What do couples typically put on their do-not-play list for their wedding?
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What songs should you avoid at your wedding?
Recently, a bride said to me: “I really don’t want to hear Mr.Brightside because we hear that everywhere.” Then she quickly followed up: “Is that on a lot of other couples’ do-not-play lists?”
The truth is…no. Mr.Brightside is a super popular wedding song. We play it at a lot of weddings and guests are always happy to hear it. But this is your wedding, and you don’t have to follow the trends if you don’t want to.
Your do-not-play list doesn’t have to look like everyone else’s
Other couples have made all kinds of requests that make sense for them and their wedding party:
No line dancing stuff
No cha cha slide
Nothing cheesy
No Bruno Mars
If there’s some artists you don’t like, it’s easy to avoid those.
And a good wedding DJ should be able to translate your preferences into a sweet custom playlist.
It’s OK to be picky. There’s plenty of good music out there. The more filled-out and robust your do-not-play list is, the more space we’ll have for the songs you love!
Here’s our do-not-play list for weddings:
Ice Ice Baby / Vanilla Ice
Gangnam Style / PSY
Y.M.C.A. / Village People
U Can’t Touch This / MC Hammer
Macarena / Los Del Rio
Who Let The Dogs Out / Baha Men
Cotton Eye Joe / Rednex
Mambo No. 5 (a little Bit of…) / Lou Bega
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) / C&C Music Factory, Freedom Williams
Gettin Jiggy Wit It / Will Smith
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go / Wham!
Tubthumping / Chumbawamba
I’m Too Sexy / Right Said Fred
Never Gonna Give You Up / Rick Astley
Scatman (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop) / Scatman John
Blue (Da Ba Dee) / Eiffel 65, Gabry Ponte
Pump Up The Jam / Technotronic
What Is Love - 7” Mix / Haddaway
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) / Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart
The Rhythm of the Night / Corono
Barbie Girl / Aqua
Be My Lover/ La Bouche
I Like to Move It (feat. the Mad Stuntman) / Reel 2 Real, Erick Morillo, The Mad Stuntman
We Like To Party! (The Vengabus) / Vengaboys
Axel F / Crazy Frog
The Final Countdown / Europe
Funkytown / Lipps Inc.
The Chicken Dance. Chicken Dance
Karma Chameleon / Culture Club
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