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