Score: 9.76/10

DNCE is the new band of Joe Jonas. They appear to be a four piece band of which Joe Jonas is the singer and front man. They play rock and roll, and as their name suggests, Dance music, which is what this song seems to want to do above all else.

It starts of with a poppin bass line that descends, ascends and descends again that is punctuated with a clap of percussion. Then the one two snare-bass drum boom clap drops, and is followed by funkily strummed quintuplets of sunny guitar chords that sprinkle and pepper the piece's dominating feature, the groovey disco bass line.

The lyrics begin with Jonas beckoning his listener to lighten up and warm up: "oh no see you walkin around like it's a funeral... why those feet cold?" He's addressing the girl, and the suggestions are numerous. They range from ceremony, with images of funerals and cold feet, to particles, that when warm expand apart and have suggestions of hot sweating people.

The chorus comes together as Jonas makes a suggestion to "start living dangerously" and breaks into his falsetto and things smooth out and blend together as the expected energy is released and the catchy chorus title line is delivered by a choir of men: "oh ya-ya-yaa! I keep on hopin'--- there'll be cake by the ocean uh!" It is so powerful it suggests the onomotapia HiYA~ as well as the adult names of various deserts, and uses of icing. Things get louder, more simple, yet more complex during this part as the vocal weaves in and out in a rag time fashion.

One gets the sense Jonas is ready for something: "confetti/I'm ready, perhaps some kind of marriage. He does not want anyone "wasting time with a masterpiece" though. It's all about fun in the moment. In all of the vagueness (cake by the ocean?) and strangeness we find some sense: Live in the moment. That's what pop is all about.

This will definitely be a chart climber in the future, maybe even a number one.