Okay, guilty pleasure admission time.  I’m a pretty big fan and regular watcher of the show “Shake it Up” on Disney channel.  Like, I DVR it.  Cause Rocky and CeCe are HILARIOUS :-D 

So anyway, Shake it Up is also the name of the “show within a show” that Rocky and CeCe dance on.  Every episode there’s like a dancer or dance group and they dance to music that was extremely catchy (in the Disney pop kinda way) but that I couldn’t find.

How was this possible?  I mean, the songs seemed pretty well produced and such - like more than just throwaway filler for an episode.  But I couldn’t find them anywhere!  I even found song titles and artists in the credits and it got me thinking…why go through all that trouble recording a song (with some recognizable names…well recognizable to ME), titling it and just throwing it away as a 30-second snippet on a show within a show?

I should have known Disney thinks deeper than that :-)  Enter Shake it Up: Break it Down!  The soundtrack to Shake it Up featuring (you guessed it) a ton of the songs featured in previous episodes.  

Dance/pop that’s contemporary yet family-friendly?  Yes, please :-D

Favorite songs: “We Still Here”, “Our Generation”, “Dance for Life”, “Bling Bling”

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shake-it-up-break-it-down/id443003713

Finally watching “This is It”.  I’ve been meaning to sit down and watch this film for quite sometime and I discovered accidentally that my sister had apparently recorded the film on our DVR :)  Lucky me :-)

I’m a huge, HUGE MJ fan.  If you’ve been to iD Tech, you probably know this.  But watching him in action, even at 50 is nothing short of amazing.  Moves the same.  Sings the same.  It’s amazing.  Of course, all this has been said like a year ago when the movie came out.

That’s not what prompted me to post actually.  No, what prompted me to post was a scene in the film where the choreographers and dancers are seriously discussing the RIGHT way to crotch grab like MJ.  Like SERIOUSLY.  They’re in the mirror, repeating motions trying to get it exactly right.

THAT.  WAS.  HILARIOUS.  :-D