Disco Down Mix

On March 21, 2026, at the Jaeb Theater of the Straz Center in Tampa, Florida, Out On the Dance Floor's emcee Veronica Foxx took center stage for one of the night's most electric numbers: a drag performance set to her own custom-mixed three-song disco track — "Knock On Wood," "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)," and "Lovin' Is Really My Game."

Foxx's mix is built as a continuous, escalating ride through the late-1970s dance-floor canon. "Knock On Wood" — most famously delivered as a disco anthem by Amii Stewart — opened the set with its insistent, four-on-the-floor pulse and immediately got the room moving. The segue into Sylvester's "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" landed with the kind of joyful inevitability that the song's queer cultural lineage demands; Foxx's lip-sync of "you make me feel mighty real" carried both reverence for Sylvester's legacy and a performer's full ownership of the moment. The closing "Lovin' Is Really My Game" — Brainstorm's underappreciated 1977 groove — sealed the mix with strutting confidence and a final surge of energy.

Foxx commanded the room with a theatrical, unerring sense of rhythm, every gesture and mouthed lyric landing exactly on the beat. The transitions she had stitched into the track were tight and motivated, letting her ride the genre shifts without breaking character. Her drag presence — the looks, the attitude, the precise physical storytelling — turned each song change into its own scene, amplifying the music rather than competing with it.

The Jaeb's intimate cabaret setting was tailor-made for this kind of full-throttle performance, and the audience responded with whoops, applause between sections, and a standing groove by the final number.

Within the larger arc of Out On the Dance Floor, this mix functioned as the concert's beating heart — three songs that defined queer nightlife, delivered by a drag performer who clearly understands what they mean.