Dance Till You’re Dead… Or Heads Will Roll

In addition to, as a rebuttal to, or in opposition to, Andee’s Pushing and Shoving, I would like to state my claim.  Non-dancers suck just as much as violent dancers do.  Although pushers and shovers do inflict pain, bruises and much emotional distress, the non-dancers inflict a different kind of pain all their own, the pain of being boring.

It hurts me to see hipsters at a show, which would normally evoke bumping and grinding, conforming to the “hipsters rule guide”.  That is attempting to look cool and not care about anything even the music they like.  “Oh Ill just lean against this wall here, in my absurdly tight jeans and tattered shirt, and stare blankly at the stage as if I am thinking about something Sartre said once.”  Don’t get me wrong I have those jeans and that shirt but when the music moves me, THE MUSIC MOVES ME.

I am not afraid to bounce, shimmy and shake. In fact sometimes I literally can’t control my body.  Passion Pit makes me dance like I’m possessed. Be possessed people!

There are shows like, Matt and Kim and Passion Pit, where people do dance.  But I have been to shows that were painfully undanced, the poor band, standing there under the lights trying to rock out, only to see a crowd of people just standing.  DANCE god damn it!

There was lots of head bopping at Lemonheads, and toe tapping at Vampire Weekend, even whole body swaying at Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s but that is not good enough!  I want the whole enchilada minus the punching, pushing, biting, and chokeholds please.

So, next time you go to a show that is dance worthy, please for me, for the band, for your own health, DANCE!