Must be the heat

I've been spending a lot of time during the week listening to dance/pop music on YouTube. Here's the round-up:

• Gwen Stefani's What You Waiting For vs. Madonna's Hung Up utterly trounces the original Madonna track, but I still prefer the unaltered What You Waiting For to the mash-up.


• Geri Halliwell's It's Raining Men lacks the stellar vocals of The Weather Girls' original, but the inspired orchestral-string loops from the remake make it worth a listen.


• Paul Oakenfold's Faster Kill Pussycat feat. Brittany Murphy. Just seeing her in Clueless, I knew Ms. Murphy was quite capable of singing, but she hadn't until now. Now that she has, I'm desperately awaiting an album...

Here's the requisite cute, fluffy alternative for people who don't care about the music I'm checking out. :)