Being a metal head as a teenager and still loving this song was probably the most non-conformist thing I've ever done.

@mattroxursoul

2 жыл бұрын

Strange huh, gate keeping in a genre where the whole point was to be different.

@natalyamay72

9 ай бұрын

Ivan D, who wrote the song, really liked hard guitar rock as well ... so maybe not that strange at the core.

You just made my day. My brother is the current drummer for Men without Hats. Ivan is a great guy.

@O_Towne_Bear

4 жыл бұрын

Ivan is a stand up guy, only met him once but he was eager to answer questions and chill.

@user-ty5md6kj6p

4 ай бұрын

Saw them in concert. A very good time was had.

This was amazing! I graduated 1985. So U2,Devo,Dephe Mode,UB40,New Order,The Police,Duran Duran,Wham,Rush,Prince,REM,The Cure,Beastie Boys,The Smith's,Cindy Lauper,Pat Benetar,BILLY IDOL,Culture Club,NXS,The Cars,David Bowie,Peter Gabriel,The Go-Go's,...okay you get it!!😁❤

@katsanddoggies9904

3 жыл бұрын

Class of 85---Heart -What About Love, A-ha-Take On Me, Mr. Mister-Broken Wings, Pet Shop Boys-West End Girls, Tears for Fears-Shout, Bryan Adams-One Night Love Affair, Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax, Simple Minds-Don't You (Forget About Me)...That is just a few of my favorite songs from 85- Movie- Sixteen Candles (1984) The Breakfast Club Pretty in Pink-(1986) St. Elmo's Fire

This song means so much 2 me as a 52 year old, who lived this period...

@1971tallica

4 жыл бұрын

Same , 48 here

@SuperDixxxie

4 жыл бұрын

Same..51..i think? lol

@stephenulmer3781

4 жыл бұрын

Wow! Im 52 as well and I love this too! We were 15 years old then and much better times. The Men without hats album with this longer, better version was my wish for my 15th birthday. My mom came through. Still have it around here somewhere ☺

@DR-mq1vn

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm 52 and lived through this period too! It was great!

@s0dfish110

4 жыл бұрын

35 here. Great songs live forever. I think its because they tell the truth, whatever that is or what it means.

he writer/lead singer, Ivan Doroschuk, has explained that "The Safety Dance" is a protest against bouncers prohibiting dancers from pogoing to 1980s new wave music in clubs when disco was dying and new wave was up and coming. ... Thus, the song is a protest and a call for freedom of expression. Original meaning of the song.

@tibb814

Жыл бұрын

Yes...The song originally said "Its safe to dance", but everyone heard and asked for safety dance so thats what it became.

@Jamie_Pritchard

2 ай бұрын

@@tibb814 I've always heard it as 'safe to dance' and wondered why it was called The Safety Dance, lol

This was and still is a MEGA HIT , The 80ties where magic in big hits. For sure the safety dance is a top 10 hit os the 80 ties

This is amazing!! It's brilliant to see Annie smiling and having fun!!

You guys have to watch the "literal video" version of this song, funny as hell! Great video btw!

@howardmckenna

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! The official video is weird enough, but the literal video is on another level of hilarity.

@Kamandi1971

3 жыл бұрын

the actual bideos is better

Annie looks so awake today what's going on 🤯the 80's is the best decade for music period imo 😋

@GlitchintheMatrixMultiMedia

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree!

@Quotenwagnerianer

4 жыл бұрын

Yup. 1780's best time. Mozart dropped hits like there was no tommorow. ;)

I love what you're doing with your daughter, how you are spending time with her and, how you are teaching her of great music from our time. Love and light.💞

Great video! Brought so many wonderful memories back to me! I'm a new subscriber and you two rock! I used to make my daughter listen to my favorite old classics and now she sends me videos of songs that I made her listen to! lol

Haven't heard this song since high school. I forgot about it! Thanks for reviewing it and now I'll introduce it to my kids too lol. Good times✌

Just the chance to see all that amazing talent on display from those dancers of the 30s, 40s, and 50s. Some of them are still legendary, and will be remembered into the next century.

And also when they say "the safety dance", it sounds like "its safe to dance".

That was Brilliant! Love what you do all the way from the UK.

I love this so much! Glad to hear Annie is going back to dance..I use to be a dance and gymnastics teacher,til my joints and bones started screaming at me..lol..then I had to retire. :( Now I'm going to check out the Pulse channel and Sub..thanks for sharing!

@GlitchintheMatrixMultiMedia

4 жыл бұрын

Niiice, thanks for the note and glad you are checking out Pulse, I always try to promote other channels when I look at any of their stuff.

There was a lot of An American in Paris and Singing in the train in that video. Really Incredible dancing in those movies. Mind-blowing. Especially Donald O’Connor’s solo tap dance.

It's little shame this type of movies almost disappear. Sometimes I miss feel good movies with dancing and music

This was fantastic!!! You spot on Brother. Gonna follow!

YES!!! I love this song. I never knew the meaning and now I love it even more. and it even got a reaction out of annie. today is a good day. off to check out the pulse channel.

That was so awesome. Ahhh the 80s, my teen years. Such a great time to be alive. I'd like to see y'all react to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun from Cyndi Lauper (bet Annie would love) and also Modern English "I'll stop the world ( melt with you)"

the rock of the 80s 90 lives forever ... the new generation has to listen to those unique and incomparable melodies.

This reminded me of another compilation i watched: WALK THE MOON - Shut Up and Dance (Movie dance compilation),with movies back in the 60-70s up to recent movies even. And The lady who edited and clipped it all together,had her comment section bursting with praising words,that she made one of the best compilations they had ever seen,and it came from people knowing what it felt like to sit for hours and hours,searching for the perfect beats that would fit the most with the dances. Another classic song too "Shut Up And Dance(With Me)". Theese do put a smile on your face. Needed in times like theese,we all looked forward to a new decade.......then 2020 happened. Cheers! (Annie stopped with her cheerleading? Aaaww....well then she must be a dancer at heart lol)

@bdmention

4 жыл бұрын

That is my fave. Same goes for 'Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk' - 53M views

@kuberskioh

4 жыл бұрын

Here's the link kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYp-15t6fa2wopc.html

A 2nd cousin of mine wrote this song as a teenager with his friends in a garage band. They gave it to local DJ to listen to not realizing it should have been copy written and the DJ stole it and sold it to Men Without Hats and my cousin never got a dime.

Loved it! Thank you for sharing this.

@GlitchintheMatrixMultiMedia

4 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Very cool video!! I enjoyed it alot!!!

This is one of the best guilty pleasure songs ever! My guess is Annie loved this being a dancer herself!

I live in Montreal, Canada, where the band was based. People still have a real affection for this one...and I was a kid of the 80s, so I know this one very well (this version works well with the images).

I was 13 years old when my dad took me for the first time to a club (in 1984 people called it a discotheque) My virgin young ears didn't know what hit them, so loud and clear, the lights, the atmosphere... When we entered the club, this song was just played by the dj, the other record was from Fad Gadget - Coitus Interruptus and Ladyshave. It was quite an experience and my love for synthesizers and electronic music was born!

This was really cool to see a young person's reaction to a song from my generation, dancing from earlier generations, and see that the older genre of dancing integrated into the more modern (ahem, 80's) context! Really cool! Now I have to go binge-watch Pulse's youtube channel... :p

This was so fun, thank you! 😀

@GlitchintheMatrixMultiMedia

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

when you mentioned that drummer that's been playing drums since he was 6 that you want to do on your channel reminded me that I would love to see you and Annie react to Tina S. She's an incredible guitar player that has been playing guitar since she was 6. Any of her videos would be great...but I think the best is her playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata... if you want to be truly blown away by some real talent. I think she's 17 in the video where she does play Moonlight Sonata, but there are many videos of her at even younger ages and she is amazing in all of them!

That's the first time I have seen the young lady really show some serious reaction! Who would have thought it would be a one hit wonder that would trigger her musical funny bone!

Good luck on your 100,000! Make it so...

This is amazing. The dancing fits so e into this so vert fun song.

Haven't even watched it.....liked it. Based solely on the song being introduced to the young lady......there's lots of great music from the 80s...... "Same as it ever was"...... Great video guys.

I was there when they made the original video in the village, the Shetland pony in the video was called patch! She lived to be 52!

This song came out when I was in middle school. I was 12. My 23 year old daughter has it for her ring tone 5 years ago. Proud dad. The original video is better.

another great video showing a great song from Canada!

@GlitchintheMatrixMultiMedia

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@9:42 You both looked away at EXACTLY the best part of the video!!🤣🤣🤣

LOL! They were protesting the ban on "pogo" dancing (remember that?), although I know that Ivan also referred to being banned from slam dancing, too.

Mmmm....The 80's. A lot of fun. Great song.

Oh, and the extended club version. I'm impressed.

looove your channel

Absolutely Brilliant !!!!!!!

the song is about Pogoing a dance from the early 80's which was banned from many clubs for safety

If you break it down, he's basically saying "It's safe to dance" :)

i love that, try this version! Safety Dance - Glee Cast Version (23 Dance Scenes Mashup)

Annie needs to check out the band Cherri Bomb. They were her age when they recorded their first album and EP. They did an awesome cover of The Pretender.

@diannahill5577

4 жыл бұрын

I love the song 'Cherry Bomb'! I love Joan Jett and Lita Ford.

Very cool. That's some mad talent. But can we talk about what 🔥 the dancing is in these old films?

Annie is perfecting her McKayla Maroney smirk (9:31)! Awesome!

Good old Canadian band! Great reaction!

That was so much fun !!!!!!!!!!!

The 80s took dancing very seriously. Did we really not have any problems then? My biggest problem was I couldn't dance.

@1971tallica

4 жыл бұрын

Actually yeah, we didn't have too many problems in the 80's now that I think about it.

@thatoneguyagain2252

4 жыл бұрын

If you think the 80's took dancing seriously, you should've seen the Disco 70's - I couldn't dance either

@gordowg1wg145

4 жыл бұрын

Shoot, a couple of those clips were the 20's ;-)

@williamhuerta4720

4 жыл бұрын

Actually we had plenty of problems in the 80's, I think the majority of us were just too busy enjoying the ride to worry about it.

@TacShooter

4 жыл бұрын

Not much you can do when mutually assured destruction kicks off.

I was introduced to this song from watching Bio-dome.

Love this song and the video remake. On a side note the original video to this was filmed in a village/farm about 10 minutes from where i live and my nan knows the owner of the farm, there was meant to be a remake of the original music video a few years ago but never happened dew to funding, i was asked by the person who owns the farm if i wanted to be one of the extras in the video but turned in down

Great song loved it back in the day and a great mix too, I also Club Country by The Associates another classic 80's tune.

Holy shit, that's the extended cut too. Cool.

There are some amazing underated ghost songs, but the one song by them that really needs a reaction is Miasma. That's a song that'll surprise you just when you thought it couldn't get any better

I loved it, my wife hated it....so I played it A LOT. Nice compilation BTW.

somewhere in the deep dark depths of my record collection i think ive still got this one

A happy Annie is a . . . well, a happy Annie. Love to see your smile. Make up your own dance routine to this song - get extra credit in dance class

Great record still dancing in scotland .still safe to dance

Annie, I saw this same video done to Uptown Funk and it’s even better. Look it up!

hilarious, they all fit to the dance of this song

VERY GOOD VIDEO!

One of my fave songs ever!!

This was great fun

I assumed I wouldn't like that...I was wrong...That was awesome...

Tremendous! ✌️

That jumper is amazing

That’s a weird extended version of the song as you don’t even see Ivan, the lead singer. There’s an official video of this song I remember watching in early 80s. It’s kind of medieval in theme. You can see it on KZread. There’s a cool live version of ‘where do the boys go’ by Men Without Hats you should check out :)

This is one where the original video is way more interesting and bonkers. the Dance Compilations are fun though

great song !!

LOVE the Rick and Roll T!

Love this song

That was purely great! I couldn't help but think though in a lot of those clips, how many takes they actually took? Like they stepped up on and laid that couch over in one take? I think not!

Huh..got a smile on my face....a weird feelin´ nowadays! 👍👌

Fred Astaire........man that dude could move! Groovy :)

I still have my 45 of it!!!

U should do red red wine and our house ..blinded me with science

@benjaminmurphy7402

4 жыл бұрын

Ohhh forgot ..dont worry be happy ...and teach her about milli vanilli scandal

@stephenulmer3781

4 жыл бұрын

Too shy and electric avenue too

@Jay-ql4gp

4 жыл бұрын

When I'm older. I'm going to wear a tweed jacket with patches on the elbows, get some black rimmed glasses...and spontaneously yell "Science!" when I'm out in public.

@jbarton8508

3 жыл бұрын

Ev'ryone needs a bit more "Madness" 'round the house!

One song that is a guilty pleasure for me, “You’re So Vain,” by Carly Simon. I really get a kick out of your daughter’s face. I don’t know if she likes the music or is embarrassed that her dad likes the music. lol I have niece & nephew, 8 & 9-years-old, and I know how wide-eyed they get looking at me when I play my music.

The song is written as a protest for getting booted from a club, because the bouncers disliked the writer pogo'ing to B52, disrupting other dancers.

Oh wow. This is such a major flashback for me. Grew up with this song, and the original, and very weird, video.

Love your stuff Glitch in the Matrix Multi-Media... ohh... and Hi from Scotland, love that you and your daughter have such an amazing bond, same as I have with mine, anyhow I would love to see your and Annies take on these two tunes, either one would be amazing, first on the list will have to be Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (Maxi) 1982, the other one from a Scottish band would be Bronski Beat, Marc Almond - I Feel Love / Johnny Remember Me, Stay safe out there guys, much love from Scotland

The point to the Safety Dance was you can dance(pogo, as it was called then/mosh) if you want to, but IF you are going to Mosh or pogo to be 'safe' about it, 'look at your hands' meaning watch where you are shoving and moshing.

haha safety dance montreal represent!

Men Without Hats is from my home town, Montreal Canada. The original video is worth watching. It's SOOO bizarre. Lol

Do "Words" by Missing Persons. Dale Bozzio is the original Lady Gaga.

@GlitchintheMatrixMultiMedia

4 жыл бұрын

Nice suggestion, I've always liked that song too

@ambidex

4 жыл бұрын

Total Gaga. That outfit Dale wears in the video...Crazy 80's.

@eltravo2112

4 жыл бұрын

Got to see her with Missing Persons back in 1998 at a small club with a handful of people there but one of the best experiences! Dale Bozzio stayed behind afterward and signed posters and other merch.

@billie-jobenway8658

4 жыл бұрын

@@GlitchintheMatrixMultiMedia My favorite example of splicing old dance clips with newer tunes is this one. kzread.info/dash/bejne/f2V6ks57ntbUm6g.html

@robturner5746

4 жыл бұрын

@@billie-jobenway8658 that was awesome!!!! thanks!!!

You should have her react to the actual video! That has dancing in it too.

One of my favorite songs from the new wave era back in the early 80s. Have you and Annie done “I Ran” from A flock of seagulls?

Impressive video

That's cool that my birthday is in July as well as yours.. 🤘🤘🤘 July 4th actually 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@GlitchintheMatrixMultiMedia

4 жыл бұрын

Nice, Annie's is the 14th and mine is the 27th.

Great! 1am and now I need to go find me some Gene or Fred or Cyd. Why would you do that? x 😂

2020 still got it !

One of the great artists to emerge out of Montreal along with the Box and Aldo Nova...See the Nicholas Bros....

@redrocks1983

5 ай бұрын

I remember Aldo Nova from early Mtv.

This is one of my daughter's favourite songs. She's nine.

Very cool video just wish they went more current with movie clips as the song progressed.

You could always take a look at The Misfits- Last Caress. Pretty sure it's a fan made video on here, but the dancing fits the overall speed of the song, or Bella Morte's cover of "Earth Angel" which is just an amusing video in it's own right.

Lol... iconic song... my parents wouldn't buy this cassette for me...