Lets Dance Top Ten: The Safety Dance (#6)

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It looks like spring might arrive next week...technically early (even if by a week), so the groundhog is off the hook. Anyway, he's a rodent, not a meteorologist (not that he's any more or less accurate than the human groundhogs....). Dancing for joy at the arrival of warmer weather, here's another song on the countdown of favorite "dance" songs....that is, songs with "dance" in the title, not disco songs. #6: The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats "They" say that a person's tastes in food change every seven years. Apparently that's true of music as well. When this song first came out I hated it. And now? Look where it is....above a Don Henley song on a countdown! Although they sounded very British in this song, Men Without Hats is actually from Canada...and their lead singer, Ivan Doroschuk, was born in Illinois! This song, according to Picky Wedia, is about people in dance clubs who didn't understand punk/new wave styles of dancing and how vastly different it was from disco dancing (as if the music didn't give them their first clue?). Bouncers apparently thought the dances were self-injurious or dangerous to other dancers. No, this dancing was free-form ("and I can act like an imbecile")...and safe. And, if you're wondering, the name of the band came from Doroschuk and his brothers never wearing hats during the Canadian cold. The Safety Dance Written by Ivan Doroschuk Recorded by Men Without Hats From Rhythm of Youth, 1982 Your friends don't dance: