THE SONG

So as I'm certain you're all aware, Murder on the Dance Floor is the official WLD theme song. If you are still asking questions at this point, you are celebrating the wrong holiday. Come back when you're ready to live with some real finesse, buck-o.



I don't know whether this is amazing or utterly embarrasing, but I still want to show Sophie Ellis-Bextor exactly why they call me The King of the Make-Outs.

EDIT: You know, the more I watch this video (and don't get me wrong, I am TOTALLY working hard at being a lawyer right now, I'm just also, you know, watching white chicks in eyeliner on youtube at the same time) the more I am impressed with how it so gracefully subverts traditional pop-music metaphors in making its main point, i.e., that it is, in fact, murder on the dance floor. Let's look at three examples:
1. Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays the villain, and she wins. Totally unheard of. The only other example I can think of Mariah Carey's Heartbreaker video and even in that, Mariah also plays the extremely large-breasted good guy and kicks her own ass. Give me your love, indeed.
2. Proving that the movie Grease successfully held back the cultural development of the entire, uh, Down Under, by catapulting Olivia Newton-John to mega-stardom, the video takes place at a dance contest, because that's basically the entire stupid conflict in Grease. The keen observer will note that SEB is clearly the worst dancer at this event, but she wins with a skillful combination of murdering and cleavage.
3. Not only is our pop heroine a bloodthirsty, oversexualized hellhound bent on total world-dance-domination (god, I love a strong woman), she looks straight-up bored for most of the video.

I submit to you that this video is, in fact, WLD in a nutshell: classy villainous superiority, spiked punch, and the exact right amount of decollétage for the job at hand. This combination has a name, people, and that name is finesse.