Reply to Requests, and the story of the DJ Jukebox

Welp, looks like the end is nigh... http://request-now.com/
It's billed as a way of getting people out of your face and just have all your requests in an easy list.
It looks SOOOOOOoooooo bad.
Just the way of typing: "Play Harlem Shake" Dear god, it sounds like a command for the Windows speech controls. At least when you have someone come up to you, they have to do something, they make a request, and then add on to it with all the flattery, lies or sheer gumption that they can, and then you can weigh them in the balance, presuming their request is any good (And Harlem Shake isn't, it doesn't matter where you are.) But THIS?! This is them giving you an order, as you would to a machine.

We are DJs, not a free jukebox for you to plug your impersonal and illy thought out into. If this is the way that DJing is going, why don't we just have a big screen on the booth, with a keyboard attached, and people can just come up and type their damned requests in, and have them streamed right there, right then. Oh the satisfaction they would feel, knowing that they, and they alone, had created this moment, sheerly by clicking a few buttons. "YEAH, play "Call Me Maybe" again! For the 7th time, because it's the best song ever! Yeah!" It'd be the deaf leading the deafer.

And what about the joys of reading a crowd? The noticing of subtle changes and moods that ebb and flow through the crowd and you, the DJ, have to interpret. Where would that go?

Now, I am ranting, and I can see the use for maybe wedding or mobile DJs, but believe, if this kind of attitude, the "I WANNA HEAR MA' SONG NAOW!" attitude, becomes the norm, and people expect us DJs to have apps or services like this, then what happens?

Yeah, it may have upset me a little bit.

Malyatrax out.