Hi, just found out this in the wiki: "The writer/performer, Ivan Doroschuk, has explained that "The Safety Dance" is a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s New Wave music in clubs when Disco was dying and New Wave was up and coming. New Wave dancing, especially pogoing, was different from Disco dancing, because it was done individually instead of with partners and involved holding the torso rigid and thrashing about. To uninformed bystanders this could look dangerous, especially if pogoers accidentally bounced into one another (the more deliberately violent version of pogoing is slam dancing). The bouncers didn't like pogoing so they would tell pogoers to stop or be kicked out of the club. Thus, the song is a protest and a call for freedom of expression. It has been claimed that the meaning of the song can be found in similarities between "Safety Dance" and "Safe to dance". Other lyrics in the song include references to the way pogoing looked to bouncers, especially "And you can act real rude and totally removed/And I can act like an imbecile".
Doroschuk denies two common myths about the song. First, it is not a call for safe sex. Doroschuk says that is reading too much into the lyrics. Second, it is not an anti-nuclear protest despite the nuclear imagery at the end of the video. Doroschuk says that he considers Men Without Hats "a punk band with one hit song" and that as such they were "anti- everything".
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Okay, I never thought it was a song about promoting safe sex, but I did think it was a song about him trying to convince her that it was safe and not a big deal to have sex. If I were Doroschuk, I don't think I'd mention THIS deeper meaning at an interview. And if you replace the word dance for sex in the lyrics (despite the fact that it isn't grammatically correct) it makes a lot of sense in correspondence with such a premises. Of course I wouldn't challenge your input, I'm sure it's accurate, but just thought I'd...
Okay, I never thought it was a song about promoting safe sex, but I did think it was a song about him trying to convince her that it was safe and not a big deal to have sex. If I were Doroschuk, I don't think I'd mention THIS deeper meaning at an interview. And if you replace the word dance for sex in the lyrics (despite the fact that it isn't grammatically correct) it makes a lot of sense in correspondence with such a premises. Of course I wouldn't challenge your input, I'm sure it's accurate, but just thought I'd add mine as well.
Hi, just found out this in the wiki: "The writer/performer, Ivan Doroschuk, has explained that "The Safety Dance" is a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s New Wave music in clubs when Disco was dying and New Wave was up and coming. New Wave dancing, especially pogoing, was different from Disco dancing, because it was done individually instead of with partners and involved holding the torso rigid and thrashing about. To uninformed bystanders this could look dangerous, especially if pogoers accidentally bounced into one another (the more deliberately violent version of pogoing is slam dancing). The bouncers didn't like pogoing so they would tell pogoers to stop or be kicked out of the club. Thus, the song is a protest and a call for freedom of expression. It has been claimed that the meaning of the song can be found in similarities between "Safety Dance" and "Safe to dance". Other lyrics in the song include references to the way pogoing looked to bouncers, especially "And you can act real rude and totally removed/And I can act like an imbecile".
Doroschuk denies two common myths about the song. First, it is not a call for safe sex. Doroschuk says that is reading too much into the lyrics. Second, it is not an anti-nuclear protest despite the nuclear imagery at the end of the video. Doroschuk says that he considers Men Without Hats "a punk band with one hit song" and that as such they were "anti- everything". [edit]
Okay, I never thought it was a song about promoting safe sex, but I did think it was a song about him trying to convince her that it was safe and not a big deal to have sex. If I were Doroschuk, I don't think I'd mention THIS deeper meaning at an interview. And if you replace the word dance for sex in the lyrics (despite the fact that it isn't grammatically correct) it makes a lot of sense in correspondence with such a premises. Of course I wouldn't challenge your input, I'm sure it's accurate, but just thought I'd...
Okay, I never thought it was a song about promoting safe sex, but I did think it was a song about him trying to convince her that it was safe and not a big deal to have sex. If I were Doroschuk, I don't think I'd mention THIS deeper meaning at an interview. And if you replace the word dance for sex in the lyrics (despite the fact that it isn't grammatically correct) it makes a lot of sense in correspondence with such a premises. Of course I wouldn't challenge your input, I'm sure it's accurate, but just thought I'd add mine as well.