To be perfectly honest, I quit watching Dancing With The Stars two seasons ago. There's only so much dancing I can take.

But after Monday night's cast announcement for the Spring 2008 season, I have a pretty clear favorite, personally: Mario.

For those of you not familiar with the 21-year-old R&B star, let me introduce you to what I believe to be one of the two or three best (if not the best) male R&B songs of the decade, How Could You.

A couple of musician's notes: a) The chorus is classic 3-chord pop. However, b) starting at 2:21 in the video begins what I believe to be the most sophisticated pop, R&B bridge in recent memory. There are at least four tremendously jazzy chord progressions.

Brilliant musicianship even if, lyrically, this song refers to something called the "ghetto Kama Sutra."

What's crazy beyond crazy is that this song never even hit the Top 40. Peaked at No. 52 in March 2005.