Help me! I have terrible taste in music!

[beccatoria]

OMG it has been forever since I posted here! I am a bad eljayer. It has also been forever since I released a vid. I'm gettin' shakes, man. In my defense, I do actually have a totally finished (and not even SLIGHTLY snarky!) BSG vid sat on my harddrive, but I can't post it until the twelvecolonies vid challenge is over. I do not know how you people who vid for cons and have to sit on vids for MONTHS can do it.

I also have a gettin-near-to-finished BSG vid (which is EXTREMELY snarky!) sat on my harddrive going through beta, so I don't know if either of them will get released before I go on vacation in a week's time, but rest assured, I am still a Cylon Vidding Machine.

WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY POINT! I need help with song choice for my next vid. Which will not be for BSG.

My next BSG vid is gonna be my Human/Cylon OTP epic which I've been meaning to do for what? 7 months now? (Yes, asta77, THAT one! :D) But per the above, I've been doing a lot of (invisible) BSG vidding lately, and I do want to keep up at least the pretense that I'm stretching my repertoire a bit.

So what am I going to do?

I'm gonna try and make an action-dance vid! I am terrified! I have no idea how to do this! But I'm sure as hell gonna TRY.

And what source have I chosen for this epic attempt? Star Wars: the Clone Wars animated series.

BUT BECKA, I hear you say. You HATE the Clone Wars era. You can't stand shit head Anakin, you think Ahsoka is the worst idea since Jar Jar Binks, Obi Wan's voice actor makes you want to stab yourself in the eye, it has a villainess who throws her skirt at people, and you have no idea why Aayla Secura is French!

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

...yeah.

I got nothin'. Except lightsabers. Lots and lots of lightsabers. What the fuck, brain. What. the. fuck.

ALSO, I have no song. Because I really don't listen to a lot of dance music.

So I need your help!

Please suggest awesome dance music to which I can make a lightsaber fight epic action-dance vid! I don't care how weird, cheesy, good, bad or whatever it is, just...if you think it might be fun, let me know what it is.

THIS VIDDER NEEDS YOU!

*giant pointy finger*

Comments

[asta77.livejournal.com]

Dance music is something I am also not very familiar with either. But, if I think of something, I will let you know! :)

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

[asta77.livejournal.com]

I had an idea last night, but I'm not sure if you want to work with contemporary dance music or if disco would be acceptable?

I know very little about The Clone Wars besides, you know, it being about a war involving clones and, I think, Jedis. But Star Wars came out in 1977 when disco was at it's height and because of the era of the source material and the war thing, the Bee Gees 'Staying Alive' popped into my head. Since I don't recall most of the lyrics, I'm not sure it would work, but it was the one thought I had.

Oh! And I'm still working on the email! I've had a literal pain in the neck for days which has limited my online time. :(

[nightxade.livejournal.com]

Yeah so Um. Clone Wars. Really.

Admittedly, now I'm curious though.

I'm going to suggest "Boom Boom Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas. Otherwise, I can't think of anything dancey off the top of my head.

Although, Anakin bustin' a move to something Michael Jacksony would make me LOL much.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yes! You too will fall under the confusing spell of Star Wars Dance Vids! :p

I had vaguely thought of Boom Boom Pow actually. taragel did a fun BSG vid to it recently, though since it's another show I figure it wouldn't be too awful to "steal" it. I do like that song and it's got a good beat. Though I quite like "Superhero Lover" below too. ARGH CHOICES!

Although, Anakin bustin' a move to something Michael Jacksony would make me LOL much.

Hee! I guess "Smooth Criminal" could work for irony too... Either way here's hoping I can pull it off...

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

My suggestions: Superhero Lover, by Daze, or the ever-classic Dragostea Din Tea

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Thank you!

Dragostea Din Tea is great, but also maybe a little mellow? The slower sections keep wanting me to like, do SERIOUS bits in it. And that scares me... ;)

Superhero Lover is fantastic though. WIN for hilariously ironic title for like...prissy Jedi Knights. Thanks for the suggestion. I currently can't decide between this and Boom Boom Pow, though this has the advantage of not being as massively well known... (Um, at least in the UK, I guess I really don't know what its name recognition is on your continent!)

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna try and make an action-dance vid!
*parties* \o/ They're my favourite kind! :D :D :D

I don't listen to much dance music either these days. :( I could rec dance music from the nineties?! ;) LOL. Yeah, ok. I'll slink off again...

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yay! Now I just have to panic I won't be able to do it well! :D :p

Also, dude, TOTALLY rec me some nineties stuff - I really don't care about the era, long as it'll be fun to vid!

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Something like Block Rockin' Beats by the Chemical Brothers maybe? I'm trying to think light sabres... ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVADNUyDZY

Or Pandemonium by The Prodigy? 'Their Law' could also be funny.

Anyway my mind runs dance-wise to Prodigy, Chem Bros, Underworld, Fatboy Slim, Crystal Method, Apollo 440, Fluke and the like.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

http://www.mashuptown.com/2009/01/dj-zebra-is-the-cinema.html
http://www.mashuptown.com/2008/07/imperial-stress.html

I suggest those two...

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

AHAHAAH, dude I fucking love the DJ Zebra one. It's insane, plus all rap ever should be in french. 'Cept now I have a SRS PROBLEM which is that I'm not sure it's light enough or quite the sound I want for a dancey vid, but it has given me an entirely different idea that...I'm not sure I can even pull off. But dude. Soooooong. Dileeeemmmaaa.

...curse you.

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

Probably late, but...

Sci Fi Wasabi - Cibo Matto

Space Olympics - The Lonely Island

Move Your Feet - Junior Senior or basically anything else by them

Eurodisco - Bis

I would always support "Smooth Criminal", as well. Or Chemical Brothers as suggested above. Or Devo's "Whip It". I KNOW NOTHING OF DANCE MUSIC, in case that's not clear.