Poptimists Readers Poll No.1: BEST THING TO DANCE TO

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

LET THE POLL COMMENCE. I'll be posting a couple of these every weekday. First is "Best To Dance To", which unlike last year actually had several things getting nominations from different people so I barely had to use the randomiser Poptimizer.



[Poll #1105403]

All the other categories are STILL OPEN and you are encouraged to vote: http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/489167.html

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have played all of these (except Soulja Boy) in order to make people dance, but have not actually danced to any myself. I chose T2 because I think you could do lots of different dances to it. Soulja Boy is too difficult; Rihanna requires a prop; Britney is going to win lots of other things and Rogue Traders was a glorious but unrepeatable moment.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

COBRA STARSHIP COBRA STARSHIP COBRA STARSHIP.

Er - um, this is actually really hard! I am still trying to decide! Rogue Traders was a one off, Gimme More is gimme-cky and involves, like the Lex says, just stumbling around trying to be Britney which is fun... Umbrella needs a prop... Heartbroken is good to dance to but I've never felt TRANSPORTED by it when dancing! And I've never danced to Soulja Boy I don't think (headphone head bop aside)!

Rogue Traders: footnote pl

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

What "one-off unrepeatable moment" are we talking about here?

[datura800.livejournal.com]

Britney is so the runaway winner here that it's painful. Even months later the reaction it gets on dancefloors is immense.

Weedle-weedle-woorp (phwarp-phwerp-PHWIP-phwop)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

T2FTW! I dance round the living room every time it comes on Hits!TV and even when NO MUSIC IS PLAYING.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Voted Britney because I just love the sound, and it's easy. T2 good but still things about it that bug me (the vocals a bit too shrill/cloying, bass/low-end issue).

'Crank That' is far too slow+minimal to me. Not my idea of good dancin' hip-hop. Made for rolling at 5mph with the top down like 95% of all that kinda stuff no? I do not drive :/

[koganbot]

This is insanely difficult, the choices being so great. So far "Crank That" is in trouble, prob'ly because, like me, everyone's afraid of the steps. Perhaps there could be a mashup version of "Gimme More" and "Umbrella" where the dancers are divided into britneys and rihannas, and the britneys hit the rihannas with umbrellas.

I've not actually heard Rogue Trader. Off to the Internets.

"Voodoo Child"

[koganbot]

But Rogue Traders are aliens! Well, Australians. And they're doing the Elvis Costello version, not the Jimi Hendrix! So the dancing to it would be this jerking new wave thing, I'd think. I like this, but (as implied by others above) it's made for moments, not for multiple skankings; too frenetic.

But the Soulja Boy is so easy!

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

First you jump and cross your legs twice. Then you step forward and kind of slap your knee or something. And then there's a part, I think, where you kinda lean back and something happens with your legs, too. And then SUPERMAN! And then CRANK BACK THREE TIMES in both directions. Can't believe y'all are having trouble with it.

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

I voted for Rogue Traders because...well, look at my icon. But all of the songs are pretty strong.

[credoimprobus]

Am I the only one who'd rather've seen Don't Stop the Music than Umbrella up there? I go all ridiculously hands-in-the-air every time it comes on!

(Of course I have NO ROOM TO COMPLAIN seeing as I didn't get off my arse about submitting any nominations, hahaha.)

[kill-yr-idols.livejournal.com]

"Crank That" has GONE OFF every time it's been played, at every possible occasion, this year - either, yeah, you can do the steps (which aren't that hard, and it's really easy to drunkenly bluff with the SUPERMAAAAAN lunge/breakstroke and the tapping one foot with the opposite hand), or just, y'now, CRANK DAT. There's lots of stuff to dance to - the usual low-rolling What You Know stuff (which is good for dropping low), the skittery drum-machine is great for, um, jittering (Detroit Jit-ing) about to, and of course YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU which you can air-punch or wind back or, y'know, make a Lex Luthor "WRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!" facial expression (http://lexownshubbard.ytmnd.com/) to go with it.

T2's great to dance to, don't know Rogue Traders at all, "Gimme More"'s not the best Blackout track to dance to by a long shot, and as everyone's said, "Umbrella" isn't thaaaat good to dance to (unless it's the Lil' Mama remix, obv).