Why Is Dancing So Stupid?

[Della]

We started watching Saturday Night Fever this evening.

It's actually an entertaining movie with good characters. We'll finish it on Friday.

Everybody sing along!

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman's man no time to talk
Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around
Since I was born
And now it's all right, it's okay
And you may look the other way
But we can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive
Ah when you want

All that music for the film written by the Bee Gees over the course of a few weeks.

 

[Della]

I became very fascinated with this song and the dance about 5 weeks ago. The video garnered 87 million views in the first year and another 1 million in a week after I sent it to my son to view. I can do the upper body part (my Honorary Daughter says I dance with my shoulders anyway). I wouldn't try to spread my feet too far or get on the floor though. This is a craze now...even celebrities like Chris Brown trying it.

The official Tashwala Bami video (now has 92 million views two weeks after it hit 88 million! I love the senior ladies in the blue hats and the "cleaning girls" who start doing the dance: I rock to this often.

I love that, Diva! I was sitting here chair dancing like the ladies.

How can anyone think dancing is stupid when it's so instinctive we can't keep from tapping our feet and nodding our heads when we hear good rhythmic music?

 

[taliovelez]

We started watching Saturday Night Fever this evening.

It's actually an entertaining movie with good characters. We'll finish it on Friday.

Everybody sing along!

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman's man no time to talk
Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around
Since I was born
And now it's all right, it's okay
And you may look the other way
But we can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive
Ah when you want

Excellent movie and soundtrack bar none.

 

[David777]

I and many young people in our Northern California region, greatly greatly disliked that movie and Disco generally because it was a main factor in leading to the demise of counterculture FM radio AOR Classic Rock culture that Hollywood and New York traditional music powers generally hated and wanted to destroy. Also was not a fan of JT's popular TV show, Welcome Back, Kotter, that was NYC culture thing.