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    To me, music is everything when I dance. Unfortunately that is what makes being onstage for a newbie like myself a little more difficult at my club. The day shift girls are not allowed to pick their own songs because we have no DJ during the day so a computer basically generates the music, most of which is pretty danceable, but the worst part of this is...when I get the music that ISN'T.

    I can adjust my body to move to a beat that just isn't my style, but to say the least, it really fizzles out my enthusiasm in some ways.


    My very first time onstage, I got up there, nervous as shit, and guess which track starts playing. Not a hip hop, metal, or even r and b beat type song...but a damn Phil Collins song..One More Night or whatever.

    Now, I just could NOT get into that groove. At all. At night, the girls get to pick their two songs for the stage. If the music sucks and isn't sexy to me, then I have a hard time with it.

    Is there anyone else here who has found or finds herself on stage stuck with a dumb ass song?????

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    Damn, that sucks that you had to start that way--it's way easier for a newbie (or at least a large majority of them) to get started if she is dancing to something she likes.

    In my mind, unless a dancer has a special group of guys that are getting really into her performance (and willing to shell out for a song she really likes), there might be no more important time to work closely with a woman and pick a great song for her.

    The only thing I could suggest is to try to put yourself in a state of mind where the specific music isn't as important, and try to work each song's rhythm to the fullest--your still going to do it better if you likle it, but it will bother you less if you don't.

    There could be no tougher time to develop this skill, than as a beginner--but if you look at it as a challenge, and less of an possible ordeal you are helpless to prevent, you will be much better off. Furthermore--if you think of it this way--it's like you are being paid to take a class in exotic dancing, in which you will be tested, but might emerge as a more versatile and successful dancer.

    This may seem like a long stretch--but if you do view it at least partially in that way, you'll make more money than if you don't. So why the hell not try it. 'Zen and the Art of Stripping Maintenance', or whatever, lol...

    Be glad you don't work for one of the chains that allow no input from the dancers--you at least have the option of working nights and getting more of a choice. And as a general rule even in independently owned clubs, the bigger the club, the harder it will be to get specific songs played. Supposedly Michael J. Peters would fire any DJ who took a request from almost anyone--including customers.

    Also, if you stick this out for a while, you'll find that even the most considerate and versatile DJ will on rare occasions be forced to play a song neither of you like, lol--or say if as many clubs do, a dancer can stay in VIP when they are called to the stage, and so the next dancer in rotation winds up dancing to her song. Sometimes it can't be helped.

    You'll sure be ready for that, if you can master this skill.
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    Just laugh it off . . . at one club where I worked the music was just like that in the day, and every once in a while "Rocky Top" would come on . . . you just have to grin and bear it.

    Soooooo stupid, though, not to have any dancer/DJ/human discretion at all, though!

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    Yes, this is tough but believe me, the art of dancing to anything and looking like you love it will serve you well as a stripper. When i just want to hurry up and get my stage dance over with i'll tell a dj that i'll dance to anything - boy, the times i've danced to a song i've never even heard before! lol But it keeps you on your toes and increases your performance skills no end!

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    I just thought it was weird when that song WHIP IT came on today, for example. I felt like I should be catwoman with a whip or something.

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