Along the way you'll meet Dagestani dance commanders and trance DJs who fled Hezbollah.
On her last album, in 2001, she was a bellowing dance-commander, and now she's gone one better, cranking up both the beats and her propensity for blasting.
Get On Your Feet, from that album, melded the dance-commander rhythms of Conga with synthpop, a savvy harnessing of trends that kept Estefan as a presence on the radio.
Then it went on to merge the Stuff, Wireblock and Dress 2 Sweat labels into the Numbers monolith and launch the early careers of some now-beloved UK names: Warp's Rustie, PC Music's SOPHIE, dance-pop commander Jamie xx and R&B chart-smasher Jessie Ware.
French disc jockeys and producers David Guetta and Sandy Vee produced "Commander" with synthesized dance beats that blend R&B with electronica and house music.
The album closes with a pair of dance songs, including another Guetta collaboration, "Commander".
Rowland explained that the hook of the song, "Commander", should be associated with dance instead of the military.
After beefing up her profile with dance tracks such as "When Love Takes Over" and "Commander," Rowland slid into more sensual, grittier R&B terrain on the album with steamy cuts such as "Motivation".
What began as a simple dispute between Rear-Admiral Bernard Collard and Royal Oak's two senior officers, Captain Kenneth Dewar and Commander Henry Daniel, over the band at the ship's wardroom dance, descended into a bitter personal feud that spanned several months.
"We call it the Kabuki dance, because it seems chaotic and frenzied," says Army Lt. Col. Mike Cashner, former battalion commander for the 831st Transportation Battalion.
