Bachelorette Party

So, he heeded Beyoncé and took “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” to heart, and now you’re bidding your own single-ladyhood goodbye. It’s time, girlfriend, to party. We’re talkin’ a night of all-out abandon with your best buds in tow, and our Bachelorette Party playlist settin’ the scene. Before you take that long, sweet walk to the rest of your life, pile into the limo and turn up the volume on P!nk and her party-starter shout-out “Raise Your Glass,” explode onto the dance floor with Katy Perry and the sparkly sounds of “Firework,” and get it out of your system to Cyndi Lauper’s retro truth-teller “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.”

So maybe Bruno Mars is ready to “Marry You,” but he’ll just have to wait a little while longer — the Bachelorette Party is still going strong in Next Steps.

You’ve got the rest of your life to play house with your one and only, but just for tonight, for the ultimate Bachelorette Party blowout, you and your girls (and Gretchen Wilson) are “Here for the Party.” After all, as country ladies the Judds so aptly put it, it’s “Girls Night Out” — we say go ahead and “Work It” while Missy Elliott cheers you on from the sidelines. Just for tonight, Christina Aguilera’s giving permission to go out and get “Dirrty (feat. Redman), so show ’em what you got, and let ’em feast their senses on your sweet self to the tune of Kelis’ too-tasty “Milkshake.”

“Don’t Stop the Music,” pleads Rihanna, and we wouldn’t dream of it — take the Bachelorette Party to Deep Cuts for more.