Popstar Patter Tip

Caller Darren Gallina

Popstar Patter is a popular affinity/specialty tip due to the use of current pop music. This session is usually more lively and high energy as the songs range from 124 to 130 beats per minute. Songs from artists like Lady Gaga, Psy, Taylor Swift, BTS, and others have been featured during these tips. Typically, pop songs are used but music from other sources like video games (Angry Birds) and kid songs (Baby Shark) have also been used. The songs played during the patter portion of a tip may have been released from a year ago to even as recently as a month before the dance. The songs used during the singing calls are usually not as recent due to the square dance record labels not having too many songs that are current and pop songs.

Although there are other callers who use pop songs, Darren Gallina is the caller who started the Popstar Patter. It started when his partner, Thom Dang, would suggest more modern songs for Darren to call to. This led to Darren using more of these songs at his dances and led to the debut of the Popstar Patter specialty tip at the 2011 IAGSDC “Gone With the Windmill” convention in Atlanta, GA. And it’s been a popular session at subsequent IAGSDC conventions and fly-ins. In 2013, the session was aimed at the "Under 30/Young at Heart" crowd.

History

Year	Convention	Program Level	Caller(s)
2011	Gone With The Windmill	Mainstream	Darren Gallina
2012	Maple Leafs Regroup	Mainstream	Darren Gallina
2013	Weave Your Heart in San Francisco	Mainstream	Darren Gallina
2014	Squeeze the Hive	Mainstream	Darren Gallina
2015	Swing Me in St. Louis	Mainstream	Darren Gallina
2016	Maple Leafs Regroup	Mainstream	Darren Gallina
2017	Palm Springs Swing & Mix 2017	Mainstream	Darren Gallina
2018	Circle Back to Seattle	Mainstream	Darren Gallina
2019	Belles Run Philadelphia 2019	Mainstream Plus Advanced	Darren Gallina
2022	Twin City Spin	Social Square Dance	Darren Gallina

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