A few weeks ago I went to a yoga class with a live DJ (it was very hard to vinyasa rather than dance). I had a hard time paying attention to the poses because I was trying to remember all of the mash-ups the DJ created, and also thinking about what mash-up name I could give each creation. Such as (*denotes the ones I was fond of musically):
*”Don’t You Want a Bad Romance?” (Human League + Lady Gaga)
*”How Will I Know if I’m Dancing on my Own?” (Whitney Houston + Robyn)
“Call Me Semi-Charmed” (Carly Rae Jepsen + Third Eye Blind)
*”No Wiggity-Wiggity-Wonderwall” (Blackstreet + Oasis)
There was a nice audio/titular pun when he mixed “Dynomite” with “Under Pressure,” and then there was a weird marriage of the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s “Under the Bridge” and TLC’s “No Scrubs”–I couldn’t figure out why they were paired unless his thinking was something along the lines of “I don’t ever want to scrub…like I scrubbed that day”?
Finally, there was a mix composed of Bruno Mars’s “Locked out of Heaven” and George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” (I Carelessly Whispered in Heaven?), but that was wholly unnecessary because that Bruno Mars song already sounds like its DNA is half “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by the Police!
Graphic designers: coming in next post.
