Everyone says it's 3 minutes but is it really? Is every song the same length of time? I always forget to ask the Dj and was hoping someone on here would know.
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Everyone says it's 3 minutes but is it really? Is every song the same length of time? I always forget to ask the Dj and was hoping someone on here would know.
depends on the club. three is pretty standard.
For stage shows, songs have to be at least 3:30, but I've seen girls dance to a lot longer up there if the DJ doesn't remember to cut it or she doesn't ask. In the back, they have a playlist of lap dance songs that are all around 3:30. Of course there's some variation, but, they try to keep them around the same amount of time. At my old club, you would give lap dances to whatever the girl on stage was dancing to, so sometimes this meant you'd give looooong lap dances. It really varies.
Ughh at my club songs are almost never cut so it's like insta dread whenever I hear the opening of Closer. One time a customer gave me shit when I told him up front that a dance to Black Number 1 (which was like 12 fucking minutes) would count as two songs. I was doing him a favor too by not counting it as three. Yuck.
About as long as my ex husband could fuck -_-
Generally three minutes is a decent estimate. Some clubs actually cut songs to make it exactly three, but most clubs just keep songs to around that length. It also depends on if you are working at a club where the stage shows are a big thing with girls choosing their own music (most of the US) in which case, like Shanna says, there is a minimum and maximum limit, or if you are working at a club where the DJ chooses all songs (like the UK) and you just dance to whatever they have on, where songs are just kept to around 3 mins.
Most clubs I've worked will have shorter versions of really long songs - like the 3 min version of nine inch nails closer...but if they do play the really long versions, I'll charge extra for it.
I've noticed that on dayshift songs are longer and on nightshift they are shorter. I do know that it also depends on the djs relationship with a girl. On a slower shift a girl who is a problem girl will have a dj play a 5 min song like black hole sun while she's in the back doing a dance.