Re-mind (the ticks say bo selecta)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Just a reminder that you've got until 12 noon tomorrow (UK time) to vote in the Pop Open Round 2. Votes are up a bit on last week but still a bit low.

lo cuero, toca los cueros, loca e que ta!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OK so the weather may be VILE outside but it is June so we should at least have the opportunity to pretend it's summer. And nothing is better for that than this year's dancehall smash, 'Whine Up' by Kat DeLuna and Elephant Man.

Watch on YouTube

This is exactly the kind of music which perfectly encapsulates summer for me, I would not mind if every pop song in the future was made along these lines. Kat D reminds me a little of Christina Milian, she has that same vibe of...looking kittenish, but you know that she's in charge and secretly a TIGER. Anyway if you don't find the basic elements of the song and the video deeply satisfying - the pitch-shifting synth, the lyrics about how great dancing is, the dancing itself (when I first heard this song I started dancing along about two lines in), then, I dunno, you are 1XFOOL.

EDIT ooh and more along these lines - the return of LUMIDEE! I am sure you all remember her from having made probably the best single of this decade, 'Never Leave You', and she is BACK BACK BACK - no longer a chubby girl singing out of tune but a fully fledged reggaeton diva with Pitbull in tow. Best bit in the video = when she keeps it moving after discovering her boy with another girl.

lumi & pitbull

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OK the Lumi video in the previous post is for some reason not embedding itself in the same post as the Kat - maybe lj just cannot take too much brilliance at one time. Here it is!