ok, i can admit that at 9:30 at night i'm a bit too lazy to move the laptop, get off the couch and walk across the room to get my remote.. the price i pay for this laziness is the ongoing exposure to vh1's tuesday 2-play. (and this is a dear price indeed) mixed in with the heart, steve winwood and van halen have been a few reminders of a very strange 80's video phenomenon.. now understand, as a child of the 80's i feel as if i was pretty in tune with all that was hip back then.. parachute pants (had em), z cavaricci (had em), miami vice (watched it), zodiacs (had a bunch).. i feel pretty in touch with my time spent in the 80's.. this one thing, however, has escaped me.. and i must admit, i am now transfixed by it... what is IT? IT is the amount of unnecessary, unadultrated, unabashed, over the top dance choreography shoe-horned in to these videos from the 80's.. now i don't know about you, but i have NEVER seen people walking down the street just fall in to line and start snapping their fingers and kicking their legs around when a certain song came on(let alone a bunch of zombies).. but these videos would have you believe that is how the 80's were lived.. groups of people, falling in to formation and getting down to the worst dance moves ever created.. michael jackson, paula abdul, madonna, even the MOODY BLUES have choreographed dancers getting down to horrible songs.. maybe it's an allergic reaction to the music, i'm just not sure.. i am sure that today this choreographed nonsense is left to cheerleaders and boy bands.. oh, and the yuck monkeys in rap videos.. and i'm pretty sure we're all better off for it..
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
choreography & the 80's
ok, i can admit that at 9:30 at night i'm a bit too lazy to move the laptop, get off the couch and walk across the room to get my remote.. the price i pay for this laziness is the ongoing exposure to vh1's tuesday 2-play. (and this is a dear price indeed) mixed in with the heart, steve winwood and van halen have been a few reminders of a very strange 80's video phenomenon.. now understand, as a child of the 80's i feel as if i was pretty in tune with all that was hip back then.. parachute pants (had em), z cavaricci (had em), miami vice (watched it), zodiacs (had a bunch).. i feel pretty in touch with my time spent in the 80's.. this one thing, however, has escaped me.. and i must admit, i am now transfixed by it... what is IT? IT is the amount of unnecessary, unadultrated, unabashed, over the top dance choreography shoe-horned in to these videos from the 80's.. now i don't know about you, but i have NEVER seen people walking down the street just fall in to line and start snapping their fingers and kicking their legs around when a certain song came on(let alone a bunch of zombies).. but these videos would have you believe that is how the 80's were lived.. groups of people, falling in to formation and getting down to the worst dance moves ever created.. michael jackson, paula abdul, madonna, even the MOODY BLUES have choreographed dancers getting down to horrible songs.. maybe it's an allergic reaction to the music, i'm just not sure.. i am sure that today this choreographed nonsense is left to cheerleaders and boy bands.. oh, and the yuck monkeys in rap videos.. and i'm pretty sure we're all better off for it..
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