Dubai in Review, part 1: It’s a party in the…UAE?

statue-of-liberty-dubaiSo I put my hands up, they’re playing my song, and the butterflies fly away

Noddin’ my head like ‘Yeah’

Movin’ my hips like ‘Yeah’

And I got my hands up, they’re playing my song and I know I’m going to be ok

It’s a Party in the…

It’s a Party in the…

UAE.  Wait, that’s not what Miley Cyrus is saying?

I had to fly halfway around the world, to a city/state that just barely allows holding hands between a man and wife in public, to hear a song about listening to Jay-Z and Britney Spears in a club (in the U.S.) and realizing everything would be okay.  Irony at its finest.  Oh, did I mention that I heard this song in a taxi on the way home from a bar…a bar that had a Statue of Liberty replica next to a palm tree and Corona beer signs?  Is the cognitive dissonance hurting your brain yet?

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