The A-List Setlist

Imagine, if you will, a very LGBT dance floor with a sequined shark starring as 'disco ball' hanging from the ceiling in the center of the room. Imagine 200-300 mostly men, mostly with their shirts off, mostly drunk, but having the time of their lives. Making out on the dance floor, twerking, screaming the lyrics, showing off on the 'stage'-like riser. What do you imagine the music accompanying this scene to be? This is my submission.

'Mil Veces' is my favorite song off Anitta's album 'Funk Generation,' but I always had a gripe with the shortness of the sweet, sweet mid-song drop, and the fact that it just goes away and we don't circle back. "You can just do things," so I created a version I'd listen to, and then a club-style mix flowed from there.

I left home. I found myself. I grieved all the SHIT that got me here. I'm better than ever. I made it!!

or, Club Mix Redux (Electric Boogaloo)

I was driving down to take an escape-vacation to DC and my Apple Music Radio played 'One Way Ticket' by Priya Ragu. It was an earworm, and became the song that defined that vacation for me. So much so that I would indeed visit the club circuit and 'fall in love on [the] dance floor.' Little did I realize I'd pick up my life and move out of my home state to that exact area. May this mix give you the boldness it gives me to get myself out there again.

A former love interest introduced me to the song 'Envious' by Aluna. Besides the fact that Aluna never misses on anything she releases, this song also turned out to be a great vehicle to explore many aspects of a mind grieving a lost cause relationship. This outside-the-box club/dancehall mix takes the listener through the many somewhat contradictory mental narratives that come with the process of losing a person romantically (jealousy, clinging, defiance, enamor, etc.), culminating in the idea that 'yes, it is what it is and will be but at the end of the day I still care about them.'