There were hundreds of people (maybe a thousand) dancing, on several large dance floors, to the most awful, pounding, angry music I’ve ever heard. Let’s discuss this music. First of all there is no tune. And the lyrics? Misogynistic doesn’t even begin to explain them. Every other word is ugly. And, repeated uses of the “n” word. Why, I wonder, do hip-hop artists use it so much? What is the message they are trying to send to kids? And, why do they freak when someone else uses it? Inexplicable.
Now, the dancing. It wasn’t so much the gals, but the guys, that had me dumbfounded and chuckling. The popular male dance goes like this: a slight bend of the knees with one hand cupping the crotch loosely at all times. The other arm is held up at a slight curve, with the hand doing a movement as if shaking off water after doing the dishes. The body then just bobs up and down slightly in this position—with the one hand stuck like Elmer’s Glue on the crotch. I have seen my own eleven-year-old son do this lame dance, at times, while listening to hip-hop. The girls, meantime, tried their darndest to imitate women on the Playboy Channel. Many were dressed in revealing lingerie: fishnet stockings, push up bras like Madonna wore in the 90’s, garter belts, etc. I didn’t see anything that even resembled a classy outfit. For the first in my life I was glad to have only sons.
To our left and right, there were adjacent balconies. But on these balconies, there were club-hired dancers. One woman was strikingly beautiful with a wild tangle of brown ringlets. She was dressed in black garter belt, shorts and push-up bra. She did a dance around a cage that ended each time with an arched back and an ass shake. She did this over and over. Down from her was a woman lying on her back on a bed. Her job was to do some rather gymnastic-like poses with her legs—spreading them very wide, doing different versions of the splits, etc. My friend Julie and I were mesmerized. We simply couldn’t get over how pretty these girls were and couldn’t stop pondering why they’d gone this particular route.
