Music volume at parties

At the recent BioShock launch party, as I previously mentioned, the "background" music was so loud as to seriously impair conversation, and completely preclude it in many areas. It occurs to me that at *every* event I have ever been to that had a professional DJ, this has been a problem. At the last wedding I was at, the bride and groom kept asking the DJ to turn down the music, and they would -- but then gradually turned it back up again as soon as they had gone away. It's as if the DJs think that conversation is not important -- or at least, not as important as the music is -- even when their *employers* tell them otherwise.

I wonder if there is some deep reason for this. Could it be Type-related (paging siderea)? Is a particular sort of person drawn to being a DJ, and does that sort of person inherently have a different set of values than those of me and my peers?

Music volume at parties

At the recent BioShock launch party, as I previously mentioned, the "background" music was so loud as to seriously impair conversation, and completely preclude it in many areas. It occurs to me that at *every* event I have ever been to that had a professional DJ, this has been a problem. At the last wedding I was at, the bride and groom kept asking the DJ to turn down the music, and they would -- but then gradually turned it back up again as soon as they had gone away. It's as if the DJs think that conversation is not important -- or at least, not as important as the music is -- even when their *employers* tell them otherwise.

I wonder if there is some deep reason for this. Could it be Type-related (paging siderea)? Is a particular sort of person drawn to being a DJ, and does that sort of person inherently have a different set of values than those of me and my peers?