Todays Top 40 Is a No No for Most Mobile Wedding DJ's Do You Agree?

0:00 My name is Jonathan Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor

Right ladies and gentlemen, my name is Jonathan Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor. I've been making these videos for rather a long time now if you haven't subscribed yet please subscribe don't forget to hit that notification button and give me a like and share why well of course it helps me of course it does because the more likes you get the more shares and the more comments the better it is for me but also The higher up the food chain, you know, the YouTube food chain videos go, the more people in turn will see them. So let's look at just pure logic. If you want the DJ industry to grow and people to know more about the truth and the real underground DJ industry, not those flamboyant VMO videos with women shaking their arse and men wearing diamond necklaces.

Talking about rubbish, which I will talk about in a second. And they get millions and millions of views because they're in the right place at the right time? No, because they're able to generate lots of views because the system works that way. But if you want the underground scene to get out there in the open, then it's videos like this that you need to promote. Alright, what am I on about? Well, the music industry, in my mind, the top 40 music industry, as we know it, is dead. It's gone. It's finished. It's over. It means nothing anymore. Now, back in the day when I was younger, I would love to listen to the top 40 on a Sunday. Tracks would come in on the Monday prior to. They'd go up, down the top 40.

2:09 Gone history, today, charts gone

Being at number 60, then they go to 68, then maybe 32, and then if you're lucky, they'd get into 19. So of course, once you're at 19, 20, 19, 18, you were eligible to be played in the top 40 on a Sunday night. Now that's when the general population were able to hear that track and think, did they like it? If they did like it, they would go and buy it. And then it would slowly move up the charts until eventually we'd get to number one. Sadly, today what happens is most of the time a track goes straight into number one and then it's gone. And more often than not, it's the same artists, the same people, the same bands. But if you do some research, you'll find that these bands and artists are owned by the same companies. Isn't that strange? And the same companies own all of the other artists.

And all of the other artists know each other and they seem to have a lot of the same producers and songwriters. Now, the reason I think the music industry now is dead is because a lot of the tracks you listen to now in the top 40, the mumble rap kind of track, I put it to you. Let's imagine we have a time machine and we can move forward 20 years, so you are no longer 20 or 19. You know, you're 39, you're 40. You're no longer 40, you are 60. And all of a sudden, someone plays a track that's say in the top five today, 20 years from now. It is highly likely you will look at that person and you'll question them why they're even wasting electricity. That's if we've got it. Maybe there's some person next to them on a bicycle generating some form of electricity so you can hear it on your little iPod, I don't know. But it's very likely that you'll wonder why they're playing it because it will sound a load of pants. That's because at the moment now we have this generated...

Popular fodder that means nothing, sounds crap, is going nowhere and once it's out of the charts, it's gone. It's history. It's like a McDonald's coffee that you drink out of a cup and once you've drunk it, it's in the bin. While you're holding it, it's really important. While it's in the top 40, it's really important. A good analogy here because it means something for people. It's there. People can hear it. The radios will play it but as soon as it's out of the charts... It's gone. It's history. As soon as you've finished your cup of coffee and you throw away that cup, in two months' time you don't think about that poor innocent cup rotting away having slugs munching at it down the tip. You do not. It's gone. It's history. It's out of your mind. And that is exactly what a lot of music is like today. I would hazard a guess to say 99% of popular music today...

4:36 It's history within a month of it not being played ever again

It's history within a month of it not being played ever again. Not only that, but back in the 90s, Oasis, New Order, you know, you had Madonna, you had your Michael Jackson, you had to reel, reel, reel to reel, reel to reel, Robin S., Robert Miles. You had DJs and bands that meant something. Nowadays, you've got these... Pop artists, admittedly then you did have, you know, your pop idols and your threesome of ladies or men that sang along and whatnot. But it seems to be more so now, that's all we've got. We don't really have many good quality bands now in the top 40. If we do, they're there and then they've gone. Now I have to admit on the odd occasion there is one or two very good tracks that I think are like that.

But then most of the songs I listen to on the radio are rubbish. Now what's happening? Just maybe, maybe the system itself is trying to destroy the music industry. What do you think? Number two, maybe there have been so many notes put together and melodies put together that the music industry is finding it more difficult to find a new melody that is unique. I nearly said the word sounds. Maybe the music industry is finding it difficult to find a new sound that will change the outlook of how music is made and it could become the new thing because again, more recently now, we seem to have this mumble rap, this kind of dum-ch. With a sort of diggity melody in the background, and some guy talking about how many diamonds he's got, and some woman talking about how big her butt cheeks are, and that's about it really. Also, something else is the wording in music, in sounds, in tracks, because back in the day Michael Jackson used to talk about things. Prince used to talk about real events. Okay, the...

6:44 Practically every single artist has talked about love and whatnot

Practically every single artist has talked about love and whatnot. But nowadays, it just seems about how you lost your cell phone, who you're going to text next week, how many diamonds you've got wrapped around your willy, and what you're going to have in the bar tonight, maybe Champagne Moet Chandon or Don Pony on 79, and how many bottles of it you're going to have as well, all for free. But it's not for free because the company is paying for it as well, or your record company. So, again, maybe I broached a few subjects here but haven't really encapsulated one in its entirety. I do apologise. But in comments, you can give... I'd like you to give your outlook on how you think the music industry is. Is it good? Is it bad? Is the top 40 where you are in your country just as good as it was back in the day? Or is it now a load of...

Pants. Do you think that there are certain tracks in your top 40 now, six months ago or a year ago, that you will carry on playing incessantly for the next 20 years knowing that people are going to love them? Or are there certain tracks that you think are rubbish? Now I want you to try this, okay? Just try it and I promise you... It's probably going to die a death. You imagine doing a wedding party, and if you're anything like me, mobile DJ, predominantly parties and weddings, and you get a mumble rap track out of the top 40 that's just got some guy or girl going, yeah, one, two, check one, two, and play that at the height of your wedding when the dance floor is full, I would be very surprised if everyone stays on the floor. In fact, I would be...

I think it's pretty obvious. Most people are going to look at you and think, why on earth are you playing this? I rest my case. What do you think? Let me know in a comment. Thank you for watching. Don't forget to like-y, subscribe-y, comment-y and all that sort of bollocks. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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