Pogoing, was different from disco dancing, because it was done Was dying and New Wave was up and coming. The writer/performer, Ivan Doroschuk, has explained that "The Safety Dance" is a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s New Wave music in clubs when disco Proliferation." But the true inspiration was a little less dramatic: safety? Dancing? Dancing safely? Numerous theories floated around,įrom "a celebration of safe sex" to "a warning about nuclear 'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't danceĪnd we can act like we come from out of this worldĪnd we can dress real neat from our hats to our feetĪnd you can act real rude and totally removed
Stranger than his delivery are the enigmatic lyrics: "Say," as if his computer programming has momentarily frozen. Particularly unnerving is the way his voice drops when he sings the word Men Without Hat's lead singer and songwriter, Ivanĭoroschuk, sounds like he's a robot that is running low on batteries. Instance of a Weird Al parody that is actually not as weird as the Remember thinking, "Damn, for a Weird Al original, this is reallyĬatchy!" Of course, it wasn't an original. The lyrics wentĪnd you can watch 'till your eyes fall out of your head While listening to Weird Al's second album In 3-D, I heard a trackĬalled "The Brady Bunch" that stood out to me from the other cuts and had a melody I didn't recognize.
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