Barrie Dance Studio

At the end of the decade, and especially in late 2008 and 2009, artists like LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, T-Pain, and many others working inside and outside of popular music, brought dance back again. If you listen to any outer-rim dance music you’ll hear the huge influence that disco has had on much of the new music being made. Some say that after the towers fell, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the economic collapse, people just wanted to let loose with abandon—they wanted to escape with dance…as corny as that sounds. Here is a list of the best dance songs of 2009.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Heads Will Roll”

“Off with your head / Dance ‘till your head.” If there ever was a macabre dance call to arms, I think that would be it. This darkly danceable single from Yeah Yeah Yeahs largely moves away from their punk rock roots into a more synth-heavy, dance-rock territory with a unbelievably catchy melody underneath singer Karen O’s dance instructions and excoriations.

Joker & Ginz – “Purple City”

For many, 2009 was seen as the year the British dance/electronic/techno subgenre of dubstep really crossed over into the United States, and much of that thanks is due to a young man named Joker and his hugely popular single releases. “Purple City” is one of those tracks—a giant, snarling, bass heavy track that sounds like it was made in a future world where music is created around train horn samples, looping, anthropomorphic bass lines that crunch, squeal and create melodies your brain never knew it could process. It is loud, but it is also melodic, with a uniquely familiar underpinning that will keep you returning again and again to break down it’s futuristic boom.

Annie – “Songs Remind Me of You”

In 2004, Annie released what is now seen as one of the decade’s best and most influential pop/dance records in “Anniemal.” The electropop stylings of Annie and the top-rate production by Richard X and other big name Norwegian producers created a dance pop album that people usually not fans of the genre could admit to enjoying. “Songs Remind Me of You” is the best single off her long-awaited follow up and has the same, classic electro feel of her best singles, with Richard X again bringing his A-game with this dance anthem for everyone who gets that giddy feeling when they hear that certain song.

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