Good Time for Dance Music........

Sometime back while I was in college in the late 1990's, I met a classmate who did some DJ'ing on the side.  Thanks to this classmate, I started listening to various genres of dance music like Eurodance, Freestyle, House and Trance.  I hadn't realized it before but I'd always been a dance music fan.   I had listened to many 80's songs that were considered dance:  "Spring Love" (Stevie B), "Into The Grove" (Madonna), among many others.

In the late 1990's, there were various dance songs that I loved:  "Be My Lover" (La Bouche), "Another Night" (Real McCoy), "Rhythm of the Night" (Corona) and others. However, as the year 2000 rolled around, the trend went to more electronic / trance type songs.  After a while, all electronic music sounds the game and I stopped following the dance music market.

More recently, Far East Movement's "Like a G6" finally gained national airplay including two of our local "party" music stations so I started listening to radio again.  I was surprised to hear a load of dance type songs that caught my interest:

"Like a G6" - Far East Movement
"California Gurls" - Katy Perry
"Dynamite" - Taio Cruz
"DJ's Got Us Falling in Love" - Usher
"I Like It" - Enrique Iglesias

To me, it's great that artists are putting out these vocal dance songs.  Electronic Music has it's place but the best dance songs that I've ever listened to were from the 1980's.   While I don't think some of these recent releases will ever become classics like some of the 1980's stuff I like, it's good that there is still solid dance music coming out these days.