#hop step dance

[kimi-to-fit-boxing]

From the official Hop! Step! Dance! website

[decodedlvr]

okurrrrrrrr buttttt,

y2k street dancer!Eddie with his sweaty curls in a low bun, white tank, joggers and DC’s, walking in to watch you dance by yourself in the studio after practice.

he can’t help but to stand with his arms crossed at the door frame, watching how your body moves, your footwork.. how your hips roll..

he sneaks up with his hands on your waist, watching yourselves in the mirrors

Smack That by Akon is now playing, the chorus “smack that all on the floor, smack that give me some more”—

it gives you the motivation to turn yourselves the side and ~bump and grind~ on each other, watchin one another’s sweaty and hot bodies

Reblogs appreciated:>

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Idle Delilah • Gimme A Chance • Desperado • JFK • 212 • Wallace • Heavy Metal And Reflective • BBD • Ice Princess • Yung Rapunxel • Soda • Chasing Time • Luxury • Nude Beach A Go-Go • Miss Amor • Miss Camaraderie

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[y2k-2day]

Ciara - 1, 2 Step (2004)

[idkimjustdumb]

the way adam sevani and step up 3 just shaped my entire personality and influenced my life and way of being is crazy. if it weren’t for that movie I don’t think I would’ve ever started dancing and I’m honestly so glad I did

[iamlisteningto]

Vegyn’s The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions

[bulimicrainbows]

Listen/purchase: BEDWETTER by BULIMIC RAINBOWS

[timmurleyart]

Kid N’ Play kick step. 🟠⚫️🟤

[asshole-rebel-psycho]

When I was a kid I thought there was a bunch of underground hip-hop hop dance gangs that battled eachother because of those step up movies lol

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

hyperfixations are funny cuz sometimes i remember that most people probably can't like. name every rhythm heaven game in order. i can just casually do it. actually most rhythm heaven fans probably could do that we're all kind of unhinged about funni moosic gayme-

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

Now That's What I Call Music! 49 2001 Pop / Teen Pop / Adult Contemporary / R&B / House / Hip Hop / UK Garage / Trance / Dance-Pop / Pop-Rock / Pop-Punk

Finishing out the week by continuing this little UK journey that I've been on recently with a trip back to the middle of 2001. Here we have a double-disc dispatch from the incredibly prolific and pervasive Now That's What I Call Music! series, which is an enterprise that Americans have been deeply familiar with since the late 90s, but Brits have actually known for far longer, since it originally exclusively launched in the UK in 1983, and proved very successful since jump.

Now, as you could probably guess, there are definitely similarities and differences between the US and UK versions of Now. One, UK installments from the main series are double-disc affairs, but US ones are only single-discs; and two, plenty of hits manage to chart in both places, but a lot of songs also never end up crossing the pond in either direction. And a good portion of the UK hits that don't make it Stateside tend to be electronic and dance tunes. Pretty much since the advent of the acid warehouse parties that took place in the UK during the late 80s, Brits have been far more receptive to that kind of stuff than the US has.

And that brings us to the first song that I really wanna highlight today: British duo Zero 7's totally blissed-out vocal downtempo classic, "Destiny," which features the voice of the one and only Sia. If you're an American, the first time that you were probably ever exposed to the facially-obscured South African superstar was when she dropped "Chandelier" in 2014. But other parts of the world had known her for a lot longer than that, and maybe if you had on the right adult alternative station in the US, or watched MTV2 at the exact right time, you would've caught "Destiny" too, but I think if you had asked 99% of Americans back then if they knew who either Zero 7 or Sia was, they'd have absolutely no idea. This tune is a simply terrific piece of smooth, acoustic guitar-led late 90s downtempo beauty, though, and with some dubby effects on it too, it makes for a real, immaculately melty, sink-into-the-bathtub kind of vibe 😌.

And on the pure dance tip, we've got a few sweet cuts, but nothing really quite hits like Roger Sanchez' "Another Chance." I gotta admit, I kind of somehow forgot about this jam altogether, but it's such a nice slice of early 2000s house, and I'm really thrilled to have been reminded of it again with this comp. Sanchez crafts a lot of this tune by sampling from Toto's 1982 soft rock power ballad, "I Won't Hold You Back," and that includes the voice of the group's lead singer, Steve Lukather, too, whose calm and reflectively plaintive words are made shimmery by Sanchez himself here 😎. "Another Chance" managed its way all the way to the top of both the UK singles and UK dance charts, but it did absolutely nothing in the US, which is a total shame!

Almost everything else that's good and/or fun on this album was also big in the US too, though, and those tunes in particular should give any American who remembers 2001—before that big, main event, of course—a very sweet nostalgia rush indeed. We have one-hit wonder Wheatus' "Teenage Dirtbag," blink-182's "The Rock Show," the different version of U2's "Elevation" that was on the Tomb Raider movie soundtrack, OutKast's "Ms. Jackson," Destiny's Child's "Survivor," Dido's "Thank You," Janet Jackson's "All for You," and Nelly's "Ride Wit Me." So a really fine array of classic, poppy bangers there.

But, folks, we also have to talk about the complete and utter schlock that's on here too, because despite how many enjoyable tracks that are on this thing, there sure are quite a lot of plainly bad ones as well. And most of it appears to be just straight-up British pop, which is not to be confused with the often very good rock genre of Britpop. To be clear, there are definitely superb British-made pop tunes from this early 2000s era, but this 49th installment in the Now series doesn't have any to offer; and I have no idea how or why Geri Halliwell aka Ginger Spice's totally limp cover of The Weather Girls' "It's Raining Men" ever got to be a #1 hit in the UK, but that shit is really e m b a r r a s s i n g, man. And a lot of the rest of this pop sounds like music that was specifically targeted at nine-year-old girls too, so, diabetics, beware, because this stuff is *really* treacly.

Always love to sift through these UK editions of Now because they tend to be a lot more eclectic than their US counterparts, and while putting up a double-disc with every installment increases the chances of getting more good tunes, I also understand that it also naturally opens the door for more crappy filler as well. But at the end of the day, I really can't resist a good chunk of the electronic and dance music that gets put on these things, so if I have to endure some uninspired Spice Girls solo singles along the way, then so be it 😅.

Highlights:

CD1:

Wheatus - "Teenage Dirtbag" blink-182 - "The Rock Show" U2 - "Elevation (Tomb Raider mix)" OutKast - "Ms. Jackson" Destiny's Child - "Survivor" Britney Spears - "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" Dido - "Thank You" Zero 7 - "Destiny" Radiohead - "Pyramid Song"

CD2: Eddy Grant - "Electric Avenue (Ringbang remix)" Gorillaz - "19-2000 (Soulchild remix)" Roger Sanchez - "Another Chance" Ian van Dahl - "Castles in the Sky" Boris Dlugosch feat. Róisín Murphy - "Never Enough" Janet Jackson - "All for You" Eve - "Who's That Girl" Nelly - "Ride Wit Me"

[iamlisteningto]

Massive Attack's Ritual Spirit

[lemintee]

listening to WED Mikunopolis is such a fucking. Experience. The entire thing was in English and I could understand maybe 3 words of it and I was extremely confused the entire time

[timmurleyart]

Kid N’ Play kick step. 👟⚡️👟

[weaversweek]

My Year in Mix can throw up some surprises. I'd intended for this section to be "dance songs with prominent singalong vocals"; with one exception, it also works as "dance songs that were successful second time around".

"Never gonna let you go" - Tina Moore. Clubland reacted to the death of Diana by playing - and buying - this choon. Tina had laid down the original single in 1995, it became a hit after this "Bump 'n' Go" mix by Kelly G. There's a strong argument that 2-step dance became popular in the wake of this mix, reaching its commercial crescendo a couple of years later.

"Closer than close" - Rosie Gaines. Another 1995 release, 1997 hit. Gaines' album had been recorded in the early 90s, got caught up by Prince's spat with Warner Brothers, and eventually emerged some years after it had been recorded. The title track was a honeyed slow groove, exactly the track for mixers to bootlegged and cut up.

Frankie Knuckles' mix proved to be the massive hit. It's funky disco house, simultaneously a throwback to the late 70s and the late 80s and pleasantly contemporary. Popped on every anthology going - for which compilers pay a licensing fee, easy money for Rosie and for Prince's estate.

"Freedom" - Robert Miles ft Kathy Sledge. Ambient house was one of my grooves in '97. Having almost worn out the CD of Dreamland, I eagerly awaited Robert's follow-up album 23am. It was a grower of a record: less trippy than its predecessor, more soul vocals - here from the throat of a classic soul diva. Grown to love this song.

"You're not alone" - Olive. Ambient trip-hop? Yeah, I'll buy that. "You're not alone" was carefully remixed from the album track, first to bring out the song's dark heart, then to cunningly conceal it under swirling strings, and distract us with a sunshine vocal. Vaguely melancholy, lightly threatening; it's number one, and it's uneasy listening. Came out on 5 May 97, and felt like the grit at the heart of the Blair era: this, too, will end in hurt.

"Coco jamboo" - Mr President. What are they blithering on about? Ach, who cares! Massive hit in Europe the previous summer, got buried here in the pre-Christmas rush. A very of-its-time combination of commercial male rap and floaty female vocals. "A summertime nursery rhyme," said Music Week, fun from start to finish.