Out of the mouth of babes
When I was in my thirties I asked a twenty year old where he went to dance and he asked me, “Techno, Jungle or House?”
And I said, “Huh?”
T had a few of her students over for a little get together and I asked them what they are listening to and what they are dancing to. They’re listening to Shoe Gaze music – say what – yeah, you got it, gazing at your shoe type bands the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Wye Oak and Best Coast. What they dance to – are you ready for this – The Archies’ Sugar Sugar, Itty Bitty Pretty One by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (okay so these I knew) and Robyn’s Call Your Girlfriend and Dancing on My Own (I actually owned one Robyn song – Robotboy, which I like), and ReMix to R. Kelly’s Ignition as well as some Swamp Pop like Allons a Lafayette by The Cajun Playboys.
Since my happy feet have returned, I’m primed for some get down dancing.