Tonight’s the big night, where the BF and I DJ a dance for queer teens. I imagine this being high school drama topped off with gay drama and smothered in dancefloor drama. Luckily it’s also an early dance, because the space the dance is in is upstairs from this uber-icky 30+ bar and the kids need to be out before the thirtysomethings move in. We’ll be (hopefully) out by nine.
Since I only have a really vague concept of a) what’s currently popular with the kids, b) what’s retro-popular with the kids, and c) what high school dances are like, this is probably going to end in tears. But the organizers said the kids are into really campy trash, and also that we can’t play anything too explicit, even though the kids are going to ask for it. Here’s my preliminary playlist so far, which is a mix of campy trash and what I would have wanted to hear at a high school dance if I had actually wanted to go to high school dances:
Alphabeat, Boyfriend
Girls Aloud, Untouchable
Madonna, Live To Tell
Ghost Town DJs, My Boo
Teena Marie, Lovergirl (more…)
