Ok... someone PLEASE help me out...
i am definitely one of the whitest people I know (as in, so pale I glow...), and I'm picking up some shifts in a VERy diverse club with a mostly african-american clientele... I am NOT making this into a racial thing, please don't think that... I am just trying to get some ideas of what to play!
I normally work dayshift in a white-businessman type club (ecstasy)... where I am comfortable and make $$ on stage playing anything from SOAD to Danzig to Gorillaz to Hieroglyphics to placebo... you name it. We play whatever at this club and no one thinks much of it. I do pretty damn well on stage here because I am one of the few that bothers with the pole, I'm slow, flexible (i smile) and consider myself a good dancer.
At Fantasy Castle in the LBC (and if someone says snoop dogg i'm gonna puke) I work nightshift, it's crowded, and it's a party atmosphere. But I don't make much on stage unless I get people hooked & interested before hand *this is not to say I don't do dances* ... whereas many of the other girls get $$$ showers left and right as they jiggle one cheek independently of the other... unfortunately, this i cannot do. I don't know whether or not to just play what I normally play but gauge it to a younger crowd (as in, don't play APC's rendition of "imagine" because its origin will be lost on these young'uns...), to play more "fun" rock-y stuff, or to embrace my love of more underground hip-hop?? If I WERE to play hip-hop, it wouldn't be danceclubby stuff... I just wanna make sure that the little white girl dancing to Blackalicious or Hieroglyphics or Aceyalone or J-5 isn't gonna be stared at cock-eyed... what do you suggest?????



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) but I CAN dance. Perhaps it's just being there longer and getting to know the clientele, too.



just my 2 cents.

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