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Top 5: Tips on How to Survive Miami WMC 2011

It's six years in a row attending the Winter Music Conference, for Kelly Thorpe, as she compiles her top five tips for having a successful week in Miami.

1. Bring your “A” game. Miami, especially during WMC, is full of beautiful people from all over the world. Bring your sexiest dresses and swim suits (if you're female), get a tan, and start an extreme diet and exercise program if necessary. If you're unsure what to wear, consult a stylist. You don't want to feel like an out of place, fat redneck in the midst of gorgeous, fit, and trendy people.

Bonus tip: Ladies, if really want to fit in, get a boob job.

Tell the nerds.......there's a new Silicone Valley in town.

2. Unless The Jersey Shore is your favorite TV show, and Snooki and The Situation are your idols, avoid the Shelborne Hotel AT ALL COSTS. However, if uber tanned juice heads who use an entire bottle of gel in their spiked hair, and wear a wife beater 3 sizes too small is your thing, you may just have found your home away from home. As a bonus, you'll get a marathon Jonathan Peters set with the exact same beat for 12 hours straight.

Snooki and The Situation....coming to a Shelborne Hotel near you.

3. Wear sunscreen!

4. Do not let your friends convince you which parties to attend. Do the research yourself on all the parties and who's playing at each one, and decide which ones you want to attend based on your own musical preferences. If you wind up going to a party alone, don't worry, you will make friends. If you want to make friends even easier, wear huge sunglasses. You will probably have more people than you can count coming up to you.

Plan like crazy, then queue like crazy

5. Bring a good quality digital camera that can also record high definition video. You're going to have the time of your life with your friends, see some of the best DJ sets you've ever heard, and dance until dawn at some of the hottest clubs in the world. Take lots of pictures and videos, as there's a good chance it's the only way you'll actually remember anything from the week.

Look, even our mate Bono is at it!!

Here's our video review of last year:

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