David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland, “When Love Takes Over” And right now, this song has significant meaning because we have been quarantined, and we can’t wait to be together again on that dance floor, whenever that can happen. And when I think about Pride, it’s also about remembering those who fought before us and died for us. It’s about a friend that Janet lost to AIDS. And having everybody on the dance floor singing those lyrics at the top of their lungs, it means something.
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CeCe Peniston, “Finally”įor me, it represents Pride because she’s kind of describing a dream man, who happens to look exactly like me - a man with “brown cocoa skin and curly black hair.” That really spoke to me, having that representation. And he’ll keep the party pumping this weekend at Furball (Saturday on Twitch/Zoom) and a sunset Pride set (Sunday on IG). Justin Dawson Justin Dawson Brian Zak/NY Postīrooklyn’s DJ Dawson didn’t let the quarantine keep him from clubbing in the virtual space, regularly throwing down beats for charity on Instagram Live. I play versions of “Over the Rainbow” during Pride, but it’s not Judy’s voice. But you gotta give Judy Garland some props. Some of these younger kids, they may not know her. This coined the saying “You better work,” so I had to mention my boy Ru. I’m still playing this! He was signed to a label as an openly gay drag queen, and that’s such a huge part of our history - and what Pride truly is about. I always appreciate a song in its original form, but I added some tempo so we could dance to it.
I’m gonna be playing it during my virtual Pride set. I did a new version of this a couple years ago that hasn’t been released. I’ve worked with Madonna for 25 years, and I credit her a lot for what she’s done for the gay community. She wrote it for Stonewall 50 and WorldPride last year. That was Madonna’s LGBTQ anthem last year. Madonna, “I Rise”īoth the original and the remix - it’s the one I won the Grammy for. In fact, she became the first woman to win the Grammy for Best Remixed Recording in January.
This veteran DJ - a onetime New Yorker now living in Miami - has worked behind the boards as well as behind the decks. Any disco song is that moment of rainbows and Skittles. I love seeing that all these youngsters are really living for disco. How it’s done and how it’s sold to you has everything to do with how it takes you there. There’s just so many significant turn-out moments in that song, and the fact that Miss Ross is singing it is everything. We were also showing the government and all of the powers that be that, “We’re not taking it anymore.” Diana Ross, “I’m Coming Out” It just told you that, “Guess what? We got this.” It showed how much we had progressed in the community. She worked the hamstrings of everyone when this song came out. Junior would pop that song on at Sound Factory at 9 or 10 o’clock in the morning, the flashlights were on, and you just felt brand-new! Ultra Naté, “Free” That was during the supermodel moment, and it made you feel like you could do runway till the end of the day.
As the house music turns you out on the dance floor, there’s a message to it. At the time that it came out, it was really one of those bringing-together moments. The New York nightlife legend, trans activist and former dancing DJ queen of Fire Island spins her signature mix of disco and house classics - and whatever else she pleases - in her IG Live sets on Fridays and Saturdays.
DJ Lina Bradford DJ Lina Bradford Tamara Beckwith On this Pride weekend without the parade and all of the parties, The Post asked six LGBTQ DJs - representing each color of the rainbow flag - to keep the music playing by sharing their picks for the songs that have provided the soundtrack of queer freedom, fierceness and fabulosity. Virtual Pride 2020: A guide to concerts, dance parties, drag shows and moreįrom Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love,” Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” and Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” in the ’70s to Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful,” Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” and Scissor Sisters’ “Let’s Have a Kiki” in the 21st century, music has helped LGBTQ people to both survive and thrive.