I have had multuiple discussions with people on why they did or did not enjoy a party and everytime i get the same answer most times, “this place is dead” and in a lot of cases i agree.
One thing about people is they love to dance, regardless of if they can or can’t, trust me no serious person is going to a party to stare at the next person, they came there for a reason.
Bringing people to a party is one thing, keeping them there is another and that’s the job of a DJ. Music has the power to create an energy that can move a person so definitely it can move a crowd, for research purposes you can play ozeba in a random gathering of friends and see the effect it has.
A lot of the time i’ve seen parties fail not because the DJ doesn’t know what they’re doing, to be a DJ takes a lot of skill and practice i know but the most crucial part of it is understanding who they want to entertain, know your crowd. Recently i went to an event and kukere was mixed with who run the world, in a crowd of people that looked utterly offended by the choice of music, someone made a comment “can this DJ learn another craft”, it obviously didn’t fly with that crowd, definitely it wouldve entertained another crowd, that has nothing to do with the DJ’s actual skill but has everything to do with understanding who you’re playing it for, i think a good DJ should be able to read the room and know when its okay to change a song, no reason to continuosly play “all i do is win win win no matter what”.
Shout out to the DJs that keep us in parties, Soundgawd, Blessing Ewona, SixSeven, Sae the dj, obiciaga, young odi, chimira, fisayo, jade and many more DJ’s saving us at events, we love you.
