DJs are now spending more time issuing public apologies for offstage antics than they are actually mixing.
A raft of DJs have in recent months had to take time out of their actual job of playing records to say sorry about something stupid they’ve done or said.
“Used to be that a DJ would spend half his time practising at home and the other half of the time playing in venues,” explained expert Nick Harris. “You’d have the odd bit of travelling thrown in and some press but that was basically it.”
Now, according to Nick, most DJs are spending half of their time saying or doing stupid shit either online or in real life, meaning that the rest of their time is spent sitting around desks with their management trying to talk their way out of their latest faux-pas.
“The list of DJs who’ve had to issue public apologies in the last year is staggering,” he added. “Ten Walls, Diplo, Axwell ^ Ingrosso, Richie Hawtin, Steve Aoki, that’s just some of the more well known DJs who’ve made public tits of themselves and been forced to make insincere apologies.”
“I remember when a DJ DJed, now it seems to be DJ, do or say something broadly offensive, write contrite apology, hope for forgiveness,” he concluded. “
Noticing this trend for publicity garnering public apologies it appears that some DJs have been hiring PR companies to devise a fake controversial incident in the hopes that a subsequent apologetic Facebook post will be picked up by EDM blogs.
“I just want to apologise to all my fans who felt let down when I didn’t hold that elevator door for the old woman who lives in 4B,” pleaded 26-year-old trap producer Funk OFF in an attempt to emulate the public apology schtick. “I was tweeting pictures of bestiality porn to schoolchildren and didn’t even notice she was there despite having spat in her face on the way in the building.”
