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One of the main attractions of many conventions, but especially within the furry fandom, is dance; from the competitions, to the night time dances, to room parties, and so on.
It doesn't take someone on their 100th con to know this.
But then why is it that across the board, for all furcons in all states, the night time dances seem to consist of majority one genre? That genre being EDM,
Even though it is in stark contrast to the music played during floor wars? And it is also only a SMALL percentage of the music selected by those who compete in the official fursuit dance competitions.
Outside of the dances you can hear people screaming for the music in floor wars from what feels like a mile away. Getting pumped to artists like, "B.O.B.", "Black eyed peas" , "Snoop Dog" , "Will. I. Am." , "Fergie"
Some of our favorite fursuit dance competitors have chosen songs such as:
"Ignition"- R.kelly" - T the dragon
"Radioactive" -Imagine Dragons - Telephone (AC 2013)
"Cake" - Rihanna - Bluethunder (AC 2013)
"Power"- Kanye - Furternity (AC 2014)
"Clarity"- Zedd- Humphery (FWA 2015)
This list goes on. and on. and on. All you have to do is search youtube.
And As I mentioned, yes there are SOME that are dancing to EDM or dubstep but it is not -everyone-
So again.
Why is it that knowing how large dance is in the fur community, conventions have yet to vary the genres incorporated? (Minus the literal 1 or 2 exceptions out of hundreds)
We want more music variety for furcon dances.
I have yet to even hear the NUMBER ONE SONG IN THE WORLD "happy by Pharell" be played at a convention dance.
Yet i've heard it bump, many a time, on speakers outside of the dance. Throwing parties in the hall ways.
Even at every day night clubs, they play popular music.
Summary?
As many have said
"there's only so much jumping up and down I want to do at a dance."
"I would PAY for a hip-hop/Top 40's DJ"
Please sign this petition in hopes that at least one of the many furry conventions or at least one of the many furcon DJ's will see this and hear us out.
We want pop. We want top 40's. we want hip hop. We want -some- songs to not be heavily edited so there is a clear beat.
Thanks for hearing us out.
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Updates
June 17, 2015
The current volume of interest is now sufficient to secure a formal meeting with convention programming leads. I am drafting a proposal outlining specific genre rotation schedules that reflect the diverse preferences documented here.
14 Comments
Even though I am not a dancer or anything, I frequently watch dance competitions and wonder why mostly EDM is played all the time. It's very rare to hear anything besides that, granted sometimes things other than EDM is played but very minimally. Where's the Jrock/pop? Where's the K pop, R &B? Where are today's billboard hits and stuff to play. Just a variety would be nice
I'm a very musically diverse person. I can get down to rock, J-pop, K-pop, Hip hop, R&B, EDM, Chillstep, Dubstep, Line dance music, Pop music, classical, Video game music. Anything but country and gospel. I don't have anything AGAINST EDM music and things that fall within that category. HOWEVER as a dancer, and per the points made above, there is only so much jumping around I can do. Why can't the Floor wars DJ's do some sets at night? I just...want something....I can ACTUALLY dance to.
Disco is not dead! Techno is not dead!
I agree wholeheartedly yo. After a while it gets hella old..
I've been to one con and am attending a couple more this year. I, myself am not a good dancer, but I like to listen to things other than just blaring pulsing noise.
Yeah, I agree with this. Granted that I've only been to one Con, I was displeased with the fact that there was only EDM. After reading about BLFC2015, I was pleased to see they had themed nights. I loved the idea behind themed nights. Tl;Dr - I'd prefer a night of slow dances and assorted other Genres.
Yasssss I want something other than EDM
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One of the main attractions of many conventions, but especially within the furry fandom, is dance; from the competitions, to the night time dances, to room parties, and so on.
It doesn't take someone on their 100th con to know this.
But then why is it that across the board, for all furcons in all states, the night time dances seem to consist of majority one genre? That genre being EDM,
Even though it is in stark contrast to the music played during floor wars? And it is also only a SMALL percentage of the music selected by those who compete in the official fursuit dance competitions.
Outside of the dances you can hear people screaming for the music in floor wars from what feels like a mile away. Getting pumped to artists like, "B.O.B.", "Black eyed peas" , "Snoop Dog" , "Will. I. Am." , "Fergie"
Some of our favorite fursuit dance competitors have chosen songs such as:
"Ignition"- R.kelly" - T the dragon
"Radioactive" -Imagine Dragons - Telephone (AC 2013)
"Cake" - Rihanna - Bluethunder (AC 2013)
"Power"- Kanye - Furternity (AC 2014)
"Clarity"- Zedd- Humphery (FWA 2015)
This list goes on. and on. and on. All you have to do is search youtube.
And As I mentioned, yes there are SOME that are dancing to EDM or dubstep but it is not -everyone-
So again.
Why is it that knowing how large dance is in the fur community, conventions have yet to vary the genres incorporated? (Minus the literal 1 or 2 exceptions out of hundreds)
We want more music variety for furcon dances.
I have yet to even hear the NUMBER ONE SONG IN THE WORLD "happy by Pharell" be played at a convention dance.
Yet i've heard it bump, many a time, on speakers outside of the dance. Throwing parties in the hall ways.
Even at every day night clubs, they play popular music.
Summary?
As many have said
"there's only so much jumping up and down I want to do at a dance."
"I would PAY for a hip-hop/Top 40's DJ"
Please sign this petition in hopes that at least one of the many furry conventions or at least one of the many furcon DJ's will see this and hear us out.
We want pop. We want top 40's. we want hip hop. We want -some- songs to not be heavily edited so there is a clear beat.
Thanks for hearing us out.
Updates
June 17, 2015
The current volume of interest is now sufficient to secure a formal meeting with convention programming leads. I am drafting a proposal outlining specific genre rotation schedules that reflect the diverse preferences documented here.
14 Comments
I would like to see some more variety in the rave nights at cons too. Granted many cons have been good with having a "retro" hour or two, but would be good to have some flux through the night. With the upcoming theme of Diner at FC 2016, I could see a huge 50's era push...maybe even a sock hop style dance on one of the nights?
Even though I am not a dancer or anything, I frequently watch dance competitions and wonder why mostly EDM is played all the time. It's very rare to hear anything besides that, granted sometimes things other than EDM is played but very minimally. Where's the Jrock/pop? Where's the K pop, R &B? Where are today's billboard hits and stuff to play. Just a variety would be nice
I'm a very musically diverse person. I can get down to rock, J-pop, K-pop, Hip hop, R&B, EDM, Chillstep, Dubstep, Line dance music, Pop music, classical, Video game music. Anything but country and gospel. I don't have anything AGAINST EDM music and things that fall within that category. HOWEVER as a dancer, and per the points made above, there is only so much jumping around I can do. Why can't the Floor wars DJ's do some sets at night? I just...want something....I can ACTUALLY dance to.
Disco is not dead! Techno is not dead!
I agree wholeheartedly yo. After a while it gets hella old..
I've been to one con and am attending a couple more this year. I, myself am not a good dancer, but I like to listen to things other than just blaring pulsing noise.
Yeah, I agree with this. Granted that I've only been to one Con, I was displeased with the fact that there was only EDM. After reading about BLFC2015, I was pleased to see they had themed nights. I loved the idea behind themed nights. Tl;Dr - I'd prefer a night of slow dances and assorted other Genres.
Yasssss I want something other than EDM
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I would like to see some more variety in the rave nights at cons too. Granted many cons have been good with having a "retro" hour or two, but would be good to have some flux through the night. With the upcoming theme of Diner at FC 2016, I could see a huge 50's era push...maybe even a sock hop style dance on one of the nights?