Please Stop Dancing
I recently saw the video for Lady GaGa's "Just Dance," to which I will only link, I ain't posting that crap. First of all, I hate her weave. Ok, ok, I will stop discounting her (stupid) song by referencing her physical appearence. However, I am dismayed by both the song and video's misrepresentation of excessive drinking and the dangers implicit in the act like, um, death, and the dangers not implicet like, um, rape. The lyrics follow:
I've had a little bit too much, much
All of the people start to rush, start to rush by
How does he twist the dance? Can't find a drink, oh man
Where are my keys? I lost my phone, phone
What's going on on the floor?
I love this record baby but I can't see straight anymore
Keep it cool, what's the name of this club?
I can't remember but it's alright, a-alright
Just dance, gonna be okay, da da doo-doo-mmm
Just dance, spin that record babe, da da doo-doo-mmm
Just dance, gonna be okay, d-d-d-dance
Dance, dance, just, j-j-just dance
Don't be alarmed, I didn't write that shit out myself. I found it on one of those music lyric website, you know, the ones that infect the life out of your computer so you can know what whether Xtina sang "my hymen broke" or "hi, man, I'm broke."
Ok, I'm not a doctor, but if you drank so much that you can't find your phone, which you may need to call the police department via 9-1-1, and you can't find your keys, which you will need to eventually get back into your house, you should stop drinking. Further, it isn't going to be alright. Nightclubs and houseparties are wonderful places to network and dance with friends and meet a potential significant other, but they aren't safezones for intoxicated young people, especially in the society in which we live. According to RAINN, 1 in 6 American women have been victims of attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. If you can't see straight anymore, then that means someone else will have to lead you out when you want to leave, hopefully that doesn't turn out to be, um, a rapist.
The video grossly misrepresents public intoxication and re-instate terrible drinking habits which may be best describes as "drink till you pass out." I was in the UK this summer while recent high school graduates were receiving their "A levels," qualifications for university which I believe are comparable to the SATs. Anyhow, its a huge partying time, and I got to see a lot of young people equipped with tons of misinformation about alcohol as well as, well, alcohol. At one point I was sitting by the window of a bar, enjoying my friends and my cup of beer, when I saw a young, heavily, intoxicated woman skid across the pavement and bash her head againt a wall. She was subsequently unconscious. I told her "friends" crowding around her that I was going to call an ambulence. They yelled for me to "mind my own bloody business." Um...possible dead girl on the floor sounds like my business. She awoke a few seconds before the ambulence arrived although I never followed up on the state of her health.
I would love to see Lady GaGa add that glamour to her video.
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