Stripper Tunes: Booty Shakin', But Not to Hip Hop
Posted at 3:19 PM Jun 17, 2008
Sex Worker Rant runs on Tuesdays and is written by Renegade Evolution, a sex worker, sexual mercenary, and all around fan of “The Sexy” living somewhere near our nation’s capital. Quirky might as well be her middle name.
Hip-hop music. I get the impression a whole lot of folk like it, and that's fine. I'm sure my musical tastes are in question by a great many people, and there even are various hip-hop songs I enjoy, but overall, not a fan.
And for a stripper, that makes things rough. See, I'm old y'all. I cut my heels (as it were) in the clubs back in the day when hair metal was the default. I reveled in the era where White Zombie and Nine Inch Nails ("Closer", to be specific) seemed to be ultra cool in a lot of club settings. And yes, even now, if you bribe the DJ, you can still generally manage to dance to few songs you like. Thank the deities of naked display for that. Because otherwise, it seems to be all hip-hop, all the time. And while sure, one can gyrate and drop their g-string to anything with a beat, I've always preferred dancing to music that I not only know, but music that I like. See, I actually think that stripping does involve dancing, and my hip-hop proficiency? Utterly lacking.
And in house work is no different. Working solo, I can take my own music, and tips prove, why yes, it is possible to be sexy and shed clothing to Korn and KMFDM (ah yes, my tastes run to industrial and NuMetal), and I've found you cannot go wrong with Aerosmith and Lenny Kravitz…because a clue here is…often the men paying you? If they are over, oh, 30 and white guys? They don't much like hip-hop either! However, when working a two girl show…once again, the return of the hip-hop. Almost all the other girls dance to it, listen to it, know it, go to clubs that play it, and freak if they don't get to use their music. Failure to do so often results in drama, and I dislike drama more than I dislike hip-hop. You can even point into a room full of 30-40 year old dudes and say "It's likely they prefer Kravitz to 50 Cent", even ask the guys if they prefer Kravitz to 50 Cent, get an affirmative answer that they prefer Kravitz to 50 Cent…and still get stuck with 50 Cent. And why yes, this does affects ones tips! And if you're working three two-girl shows with the same girl, it can affect your tips (and temper) three times in one night! You'd think people would be willing to take one for the team (and the money) and strip down to Filter every once in awhile, or even be somewhat democratic about it, using their music for one show, and yours for another, but no…at least not without drama.
Hip-hop…one of the many reasons I so often prefer to work alone, and have no qualms about bribing DJ's.
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