2023-2024 Rhythm dance

I was going to suggest Camel Walk by Southern Culture on the Skids but sadly it was released in 1995. I was listening to 80's music in the car and decided camel walking would be more fun than Egyptian walking but oh well. I really want a 90s music theme just in the hopes that someone would dance to this one. It makes me laugh

Baby, would you eat that there snack cracker
In your special outfit for me, please?
Yo, ye pharoahs, let us walk
Through this barren desert, in search of truth
And some pointy boots, and maybe a few snack crackers
Baby, you make me wanna walk like a camel
Walk!
Who's in charge here?
Where's my captain's wafers?
Don't go around hungry now, the way you eat that oatmeal pie
Makes me just wanna die, baby
You make me wanna walk like a camel
Walk!
Say, you don't think there's any way I can get that quarter
From underneath your pointy boot, do ya?
All I want is just one more oatmeal pie
Little Debbie, Little Debbie!
I'm a-comin' on home, baby, 'cause you make me wanna walk
Like a camel (a-hoo!)
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I wish the hardcore punk of this era was danceable per ISU rules, but it's just not feasible unfortunately (or at least not without egregious alterations). Anyway, some more Alternative/Indie/Hip Hop type options that are still recognizably 80s in vibe (or at least to me):
  • Blister in the Sun / Good Feeling - The Violent Femmes
  • Once in a Lifetime / Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
  • This Charming Man / How Soon is now - The Smiths
  • Blue Monday - New Order
  • Should I Stay or Should I go / Rock the Casbah - The Clash
  • Bad Reputation / Hate Myself of Loving You - Joan Jett
  • Wild Thing / Funky Cold Medina - Tone Lōc
  • Public Enemy - Fight the Power / Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message / **** tha Police - NWA
  • Me, Myself & I / Buddy - De La Soul
  • The Humpty Dance / Same Song - Digital Underground
 
PRlady said:
Hey French lady do NOT insult my 80s crush (or the other one, Patrick Swayze.) :D

I’m not sure how their music would work for skating but it’s great mainstream rock.
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I do not intend to insult your 80s crush :drama:
But I might insult Margaglio :EVILLE: for being clueless about giving Lagouge Caffa a RD that is doomed to receive a tepid reception at home , which will not help their career :duh: (they don't have that much time ahead to secure a position within french ice dance).

Giving Bon Jovi to an american couple would make sense.
A french couple ? Listening to (30 second max) Bon Jovi's Greatest Hits, I do say "no way".
 
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Wyliefan said:
It's just possible that the current generation of French ice dance fans is unaware that it's meant to be a mark of patriotism to feel "meh" about Bon Jovi. ;)
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Bon Jovi was called the most unknown rock star/ group in France in 1993, hoping it would change with their European Tour. The journalist says : "this is Bon Jovi's great return after 3 years of absence, and if your first reaction is to say "really ? They are coming back ? I never saw them coming. You're certainly french ! We are actually the only ones to not consider Mr Jon Bon Jovi like a superstar":rofl:

In 2009, the magazine Gala was talking about the Bon Jovi's curse in France.

There is a 2 months old video on youtube named "why is this group so little known in France ?" which lists Bon Jovi's successes everywhere else (while Jon Bon Jovi did many major french tv shows for promotion ; the group just never took off)

Even the Bon Jovi french fan site bonjovi.fr has a page starting with : "Bon Jovi is not really popular in France". Even they are not optimistic. :rofl:

So forgive me if I'm not holding my breath for Lagouge/Caffa making a miracle in 4 months. :p
 
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Nmsis said:
I do not intend to insult your 80s crush :drama:
But I might insult Margaglio :EVILLE: for being clueless about giving Lagouge Caffa a RD that is doomed to receive a tepid reception at home , which will not help their career :duh: (they don't have that much time ahead to secure a position within french ice dance).

Giving Bon Jovi to an american couple would make sense.
A french couple ? Listening to (30 second max) Bon Jovi's Greatest Hits, I do say "no way".
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Well skating to Johnny Hallyday would be a great big fail here, so I’ll grudgingly accept that. But France is just wrong about Bon Jovi. And Jerry Lewis. ;)
 
coralline said:
In the last 10 seconds of this On Ice Perspectives video, we can hear Bonnie Tyler‘s Holding Out for a Hero playing, so maybe an IAM team is using this. (Probably Mariia HOLUBTSOVA / Kyryl BIELOBROV )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ka5p9ZfyNA
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Who were the dance teams sharing the ice? I know I saw PapCiz (not competing) and LajLag (Thriller), but I think the other team was the new Czech team of Cimlova/Cirisano, wasn't it?
 
PRlady said:
Well skating to Johnny Hallyday would be a great big fail here, so I’ll grudgingly accept that. But France is just wrong about Bon Jovi.
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I'm ok with that (my ears disagree though)... as long as it means the US is just wrong about Johnny Hallyday (and your ears may disagree too) ... :p

PRlady said:
But France is just wrong about Bon Jovi. And Jerry Lewis. ;)
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France is not wrong about Jerry Lewis as nobody under 50/60 if not 70 actually knows who that is (except for cinephiles).
American jokes about France definitly got stuck in the 60s. :p
 
Nmsis said:
I'm ok with that (my ears disagree though)... as long as it means the US is just wrong about Johnny Hallyday (and your ears may disagree too) ... :p



France is not wrong about Jerry Lewis as nobody under 50/60 if not 70 actually knows who that is (except for cinephiles).
American jokes about France definitly got stuck in the 60s. :p
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I’m too polite to update them. Besides, after Freedom Fries etc it’s not cool for Americans to make new jokes about France. And I like your skaters.

And the obvious Bon Jovi song to skate to is Living on a Prayer. Tommy and Gina forevah.
 
I wonder if a Ferris Bueller soundtrack would qualify under the rules. Twist and shout is obviously from before the '80s but it was released on the soundtrack in the '80s.

Would love to hear this 80s classic
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Yello - Oh Yeah (Official Video)

Music video by Yello performing Oh Yeah. (C) 1987 Yello, under exclusive license to Polydor/Island, a division of Universal Music GmbHhttp://vevo.ly/Y0oiY7#Y...
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A lot of beautiful Philip Glass or other New Age music premiered in the 1980s, such as Glass Pieces and In the Upper Room. There’s hope for a classically-based RD.

Glass pieces by Robbins, From 1981 (I love part 3 music, Akhenaten, at 15.48)
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Glass Pieces de Jerome Robbins

Musique de Philip Glass00:19 Rubric06:18 Facades15:48 Akhnaten
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Upper Room by Tharp, from 1988 (lots of great tunes here, some with Spanish flavor, as in 20.24)
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In The Upper Room Philip Glass Modern Dance Ballet

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I feel completely disconnected with this theme and might be skipping ID as an entire discipline. A very irritating move IMO, because the second and third years after the Olympics are when the skaters have the opportunity to be more experimental. They are too tired off the Olympics in the first year, and are never going to be taking risks in the Olympic year.
 
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PRlady said:
Rhythm too fast and melody repetitive. And Exes/Texas would make a great exhibition with one male and several angry female skaters!

If you want an 80s waltz: https://youtu.be/oqTq8gckf8E

It’s December 1979 but charted in 1980. It was my first dance at my first wedding. 😳
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That's very nice. But barely counts as 80s. ;)

How about Jack & Diane. Nothing more uplifting than

"Oh yeah, life goes on
Long after the thrill of livin' is gone"

Essence of the 80s for me...
 
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