The Fifth Screw: Screw the Dancing in the Street Taboo
Lately, when I walk down the street, listening to my iPod, I pretend I am in a 90s music video and lip-synch the words intensely. Gesturing and gyrating down the block with finger points and head bobs and umbrella baton-twirls, for if I just so happen to be carrying an umbrella with me.
My father tells me to sing loudly to
keep creepy skeeze away. So I have been spicing up my routine by singing out loud.
Envision something like this:
Or possibly this:
Or even this:
So screw that stupid taboo of singing and dancing in the streets! Especially while listening to your
iPod with your favorite walking songs bursting through your ears. It should be okay to dance at inappropriate times, in inappropriate places, like in the middle of your daily commute to the city, or in the middle of somebody's face.
For the record, the only time I have ever gotten away with
singing in the streets was at night, actually 7 in the am, or walking with a good
friend. (That last line is a lie, you will see why below) But I have never gotten to dance!
But anyway, the only people who get away with dancing in the street is the mailman. I feel like mailmen would get
away with this, don't you? Only mail people can sing and dance and stroll in the streets
with their wheeled bags. Oh how I envy the mailman!
(This clip is only in here for the line, "Damn the man, save the Empire!")
Now, for your listening enjoyment, here is a list of some of my favorite walking songs:
I'm Your Captain
Better Man
Never Surrender
Running on Empty
Kodachrome
Power of Love
Hungry Eyes
Let Me Take You Home Tonight
Forever Young
Baby Hold Onto Me
Take Me to the River
Don't Get Me Wrong
Wait
(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
Fragments of Time
Damn, that is an awful lot of awful 80s!
And now for my personal pleasure, here is my brand new 90s walking mix:
Faded
Flavor of the Weak
Buddy Holly
If You Could Only See
Closer to Free
So Sad to Say
Time
I Want You
Ride wit Me
My go-to songs to hum:
The Doug theme song
The Goonies theme song
Times I have gotten to sing in public:
*Outside my performing arts high school singing an impromptu version of “When the Saints Go Marching In”
*On the train, when I just so happen to get the only completely empty car to myself. This has happened three times
*On the streets at seven in the morning when no one was around, singing “Out Tonight” from rent, while intoxicated
*One other time with my best friend singing one of my all time favorite songs, “Under Pressure” on the streets of Queens
So if anyone puts your tapping feet down, tells you that you just cannot dance for fun in the middle of the street, you just remember:
And finally, "Nobody gets out of here without singing the blues."
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