Sexeh Songs are Sexeh.

My music preferences seem to jump around these days. Last week or two I was expanding my tastes in house music (holla Lydia for introducing me to Porter Robinson. Shit's tight.)

But now I'm currently obsessed with finding songs that have this bluesy, smoky, sultry, seductive feel to them. It started with hearing this song one time at swing night a few weeks back:



I could tell it was blues song, or that the dance to do to this song was supposed to be blues. I'm not a great blues dancer. Yet. I really like the idea of blues dancing...I just need more practice, probs.

So yesterday I suddenly remembered hearing this song and I wanted it. Really badly. Got it. Decided I wanted more songs like this and I remembered hearing another song I thought had a similar vibe on an 8tracks playlist I stumbledupon one time.

Behold:



This song was a PAIN in the ass to find. But I did. And it is eeeeexcellent. The only way I can describe this song is...it's sex. In song form. Aw yeah.

But anyways, after listening to that "Cyclone" cover about 6-10 times in a row, I am determined to choreo' a number at 9 to it. It's gonna happen. Oh yes.

BPG hosts a Friday night dance party every other friday throughout the semester, or about twice a month. The number at 9 is a piece that's done by several BPG members, choreographed by a BPG member. And it is performed around 9 o'clock. Hence the name. So I want to attempt to choreo a West Coast Swing number to this song.

The thing is, I've noticed that just about all the number@9's I've seen so far have been choreo'd by girls. Are girls just better than guys when it comes to dance choreography? Maybe, I have to be gay to be a guy and choreograph a kick ass number? Or maybe just none of the other guy members of the group want to put in the effort to choreograph? Well, here's to THIS guy trying to choreograph a number@9!

Also, why West Coast Swing? Because, um, WCS is now my favorite dance. ECS is probs a close second. I just love the versatility of WCS, how it can be danced to a range of tempos. It's also the easiest dance I know so far to improvise and have fun with. It's just been something of a challenge for me to find a decent number of good WCS follows in the group, or girls who actually like WCS.

When I first learned this dance: "OH MY GOD I HATE THIS FUCKING DANCE."
Now: "OH MY GOD I FUCKING LOVE THIS DANCE!"

Yeahhhh.



Also, as excited as I was to try to choreograph this song, I came across a video of two people already dancing WCS to this song! NO. Well ok, I guess it's not that bad...but now my excitement has gone down just a little knowing it's been done before already. Le sigh.

Yeah I'm not even going to embed/link that video here. That's how disappointed I am. Hah. Hah.