Today’s challenge, “a song that makes you want to dance,” reminds me that I’m a person who wants to dance WHILE no one’s watching, not LIKE no one’s watching. I wish I still had access to my family’s home movies that I lost in a computer meltdown, because I think there was footage of young Becky dancing, and I’ll get to that in a minute.
I never went to school dances and even at the mandatory “proms” my last two years of high school, I didn’t dance. My girlfriends and I didn’t dance at slumber parties. I don’t, for example, think I’ve ever seen Lynne dance, and we’ve been friends since we were twelve. During our teen era, kids I hung out with were “too cool” to dance, which was fine, because dancing just wasn’t my thing.
In the 1970s, I did go to bars/clubs during the height of the disco era, but I didn’t dance. In the 1980s, when I finally DID dance at clubs and bars, they were usually slow dances, though I absolutely do remember finally dancing to the songs of Prince and Michael Jackson. Resistance was futile. Then, under the influence of my favorite enabler, Kathy, I learned to Texas two-step at country/cowboy bars. My footwear was red ropers like these, which oddly, I donated to Goodwill when I moved to Texas.
So probably the only time in my life when I danced without feeling self-conscious and awkward, I looked a little like this.
And I absolutely know what I danced to. And I always will. When no one’s watching.
I love a good bop, which at gay clubs is quite easy, although I am a bit past that kind of thing.
Aw, come on, you’re never too old to dance if you enjoy it. I keep telling myself it’s good exercise and I should at least do it in the house where no one but the dogs will see me.
Dance
Even if there’s no where but your own living room
Day 6 pick is “Kiss” by Prince…fun challenge!
Great song! Right now I keep going around singing Beyonce’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” and thinking of us. 🤣
The gay clubs always had it good, but they dwindled away and the desert is deserted so I’m da da dancin’ with my se-elf… And, a lot of the loud theme could easily be danced to. But the first track I thought of is:
vogue – madonna
runner ups
On her Majesty’s Secret Service – Propellerheads
I wanna dance with some body
Never gonna give you up
In the Air Tonight
Pump up the Volume
You Spin Me Round like a Record
Hung up
Uh huh (love is just a word)
Hallo Spaceboy
Flashdance
Footloose
Stayin’ Alive
I can’t help it
Honestly, the old folks home is going to have the police over the noise when I get there.
Hair up
Symphony Number 5 – Acid House Mix
In the night
Put Your Ass Up In The Air
(That one is hysterical in headphones on the bus)
Thriller
(especially videos of people zombie dancing on the tube)
It’s a Sin
Undercover of the night
Nights in White Satin
Dark lady
This reminded me of a NAMES Quilt panel I saw one time where people had put some of their favorite expressions as spoken by the person they’d lost. One was “That’ll really tear ’em up at the trailer park.” I felt like I definitely knew that person a little better and we’d have been friends.