When the beats to your favorite song start booming at a party, it is probably not the serendipitous coincidence that you think it is. Your happily inebriated squeals of delight should be directed at the men, and the woman, behind the turntables. She knows what you want, and she delivers.
Victoria Glazer '06, aka DJ Vixen, has been causing quite a stir. Hailing from Closter, New Jersey, she is the only female in the small world of Dartmouth DJs. She rocked the SAE beach party this past Saturday and will be presiding over the music at the Drag Ball on Wednesday.
"It's funny at parties where some people don't believe I'm the DJ," she said in an interview with The Dartmouth. "People come up to where I'm playing and ask where the DJ is. They just don't expect a girl." Glazer said she is planning to train someone to take her place as the only female DJ before she leaves for the LSA to Rome this spring.
It all started when she inherited turntables from her older sister, who had deejayed in college but had left behind her equipment before entering law school. Glazer's first gig ever was at her best friend's birthday party; "I messed up. But it was my first, so it was cool," recalled Glazer.
That was three years ago during her senior year of high school, and she's been on a roll ever since.
DJ Vixen's career at Dartmouth debuted this year at an event in the River dorms, where she currently resides as a UGA. Her knack at mixing impressed quite a few friends and strangers, and she soon found herself being invited to DJ at numerous parties on campus.
"Being a DJ is great in that you can set the tone of a party. It's such a cool position to watch people respond to something you're doing" said Glazer .
Approachability is perhaps the key to her popularity. "I hear that I'm nicer than most about requests," laughed Glazer. "The most fun thing about deejaying is thinking about what song will make the party, and it's usually the requests that do it." Just because she plays them doesn't mean she personally prefers them, however.
"For some reason, people request 'Like a Prayer' every single time, and they go crazy when I play it. That and 'Jessie's Girl.'" she said, shaking her head perplexedly.
She also named Lil John's "Get Low" and "Milkshake"by Kelis as two of the most requested songs as of late.
Glazer personally favors Latin music and house over hip-hop. Although she usually puts house on when she mixes for parties back home, she does not play it as much here as it is not well received at Dartmouth. "Then again, there are always some people are going hate the music that you play, no matter what it is," said Glazer.
The bright side of playing mostly hip-hop is that it requires less practice. "I would probably practice more if I didn't play hip-hop. Non-hip-hop beat-matching takes more skill," she reflected.
When she's not deejaying, Glazer is active in a number of organizations on campus including the Boxing club, the Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance and the Dartmouth Journal of Law. She is pledging at Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and also makes an appearance in the Vagina Monologues, which is currently playing. But we can guess what her favorite part of her day (or night) is.
As Glazer herself puts it, "I party. That's my job."
