Highly Technical Dance Moves

Parents went on the news to defend the youngsters, as young as 7 years old, in the dance class performing “Single Ladies” that has gone viral on the net.

The video has garnered over 2 million views and created quite an uproar over the “gyrating.” The parents of one girl said the video is being taken out of context. The father even said their dancing involves “highly technical dance moves.”

 
One comment that it probably wouldn’t matter if the girls were wearing sweats is rather interesting. So it’s like that now? It’s okay for kids to bump and grind if they have on sweats? We need to wake up and just admit that bumping and grinding is suggestive sexual behavior and it is not appropriate for these young girls, even if they had burkas on.

One father said “… the kids are doing something that they completely love to do, they compete … in front of family and friends, and just know that it’s actually completely normal for dancing.” He says these are highly technical dance moves.

Well, if they’re going to try to schmooze us into believing these are highly technical dance moves, then maybe we will just ignore the Adam Lambert protests the next time he bumps and grinds and grabs his or someone else’s crotch during prime time.

And, while we’re at it, let’s talk about Beyonce and her highly technical dance moves. In “Single Ladies,” she actually doesn’t quite do the full monty one she does in some of her videos where she opens both her legs in opposite directions as she’s dancing, but the lyrics and dancing are still highly suggestive.

We don’t want to moralize and act all outraged, but this all just can’t be good. There undoubtedly are at least a few teenage girls who don’t have a protective father like Mathew Knowles and have ended up in a situation they weren’t able to control because they thought it was cool to act sexy like Beyonce.

Here’s a little sample of the lyrics, translated from slang version from Slang City:

I’m wearing lip gloss, and I am dancing
with a man who is holding me as tight
as the tight Deréon brand jeans I’m wearing.
I am having a great time and drinking alcohol.

As the mother in the video says, this is a song that has permeated our culture.

Yes, m’am, and we see the results of that — 7 year olds bumping and grinding.