Playlist: 5 Songs to Strut To | Kieran Murphy

The click-clack of high heels has been echoing throughout the grounds of UCC this week and that can only been that fresh alumni are out in their droves to receive their diploma, a sort of disappointing culmination of 3 years of stress eating. However when you're finished saying that you feel like you're in Hogwarts while in those neat gowns it might be time to take advantage of the breeze in your hair and strut right through the amphitheatre to the following songs.

5. Girls Aloud - Something New

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Just look at those dance moves, what rhythm, what grace oh wait no they're just strutting but what a strut they have. Celebrate the end of your academic career with Something New, like not ordering a chicken roll in the main for once.

4. Kelly Clarkson - What Doesn't Kill You

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn676-fLq7I]

What's more powerful than a confident strut down the street? Nothing that's what and there is no more a powerful woman than Kelly Clarkson who's song, What Doesn't Kill You is the perfect one to strut to, because you have to be powerful to have a career after American Idol.

3.  Bee Gees - Staying Alive

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If anyone has any bit of business savvy they'd be sat outside the student centre selling t-shirts saying 'I Survived UCC' but alas we have to make do with one of the orginal strutters, John Travolta, showing off his swagger to the Bee Gees Staying Alive.

2. Nicki Minaj - Superbass 

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnt4roG7Xg8]

Say what you want about models but it takes a lot of effort to walk down a runway in perfect timing, but this is coming from someone who couldn't find the beat to Mary Had a Little Lamb. Often kept under people's hats as a party trick, Nicki Minaj's Superbass to perfect melody for strutting especially to show all those 'haters' who's boss.

1. Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww]

These boots were made for walkin' and that's what they'll do. Tomorrow these boots are walking into the dole office. Sorry lads.