Everybody Loved The DNC's DJ-Led Roll Call Full Of Bangers
The hottest club in America on Tuesday night may have been the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
It had everything: a DJ spinning banger after banger, a surprise cameo by rapper Lil Jon, celebrities, cool lighting, glowing concert wristbands and thousands of cheering delegates screaming at the top of their lungs, creating a raucous vibe never before seen at a political convention.
Ceremonial roll call votes at conventions can often be monotonous, but Democrats turned the calling of party delegates across the country into a huge party with themed songs for each state, a program that drew rave bipartisan reviews.
“I gotta say, the DJ thing is pretty brilliant,” Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, a conservative-leaning outlet, wrote in a social media post.
“It’s funny how if you put political dorky earnestness to wedding-DJ music, it makes it somehow endearing,” he added.
John Podhoretz, editor of the conservative outlet Commentary, called the addition of a DJ to the convention program “genius.”
“Truth to tell, when things are full of energy, there’s no place more sheerly enjoyable than the floor of a political convention, whether you like or hate the party’s politics,” he added.
Many delegations picked state-appropriate music to accompany their portion of the roll call. Alabama picked (of course) Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home, Alabama,” California picked “California Love” by Tupac Shakur, Florida chose “Won’t Back Down” by Florida native Tom Petty, Michigan went with “Lose Yourself” by Detroit rapper Eminem, and Massachusetts went with (what else) “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” by the Dropkick Murphys.
But it was Georgia’s delegation that won the night by bringing out Lil’ Jon to bring down the house