Well, she is the daughter of Mick Jagger and has grown up in and around
musicians I would guess that she's got some musical talent and can probably
tell if two tracks are out of synch with each other and which track is
slipping (better than lots of big name DJs). And from this article it
sounds like she has decent taste in music...
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/recorddoctor/story/0,11109,1044069,00.html
Unsurprisingly, Jagger knows how to throw a good party. She warms up
generally with reggae, before making the switch to hip hop, but she's got
an ongoing project to introduce different kinds of music to the Ibiza
scene. 'Ibiza is obsessed with house music, and it's so single minded and
so drug fuelled... So next party, I want to play some blues, and some funk
and some rare groove and stuff. Maybe even some country.' She doesn't DJ,
she says, 'but I'm quite controlling, and so I guess I DJ in that other
people play the records, and I stand in the background and dictate. And I
do have a mild fantasy of becoming DJade.'
Jagger would takes tunes over lyrics every time ('Well, beats, at least')
but she doesn't understand the current crop of house music. 'I grew up with
house, but it was different then. More like soul music. It had lyrics. Now,
I don't even know how people buy house. How do you distinguish one record
from another?' She thinks the sexiest music imaginable is 'anything that
falls behind time. Like Prince, or old reggae. It's like slow sex, and
you're desperate for it to go faster.' Too much trance will spoil a night
for her, and Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean
featuring Mary J. Blige's '911' will make her cry. 'It's very egotistical,
all that. You relate the music to you, to your relationships.' But now, she
says, music mainly reminds her of her kids. 'I'll be away and listen to pop
music, and it's like I'm there, seeing them do their routines in the living
room.'
I'm confused about this part though -
>"I guess I DJ in that other people play the records, and I stand in the
background and dictate."
So, she's not DJing? Is that what the "presents Jezebel" thing is about?
She's selecting tracks for someone else to play?
If her name wasn't Jagger she wouldn't be a "celeb" DJ - just a DJ with a
good selection of tracks. Frankly, if she's playing good tunes (and "too
much trance will spoil a night for her") she's ok in my book.
MEK
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Jade Jagger has a Renaissance mix-CD...
