Party on

This is club music at its finest. Even to someone who’s gone a few years beyond the club scene demographic, that’s obvious because David Guetta has a hand in three tracks, Pitbull and Snoop Dog appear twice each, and there’s a lot of collaborations that either “feat.” another artist or that pit one “vs” the other.

That’s apparently how collaborations are done these days. They used to be called duets and involved two people who could both sing.

But if the album title represents the intention it’s spot on. At a recent Friday evening bash we wound up the volume and the entire crowd found their rhythm on the dance floor. Admittedly there were only six of us but it’s still a 100 per cent success rate.

Rihanna’s S&M didn’t do it. That just drew some puzzled looks from the group. And Snoop Dogg vs. David Guetta’s Sweat was a bit angry to entice anyone. Sweat is the Guetta remix of the Dogg’s Wet. It was about three months between the release of the original and the Guetta treatment. That’s a sure sign of the disposable fast food culture we live in. I don’t like to sound old – I’m not – but when I was a boy a good single stayed in the Top Ten charts longer than that. Remixes were at least a decade away from the original.

But back to last Friday night. In fact that’s what did it – the Katy Perry version of Last Friday Night, which isn’t a cover or a DJ remix, got us all on the impromptu dance floor. It’s the real thing and suddenly six of us were busting our best moves.

And then it was on through good, bad and indifferent.  We made it right through the first disc – 21 tracks in total including six that “feat.” another artist. And we wiggled it through all of them bar the first two. The likes of Britney Spears, The Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga are there. So is Pitbull (feat. T-Pain), Alexandra Burke (feat. Pitbull) and Kelly Rowland (feat. David Guetta). It’s like one of those movies with six different plots that all converge.

We moved on to Disc Two but couldn’t last the entire 22 tracks. That’s a big ask of anyone. The younger set will claim they can do it, but I went to a club a few months ago and young people don’t dance. They stand around drinking vodka with unspecified energy drinks and look at you, maybe doing an occasional knee bend to burn off some of the energy build up after too many of those drinks.

We of the Gen-X variety dance the way we feel. Speaking of which, after a brief interlude and drink break (minus the energy mixer), it was the catchily named Ou Est Le Swimming Pool with Dance The Way I Feel that encouraged another burst of dance floor antics. There are plenty of others that encourage it too. Afrojack feat. Eva Simons with Take Over Control, The Potbelleez (feat. no one) From The Music, Will.I.Am (of Black Eyed Peas ilk) and Nicki Minaj with Check It Out and Flo Rida feat. David Guetta with Club Can’t Handle It. The converging plots thicken.

Floorfillers might not be for everyone and if you took a typical SuperLiving cross section it is unlikely to be a best seller. But it’s fun and it will get you moving – unless you’re part of the club-going, vodka drinking younger generation who clearly keep the dance on the inside.