An unapologetic novelty, 'The Safety Dance' mixes a melody that wouldn't sound out of place on an album by Ashley Hutchings' UK folk-rock supergroup the Albion Band (the video even features Morris dancers!) to a crisply electronic arrangement, with Ivan Doroschuk's cheerfully over-dramatic vocals belting out lyrics that the band claimed were a commentary on nuclear proliferation, though it's hard to see the connection from simply listening to the song. The overall effect is?well, a little silly. Okay, very silly. But there's something primal in the appeal of 'The Safety Dance.'
The song is slow enough and with a prominent enough beat that literally anyone with the use of both feet can dance to it, and Doroschuk's limited range? He sings maybe a total of three notes in the entire song? Means that the vocal is equally attainable to just about anyone. Generations of drunken college parties have erupted into spontaneous mass singalongs of 'The Safety Dance' as a result.
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'The Safety Dance' found similar success in other parts of the world, entering the UK charts in August and peaking at number 6 in early November, and entering the New Zealand charts in November, eventually peaking at number 2 in early 1984. Contents.Meaning of the song The writer/lead singer, has explained that 'The Safety Dance' is a protest against stopping dancers to 1980s in clubs when 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 evolution of pogoing is ).
The bouncers did not 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.In 2003, on an episode of 's, Doroschuk responded to two common interpretations of the song.
Firstly, he explained 'The Safety Dance' is not a call for safe sex, and that this interpretation is 'people reading into it a bit too much'. Secondly, he explained that it is not an anti-nuclear protest song per se despite the nuclear imagery at the end of the video.
Doroschuk stated that 'it wasn't a question of just being anti-nuclear, it was a question of being.' Music video The for the song (which uses the shorter single version), directed by, is notable for its imagery, featuring, and a.
It was filmed in the village of, in, England. Is the only member of the band actually to perform in the video. Doroschuk, and others in the video, can be seen repeatedly forming an 'S' sign by jerking both arms into a stiff pose, one arm in an upward curve and the other in a downward curve, apparently referring to the first letter in 'safety'. The Morris dancers seen in the video were the Chippenham Town Morris Men, performing a dance called Monkton Park. The dwarf actor is, whose T-shirt in the video shows the album cover. The identity of the young blonde woman by the name of Jenny seen dancing in the video remained unknown until 2013, when she was identified as, a journalist who served as editor-in-chief at and became a director at in 2015.
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