I threw this at the kids here in Illinois, it took most of them by surprise. I got the idea from a guy on the tour in Colorado. (Thanks Mr. Frankie Ocampo!!) Just a simple re-edit and mixable version of the famous "Don't Stop Believing". The kids (and adults) seemed to really enjoy it, especially when I cut the sound and left only their voices to fill the room. It's always hard to find a good balance of music that will keep the kids moving that is fun/current, and also doesn't offend anybody. This song seemed to do the trick!
It looked like this:
It will definitely be on the Summer Camp mix, so stay tuned!!!
The summer tour has been amazing. I've got 2 weeks down and a hand-full to go. The kids have been so fun every night and all the CIY staff has been rad in every city, but that was to be expected. What wasn't expected, however, was how much I was going to have to play a certain Miley Cyrus song this summer. Turns out that her song "Party In The USA" was the unofficial anthem of the CIY summer. I hadn't heard the song until my 1st week this summer (too much surprise of some people) and it turns out that the kids go absolutely bonkers when it comes on. They even learn a dance that goes with it, which looks pretty unbelievable when 1300 people are all dancing the same dance all at once. If you haven't heard the song, this is it here. Incredibly poppy and catchy.
Now as most of you know, it's not really the style of song that i would typically play. With this busy summer schedule, I definitely didn't have time to make a remix of my own and last week I really tried but I just couldn't find the time. I found a couple decent ones out there so did a little re-editing of one of them and it worked out OK but it wasn't enough for me. So, what I decided to do was to flip it up a little by actually dropping in a few of the songs that she claims to be her favorite in her lyrics (rumor has it that she hadn't actually heard a Jay-Z song before she recorded this.)
Anyway, the kids weren't expecting this or the remix which is quite a bit faster (128bpm) than the original version (around 96Bpm). Some of them were into it, some were hating on it, some were way to cool for school, and some of the others were just straight up confused as to what was happening. Regardless, almost all of them jumped in when the chorus came in and it looked like this:
(make sure you watch both drops, Jay-Z and Britney)
The footage isn't that great. I tried to wedge my camera up between my turntables and my mixer and I ended up only catching the right side of the auditorium, which was a bummer because the left side seemed to be a lot more into it and hyped up, and with the lighting you can't really see any of the kids in the back. Anyway, this is just a little preview of some of the fun I've been having.
