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In case Lady Gaga’s new track “You and I” seems to sound familiar or like something else to you, you are probably right for two reasons. The pop-guitar music sounds like Shania Twain “Man, I Feel Like a Woman,” and the way she sings it really, REALLY lyrics sound like Anna Nalick’s “Breath (2am).”

With so many old first dance songs out there, it is easy to grab up one people have heard before and seen used at a wedding somewhere. Therefore, if you really want to stand out, you really should consider it important to choose a first dance song that is both imporatant and different.

The Gourds, an independent band out of Austin, TX, never released a music video for their Snoop Dogg cover, Gin & Juice. Therefore, I made my own, enlisting a few friends from Jim Henson’s house of Muppets. Here it is…

Before sampling machines and software on laptops that let you digitally loop a sequence on a track, DJ’s used to do something called “Beat Juggling.” Beat juggling is the act of playing section of a song on one turntable, and at the precise moment when the beat ends, cueing it up on a duplicate record, on another turntable. This was often done to extend a part of a song that a DJ particularly liked; perhaps one that really got people dancing. Beat Juggling was also used in order to create unique compositions, using multiple turntables and one or more mixers.

The Peas have just given their fans a taste the album’s first single dance track “The Time (Dirty Bit).” This track samples the iconic theme from “Dirty Dancing,” “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.” “You should expect deeper, a little bit darker electro beats and a little bit more of relationship issues on this
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Musician Bryan Pringle is now accusing The Black Eyed Peas of stealing his track “Take a Dive”, and end up transitioning the hook into the pop group’s smash hit, “I Gotta Feeling.” Bryan copyrighted the song in 1998, and then sent his unreleased demo along to many record companies, including Interscope, EMI and UMG.

I heard this song the other day, “Bulletproof” by La Roux, and thought it sounded WAY 80′s. I was like, “Wow. That sounds old school.” It turns out that this is actually the brand new video for La Roux’s third single – Bulletproof. Turns out she might be trying to sound that way, as the
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