Safety Dance - Men Without Hats Official Video video free download


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Safety Dance by Men Without Hats

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The new wave synth pop collective Men Without Hats were formed in 1980 by brothers Ivan and Stefan Doroschuk. Ivan was the leader of the group, writing the majority of the songs and providing the lead vocals; Stefan was the guitarist; and other members changed frequently throughout the course of the group's career. They independently released their debut EP, Folk of the '80s, in 1980; it was reissued the following year by Stiff in Britain. During 1982, the band consisted of Ivan, Stefan, another brother Colin Doroschuk (keyboards), along with drummer Allan McCarthy; this is the lineup that recorded Men Without Hats' 1982 debut album, Rhythm of Youth. Taken from their debut, the single "The Safety Dance" became a major hit, peaking on the American charts at number three in 1983. Driven by an insistent three-chord synthesizer riff, the song was one of the biggest synth pop hits of the new wave era. The group wasn't able to exploit its success, however. Folk of the '80s (Part III) stalled at number 127 on the charts in America and made even less of an impact in other parts of the world. Thanks to the minor-hit title track, 1987's Pop Goes the World was a bigger success, yet it didn't recapture the audience their first album had gained. Released two years later, The Adventures of Women & Men Without Hate in the 21st Century failed to chart, as did its follow-up, 1991's Sideways. The two albums' lack of success effectively put an end to Men Without Hats' career.

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Comments

8 years ago

Jerry Bass

#safetytips out in Sun Dance with Your Hat On !!

8 years ago

neonana74

My first vinyl single my sister bought for me :)

8 years ago

asdfqwerty612

I wonder how financially troubled they were when they made this song.

8 years ago

Connor

I want to meet their dealer.

8 years ago

finnishhillbilly

that guu looks like he met heisenberg

8 years ago

tripe

How does this vid have 63k likes wen there is only 5k people on the planet?

8 years ago

Joe Martin

How the Lannister siblings spent their time in Casterly Rock...

8 years ago

The 402

Does this video remind anyone else of the film'The Wicker Man'? The old good one?Pegan Festival?

8 years ago

AntriX

Way better than the shitty Glee version.

8 years ago

Enrique Puig

Si te acuerdas de esto tienes la revision de prostata pendiente

8 years ago

Fellaz Gaming

Bästa musikvideon jag sett på länge den är som taggen ur en scen i hobbit helt underbart och låten älskar jag också för den delen!

8 years ago

Adam Bennett

0:40 Imagine waking up to that

8 years ago

fuck your .monitering systems

COKANE BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!

8 years ago

NexGTA

0:29 "I'm insane!"

8 years ago

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Family guy

8 years ago

Zaire McDonald

Lol the comments are still alive after 5 years

8 years ago

MrLaafish

This dance isnt as safe as they make it look like

8 years ago

Nightboat Music

Time for sprokets to do za safety dance!

8 years ago

MsBerry2U

The writer/lead singer, 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 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 slam dancing). 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. Other lyrics in the song include references to the way pogoing looked to bouncers, especially "And you can act real rude and totally removed/And I can act like an imbecile".[5]Doroschuk responded to two common interpretations of the song. Firstly, he notes it is not a call for safe sex. Doroschuk says that is reading too much into the lyrics. 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 anti-establishment."[6

8 years ago

420 Max

We can dance

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