{"id":7387,"date":"2016-09-09T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T18:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/?p=7387"},"modified":"2016-09-09T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:43:10","slug":"if-paris-can-dj-anyone-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/if-paris-can-dj-anyone-can\/","title":{"rendered":"If Paris Can DJ, Anyone Can!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7388\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7388\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/economist.com_.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: economist.com\" width=\"549\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/economist.com_.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/economist.com_-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: economist.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Can we, for a moment, give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/mariah-carey-tries-her-hand-at-djing\/\">Paris Hilton (and others like her)<\/a> the benefit of the doubt and assume that she has been a closet DJ her whole life. You know, maybe in between all those parties and movies, she was actually holed up in her room practicing her DJ skills.<\/p>\n<p>No? Well, according to those who&#8217;ve heard her output, the chances that she&#8217;s been sweating it out behind the decks are pretty slim.<\/p>\n<p>But the fact that Paris can add DJing to her list of accomplishments might say something about the DJ industry itself. Can anyone really be a DJ? If so, is DJing effectively dead?<\/p>\n<p>My position on this is that DJing is not dead. In fact, I&#8217;d argue that when we start seeing celebrities getting involved that&#8217;s when we can assume our industry has made it. DJing has become cool, acceptable &#8230; whatever word you&#8217;d like to use to explain its growing popularity. The fact that people will pay good money to go see a DJ perform is proof enough that the industry can withstand the Paris Hilton&#8217;s of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Over to you: do you think DJ standards have dropped?<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2016\/08\/tables-are-turning?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fte%2Fbl%2Fed%2Fthetablesareturningnowthatanyonecanbeadjistheartformdead\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Can we, for a moment, give Paris Hilton (and others like her) the benefit of the doubt and assume that she has been a closet DJ her whole life. You&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2152],"tags":[592,4373,3360,1645],"views":1156,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7389,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions\/7389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}