keep conversations away from your mouth cause they're selling you out

I must be procrastinating an anthropology paper, because all I wanna do is read poetry* and write about music. 

So, Ghost Beach has a song called Been There Before. All over the internet (and currently touring the west coast) from New York City, they describe themselves as "tropical grit pop". I can go with that.
Anyways, back to Been There Before. It is a stellar song. It's gritty and poppy, as they promise, and it's also just interesting, which I honestly haven't heard a lot of lately because I've been listening to dubstep (but we'll get to that in a separate post). Oh So Fresh! Music linked to a remix done by Shook, with the promise that it had "plenty of dance vibes and catchy grooves to help you transition into weekend mode". I'm in. Right?
No.
It was just...bad. It was boring. That is unforgivable in electronic/dance (or even just dance-y) music. You can't take a good song, make it boring, and expect people to dance to it. I understand the point of dance music, but Been There Before and most of Ghost Beach's discography makes you kind of want to flail!dance excitedly because you feel good, and wouldn't you honestly rather do that than be a douchebag to electronic?
Go back to listening to their EP and Modern Tongues, both of which are on their website and on iTunes and all the regulars.
A little bit on Ghost Beach: they do a good job of listing their influences on their Facebook, and there's nothing earth-shattering that I would add - yes, you can hear Daft Punk, Depeche Mode, The Police, and Tears For Fears. I can't offhand think of a good comparison - maybe Beach House on glitter with glowsticks with a bit of that cover The Horrors did of Best Thing I Never Had. You could maybe draw comparisons to MGMT, but they wouldn't be good ones. (But HEY HEY HEY new MGMT album this year.)

Did you know that Ghost Beach was the twenty-second book in the Goosebumps series?


*The Music Lover's Poetry Anthology, ed. Helen Handley Houghton and Maureen McCarthy Draper, with love from my boyfriend for Christmas.