If you haven’t heard it yet, here are my favorite Pole-tastic tracks. Enjoy!
1. Come Thru
Simply put, I FALL DOWN DEAD FOR THIS SONG.
2. From Time
Great, mellow vocals on this.
3. Hold On, We’re Going Home
I actually first heard this track watching Dirdy Birdy… that’s how you know it’s good.
Re: this video though… my opinion is that Drake set in 1985 for exactly one reason: so a waiter could bring a phone to his table in a dramatic fashion.
You know that feeling where you’ve been hitting the studio after very long days of work and drilling a routine for HOURS, and then come to a rehearsal two days before the show and find out you now how to do everything completely in the reverse of how you trained your body to memorize it?
Oh you don’t?
Here’s how it feels: IT FEELS LIKE FUCK EVERYTHING.
I would actually have been much better off if I had NOT practiced, because my muscle memory is just utterly bewildered. The changes happened last night. The show is tomorrow. I have both a day job and night job today, so I don’t even know when I can practice this. I just… I just want to go back to bed.
I know, I know, I’m being a big whiny baby and this isn’t even the first time this has happened to me. It’s to be expected in a group performance. I get it. But I really hate looking like the idiot that’s lost on stage and I will be DAMNED if I do.
So here’s the plan: I am going to listen to this song on repeat all day, and dance the shit out of the routine in my head. I will run it in the bathroom mirror. I will do modified versions of the footwork while folding towels at work tonight. I AM COMING FOR YOU, new choreography.
Anyway, I can’t wait till the show’s over and I can hit the pole with my full attention again. Here’s what I’ve been saving up to jam to…
So, for my marketing class, I have to make a promo video advertising my teaching services.
Um, because I hate that idea, I thought I would instead just do a quick tutorial vid on a basic/intermediate move and then be all, “LIKE ME ON FACEBOOK” in the last second of the video. Because fuck promos, right?
I was thinking of breaking down the Jenyne climb, because I still get lots of questions and comments on that. Would you guys want to see that, or something else? A basic spin, invert, pose, etc?
I LIVE TO PLEASE. Lemme know, guys 🙂
Oh, and this is totally unrelated, but I’m dancing my BUNS off to these songs, that have nothing at all in common or to do with each other. I hope you get some good freestyles out of them because I certainly have!
1. I’ll Make Love to You (Remix), Boyz II Men
SHUT UP I LIKE THEM. This is the remix. You’re welcome. NB: I had this on cassette tape in 1997.
2. Somebody Else, Mario
Feeling this so hard. Sounds like nothing else on the radio now… fresh.
3. Body Party, Ciara
Sweet, sexy… it’s like musical chocolate covered pretzels.
4. Girls Love Beyonce, Drake
Because a little Drake was mandatory…
5. Closer, Kings of Leon
Okay, not even going to pretend that I didn’t get the idea to dance to this from the fabulous Michelle Shimmy… so here she is in all her glory!
(Sorry guys, headlines don’t like ampersands–Rnb=R&B)
Okay so challenge accepted re: my own difficulty finding pole music: I dug around my old Pandora likes and found several songs that aren’t about bitches n’ hoes. Mostly. Except for this first one:
1. Diced Pineapples, Rick Ross Ft. Drake, Wale
Okay, this song actually is gross (I think diced pineapples is a reference to the idea that certain fresh fruits make certain forbidden fruits taste better IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.) but whatever, I can’t get enough of Drake’s hook on here. Also, it’s very female positive! Or at least vagina positive!
My only complaints here are about Rick Ross’s nasty facial hair ruining yet another sexy music video. Seriously, they film in the gorgeous, sun drenched Caribbean and all I can think about is how musty his damn face forest must smell. Stop it, Rick Ross. Just stop it.
2. Adorn, Miguel
Uuuuuuugh Miguel. Okay, I know everybody already knows this song, but COME ON. It needs a holler. This dude makes such sexy music… Vixen, Quickie… Almost sexy enough to excuse the hi-top/pompador hybrid. Get it, Miguel.
3. Closer, Corinne Bailey Rae
Love her. +10 for a roller disco video theme.
4. I Only Want to Give It to You, Elle Varner (Featuring J. Cole)
This song makes me so happy inside that I literally walk differently when it comes on my ipod and smile at strangers, which might get me killed. Also, J. Cole.
5. Say Yes, Floetry
Ungh. Every time I have a crush on a new guy and he walks by (unless he smells funky or something) this plays in my head.
What’s that? You can’t picture a pole dance to this?
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