Didn’t I read somewhere that today’s youth drinks less alcohol? I know when I was young I wouldn’t be caught “dancing” at the club unless I was closer to puking than to slurred speech.
I’ve read they are drinking less and taking less recreational drugs and having less sex than previous generations.
I’m so glad that capturing everything with photos / videos and uploading to socials wasn’t a thing in the early 2000s when I was going to clubs and electronic music festivals. Reach for the lasers safe as fuck.
Wait til everybody finds out you upvoted a post they don’t approve of!
Dance like everybody’s watching.
I’m not sure if this is anything new, but maybe it’s getting worse. Most of my friends when I was younger wouldn’t do anything more than the “stand still and sway” method of dancing because they didn’t want to look silly.
When I was young, the phrase “dance like nobody’s watching” became popular. I remember thinking it was true, most of my anxiety about dancing was a fear of being judged by someone else. I’d see other people dance and think that they aren’t doing anything special. They aren’t dancing well or doing crazy moves. They are just jumping around and having a good time. “Jump Around” was like just one of five hit dance songs about jumping. But I resisted because I thought people would think my dancing looked silly. And they’d be right, I was and remain a terrible dancer. I’m awkward, arthritic, and lacking in coordination and rhythm.
But there was no social media. No cell phone cameras. No internet. If someone did get a picture or even a video, it might be months before a small select group of people saw it. Hell, even if your bad dancing somehow made the news, it would still only be seen by the regional viewers watching that evening.
Today, if you’re a bad dancer, you could be filmed without your knowledge or permission, and become a viral sensation for millions of people to see.
If I were young today, there’s no chance in hell I’d be out on the dance floor.
“Everything is uncool and trying is uncool,” she said.
Yeah this
As someone that dances at many venues 3 to 4 nights a week this is so disheartening.
