Cash, check. Mints, check. ID, check. Keys, check. Good music … hopefully.
It’s pretty much 2015, and in this age, everyone with a laptop thinks they’re a DJ. But, with amateur DJs come amateur song choices at holiday get togethers. End your 2014 right and kick off your 2015 on a good note by not playing these five songs at your New Year’s Eve 2014 party tonight.
Pharrell Williams, “Happy”
If you spent 2014 in a remote cave in Antarctica with your eyes shut and your ears plugged you probably still heard Pharrell’s “Happy” this year. It’s gotten to the point to where we hear that song and, instead of happiness, we feel an uncontrollable urge to light something on fire. Don’t play this at your party — it could end badly.
Prince, “1999”
Exactly 15 years ago it was acceptable to play this song at your New Year’s Eve party. Let’s move on.
The Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling”
Remember a time when Fergie and will.i.am once contributed relevant music to the world? Well, that time has long passed. And it’s great to be positive and all, but, you know, sometimes New Year’s Eve can be a stressful mess of missed opportunities and failed plans. There’s a really good chance that tonight might not be such a good, good night. Don’t rub that in people’s faces.
Kool & The Gang, “Celebration”
Don’t get us wrong, Kool & the Gang are kooler than ever. But if you do an unscientific polling of most of your friends, this is probably the only Kool & the Gang song that they can name — if they even know that “Celebration” is a Kool & the Gang song. Let’s change that.
DJ Snake & Lil Jon, “Turn Down For What”
Is it a question? (If you ask anyone older than 27 it is) Is it a statement? (If it is, it’s a sad one.) Well, we’ll never find out, and if we do it’ll probably be disappointing like the ending of “Lost.” Let’s not end 2014 like that, let’s not put people through that.
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Julio Enriquez is a Denver writer and photographer, editor of the Cause=Time blog and a regular contributor to Reverb
