Welcome to this week’s podcast, I’m your host Barry Fever. This week we take a closer look at the topic of dancing, specifically it’s demise, and hear an interesting view on the ‘why’ this country has lost its groove. Please welcome from St. John’s Wort Church, The Reverend Badsurmon.
Thank you Reverend for joining, please if you can outline your view on the decline of ‘cutting a rug’ today in the US.
Certainly. I began researching the topic by turning back the clock to when we could and wanted to boogie, and why now dancing, particularly at weddings where I preside, have become abhorrent. There seems to be an underlying message.
And what do you think that message is?
As far back as medieval times, people objected verbally to pending vows. Couples were challenged as to their eligibility- were they already married, did they wed their cousin, and so on. Information was lacking, questions needed to be asked. Today, nobody asks. Because everyone knows everything about everybody. Objection today exists as a revolt, expressed on our nation’s dance floors.
Interesting, so expressing ourselves more, and more discreetly?
My god no. Let me explain. Look, people go to weddings for all the wrong reasons- free food, booze, a night away from the kids. We are all now completely self-consumed. Collectively it spells objection to all that is around us. I personally believe it is expressed most through today’s bad dancing.
And how do you define bad dancing?
We’ve had a long history in this country, a national embarrassment for sure.
Is it the white man?
Much blame can be directed here. For example, forming a line like a train while weaving through chairs, and referring to this as dance. Despicable. And Kool and the Gang, ‘Celebrate Good Times? Are you kidding? 40 years later? Celebrate? How about ‘Where is the Fire Exit?’ A song so literal- ‘there’s a party going on right here, a celebration to last all through the years.’ Please direct me to the nearest toilet, I need to barf. Wedding planners, you confess this sin to me weekly. Please stop the madness.
And how would you describe the bad dance of today?
Style wise the spectrum is broad- from the person who appears hip deep in quicksand with no desire to get out, to those whose idea of sexual attraction is enacting a life altering seizure. Any male subject, at any time, on the dance floor, in my opinion, is a pronounced objection. Twerking, an absolute hedonistic endeavor, summons the devil of infidelity. Let’s be clear, we are no longer people, or certainly people who can dance, we are objections, expressed in the most awful of ways.
Incredible…
Well, this is where we are as a society. The way we say yes to ourselves perpetually is to object to everyone and everything around us- by dancing badly.
I’d like to thank you, Reverend Badsurmon for your insight today.
Next week on the ‘What Grinds Your Gears?’ podcast- a guest who has no problem calling out people whose ‘heads are in the damn clouds!!!’
Good evening.
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