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  • Friday Throwback – No, No, No (Part II)

    With the release of Beyonce’s latest album, I Am…Sasha Fierce, I tried to remember the first time I really noticed Beyonce. It was in the Wyclef remix to the Destiny’s Child song, No, No, No. Beyonce would’ve roughly been about 17 years old at the time.

    – Just in case you didn’t know, Wyclef wanted you to know that this is the remix.

    – Why are they doing the Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It dance?

    – So this was the foursome version of DC.

    – Is it just me, or does Kelly Rowland look like a skinny Adina Howard with that short hair?

    – You know it’s 1998 when Wyclef mentions the No Limit Soldiers in his verse. Kids today would be like, “Who dey?”

    – “Why you frontin’ when you know you really want it?” Wyclef wants to know this.

    – Though Beyonce was front and center, the rest of the girls got some screen time. So this wasn’t the Beyonce is going to be a solo star push for DC as of yet.

  • Get Into the Groove: The Ultimate Madonna Mix

    She’s the Queen of Pop. She’s (like) a virgin. She’s a dance diva. She’s an Earth mother. She’s Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone Penn Ritchie, and she’s been a musical icon for the past twenty-five years.

    Much has been said about Madge’s body of work, not all of it complimentary. Truthfully, although I’m certainly a fan, I’d have to say she peaked early. In my eyes, her first album is still her best. However, each of her albums has at least a couple of strong songs, and, while her latest, Hard Candy, hasn’t exactly been critically or commercially praised, it’s not an altogether bad piece of work (dear Madonna: Justin Timberlake yes, Pharrell Williams no).

    If I had 80 minutes to describe the essence of Madonna in a nutshell to a stranger (although, let’s face it, who doesn’t know Madonna?) These are the songs I would go with:

    1) Get Together (from “Confessions on a Dance Floor”, 2005)

    The only way I can describe this song is: this is the way it feels inside a club when you’ve completely lost touch with your life and all the everyday crap you go through and just submit yourself to the music. I’m certainly not the clubgoer I was back in the mid-Nineties (actually, I hate clubs nowadays), but this song reminds me of those transcendent moments. It was really the only thing worth keeping on “Confessions on a Dance Floor”.

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  • Lenny Kravitz Bops Horizontally in New Dancin’ Video

    Those of you old enough might remember critics saying that Lenny Kravitz was too derivative and that he wouldn’t last. Well, twenty years later, the man is still here, still derivative, and sexier than ever. It Is Time for a Love Revolution is his most inspired record in a decade, and Dancin’ Till Dawn might be just the song and video to resurrect the underperforming album. Boasting a fantastically erotic video (and this is the edited version, boys and girls), I’m not sure that this’ll get much daytime play, but the song is bangin’ (even though, yes, it sounds exactly like The Rolling Stones’ Miss You). The man has held up fairly well for two decades in the game, no?