Song: Move Your Feet (Listen)
Album: D-D-Don't Don't Stop The Beat (2003) (Buy)
Hey again. Long time no see, how's that thing that you do working out for you? Ah, good to hear!
Anyway, it's certainly been a while since this blog saw any new content. To start things up again, I've chosen to write about a song which in all honestly I've had stuck in my head since I stopped writing back in October. I probably should have written about it sooner, but you know how it is. Us students lead such busy lives. Anyway, the fact that it's stuck around this long is a testament to its brilliance.
As a group, my friends and I have gotten into the habit in recent months of revisiting the classics of our childhoods. This exercise in nostalgia, often fueled by alcohol, has re-introduced some truly amazing pieces of music into our playlists. For most of them, we soon remembered why we stopped listening to them in the first place and they were swiftly forgotten again. Some stuck however, and for me none more so than Move Your Feet by Junior Senior.
It's a pop song of the like you simply don't hear nowadays. In fact, as much as I like to hate all pop music (whatever that exactly means in regards to genre), songs like this remind me that it can actually be done right. It of course helps that the song was released before autotuning became the horrible beast of an editing tool that it is today, but there is of course more to it than that. The song is incorruptibly happy and joyful through and through, from it's childishly simple lyrical content to it's ridiculously catchy melody. It's one of the few pop songs I can think of off the top of my head that is entirely innocent without being entirely nonsensical (I'm looking at you Duck Sauce). The wonderfully bizarre video isn't quite so innocent, but let's ignore that. All Junior Senior do is gleefully invite you to dance away with them, and it sounds like they're having so much fun doing so you don't want to say no. There are no sexual overtones like much of the music that dominates the charts. There is no anger, no sadness, nor any other negative emotion I can think of to be found in it. It's simply pure ecstatic joy in musical form, and if you can listen to this song and feel unhappy in any way, I genuinely feel for you. You must have some serious shit going down.
Ever since I rediscovered this amazing song, nothing has got me more in the mood for a good night. This song can cure a foul mood so well I am positive that playing it could calm any riot or end any war. I've been able to play it more or less every day for the past 5 months and its effect has not diminished one bit. I think if anything I like it more the second time around. I guess as my general cynicism and unreasonable anger towards all things mainstream has grown with age, to hear something so pure and happy has hit such a chord with my inner child as to cause me to regress around 10 years and start acting like a blissfully innocent and unaware kid again. Obviously, the song can only undo so much of the damage the Internet has done, but it's a start.
