Catchiest Songs of 2009 via Festival Crashers

In honor of me apparently kicking everyone's ass in a random "Catchiest Songs of 2009" bracket, I'd like to post a link for you to vote in the final four of said contest, on FestivalCrashers.com, if you feel you want to. http://www.festivalcrashers.com/2009/12/26/final-four-catchiest-songs-of-2009/.

In addition, sometime this week I will be posting a blog of my favorite songs of 2009, and possibly, if I'm super ambitious and inspired, the best songs of the decade. Let me know if you have requests to be featured. And to the Festival Crasher guys who think I came out of nowhere, yeah I probably did. But I don't win contests about terrible yet addicting pop music for my knowledge of indie bands, so there ya go.

Hint: If Party in the USA wins, I win a prize pack of music I've never heard of in my life. Vote and be nice to me, and maybe I'll give you some.

Dancing With The Stars... no live blogs, but some comments

So... we are into the final 7 of Dancing with the Stars. Lance is still in, thanks, I'm sure, in no small part to the fact that I vote for him multiple times per week... GO LANCE! Here are my thoughts on the season so far:

• Cloris Leachman is ridiculous. Watching her was like watching a car accident, and not even one of the good ones. I get really sad when amazingly talented people are clearly losing it (being on DWTS would be a hint, I guess)... on a great note, watching her was like watching her character in Now & Then every week (the gambling grandma with a wig, remember?) Awesome.
• Lance really has been making me feel bad about the fact that I always called him the worst dancer in NSYNC. Really. He has a legitimate complex about this, and I contributed to it. I must say, however, that I am a huge fan of he and Lacey. At first, I thought she was going to be too different and rebellious for the show, but she's good for Lance. GO LANCE GO! Him going home will be very depressing, perhaps almost to the level of when Steve Guttenberg went home.
• Warren Sapp is awesome. It's great to see a big man make moves like that, and he's legitimately entertaining.
• In the first episode, Kim Kardashian said she doesn't understand why she has terrible balance. If you don't immediately pick out the irony of that (huge ass), then you need to read celebrity blogs.
• Not only did my Halloween costume foster my Hannah Montana addiction, but now I have to deal with Cody being with my favorite female dancer and being awesome? Ugh.
• I have a girl crush on Brooke Burke.
• Susan Lucci is awkward. She kind of gets the steps, but wow it looks odd.
• Don't care that Toni Braxton went home, she's irritating
• Huge fan of Michael Flatley as the backup judge... he's less douchey than Lou, and I can fast forward when he does dances that give me migraines.
• I think Bruno would make a good pet. He's ridiculous, but I bet I could legally muzzle him when I wanted him to shut up.
• It's too bad Misty May Treanor got hurt, she had some potential... but that was a great injury video with that crack. It makes the athletic trainer in me smiley.
• I say more group dances. Watching Lance dance around in mullet wig while Susan Lucci legitimately tries to do a hip hop dance = what reality TV should be about. Plus Warren was being awesome more. I could handle a ballet group dance.... or a Broadway. It only ends well.

Smurftastics ideal final 3: Lance, Brooke, Warren

Smurftastic's predicted final 3: Brooke, Warren, Cody

Smurftastic's predicted winner: Warren

Audience members I hope to see: JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Steve Guttenberg

Pop Culture Prediction

Sorry about the lack of posts. Smurftastic and I promise a killer Bachelor blog-fest tomorrow. In the meantime...

This is not the most exciting post but it's going up for 2 reasons:
1) It was necessary procrastination from studying for the impossible Constitutional Law exam
2) I am constantly making pop culture predictions which eventually come true, but there is never any record that I was the first to call it

So, the next big wave in popular music will be...(drum roll).........DISCO!

Yep. It's coming back. I swear. I can't say I'm a huge fan of original disco - in fact, if I was an enemy combatant detained by the Bush Administration because I once DJ'd at the bin Laden's family reunion, the most effective way to torture me might be to lock me in a room with the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack on loop. The only time I really enjoy disco music is when I'm at a family function, usually a wedding, and I get to disco dance with my Uncle John. He's good. He once owned a mint green polyester leisure suit and that thing was put to good use, let me tell you. We usually bust a move to "Dancing Queen" (because for some reason that's a required song at any all-ages DJ'd event).

However, this new crop of disco has me a little excited. It's definitely less irritating and overall better quality music. I posted two of my recent favorite additions to the genre so you can see (or hear, i guess) what the hype is all about.

First, check out Escort. They're from Brooklyn and have been kicking it around the area. My favorite track is "Love in Indigo" - you can hear it, and other tracks, on their MySpace page: ESCORT

Then, check out this video from Justice.

JUSTICE - D.A.N.C.E.
Video sent by edbangerrecords