If you know me, you know that I love to show out to Twofers Tuesday at P&Gs on Main Street with my friends. The drink specials are nice and all, the people are perfectly fun, but I’m really there for the music. I can’t dance to save my life, but four-on-the-floor pop music has saved my life plenty of times before. Dance music puts me into a state of mind where I am completely immersed in joy and can escape reality. Especially during the beginning of the pandemic, dance pop music sent me to a time when I was on the dance floor with my friends, enjoying the music and forgetting our worries. I recently saw an Instagram post stating that, “God wants me to be a gay DJ,” and while I don’t know if that is true, I like to think I have a pretty good music taste and would love to DJ a party. I have a very different music taste from my friends, but I do try to share as much of the joy as I can. I am inspired by queer parties, dance mixes and lyrically exciting songs. I grew up loving disco and later found electronic and rap music, and those elements all strongly influence my music taste and what I listen to today. One day, I hope to curate a set list of dance music for people to enjoy and dance to at a party of my own, but for now, here is my playlist of songs I would love to (but probably never will) hear at a party here in New Paltz.
34+35 Remix by Ariana Grande (feat. Doja Cat & Megan Thee Stallion)
Do What U Want by Lady Gaga & Christina Aguilera
LUCID by Rina Sawayama
Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here — Dance Mix by Deborah Cox & Hex Hector
Coconuts by Kim Petras
Replay by Lady Gaga
Rumors by Lizzo (feat. Cardi B)
Just What They Want by RuPaul
69 by Todrick Hall feat. Kylie Sonique Love
Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) [2020] by Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Dear Uber Driver by The AAA Girls (feat. Alaska Thunderf*ck, Courtney Act & Willam)
If You Could Read My Mind by Ultra Naté, Amber and Jocelyn Enriquez
Greedy by Ariana Grande
Froot by MARINA
Heart to Break by Kim Petras
