“Move In The Right Direction” is the undeniable standout track on Gossip‘s fifth studio album A Joyful Noise. While it’s not necessarily lead singer Beth Ditto‘s strongest vocal performance, she still puts in enough chops to keep this inspirational dance jam moving in, well, the right direction.

Plus, and perhaps most importantly, this song is just so much damn fun.

- Dewitt

Click through to watch the music video for “Move In The Right Direction”:

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Coco Morier sounds like Bats for Lashes. Coco Morier also acted as co-writer for Britney Spears‘ “How I Roll” and Sky Ferreira‘s “99 Tears”, two of my favorite pop tracks from the past few years. This combination simultaneously makes all the sense in the world and doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. That said, I choose to accept it while listening to her new single “Ambulance”.

Admittedly, this song falls a bit flat for me. While it dabbles in an oh-so-familiar (and wonderful) territory of indie-pop darkness, there just isn’t that extra “oomph” that makes me want to press repeat… But perhaps you’ll feel differently? If so, you can grab a free download of “Ambulance” here.

- Dewitt

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The boys of One Direction have close to zero sex appeal for me. The music of One Direction has close to zero appeal for me. Yet, with that said, I consistently see grown men dorking out about these five singing, dancing twinks from the other side of the pond.

Now, I’m not trying to be a bitch, but… Why?

- Dewitt

Click through for a video called “The Many Gay Moments of One Direction”:

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What’s the best part about TV Girl‘s (sort of) new mixtape The Wild, The Innocent, The TV Shuffle? Duh, the free activity book that comes with each download! As for the second best part? I’d have to go with track eight, “Loud and Clear”.

For me, this song just screams summer. It makes me want to turn my stereo up so I don’t have to hear, turn the volume way up until it hurts my ears, and it sounds exactly like I feared. <– This is me quoting the lyrics. You’d understand that if you actually listened to the song, punk.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention! If you dig this, you can download the whole mixtape here.

- Dewitt

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Someone has left my cake out in the rain, because Donna Summer is no longer with us.  She worked hard for that money! So hard for it, honey. Sorry – I’m typing these as fast as I can before everyone else gets as cheesy. Donna passed away at age 63 in Florida while battling cancer.

Summers (along with her famous producer Giorgio Moroder) crafted some of the most influential music of the 1970s. Momma was a PIONEER when it came to dance music and R&B. I am not a Rolling Stone music critic, so I can not describe her range or anything boring like that. I can tell you that I am not old enough to have been around when she was dropping “Bad Girls”, “Hot Stuff”, “I Feel Love” and the like, but I know these are mainstays for a reason. Oh shit – “Last Dance”!

Her accomplishments (via Wikipedia) include being “a five-time Grammy Award winner. Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the US Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States within a thirteen-month period.” DAMN!

Obviously, dance music and gays in the 70s were strongly identified with each other, so Donna was queen. Until she took some guff in the 80s when some stories dropped that quoted her saying some negative things about gays in relation to AIDS. Which was ridic because that’s about 3/4 of her damn audience! Donna later issued an apology via ACT UP saying it was a “terrible misunderstanding”. Make of that what you will. Everybody makes mistakes. She paid, because you didn’t see her on the charts much after that. However – she did sue The New York Times successfully for slander and donated to a bunch of AIDS charities so make of it what you will!

Nevertheless, she was one of the greats and it is with great sadness that we say goodbye to her.

Check out some of Donna’s songs and videos after the break. If you were into her, let us know what your favorite Donna Summer song is!

- J. Harvey

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