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Yet, just as their debut was often tagged as "heavy metal" when it was essentially an electronic disco record with loud guitars, so this time a shiny happy dance-pop record lies beneath the hard-rocking exterior.

Justice are rocking the world 2011

But four months after the first D.C. season ended -- and there's no sign on the horizon of a second season -- we've yet to see a best-selling diet book or cheesy dance-pop single out of our Washington crew.

"Real Housewives" Cat Ommanney tells-all in new (self-published) memoir -- but won't someone tell us about a second season? 2011

But four months after the first D.C. season ended - and there's no sign on the horizon of a second season - we've yet to see a best-selling diet book or cheesy dance-pop single out of our Washington crew.

Reality TV, then what? 2011

With a legacy stretching back decades and a musical engine built for constant upgrades, dance-pop could be an ideal vehicle for older singers, if only we'd notice.

Let's hear it for the middle-aged female popstar 2011

Sounding similar to dance-pop groups like CSS and Cut Copy, Yelle stands alone in how its music influenced an entire population of Francophone youth.

Judah Joseph: MUSIC REVIEW: Yelle in Concert Judah Joseph 2011

Starting with Dizzee Rascal's 2008 collaboration with Scottish dance-pop producer Calvin Harris, "Dance Wiv Me", grime evolved, sloughing off its symbiotic relationship to strife, and becoming a boundary-free party music.

Tinie Tempah – review Kitty Empire 2010

Morvan and Rob Pilatus were the photogenic public faces of a Germany-based dance-pop project whose album Girl You Know It's True was released in the USA in 1989.

Milli Vanilli frontman says duo were musical 'scapegoats' 2010

Whitney Houston, as the debut was titled, was praised not for the music, which was unexceptional dance-pop, so much as for the promise the 21-year-old singer showed.

Whitney Houston obituary 2012

The quartet – put together by the Nickelodeon channel to star in a Monkees-inspired series about a boy band – rival Bieber in both the lush-tresses department and their complete lack of edge, abundantly displayed across 17 tracks six of them added for the British release, including a version of Boyfriend that features a wholesome-sounding Snoop Dogg lending pizzazz to an otherwise anodyne dance-pop tune.

Big Time Rush: BTR – review 2011

The women who make dance-pop are subject to unusual scrutiny, especially as coverage is shunted from music sections to celebrity ones.

Let's hear it for the middle-aged female popstar 2011