Want to experience 2009 in pop music in less than five minutes? This amazing song/video from DJ Earworm condenses Billboard's top 25 pop songs of the year into one infectious dance number that's considerably more than the sum of its parts. And it mashes up those songs' video to boot.
This is a follow-up to similar mashups from 2007 and 2008, both available on YouTube and as free mp3 downloads on DJ Earworm's bare-bones website, linked above. Man, does this thing ever give us some quickie flashbacks. It incorporates the following songs:
The Black Eyed Peas, “Boom Boom Pow”
Lady Gaga, “Poker Face”
Lady Gaga Featuring Colby O’donis, “Just Dance”
The Black Eyed Peas, “I Gotta Feeling”
Taylor Swift, “Love Story”
Flo Rida, “Right Round”
Jason Mraz, “I’m Yours”
Beyonce, “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
Kanye West, “Heartless”
The All-American Rejects, “Gives You Hell”
Taylor Swift, “You Belong With Me”
T.I. Featuring Justin Timberlake, “Dead And Gone”
The Fray, “You Found Me”
Kings Of Leon, “Use Somebody”
Keri Hilson Featuring Kanye West & Ne-Yo, “Knock You Down”
Jamie Foxx Featuring T-Pain, “Blame It”
Pitbull, “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)”
T.I. Featuring Rihanna, “Live Your Life”
Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em Featuring Sammie, “Kiss Me Thru The Phone”
Jay Sean Featuring Lil Wayne, “Down”
Miley Cyrus, “The Climb”
Drake, “Best I Ever Had”
Kelly Clarkson, “My Life Would Suck Without You”
Beyonce, “Halo”
Katy Perry, “Hot N Cold”
Good luck picking them all out of the rich sonic stew. If you can stop dancing long enough to try.