Jason Carr: These songs of the past 20 years will get me on the dance floor

When I was college age and single you couldn’t keep me off the dance floor. And if I wasn’t, it was because I was either in the DJ booth or at the bar chatting up a lovely young lady. Or the lovely young lady was in the booth and I was showing her how to cue a record on the turntable. Ah, memories.

Anyway as I get into my middle years I find it increasingly harder to enjoy the Music of the Kids Today. My middle school-age daughter likes to torture me with Spotify asking, what do you think of this song? Usually the answer is, I don’t. And yet once in a while something comes out and I’m like, this is a jam.

So without further ado, here is my personally curated playlist of Songs That Have Come Out Since I Was 32 Guaranteed To Make Me Dance at 52:

• Party Rock Anthem/LMFAO
• Toxic/Britney Spears
• Uptown Funk/Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars
• Shake It Off/Taylor Swift
• Bad Guy/Billie Eilish
• Tightrope/Janelle Monae
• Don’t Stop The Party/Pitbull
• Let’s Get Loud (LIVE)/Jennifer Lopez
• Good As Hell/Lizzo
• Shut Up and Dance With Me/Walk The Moon
• Celebrate/Pitbull
• Ain’t No Other Man/Christina Aguilera
• I Can Make Your Hands Clap/Fitz & The Tantrums
• Sexy and I Know It/LMFAO
• Cupid Shuffle/Cupid
• Ride Wit Me/Nelly
• Just Fine/Mary J. Blige
• Forget You/CeeLo Green

I’m leaving so many on the table but I can’t be writing this blog all night. Stay tuned for Volume 2 assuming you enjoyed Volume 1. Peace.

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