Joyful free dance dance party baby

As I play around with this website and figure out how to share stuff without it trying to be ‘content-y’ or ‘influencer-ish’ or ‘hip tok’ I am going to be using a lot of awkward titles, experimenting with posts and generally just writing random tings so bear with me.

This is a fun idea I came up with while browsing YouTube for some songs to lift me while I was feeling low. Fuck it…isn’t it just so freeing to let go and dance and feel a swooping and upbeat song through every part of yourself? I know I love discovering new tuneskies that take me out of my head and ease my anxious or restless state. Bonus if they have unique and captivating videos. So I think I will share a few recommendations of songs that made me lose all composure, adult-y poise and control and let me embody stomp stomp giggle fall down feels. I am limiting it to three for the time being and we will see maybe next week will bring some more. Maybe we will even start to incorporate other good listening things like podcasts etc we shall see. Since my hairy human companion and I have limited television in our lives to almost naught we have been filling our downtime with other audio and visual joys. That my friends is why I added this page-the Audio Visual Club. Now over to the real creatives:

1. Hozier - Almost (Sweet Music)
   Released on his 2019 Wasteland, Baby! album this song is just a pure musical celebration. The video features lots of dancing and a fun vibe. Of note this video has a young and beautiful artist named Cameron Boyce who died tragically young from illness a few years ago. I felt a lot of feelings watching this especially because Hozier is from Ireland and lives near my childhood home. He is a big advocate for music and the essential nature of it in our lives, I am here for that.

2. Jon Batiste - I NEED YOU
   Uh I absolutely COULD NOT make a post like this and not feature a Jon Batiste song. This man embodies 100% the concept I am trying to get across here. Total, iridescent joy, fun and silly goofy brilliance. This is from his 2021 album We Are. This video is one of my favourites of all time. Watch it all. I love the concept, the dancing, the timelessness and the outfits.

3. Florence and the Machine-Free
   Obviously I gotta feature a female artist because female vocalists just mean so much to me. Look how could I NOT choose this song. First of all it’s a total banger, secondly it has a brilliant message and thirdly BILL FUCKING NIGHY plays Welch’s anxiety/shadow self?!?! I mean this is just making all my spidey senses tingle. This song is from Florence and The Machine’s most recent album Dance Fever released in 2022 which is probably one of the best albums they have ever made and one of my top ten of all time.

Ok folks that’s all for today. I gotta save some more of the good stuff for next time. See you around nerds.