KDTime: Hey Dj, Is This a Wedding Song?

There are many songs out and it is very clear that not all are for weddings. But sometimes that isn't clear to people. To be completely fair. You can play whatever you want at your wedding because it's your wedding. Do what makes you happy. A lot of people don't know thi, but I'll let you in on a little secret. You making yourself happy is a THOUSAND times better than trying to please other people. Trying to please people and trying to make people happy are different trust me.

Any way here's an excerpt from the episode and the list of songs I mention.

"This episode I’ll be talking about wedding songs. I wonder if artists whose songs are infamously known to be played at weddings thought after they made the song that yes this is totally a wedding song. Of course most love songs are played at weddings but songs such as “What is Love” by Haddaway isn’t exactly a wedding song. The song was released in 1992 and it’s dance/electronic. The lyrics don’t scream play me at a wedding but the beat and head bobbing dancing are just too good to pass up. In reality literally any song and every song could be played at weddings but the thing is that’s not going to happen. You won’t hear Barney’s theme song playing at weddings. I mean unless the couple is just Barney fanatics then maybe but it is HIGHLY unlikely with much emphasis on highly. 

Now I did a little research because I was generally curious what songs could absolutely NOT be played at weddings. And the list was pretty long. From Brides.com (now if you are a bride listening to this please feel free to do whatever you want). They have a list of 30 songs to add to the DO NOT PLAY list. The list goes as follows: 

1. Every Breath you take - the police

2. I will always love you - whitney houston

3. Make you feel my love - adele

4. The scientist - coldplay

5. My heart will go on - celine dion

6. The sweetest thing - u2

7. I will survive - gloria gaynor

8. White wedding - billy idol

9. Tainted love - soft cell

10. If you wanna be happy - jimmy soul

11. You give love a bad name - bon jovi

12. Gold digger - kanye west

13. Baby got back - sir mix-a-lot

14. Bootylicious - destiny’s child

15. Blurred lines - robin thicke

16. Cha cha slide - mr. c

17. Celebration - kool & the gang

18. Ymca - village people

19. Cotton eye joe - rednex

20. Macarena - los del rio

21. We are family - sister sledge

22. Shout, part 1 & 2 - the isley brothers

23. Stayin alive - the bee gees

24. Hokey pokey - play school kids

25. Watch me (whip/nae nae) - silento

26. Electric slide - marcia griffith

27. Wobble - v.i.c

28. Gangnam style - psy

29. Ice ice baby - vanilla ice

30. Play that funky music - wild cherry

Those first 15 songs the lyrics to each song are problematic if you’re trying to portray love and happiness. Some are pretty obvious why they shouldn’t be played but if you’ve never one like i’ve never heard the song if you wanna be happy by jimmy soul before and so i went to youtube and it’s a pretty upbeat song BUT the lyrics are “if you wanna be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife. So from my personal point of view get an ugly girl to marry you.” like what?! Who hurt you jimmy?? 

And yes you guessed it the second half of the songs are the cheesiest songs. Yes they’ll get the crowd moving but to be honest these songs are so played out now. I think we can agree that there are much better songs out there that’ll get the crowd going. Don’t get me wrong i will dance to these songs but i’m not and i know a lot of others are not running to the dance floor when these are playing. They usually only work if we’re already dancing. But I've seen many people go back and sit down when those songs pop on."