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Ah yes, I miss the opportunity to grope, fondle, and pet my dancing partner.
You can always crash a high school party!
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Maybe people want their friends to be happy, moving, chatting.
Quiet music usually breaks up a party (IME).
I start playing slow about 0200 so people leave by 03.
Most people don't go out dancing in pairs, they go with friends. Fast dances can be enjoyed alone, with a big group, or one on one if you wish.
Slow dancing, on the other hand, is a strictly 2-person activity which leaves anyone who is unpaired awkwardly standing around or faced with awkwardly finding a partner to avoid being left out.
OK so I admit I may be somewhat outta practice in going to social parties and/or clubbing (only been to about 4-5 in the past few years ). But one thing that has always somewhat stumped me a lil is, in all of the parties I actually have been to thus far over the years, there has usually only been one (or very rarely, at most 2) token slow dances or slow jams --and even these were only marginally or nominally "slow" (not "true" Soft AC). Everything else was much harder, much louder Hot AC / hip-hop / rap.
Why is this always the case? I have wondered about this for the longest time...is it b/c slow dances are simply considered "uncool" or "unhip"? Not trying to ask a "dumb" question here...honestly just curious as to why...
(I actually prefer slow dances to "fast" dances...much more romantic, to slow-dance in your sweetie's arms! )
maybe your friends snort too much cocaine? hard to slow dance like that.
Most people don't go out dancing in pairs, they go with friends. Fast dances can be enjoyed alone, with a big group, or one on one if you wish.
Slow dancing, on the other hand, is a strictly 2-person activity which leaves anyone who is unpaired awkwardly standing around or faced with awkwardly finding a partner to avoid being left out.
I've often thought of numerous times of opening a nice restuarant and having a dance floor for nice slow dance music. It would probably be huge with the 30+ crowd
Haha, hey now, I was talking in my OP about slow-dancing with your sweetie...but in a PG-rated way though...
In public it's PG. I'm an exhibitionist at heart, but I don't want to get arrested.
I'd blame the DJ. Anyone who actually dances, knows you don't (and at my age can't) dance fast all the time, and slow dancing is much more romantic and sexy.
Because slow dancing went out in the early 2000s (at least when I was coming up). Instead of slow jams about love and romance, you have songs about f***ing h**s and beating up the p**** and s***ing his d*** (please don't ask).
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DJs job is to keep people on the dance floor. Slow songs don't do that. People go out to dance clubs to move. It's that simple.
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). But one thing that has always somewhat stumped me a lil is, in all of the parties I actually have been to thus far over the years, there has usually only been one (or very rarely, at most 2) token slow dances or slow jams --and even these were only marginally or nominally "slow" (not "true" Soft AC). Everything else was much harder, much louder Hot AC / hip-hop / rap.
I have wondered about this for the longest time...is it b/c slow dances are simply considered "uncool" or "unhip"? 
Not trying to ask a "dumb" question here...honestly just curious as to why...
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