My girlfriend was lamenting how KISS frequently played a song that sounded exactly the same as the J. Pop music is a vortex of repetition and overused melodies, and this seals it. To summarize: not only was I correct in thinking On the Floor was familiar, it RIPS OFF A SONG THAT ALREADY RIPS OFF ANOTHER SONG. Well, after some Internet sleuthing, I stumbled upon this article at Salon that was written roughly a year ago. Lo and the mysterious accordion melody version all day long, and it was slowly driving me batshit insane. This was amplified when my day job moved into our current office, connected to a warehouse that would play KISS FM, L.A.'s leading assault-on-the-ears Top 40 Jams station. Somewhere along the way I would hear this vaguely European/Latin version of what sounded A LOT like On the Floor's main melody, but with an accordion or some other such instrument. When I heard it, it sounded oddly familiar, even though I knew I hadn't heard it before.Īgain, I DON'T go out of my way to listen to Top 40 jams, but I do occasionally go to malls or department stores (or fashionable joints, when coerced by my gf), where they play the kind of music that makes me long to be deaf.or back it up like a Tonka Truck. Pitbull's involvement with the track didn't help matters. That said, I, like most other people who live on the Internet all day long, am frequently subjected to what is "popular" with the "kids" - well, the kids that don't shop at Hot Topic.Īs such, I heard Jennifer Lopez's On the Floor enough to get very sick of it, quickly, over the course of the past year or so. The exception to this is Party Rock Anthem, which is just ridiculously infectious.
Anyone who knows me in real life knows I don't much care for Top 40 dance/hip-hop club bangers.