Music Selection
Most of the clubs I've been to play rap almost exclusively. I believe most customers don't like it.
Why do clubs play mostly rap?
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Why do clubs play mostly rap?
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In fact, I'm usually so oblivious to the music that once in a while a dancer will say "oh, I like this song", and then I'm straining to hear what she's listening to in order to see what song she's talking about.
I remember one day in college I was having fun blasting my music ( I made the selections) as loud as I could shaking the walls and floor of my dorm building for over an hour. I think I turned the music down temporarily. After a minute or two I suddenly heard some banging on my door. I was thinking uh hell no, someones complaining. The guy was from downstairs and instead of complaining he said to keep it up, he loved every minute of my music. Too bad I don't feel that way about all the songs I hear in a strip club. I think I would try to change things or visit a different strip club if they played country music. That's like scratching nails on a chalkboard to me.
Good music in a strip club is sort of like sports on the TVs. Something to appreciate when the girls aren't worth paying attention to.
As for old stuff like Marvin Gaye and AC/DC, I liked it in its time, but I'm sick of hearing the same three or four songs by each that have been played to death ever since. I don't mind some of that now and then in a strip club, not any more than anything else that gets overplayed. But a steady diet of oldies would make the place feel like a morgue. I'd rather get tired of hearing today's music.
FONDL, I can't remember being in a cold restaurant, but a simple solution would be to wear a sweater. Things aren't as simple in a strip club; wearing ear plugs would block dancers' voices as well as the rap.
If "...most gyms do esentially the same thing that strip clubs do", that makes two businesses that have it ass backwards. Doesn't make it right or more profitable.
Lots of businesses do the same thing. Haven't you ever been in a restaurant that was so cold you were uncomfortable? They do that for the comfort of the hired help, who otherwise would be too hot from running around all the time and going in and out of the hot kitchen. It's pretty standard practice.
And most gyms do esentially the same thing that strip clubs do. Most of the customers are middle-aged or older people but the music that's blaring from the speakers is usually rap or hip-hop, because the hired help is all young kids.
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parodyman--> dances around the room knocking shit over, wearing his leather jacket full of pins and wishing his hair was long and black!
Don't get me started.
In fact, I'm starting to come to a whole new understanding of this supposedly "free" market ... hmm, "choice"? Nah, they got us by the balls.
I prefer for the dancers to have some say in what's played if it puts them in a better mood. When I've been in clubs where the owner or the DJ control the playlist, the girls seem bored and it makes the whole place feel uptight. Besides, I hate being pandered to by some DJs idea of what a white guy in his 40s wants to hear, just because I happen to be one.
I've always wondered why during dayshifts when the retired guys are often frequently at the bar that clubs dont play some oldies, Sinatra, Elvis, etc. It always seems weird to see guys in their 60's head bobbing to P. Diddy.
Of course my biggest bitch is about clubs that play songs short..some as short as 2minutes 15 seconds. I tend to never go back to thise clubs as it ruins the music and vibe as well as I feel I'm really being hustled when getting dances. I wish there was a way to stage a boycot on that respect.
Now, surprisingly, I'm getting into Country (Cuntry? [grin]) music...
Just keep an open mind to the music... with a hottie in your lap, what does it really matter?
But the beat is almost always conducive to hot grinding.
It can be a tough hurdle to clear, but animosity toward any genre being played in a club is counter-productive.
That the hottie on my lap is gettin into it is what matters to me.
As always, YMMV.
DG
To the extent that you do hear a lot of rap music at strip clubs, I suspect that it's because that's the kind of music that predominates in terms of what is currently being produced. I don't go to "straight" or "regular" nightclubs, but I suspect that rap is the kind of music you will hear at least as much as any other. That certainly seems to be the main kind of music that I hear coming from the vehicles driven by people in their teens or twenties, be they white or black.
By the way, as an "old guy" in my mid-40s, I suspect that my impression of what constitutes "rap" is a lot broader than it is for the cognescenti. I don't doubt that I call certain music "rap" that a 20 year old would call "hip-hop" or some other descriptive that I don't even know...kind of like the generation older than me dismissing 70s Carpenters' music as "rock."