LCD Soundsystem fans, set controls for the heart of the sun tomorrow's MarchXness final: I'm gonna show up for @katecarmody8.bsky.social's essay and for all the stupid decisions I wouldn't trade for even another 5 years of life. #Danceness

THE GAMES — March Danceness Games begin and end at 9am AZ time.

"All My Friends" is one of my favorite songs! And yet I must stand up for Karen O, Alice Lidell, and charismatic werewolves who need to boogie and/or maybe kill! Please cast a @marchxness.bsky.social #Danceness Elite 8 vote for "Heads Will Roll": marchxness.com/thegames#/el...

3/21, SWEET 16: (2) Usher vs (14) Amerie — March Danceness

Grateful to @sejalshahwrites.bsky.social for bringing Amerie's "1 Thing" back into my soundtrack with this great
#Danceness essay. A song I had forgotten vs. Usher's "Yeah!" which, as Andrea Mile precisely explains, is impossible to miss because it never went away. marchxness.com/sweet16-ushe...

3/21, SWEET 16: (2) Nelly vs (3) 50 Cent — March Danceness

It's time for hard #Danceness choices! "In Da Club" and "Hot in Herre" are both classic Aughts dance tracks. At the end of the day, I think Nelly's song is simply more fun than 50's & I love the regional specificity of @kjmoulton.bsky.social's St. Louis essay. marchxness.com/sweet16-nell...

3/20, Sweet 16: (4) Ke$ha vs (4) Ke$ha vs (8) Sophie Ellis-Bextor — March Danceness

An even better expanded essay on Kesha and Ke$ha, now that she is truly free, up today in #Danceness — even if you read this one in an earlier round, check out the revision. marchxness.com/sweet16-kesh...

3/18, Sweet 16: (4) Flo Rida VS (8) Yeah Yeah Yeahs — March Danceness

Yeah Yeah Yeahs and "Heads Will Roll" are gonna get knocked out in this #Danceness round, I can tell by these scores, but at least we're getting bodied by Caroline's great "Low" essay. marchxness.com/sweet16-flor...

3/18, Sweet 16: (5) Shakira vs (1) Beyoncé — March Danceness

"Triumphant in some moments, teasing in others, always maintaining its trademark virtuosic range and palpable warmth" — voting Beyoncé and "Single Ladies" in this Sweet 16 #Danceness match! marchxness.com/sweet16-shak...

A March Danceness bracket scored so far, showing that my projected final match will not happen now that The Killers' "Mr Brightside" has been eliminated. Go, "Single Ladies!"

My #Danceness bracket is now done-zo. Well played, Round 2! On Monday, Karen O dances off against Flo Rida in a match for the ages: marchxness.com

3/14, 2nd Round: (2) Nelly vs (7) Fatboy Slim — March Danceness

Both @aeweisgerber.bsky.social and @kjmoulton.bsky.social wrote the hell out of their essays this #Danceness round, and both "Weapon of Choice" and "Hot in Herre" are quintessential Aughts dance tracks. I voted my bracket but this is still anyone's game: marchxness.com/2ndrd-nellyv...

3/14, 2nd Round: (2) Madonna vs (10) LCD Soundsystem — March Danceness

LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends" would have been my first choice to write about in the #Danceness draft, so I must throw my support behind this song I love with all my sincere heart, and @katecarmody8.bsky.social's lovely essay, in this round: marchxness.com/2ndround-mad...

3/13, 2nd Round: (1) Beyoncé vs (8) Gorillaz — March Danceness

I am sticking with my #Danceness bracket and going all in on Beyoncé (in tournament as in life) and Hea-Ream Lee's interrogation of marriage stands up to the song's force. Dig Em Pasek's ode to the iPod and Gorillaz, too: marchxness.com/2ndrd-beyonc...

3/13, 2nd Round: (3) Christina Aguilera vs (6) Blu Cantrell — March Danceness

I'm blasting "Dirrty" w/ @ashiepants.bsky.social's breaking-bad #Danceness essay making me miss old friends, & damn, Katerina Ivanov Prado gets downright philosophical on "Hit Em Up Style": "Even the desire for retribution acts as a reflexive analysis of the self"(!!!) marchxness.com/2ndround-agu...

3/13, 2nd Round: (3) 50 Cent vs (11) Peaches — March Danceness

Love @dfsingleton.bsky.social's brief ode to the 1999 Pontiac Sunfire ballers, the era-specific undeniable pleasures of 50's "In Da Club," but also, damn, Lily Herman goes all in with her #Danceness essay on Peaches. Takeaway: "Life is fucked and hard." marchxness.com/2ndrd-50cent...

3/13, 2nd Round: (2) Usher vs (10) Cascada — March Danceness

Andrea Mele just nails how Usher's "Yeah!" is "a song that finds you" ... wherever you are ... (there's no hiding; not that we'd want to; voting my #Danceness bracket here), while Cameron Carr invokes the Uncanny Abercrombie Valley of Cascada's "Everytime We Touch" marchxness.com/2ndrd-usherv...

Is this a sign after "Heads Will Roll" just won its second #Danceness match? Maybe! marchxness.com/2ndround-yea...

3/12, 2nd Round: (16) Sohodolls vs (8) No Doubt — March Danceness

Voted against my #Danceness bracket last round for "Stripper," a song I didn't even know before I read the essay. Going to commit to that choice HOWEVER "Hella Good" is emblematic of the era, a pernicious earworm (complimentary) and a great essay! marchxness.com/2ndrd-nodoub...

3/12, 2nd Round: (4) Flo Rida vs (12) DJ Casper — March Danceness

The "Cha Cha Slide" essay is legitimately heartwarming, but I am riding for Flo Rida, getting "Low" in this #Danceness round with just 2.5 hours to vote: marchxness.com/2ndrd-florid...

got bounced from #Danceness and went straight to the Cherry Glazerr show to keep on rockin’ on

baffling, but my Robyn essay will not be advancing in #Danceness I can only conclude that you can't handle me www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4UH...

3/11, 2nd Round: (5) Robyn vs (13) Electric Six — March Danceness

#Danceness forget "Danger! High Voltage!!" you do NOT want to mess with Robyn: "Chopping heads off with madame guillotine / Even the French know better than to fuck with me"
Vote "With Every Heartbeat" marchxness.com/2ndrd-robynv...

3/11, 2nd Round: (8) Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs (1) Britney Spears, Toxic — March Danceness

Just a couple more hours to read and vote, and my #Danceness essay on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Heads Will Roll"—charismatic werewolves, scrappy Alice & the dudes, and reckoning with the monsters of influence—is up against an iconic Britney track, help: marchxness.com/2ndround-yea...

my essay on Robyn starts with an entry by my mother in my baby book and ends with Orpheus’s severed head—how are you #danceness folks NOT voting for it?

if you don’t want my #danceness hopes to crash and burn, vote Robyn before noon ET on Tuesday (or I’ll hammer your toe like a pediatrician!!—link below) youtu.be/2C8UXZrN9UY?...

THE GAMES — March Danceness Games begin and end at 9am AZ time.

I am so glad #Danceness games are back on because I went deep down the Kate Middleton Mystery this weekend and I would really rather be reading essays about music, like Robyn vs Electric 6; marchxness.com/thegames#/2n...

THE GAMES — March Danceness Games begin and end at 9am AZ time.

My bracket says Shakira but my heart also says PARTY POWER SHIRTS and P!ink. Yikes! #Danceness choices: marchxness.com/thegames

3/11, 2nd Round: (5) Robyn vs (13) Electric Six — March Danceness

time to shake your vote thang #danceness! Vote Robyn's "With Every Heartbeat" marchxness.com/2ndrd-robynv...
If you already voted, call your girlfriend, it's time you had the talk . . . about her also voting Robyn!

if you voted for Robyn (and my essay) in #Danceness in the first round it's time do it again for me (and Robyn) on Monday www.youtube.com/watch?v=btBS...

if you voted @robynkonichiwa in #Danceness
last week over The Cupid Shuffle, I heart you (I'm making that heart thing with my hands as I type), but I'm gonna need you to hang with me and vote Robyn again on Monday www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3a2...

March Danceness A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

Thought I went into the #danceness voting today knowing my mind, but I did not know my mind

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3/8, 1st Round: (7) Franz Ferdinand vs (10) Darude — March Danceness

Really loving the construction structures of both essays in the #Danceness Franz Ferdinand - Darude match: marchxness.com/1strd-ferdin...