I’m finding that the line that separates the purists from the “confused” is more blurry than it’s ever been. More than a handful of producers beloved by whatever “underground” is left have (ahem, gladly) taken on production work for radio-friendly artists. (Let’s see where Jamie xx’s name ends up in 2013. In an interview I did with Girl Unit he mentioned wanting to work with Billboard-charting rnb singers.) To disregard dance in pop music out of pedantic loyalty to genre-names is your path but not mine! Dance music has traditionally benefited from a bending-the-rules-because-there-aren’t-any mentality, right?

Rihanna and Calvin Harris have proved themselves to be a power-duo as far as Billboard dance goes imo – if we’re going by release date, “We Found Love” was one of my favorite pop-dance tracks of 2011 as well.