Bluey: Dance Mode! (Album)

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Bluey: Dance Mode! is an album created by the music team behind Bluey, and is the second album to contain music from the show, after the first album.

The Album Cover

History

After the success of the first album, a second album was released on 21st April 2023.

Joff Bush serves as the primary composer of the show, writing roughly half of the scores for each episode, while also leading a handful of additional composers, including David Barber. Bush graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium, where he met executive producer Daley Pearson. Each episode has a unique individual style (influenced by Bushs' work on Charlie & Lola), with live instruments used most of the time, and Bush has stated that he likes to become involved in the episodes as they are scripted.

Bush recorded a soundtrack for the first series of the program, titled Bluey: The Album, which was released on 22 January 2021. The soundtrack debuted at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart in February 2021. It was recognised as the first children's album to reach the top of the charts in Australia. It won Best Children's Album at the 2021 ARIA Music Awards, and an APRA Screen Music Award for Best Soundtrack Album in 2021.

Dance Mode! features songs from the first, second and third series of Bluey. The first half of the album contains upbeat and more active songs, while the second half contains a quieter tone, with a more reflective feel to the tracks. "Dance Mode" (the track) is describe as an upbeat, EDM style song, while both tracks "Army" and "Grandad" lean into the bluegrass genre with banjo and whistle instrumentation.

The rear of the Album

The first single, Dance Mode, was released on 27th January 2023, with The BeeeeOOP Walk released four weeks later on 24th February. Another four weeks later, Rain (Boldly In The Pretend) was released.

Bush wrote every track on this album, and co-wrote with Craig Parry & Marly Lüske (for Bluey Theme Tune (Dance Remix)), Steve Peach (Chattermax), Pluto Jonze (Army & Grandad) and Jazz D'Arcy (for Copycat & Rain (Instrumental)). The Album has a run-time of over 42 minutes, similar to the first album, with the shortest tracks running for around a minute, with three (Sticky Gecko, Rainbow & Rain (BITP)) for over four minutes.

Release

The three singles (Dance Mode, The BeeeeeOOP Walk and Rain (Boldly in the Pretend)) could be listened to on Spotify, releasing on 27th January, 24th February and 24th March respectively. On the 21st April 2023, the album was released at midnight local time for each nation and is available for streaming from Spotify. CD & vinyl sales have also started in Australia.

Track List

1. Bluey Theme Tune (Dance Remix)
2. Dance Mode (from Dance Mode)
3. Doo-ba-Zoo (from Housework)
4. The BeeeeOOP Walk (from Housework)
5. Chattermax (from Hide and Seek)
6. Copycat (from Copycat)
7. Lollipop Yum Yum Yum (from Bad Mood)
8. Cat Squad! (from Library)
9. Omelette (from Omelette)
10. Sticky Gecko (from Sticky Gecko)
11. The Gnome Song-Featuring Megan Washington (from Calypso)
12. Army (from Army)
13. Grandad (from Grandad)
14. It Was Yesterday (from Grandad)
15. Rainbow (Instrumental) (from Rain)
16. Rainbow (from Rain)
17. Rain (Boldly in the Pretend)-Featuring Jazz D'Arcy (from Rain)

Trivia

• This is the first album to:
  • Feature tracks from Season Two or Three.
  • To feature vocals from Megan Washington, a professional singer and the voice actor of Calypso.
• The rear of the album shows Bingo sitting with headphones on her, similar to the first album which showed Bluey listening.
  • Unlike the first album, which showed Bluey listening through a device similar to an iPod, Bingo listens through the stereo with headphones (which are different to her sisters') plugged in.
  • Costa Kassab, an art director for Bluey noted that the back cover lines up with the front art for the first album.
  • Joff Bush also noted that when adding in the background artwork for Rug Island, a 180 degree view of the front of The Heeler House can be seen, where Bandit is in the living room with the hoover.

    

    Rain (Boldly in the Pretend) Official Music Video feat. Jazz D'Arcy - Bluey

    The music video for Rain-Boldly in the Pretend by Jazz D'Arcy