Spinning Truths & Dropping Wedding Bombs: DJ ESG’s No-BS Guide to Your Big Day
- In a world where weddings are both chaos and perfection, DJ ESG—aka Eric Scott Gold—emerges as the wise-cracking, truth-dropping, mic-spinning legend the Philadelphia Tri-State area never knew it needed. Armed with nearly 175 thousand streams across 15 separate platforms, he’s the proud host of the region's number one wedding podcast, where advice flows freely—sometimes for couples, sometimes for vendors, and always delivered with the subtlety of a confetti cannon.
DJ ESG is not your average private event DJ; he’s a walking wedding encyclopedia with a sarcasm filter permanently set to "off." With 30+ years in the biz, over 3,500 events rocked, 1,000 glowing reviews, and a résumé so sparkly it could double as a disco ball, this guy doesn’t just sugarcoat reality—he skips the sugar altogether. Millennials and Gen Z? He sees you. He knows your flea-sized attention spans. That’s why his micro tips are short, snappy, and unfiltered, served with a heaping side of "you're welcome."
The accolades? Oh, they’re endless. Seven-time "International Mobile Entertainer of the Year" finalist. Multi-time "Best Of" winner in Philadelphia, San Diego, AND Bucks County. The nation’s loudest, proudest LGBTQ wedding advocate, and the first to hoist the Pride flags at the International DJ Expo like the hero weddings never knew they needed. Oh, and did we mention he’s officiated over 200 weddings? Including 50+ same-sex unions? Or that he had the honor of MCing THE Jason Kelce wedding with his buddy Bob on the decks? Yeah. #GoBirds indeed.
So, buckle up for DJ ESG's wedding wisdom—raw, real, and straight from the heart. Peace, Love, and God Above!
Spinning Truths & Dropping Wedding Bombs: DJ ESG’s No-BS Guide to Your Big Day
Ladies in Charge: DJ ESG's Story of a Wedding Dance Floor Takeover with Pop Anthems
Ever wondered what makes a wedding dance floor truly unforgettable? Join me, DJ ESG, as I recount a night where the ladies ruled, with a playlist that kept everyone from teens to thirty-somethings on their feet. Like a well-choreographed dance, from Celine Dion to the Spice Girls, the music was an eclectic mix designed to keep the energy high and the bride beaming from ear to ear. Discover the secrets behind the "Songs that Get White Girls Crunked" playlist and how it turned a wedding reception into a sing-along extravaganza, filled with pop anthems and nostalgic throwbacks that even had the guys joining in on the fun.
With the bride's friends leading the charge, the night was a testament to the power of the right song at the right moment. Picture a room of spirited women, supported by some equally enthusiastic guys, all belting out classics from NSYNC to Justin Bieber. It was more than just music; it was a soundtrack that resonated with everyone's inner pop star, creating moments that kept the bride from leaving the dance floor. Whether you're planning a wedding or just love a good party story, this episode is a rollicking ride through a night where music became the heartbeat of the celebration.
Peace, Love & God Above! :-)
What's up, guys? Dj ESG on Wedding Advice, season Number 10, and today I'm talking about girls yeah, the old Beastie Boys song girls. Well, this past weekend I had a wedding and the majority of it were women, and I mean women from the age of like 16 all the way up to 30. I mean, the bride had a lot of friends. The groom had a lot of friends too, but let me let me get to that in a second. But the bride had a ton of friends. They were out there the entire time.
Speaker 1:We had 150, 175 people, even the women that, the older women, the women that were like 40 and up. I don't want to. I'm 45. I'm not trying to call you all old, but there was a lot of women there, a lot of guys just sitting around. It was just one of those weddings, you know, where you had a lot. The girls were up and the guys were more like watching. So we did have some guys up. We had a lot of guys, but the guys that were up were more like.
Speaker 1:You know, like I'm a word I want to use. I want to be politically correct when I say it, though you know very like. You know, into the girly stuff, guys. You know we're not talking about like the guys who are into the rap music and you know road rage and all that stuff. We're talking about guys who probably roller skate and, you know, used to have Barbies growing up as a kid and all that kind of jazz I mean they were. They were cool, don't get me wrong, but you know they sung and danced to every girl's song.
Speaker 1:So what did I do? All right, so on Spotify there's a playlist called Songs that Get White Girls Crunked. Now that's a little bit harder, that's more of an inner city urban thing. But I had another list and it was all like pop, white girl bullshit. You know, that's just what the list is called. You know, I I name stuff. You know I don't name stuff in prop properly, I just name stuff the way that I would say it. So I was like, okay, songs, white girl bullshit, all right.
Speaker 1:So we went, song after song after song celine d Cher, natalie Imbruglia, miley Cyrus, disney we went from Eve to Gwen Stefani, to Avril Lavigne, you name it Spice Girls. We did it. Cross the board, even like some of the old school girl groups. What was that girl's name on the mass singer? Uh, the, the pussycat dolls. You know, we, we did that.
Speaker 1:We were everywhere and it was sing-along after sing-along after sing-along after sing-along. Every time the bride wanted to leave the dance floor I put on another sing-along song and she couldn't leave. Then we got to like the non-girly sing-alongs, like NSYNC, backstreet, justin Bieber. Then we went back to Taylor Swift, sabrina Carpenter it was humongous Chapel Roan, all that stuff, the new song from Bruno Mars and Rosé, just cover to cover. Every time the bride wanted to leave, she couldn't leave. She was like okay, there's another one, there's another one, there's another one.
Speaker 1:So you know, sometimes I mean there was a lot of older people too. You know, when I say older, I mean over 50. You know, we did a little bit of that kind of stuff. But you could tell like the bangers were like the sing-alongs. It was like bar song central for women and they partied the entire time and people had some requests. They had some like love shack and that kind of jazz, and you know I was like all right, let me see what I can do with it. And I played it and people danced, but you could tell they were like looking at each other and it was more of a a young girl crowd and it was more of a um, flamboyant guy crowd and you know people that just wanted to get into the vibe of the songs I was playing 2000s, 2010s and we went an hour and a half straight of song after song after song and it was like a sing-along.
Speaker 1:It was. It was one of the coolest karaoke experiences I've ever heard on a dance floor and it worked. And you know, even when we got to the rap song, we didn't go so hardcore. We had low and we had get low and we had yeah, you know those are the easy ones to play because everybody and their mother will dance to it. I didn't really go that much harder than that because I didn't think it was necessary, because I wanted to have songs with words in it. You can't play Gold Digger right away like that, you just can't do it, but we had some pretty cool jams in there.
Speaker 1:One of the things I want to tell people is you don't have to always do rap songs or high energy, high beats per minute tracks if that's not your crowd. And this wasn't their crowd. They were a. I want to say they were into disney, so I knew that going in there that they were into, like you know, fun poppy known songs. So they were. You know their ceremony songs were disney songs. Um, I threw a couple disney songs in for the slow songs, like part of this world, and um, there's another one I forget what it was and everybody, like had a good time. Like this was like your typical. I'm going to have a great fucking time at Disney world crowd four straight days in a row, sometimes two weeks in a row, doing every single ride twice, and it was just fun. It was just a really good time and they let me sort of. They gave me a list of songs that they wanted, but they let me fill in the blanks and the blanks were perfect.
Speaker 1:And you know there's different ways of going about your wedding. You can have high-energy dance songs, bring out glow-ons, and we'll party. You can have rap and hip-hop and you can get crunk and shake your booty and drop it to the floor and we'll party. You know we can do oldie stuff for your parents and you know the people that are there, the elders and get them to dance for the whole time and we'll party. But you can also do a lot of girly stuff and a lot of sing-along stuff and a lot of just out of college stuff, and I'll tell you this, we'll party. So it's great advice on DJ ESG Peace, love and God above, and I'll see you soon. Take care, bye-bye.