Category: My-hitta

Last Night A DJ SAved My Life

8/10/2014

There's a possibility that your well aware of the one hit wonder that was “Last Night A DJ Saved My Life”. A group by the name of Indeep sent it to commercial success and failed to produce anything that replicated it's commercial viability after that.

I have to admit that I didn't know this song. It was only recently when I was watching Madonna's Sticky and Sweet Tour that I heard her sample it in her medley of her hit song “Music”. I looked it up afterwords and it got me thinking about dance music. I must say I love it. The hallmark of a good dance song is one where the beat is so good, it doesn't matter what the words are. Some would argue that this is what makes dance music so throwaway, but it's carefree nature towards life is what makes it an escape.

Over the past few years EDM has been everywhere. I mean everywhere. Recently, not so much. I don't know if this is just a disco backlash kind of situation or if music styles are just evolving. But, that is why I am here to talk to you about my favorite DJ's.

Let's just get the mainstream out of the way. I'm infatuated with Calvin Harris. Now I have not invested anytime on anything he's done before “We Found Love”, so don't go through his archives and judge me. I don't know what it is about him, but I just like him. He's a nice looking man. I appreciate that.

What I really like about him is that deep husky voice he uses in “Feel So Close” and more recently on “Summer”. It has this untrained sexy raspyness I can't resist. I like that Calvin Harris sings. I just can't get into David Guetta the way some people do. Why is this man releasing his own music if he's never going to sing.

That's why I'm fine with Calvin Harris, he uses other people when he needs their voice to add something to a song, but he feels more then comfortable throwing his own vocals on a track when it fits. About, the only thing I like about David Guetta is that Madonna had him do a remix of her song “Revolver”. This man does a remix for her and this song doesn't even go number one in the clubs. That doesn't happen. When Madonna releases music, the clubs play it, and yet when David over here gets his hands on Madonna he fucks it up.You should know Madonna is my Queen supreme and when she gives someone her stamp of approval, I try not to out right hate them. She's the only reason I'm not going to read Avicii right here, right now. That bitch ass bitch.

Buy "Revolver"

When, I read on twitter that he got out of the hospital for some surgery, I wanted to know if we could just send him back. I know that makes me a terrible person, but I just don't care. His style is a watered down version of Madonna's own album American Life and that's why she likes him. He is not forward thinking. Madonna did it ten years before him and she did it better.

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So, maybe I did read him. He is cute though. Not sexy, but nothing to be ashamed of.

In the department of sexy, though I have got you covered. DJ Havana Brown is my Australian princess. I adore this woman. If you read my article on We Wear Pink you would know how obsessed I am with her. The only thing you might know Havana from is her collaboration with Pitbull “We Run The Night” (Yet, further proof that Pitbull's first name is Featuring).

Buy "We Run The Night"

Buy "Big Banana"

This song was everything. I mean everything, and I heard it on the radio a few times, but never enough to say it got overplayed. Now, Havana really is a DJ. She does these remixes every year called “Crave”. I have not invested in them. I like her music, but I'm just not a remix person.

She really does have throwaway lyrics, though. Take any track from 1-12 on Flashing Lights and you'll find a cliché. But, the music is so good, the words do not matter. I keep telling you that and you continue not to believe me. About the only song that makes me really upset is another collaboration she did with Pitbull called “Last Night”.

Mind you. I like it. I really like it. I just do not like what he is saying about Havana. She was dancing on the water with no clothes on. Apparently there were two girls. And, I'm just like what kind of gentleman are you talking about what you have done with sexy Havana Brown. How dare you.

It makes me upset. He says “what happens in Miami never happened” and yet he's telling you all about what he did with Havana Brown. That is private, sir. You are rude.

Buy "Last Night"

For my final DJ, I don't even know if he counts as a DJ. His name is DJ Mustard. He doesn't release music individually that I know of. He just makes the music for other people.

He's responsible for all my R&B twerk songs as embarassing as that may be. He's kind of like an updated Timbaland and without Timbaland around to entertain us, I will take DJ Mustard any day. You probably know him for his work on “Rack City” (Shameless guilty pleasure), but I didn't know he produced it until I heard the song he did for J.Lo.

“Girls” is quickly becoming one of my favorite Jennifer Lopez songs ever and I had to know who this man DJ Mustard was. That's how I found out he did “Rack City”. He's also responsible for that girl Tinashe's song “2 On” with Schoolboy Q. I really like that song. I don't know how I feel about Tinashe yet. I need to hear some more of her music, but I'll keep my ears to the ground for you.