Track List - Sexy Spin, Thursday, January 5, 2011

1. United State Of Pop (Don't Stop The Pop)(mashup) - DJ Earworm featuring the top 25 songs of 2010 as ranked by Billboard
2. Dirty Girl (mashup) - Global Mashup Crew featuring Rihanna & Black Eyed Peas
3. I Wanna Bulletproof Dancer (mashup) - DJ Titus Jones featuring La Roux, Robyn, Whitney Houston & Taylor Swift
4. Untouched - The Veronicas
5. Express - Christina Aguilera
6. Get Teenager Outta DJ Way (mashup) - DJ Ryson featuring Katy Perry, Kylie Minogue, Usher, Mr. Hudson & Madonna
7. Teenage Dream (remix) - Katy Perry
8. Just The Way You Are (remix) - Bruno Mars
9. Not Like A Queen (mashup) - DJ Sergio featuring Katy Perry & 30 Seconds To Mars

For the fourth year in a row, we kick off the new year looking back at the previous year...or listening to it...with DJ Earworm's mashup of the top 25 songs of the year 2010 according to Billboard. DJ Earworm was one of the first deejays to lead me into the world of "mashups" and I now wholeheartedly embrace their use in class as a way to make classes more fun and high energy. DJ Earworm has an amazing talent for "blending" different songs - even genres! - together into a seamless soundtrack to inspire and motivate riders to the next level, a higher level, where they are giving more than they thought they were going to, more than they thought they could! That's what I like to see! And I'm including DJ Earworm's amazing video of the United State Of Pop (Don't Stop The Pop) here so you can see it and enjoy it, too!



And here is what DJ Earworm has to say about this year's mashup on his website, www.djearworm.com (which you should visit to hear more of his work!)

"Yet another installment in what has become an annual New Year’s tradition. It’s the United State of Pop, which mashes up the Top 25 songs of the year, according to Billboard magazine.

In 2010, pop has gone into serious all-out party mode. In 2009 the music was encouraging us to pick ourselves back up after being knocked down again, and to rock out to some great dance music while you’re at it. This year’s music tells us to keep going now that we’re up and having fun. In fact, the fun seems to be in such overdrive that it borders on recklessness. Usher urges us to ‘dance like it’s the last night of your life”, and Katy Perry wants us to “run away and don’t ever look back”. Even the songs that aren’t about parties have parties in their videos, like this year’s entries from Mike Posner and Lady Antebellum.

It’s a great thing about music that you can leave your worries and lose yourself in the moment. In our current world of dance pop culture fantasy, this takes place at a club, where you can drink, meet the most amazing person you’ve ever met, and where as Ke$ha says, “the party don’t stop”.

Personally, as a DJ performing mostly at raging party-ish events, I can relate. My career path has been crazy lately, and I’m definitely not ready for the party to stop!

So with that in mind I urge you all please……

DON’T STOP THE POP

•Ke$ha - Tik Tok
•Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
•Train - Hey, Soul Sister
•Katy Perry Featuring Snoop Dogg - California Gurls
•Usher Featuring will.i.am - OMG
•B.O.B. Featuring Hayley Williams - Airplanes
•Eminem Featuring Rihanna - Love the Way You Lie
•Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
•Taio Cruz - Dynamite
•Taio Cruz Featuring Ludacris - Break Your Heart
•B.O.B. Featuring Bruno Mars - Nothin’ On You
•Enrique Iglesias Featuring Pitbull - I Like It
•Young Money Featuring Lloyd - Bedrock
•Jason Derulo - In My Head
•Rihanna - Rude Boy
•Lady Gaga Featuring Beyonce - Telephone
•Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
•Bruno Mars - Just the Way You Are
•Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me
•The Black Eyed Peas - Imma Be
•Jay-Z + Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
•Usher Featuring Pitbull - DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love
•Travie McCoy Featuring Bruno Mars - Billionaire
•Eminem - Not Afraid
•Iyaz - Replay

To support these artists, buy some of their music!"

I'd also like to highlight one of my new favorite songs of any kind! Yes, it is a mashup, but it is really hard to tell that it is. Yes, it is a ballad, but is an absolutely beautiful cool down. And yes, it comes from a somewhat surprising source...one of the hottest pop stars of the year and a rock band with a former teen hearthrob as the lead singer. I'm talking about DJ Sergio's mashup, "Not Like A Queen" featuring Katy Perry and 30 Second to Mars. The blend of Katy Perry's "Not Like The Movies" and the 30 Second to Mars single "Kings & Queens" is more like a haunting, smooth, soulful, beautiful duet than it is a mashup. And yes, the lead singer of 30 Second to Mars is Jared Leto, formerly the teen hearthrob and Claire Dane's crush in the critically lauded, poorly rated and thusly short-lived TV series, "My So-Called Life" also starring former Crunch member, Wilson Cruz in a ground breaking role. I'd also like to include that for you here:

Katy Perry vs. 30 Seconds to Mars - Not Like a Queen (Sergio's Mashups) by Mixes and Mashups #15

So I'd like to take this time to say thank you to everyone who has been riding with me throughout the past year (and/or years!). Thanks to everyone who has just joined the Ride with Tommy! as part of a New Year's resolution! I am honored with your trust to work you out, motivate you and help you obtain results. Thank you! And Happy New Year! Here's to seeing more (and less) of you in 2011!

In good health,

tommy