You don’t have to be crazy to request a song on triple j, but it helps.
Requestival kicked off this week! You might have heard of it? It’s this really cool thing where we hand the aux cord over to you to request any got dang song you want!
And so far we are 100% vibing.
We’ve received over 40,000 requests over the last four days and while many of them wouldn’t have been out of place on a Hottest 100 countdown, some of them were more...left of centre.
And they’re just some of the ones you lot were comfortable with announcing on social media.
What in the world (of music) is Requestival and how can you get involved?We dived deep into the bowels of Requestival (a frickin massive spreadsheet) and came up with even more gold.
There were requests for Michael Bolton, Hampton and the Hamsters, Gina Riley (aka Kim Day-Knight) and Hannah Montana. There were requests for Teriyaki Boyz' The Fast and the Furious anthem, 'Tokyo Drift'; a ten-hour loop of Blink-182's 'I Miss You'; Dire Straits' 'Money For Nothing' (reason given: "because I whant to wake up to something good"); Bon Jovi's 'Summer Of 69' (NB: this is a Bryan Adams song); and US pop-country superstar/The Voice judge Blake Shelton's 'I'll Name The Dogs', because "The boys in the office are just wanting to get their boot scoot on for this rainy Tuesday morning". There were requests for Eric Cartman and Lilo & Stitch, as well as MULTIPLE requests for the back catalogue of Randy Newman (the genius behind the 'Monsters Inc.' theme among others). And we’re STILL not in the deep end of the weird pool.
LoadingJudging by Requestival submissions and Requestival submissions only - y’all are a stone cold pack of weirdos and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
So, download and update the triple j app and keep those requests coming!
Who knows, maybe if your wild request tickles the right ear you might end up like young Hamish here.
Shine on you crazy diamonds!!
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