Bring it on just like before
Let your body do the talkin'
I don't care how much abuse I have to take--"Get Up On The Dance Floor" may be completely RIDICULOUS, primarily a bunch of samples from famous dance tracks strung together, but it is also BRILLIANT. Sure, anything that lends itself to choreographed group dancing always has a huge chance of winning me over, but there's no part of this pop song that doesn't work for me. Even the Yazoo sample manages to seem winning and fresh in a year where Yazoo samples were suddenly all over the place (not that that's probably ever going to be a bad thing, to be fair). I realize being catchy and fun is not the be all and end of all of music, that that doesn't necessarily mean a song is good and that we all have different definitions of "catchy" and "fun," so I can only speak for myself when I say that "Get Up On The Dance Floor" is a song I had way too much fun listening to this year, a song I didn't have to work at liking; in the space of less than two months, it's apparently become my sixth most listened to song on Last.fm. Having a video I loved certainly didn't hurt it either.Find it on: Get Up On The Dance Floor/Headz Up (Single)
6 comments:
No argument from me. I thought this was brilliant from the get-go. Thanks for recognizing this quickly-forgotten gem.
Did I miss something or did you just post 345 updates in the space of an afternoon?! Not that I'm complaining - it makes great reading X
John, and I thank you for liking it, too!
That sounds about right, Mike! I finally got some free time and figured I better pick up the pace and do a bunch while I could.
yeah i'm with mike, i got back from a weekend away and i'm deluged with quality countdownage! And i love this song. George is freaking adorable. Like a Polly Pocket!
It should have done a lot better than it did.
Paul, oh my gosh, Polly Pocket! Wow, I'm nostalgia tripping now. But thank you :)
Robpop, hearing you say that is great! It just makes me so happy--it's so fun.
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