{"id":2268,"date":"2022-12-21T09:32:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2022-12-21T16:28:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T03:28:17","slug":"you-can-dance-if-you-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2268","title":{"rendered":"You can dance if you want to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Safety Dance<\/em> is a song released in 1982 by Canadian\u00a0band\u00a0&#8220;Men Without Hats.&#8221; Lead singer\u00a0&#8220;Ivan Doroschuk&#8221;\u00a0has explained that it was a protest song against\u00a0bouncers\u00a0who prohibited dancers from\u00a0&#8220;pogo-ing&#8221;\u00a0to 1980&#8217;s\u00a0new wave music\u00a0in clubs when\u00a0disco\u00a0was declining and new wave was coming onto the music scene. Ivan wrote <em>The Safety Dance<\/em> after he had been kicked out of a club for\u00a0pogo dancing. The song became a top 10 hit in numerous countries, was a number 1 in South Africa and has been inducted into the\u00a0Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance (Official HD Video)\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1p_BvaHsgGg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Safety Dance is a song released in 1982 by Canadian\u00a0band\u00a0&#8220;Men Without Hats.&#8221; Lead singer\u00a0&#8220;Ivan Doroschuk&#8221;\u00a0has explained that it was a protest song against\u00a0bouncers\u00a0who prohibited dancers from\u00a0&#8220;pogo-ing&#8221;\u00a0to 1980&#8217;s\u00a0new wave music\u00a0in clubs when\u00a0disco\u00a0was declining and new wave was coming onto the music scene. Ivan wrote The Safety Dance after he had been kicked out of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[198],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-men-without-hats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}