharger, quite frankly, like with my lights and everything.
Speaker 1:Oh, that, yeah, you got to, which is not good.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:I just feel like I'm always constantly charging myself and then I try and pull it off the charger because I know you're not supposed to leave them on there forever and blah blah blah, but I think that would be the only thing that would give me like low key anxiety is just to have all the nails.
Speaker 1:Are that long? No, I mean, I'm just saying in general with you and all your gadgets, I gotta be charged. Or you enjoyed the music finds I share on here. You know the ones that Joe pretends he discovered first. Well, if you didn't know, I've got a Patreon where you can grab not only song lists but also exclusive edits of mine. Yep, custom tracks. That'll set you apart from every DJ still rinsing the same tired wedding set. Want fresh music suggestions every month? Go to patreoncom. Forward. Slash DJ Brian B official. Again, that's patreoncom forward. Slash DJ Brian B official. You'll be the DJ. Everyone's trying to figure out how you keep your sets so fire and planners will start nudging their couples your way. And if that's not a hard enough sell, I don't know what is All right. Back to the episode before Joe tries to convince us that Sweet Caroline is actually a banger.
Speaker 2:Let's go to the question. Jesse Palencia shout out Jesse Palencia out of Chicago, Illinois. How do you tackle a wedding that requires four plus hours of straight dancing? I'm gonna let you go first, because I feel like you have these I do, uh, lately.
Speaker 2:I mean I feel like all weddings are kind of moving this direction like less formalities, not here, really okay I mean less formalities, yes, but still two and a half would be probably the most, the new form for us this wedding this weekend and, uh, the one I just did was crazy long they they did have food, but it was state, it was like roving stations, it was a moving technically that saying geek wasn't a wedding right.
Speaker 1:Correct okay, but but I've had to do four plus hours before. So I would say the the magic is pacing. You don't want to go out of the gate, two guns blazing, but you can't also do a slow, slow ramp up, because then it takes too long to kind of get. So it's really gotta be like peaks and valleys, like every 30 minutes, with the energy you know and and flipping it enough. You know, one of the things that I've I've got better at doing, uh, and this is really a COVID thing, honestly I started putting together like these mini sets, like if I could play a full hour where it was like what used to be two or three songs that were really hype, but cutting these songs so short and doing it in a full set.
Speaker 1:Now you might think, well, is he going to play the same set every wedding? No, I take pieces from those routines. I call them routines. Now I've built up about 15 of them and, yes, there's three or four that go in a row together, but I can go out of one into another. Could I play the whole thing together? I could, but now I'm moving in and out of stuff and I'm finding things that are like evergreen, that aren't going to go out like tomorrow. Some stuff are new. But like that I can kind of mix and match so you might hear me play those same songs, but not the same way twice but you're also saying, though, that they are not pre-recorded.
Speaker 1:You just have them in little pockets, little pockets, and that helps me get through these four hours where it doesn't feel like, hey, the first hour was amazing because this guy was hitting all of his bangers and then last three hours was just a suck fest because it wasn't like programmed as well as it was in the beginning.
Speaker 2:So those little pockets really do help if I was going to answer the question which, again, I haven't had one of these in a long, long time I'd say the same thing you, you gotta just peaks and valleys it which parlays me into, parlays us into the music topic of today. All right, you want to do it? I think so because I think that in a four-hour dance set, I believe and again I'm saying, use these sparingly. And in a two and a half hour dance set, unless I'm told to do so, I rarely, rarely use them, but they are da-da-da-da ballads.
Speaker 2:I repeat ballads, slow jams, if you will. Now here's the precursor, and I gave Brian this pre-show so he had some time to think about it. I'm not just springing this on him. The precursor is it transcends all generations. In other words, if you drop this ballad to kind of reset the dance floor, as you call it, this is going to work from age 20 to age 75, 80. You want to talk about some of these.
Speaker 1:This came about because you had a groom.
Speaker 2:I did Last weekend. The couple in the what I would call the final planning or the advance call, said hey, just one thing, there are going to be a lot of older guests there. We went to a wedding recently and the dj just completely alienated these people, went out of the gate too hard, too fast, never, never, rolled it back in like he just just hammered them and they didn't. They just sat down and they couldn't keep up. Right, can you interject a couple and a couple? I've?
Speaker 2:I took that, I mean two or three in that first hour ish. I think we played two and it helped when we were having that, that power issue that I talked about on the last episode, where I kind of had to, you know, run some extra cables and I played a ballad and played the full thing. So that's how this kind of came up and you and I were talking about, you know, the music episodes do really well and we, you know, put together together the Spotify playlist and then we say a word and basically people can get the link to our Spotify playlist. So this episode we will say our ballad list, our let's call it Timeless Ballads by Joe.
Speaker 1:Bunn and Brian D. So should we call the word timeless?
Speaker 2:I like it. Okay, the keyword's going to be timeless T-I-M-E, l-e-s-s.
Speaker 1:Ooh, wow, do that together. Yeah, I put it together.
Speaker 2:I feel like we're going to have some similarities.
Speaker 1:I just know your style. You're going to be like old soul.
Speaker 3:So I kind of steer clear of that Okay.
Speaker 1:So you want to go with your first one, and I can pull mine up.
Speaker 2:As much as I hate to say this, because I feel like I've literally been playing it since the day that I was born, Unchained Melody, Righteous Brothers. Wow, and it still freaking works and I guess you know it was in Ghost or whatever it was in.
Speaker 1:Well, it was Top Gun too, right? Maybe it was in Taco.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:No, that was. You've lost that level. Oh yeah, right, right yeah.
Speaker 2:Even for young people, and I and I don't, I don't really like, I don't want to say I like these songs, but I'm just telling you it's never failed me Go ahead with yours.
Speaker 1:So I went current Okay, cause I figured that's going to be a Like to your point. They are timeless yeah, they're not. So I was trying to find something current that would not alienate the older folks, okay. So this is a shout out to Bob Hickman, who hooked me up with this. I have a coaching group Another plug If you want to be a part of that, we once a month go over music finds Okay, and he shared this with me. This is Teddy Swims Okay, this is his cover of Let Me Love you by Mario. You can get this on Spotify.
Speaker 3:I made a little edit.
Speaker 1:His voice is just, but I like it because it's got a beat and if they're not, you know they may not know the song, but it's enough of it's not over aggressive where you're going to be like what is this? Yeah, it's just kind of smooth, yeah, and I feel like, in a Southern context especially, people would get out there because his voice kind of even an older couple.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1:Okay, remember that came out when we were like in our heyday. Right, so, like a lot of the, 40, 50-year-olds are going to be in that kind of feel, and that got redone by somebody else recently, so I think the younger folks would know it as well.
Speaker 2:Dude Brad stood up last week to dance with her dad and I looked at Saquon. I'm like holy shit, I think this dude's younger than I am. I fell out. Yes, it was nuts. If he wasn't younger, he was close like same age. Okay. Anyway, I've been in the game a long time. What's your second? Randy is telling me he's getting this on the band list, thinking out loud, cheering.
Speaker 1:Okay, I would have gone. Perfect. And the reason for it Perfect with Beyonce. Yeah, wow, there's one with the dude from the Italian opera singer, oh Bocelli, bocelli. Yeah, just because it's a little bit more romantic, okay, than the the typical standard. I'm not a big beyonce fan me neither, but I would do that one if I was looking for a ballad over the original but I like that one that's, uh, the one that you just mentioned thinking out loud.
Speaker 1:But isn't that the one that says, like, if I don't have legs or whatever, like that whole thing, like I can't?
Speaker 2:play that video, that video that went viral yeah, that's the reason I can't play it.
Speaker 1:Unless the couple wants it, I'm not touching it. I mean can you just make an edit as long as there's no like handicapped people yeah.
Speaker 2:Wheelchair people, right yeah I don't know, can you just make an edit? I think about everything.
Speaker 1:I'll be laughing as I see it, because I feel like god, that was a rough one to watch.
Speaker 2:Um, I still pull that.
Speaker 1:Okay, it works so this is a new one that you probably don't know of this artist. Tara didn't know it and I was like how do you not know this artist? His name is lucas graham. I know this guy, yeah. So the song is called love someone and it's it's. I mean it was a hit. I like it because I think, again it's, it's a song that's not overly aggressive. If you're older, I think you can still dance to it, okay because when you love someone. Oh, I know, this one are you playing it.
Speaker 3:It's a good dinner song. It's great.
Speaker 1:It's catchy.
Speaker 3:That's the other reason why I like it. It's got to be English. It's written. Great song I love that song.
Speaker 2:You're right, it's a great be English Great song.
Speaker 3:I love that song.
Speaker 2:You're right, it's a great dinner song too. We should add that to the dinner list and our ballads list.
Speaker 1:I think this ballad list is going to be. I put some time into it.
Speaker 2:I got some other ones. Can I give you two country? Yeah?
Speaker 1:give me two.
Speaker 2:And I actually love these songs. And you know I'm not a huge country fan, I have a very select few artists I like. I actually love both of these songs. First one is Die a Happy man. I knew you were going to say that.
Speaker 1:Thomas.
Speaker 2:Rhett, thomas Rhett. I love this song, man. It never gets old to me, it always works. Yeah, the lyrics are so good. I don't know, country artists usually don't write their own songs, but whoever wrote that song is a genius. It's just such a great song. And then the other one, but it just absolutely fucking ruins me, because my sister and my dad love this song uh, joy of my life, chris stapleton, and she picked it last week and I swear to god it was all I could do not to think to dance with her dad, I was like oh my god, please the bride picked it up.
Speaker 2:Yes, the bride picked it and she's out there dancing with her dad. And I'm like, bro, just please get to the end of it and luckily she only wanted 90 seconds because. I would have been a mess if we had rolled three minutes of this song. Both of those, to me, are like actual masterpieces.
Speaker 1:I agree.
Speaker 3:Masterpieces.
Speaker 1:So one I don't have a sample of of, but since you gave two, I'm gonna get two, so one of them. I think this one's another masterpiece, uh, it's van morrison's into the mystic. It's masterpiece. That song will never get old to me it can't get old, because it's just it's a masterpiece. It's so incredible and I try to play at every wedding if I can fit it in, wow like not during the ballad, no, no, no, just play it during dinner.
Speaker 3:Me too, I just love the song, but I think it could work as a ballad. For sure it could.
Speaker 1:It could, just in the south yep, and this last one I'll play for you is my boy, benny blanco. You've been following that. I sent you that instagram I've been on it coming up on your feed.
Speaker 2:It is now dude, I had no idea. Wall or something. Yeah, there is nobody operating in the current pop market that has produced or written more hit songs than benny blanco I had no idea, did some but like when it really goes into the like when he starts listening off Maroon 5, katy Perry, like anybody, that's pop royalty. He wrote their biggest songs, yeah, or produced it or both, and that's unbelievable talent, bieber, bieber. Yeah, Bieber, I mean dude just anybody yeah, he's Bieber.
Speaker 2:I mean dude, just anybody. Those Maroon 5 songs they've written no anything that was a hit that.
Speaker 1:Maroon 5 had on the radio. Yeah, he did that. Yeah, oh no, totally yeah, he's crazy incredible, so he did a song with um Calvin Harris. It's an EDM song called I Found you okay and a groom found this okay so. I can't take credit for it. This is him bringing this to my attention this is the. I believe it's called the Nilda. I think it's like a romantic version of it. It's a slowed down version of I found you. You will play this as a ballad a lot, so here it is.
Speaker 3:Hopefully I get to the chorus, I finally believe in you. I've traveled many roads.
Speaker 1:Hopefully I get to the chorus.
Speaker 3:Don't know what to do, and my world is never changing. If there's anything, I can do.
Speaker 1:I hear it is Cause I found you.
Speaker 3:Oh, I know this song. Yeah, it's usually way faster. Yeah, like 128. Yeah, it's usually way faster Like 128?. Yeah.
Speaker 1:One of his lower, lesser known songs, but for a ballad, I think somebody, even if you don't know it, you're like hey, I got there and danced to that. I'm finding a lot of EDM songs that are done acoustically do really well for me. I can see that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, especially for that generation. It's familiarity. It's the same reason that vitamin string quartet is popular for prelude music Like would you rather sit there and listen to Handel or Mozart while guests are being seated, or a string version of Coldplay? Yeah, me, I like.
Speaker 3:Coldplay yeah.
Speaker 2:Or Dave Matthews or Red Hot Chili Peppers as string versions, yeah, and I find that almost all of my couples are like, yeah, that's exactly what we'd rather be playing. You know, from 4.30 to 5 while people are sitting down. Sure, good stuff, man, it's blazed by. So thanks everybody for watching. You are listening to this. If you want to watch this video of two very handsome people one with hair, one without you can go to my YouTube channel and again shout out DJ Event Planner and S Start and the playlist. And the playlist that we're doing on this episode is obviously ballots. All you got to do is comment the word timeless on the Instagram reel and we will send it to you. New episode next week Later.