Boogie SuperStar brings to life all the fun and excitement of performing. Being on stage is such a thrill and it’s great to be a part of an EA video game that lets girls experience how much fun it is to express themselves and explore their own creativity by performing.

The North American and international version are packed with tons of pop songs. Hit the jump for the rundown and screens:

Boogie SuperStar global song list featured in both North America and International versions of game includes:

Angel, Love Like This [remix], Pocketful of Sunshine:Natasha Bedingfield

Dance Like There's No Tomorrow: Paula Abdul

Bullseye, Like Whoa, Potential Breakup Song: Aly & AJ

The Great Escape: Boys Like Girls

Everytime We Touch, What Hurts the Most: Cascada

Fancy Footwork: Chromeo

Thnks Fr Th Mmrs: Fall Out Boy

Glamorous: Fergie

Elevator: Flo Rida feat. Timbaland

I Don’t Want to Be in Love (Dance Floor Anthem): Good Charlotte

Wake Up: Hilary Duff

Hold On, SOS, That’s Just the Way We Roll, When You Look Me in the Eyes [remix]: The Jonas Brothers

No One: Alicia Keys

Take You There: Sean Kingston

Girlfriend: Avril Lavigne

Bleeding Love: Leona Lewis

Shake It: Metro Station

What You Got: Colby O’Donis

I Don't Think About It: Emily Osment

Nine in the Afternoon: Panic at the Disco

Hot N Cold: Katy Perry

Jump to the Rhythm: Jordan Pruitt

Don’t Stop the Music, Shut Up and Drive: Rihanna

Yahhh!: Soulja Boy Tellem

Radar, Toxic: Britney Spears

He Said She Said: Ashley Tisdale

Makes Me Wonder: Maroon 5

Stronger: Kanye West

In addition to the songs listed above, the International version of Boogie SuperStar also includes the following song list, highlighting top local hits from a variety of European countries:

We Don't Dance, We Are the Dance: SMDB (France)

Ma Philosophie: Amel Bent (France)

Blink: John Dahlbäck (France)

Je vais vite: Lorie (France)

On s'attache: Christophe Maé (France)

Mademoiselle Juliette: Alizée (France)

Ein Stern (...der deinen Namen trägt): DJ Ötzi & Nik P. (Germany)

By Your Side: Tokio Hotel (Germany)

My Man Is a Mean Man: Stefanie Heinzmann (Germany)

Summer Love: Mark Medlock (Germany)

Tanz der Moleküle: MIA. (Germany)

Hot Summer: Monrose (Germany)

Disappear: No Angels (Germany)

Naughty But Nice: Room2012 (Germany)

Adiós: Angy (Spain)

Tu peor error: La 5ª Estación (Spain)

Eres tonto: El Canto del Loco (Spain)

Viene y va: Fito & Fitipaldis (Spain)

Para toda la vida: El Sueño de Morfeo (Spain)

Estrella polar: Pereza (Spain)

Questo sono io: Finley (Italy)

Balliamo sul mondo: Ligabue (Italy)

Vamos a bailar: Paola e Chiara (Italy)

Rewind: Vasco Rossi (Italy)

Alles is liefde: Bløf (Benelux)

I Feel the Same Way: Sandrine (Benelux)

Here's how AJ earned her keep this week:

Battlefield Heroes – Battling The Stigma Of Battlefield
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Wii Impressions
Tetris, Spore, Scrabble and Sudoku – EA’s iPhone lineup
Boogie SuperStar – Objectifying And Empowering Tween Girls Everywhere
Celebrity Sports Showdown Impressions
The Odd Couple - EA & Grasshopper or Suda 51 & Shinji Mikami
Epic's New Game – President Tells All

And stay tuned next week for more from EA's 08 Showcase and some stuff on those mysterious events I'm not allowed to talk about yet.

Thanks for the big welcome, y'all! (And I can say that because I'm from Texas, so back off.)

Boogie SuperStar is all about moving in rhythm to dance moves or singing karaoke on-pitch (but not both at once). The set-up is you make an avatar (skinny boy or skinny girl) who then gets scouted to attend superstar school. From there you dance or sing your way through competitions set to more than 40 girl-centric songs like “Bleeding Love” while you collect points for style and moves. The idea is to max out all the stats, unlock all the outfits and become the all-time SuperStar, despite Judge Vicki’s attempts to sabotage you.

I’m all about having games for girls; and I totally get that there is a demographic out there who likes stuff like Imagine: Babies and doesn’t feel the least bit insulted when people sneer at the Wii as a “girl’s console.” But do we really need to “empower” preteen girls with games designed to embarrass them?

Unlike WiiFit, Boogie SuperStar isn’t going to call a girl fat – but it can be pretty punishing if you don’t nail the complex dance moves and all, I mean all, the character models are stick-thin (even the token “fat” girl).

It’s been a long time since I was a fat 12-year-old; but I do remember going to birthday parties and being too shy to play any game that made me get up and move. I also can’t carry a tune to save my life, so karaoke is out unless it’s Rock Band, where the echo and the accompanying instruments cover the worst of my eff-ups.

So, really, this game is a shy, fat girl’s nightmare if it’s on the party game schedule right after Spin the Bottle.

Somehow, and more eloquently, I managed to tell the PR rep running the demo all of that. He was nice enough to offer to embarrass himself for me and I sat back and watched him get down to Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend.”

The dance moves require all kinds of hand motions and body motions from rolling your arms and shaking your hips to jumping up and down and turning all the way around. The PR rep jumped and shook and pointed and wiggled his whole body until he filled up his star gauge, charging his skinny avatar with glowing peace symbols and red stars. He aced the song – one of the hardest on the playlist – and cajoled me into trying a slower song for myself.

It wasn’t as bad as I feared and somewhere in the back of my mind, the traumatized tween that gave up girlie things for video games began to crawl out and tap her toes to the beat.

So maybe there is something to this game that’s going to click with the tween girls. It’s got the right amount of glitter and glitz, and the right kind of feeling in the Wii controls so that you can’t just sit back and swing the remote; you’ve really got to boogie if you want to win.

Boogie SuperStar ships in October. See if you can spot the token “fat” girl in the screens below. I’ll give you a hint: she’s just as skinny as the other girls.

I'm presuming that very few of you reading this are young females between the ages of six and 12 who love to karaoke to Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love, or dance to the best of Fergie and Good Charlotte. The songlist is intimidatingly marquee, though, and one of the major takeaways from having the game demoed for me was just how far games have forged in getting the music biz to recognize their power in helping label artists stay relevant to a new audience.

And while Boogie SuperStar might not be a game specifically for you or for me, I think that's pretty important - equally cool was the motion recognition tech.

It'll come bundled with a microphone for pretty standard-looking pitch and note duration-based karaoke, but for the dancing portion, you hold the Wii remote and Nunchuk and do whatever moves you're prompted to do. Simple stuff, like twirling or arm-rolling, but the guy who was demonstrating for me (yeah, a guy) seemed to be able to move really naturally and have the game still clearly understand which moves he was doing.

The fun part was that the on-screen avatar (characters are fully customizable, by the way) did whatever moves the guy was doing even when they were wrong - in other words, rather than lead the player, the on-screen character follows him, always attuned to the player's movements. That was pretty neat.

It looked like the kind of thing my eight year-old girl cousin would love to have at her next birthday party. There are cartoony narrative cutscenes following your chosen glamor girl's rise to stardom, suitably imbued with 'tween girl signposts of coolness and drama, so the game knows its audience well, even when that audience isn't me.

Girl games have a tendency to make us cringe a bit, but I suppose I'd rather have my cousin rocking out with this game than something with Bratz in it. Shudder.

“Boogie SuperStar promotes self-expression, creativity and empowerment for girls worldwide,” said Robert Nashak, VP of Casual Studios, EA Casual Entertainment. “We have created a game where girls don’t just observe someone else’s rise to fame, they experience it themselves, singing and dancing their way through a world most girls only dream about.”

So it's like Boogie, only for girls! Developed for girls by EA Montreal, Boogie Superstar is due out this October and comes packaged with a girl-microphone.

Hit the jump for screens and a press release so female-centric it made Totilo suggest a drinking game based on how many times the word "girl" appears.

EA Delivers a VIP Pass to Stardom With Boogie SuperStar for Wii

New Sing and Dance Game Lets Girls Perform Today’s Hottest Music to Become a Star

LOS ANGELES—(BUSINESS WIRE)—For any girl who has ever dreamed of being a star, the Casual Entertainment Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) brings future stars one step closer today with the announcement of Boogie™ SuperStar. Combining the hottest music hits from around the world with the coolest dance moves and total character customization, Boogie SuperStar provides girls the ultimate gaming experience: to sing and dance their way to superstardom! Exclusively for the Wii™, Boogie SuperStar will be available in North America and Europe October 2008, and in Asia in the following months.

Boogie SuperStar features more than 40 songs made famous by popular artists such as Rihanna, Fergie, Katy Perry, Maroon 5, Leona Lewis, Alicia Keys, Good Charlotte, Britney Spears, Kanye West, and more. Another 30 songs will be available on International versions of the game, allowing players to perform songs from local artists including Melissa M (France), Monrose (Germany), Finley (Italy) and Fito y Fitipaldis (Spain). The star power behind Boogie SuperStar doesn’t stop there. EA will soon reveal the game’s featured artist — a chart-topping, global music sensation who will help promote Boogie SuperStar.

“Boogie SuperStar promotes self-expression, creativity and empowerment for girls worldwide,” said Robert Nashak, VP of Casual Studios, EA Casual Entertainment. “We have created a game where girls don’t just observe someone else’s rise to fame, they experience it themselves, singing and dancing their way through a world most girls only dream about.”

In Boogie SuperStar, players don’t just play along, they are the star of the game. Girls will have a blast belting their favorite tunes into the microphone, and performing real dance moves that are captured on screen using the Wii’s motion-sensing technology. The journey to stardom doesn’t have to be a solo! With two- and four-player modes, girls can play with their friends, sing and dance with their friends or against them in fun competitions that show-off their singing and dancing talent!

Players begin the game by customizing their character, choosing from millions of possible combinations to create a performer that is as unique as they are. They are then “discovered” and whisked away to an island where they learn what it takes to be a star. While on the island, players build their singing and dancing skills, performing in posh environments fit for a rising star, including a studio, a poolside stage, a breath-taking terrace, and a yacht. Once performance skills are perfected, girls are ready to perform for a panel of judges in the ultimate competition, the Boogie Star Show! Only the best and the brightest will be able to outshine the competition to become a Boogie SuperStar!

Developed at EA Montreal under the EA Casual Entertainment Label, Boogie SuperStar has an MSRP of $59.99 and comes with a microphone included. Boogie SuperStar has not yet been rated by the ESRB and PEGI.