Day 6: A song that makes you want to dance
2020: “DARE”, Gorillaz
2025: “Stop the Rock”, Apollo 440
How good am I at dancing, you and I may both wonder. Erm…I either half heartedly go along with it and look uncomfortable, or throw myself into it fully and make a night at the Wigan Casino look like a simply romp. So here I need to choose a song that evokes the latter.
Before I do, “DARE” was chosen back in 2020 simply because I’d likely just watched that video of Noodle dancing around in her bedroom with the massive disembodied head of Shaun Ryder. Uncanny, unforgettable, much like the song. Can easily dance to it no matter who you are.
Now, “Stop the Rock”. That’s a song I can categorically confirm I danced like mad to until my head was drenched with sweat. I was a wee lad and me and my Mum went to someone’s house for a party. This song came on, I was already aware of it as to me it was the highlight of the soundtrack to FIFA 2000 (Or a close second to Robbie Williams’ “It’s Only Us”, depends on the day). My memories of that day are patchy, it was about twenty years ago after all, but I absolutely remember me and a girl standing in front of a shed window and watching ourselves dance away to this track. Maybe I looked cool, maybe I looked like a tit. Either way I felt happy. And that’s what a song that makes you want to dance should do.
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