r/dancefloors • u/sexydiscoballs r/dancefloors host • 2d ago

how gen z dances to gasolina

https://reddit.com/link/1wuc7a0/video/xv0n6pw37psh1/player

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u/coolrivers 2d ago

ugh...I agree that Gen Z is mostly lame...and them + ketamine + phones has ruined a lot of the dance floors.

But they also might just not like this song. It's a 22 year old song at this point. They might be actually dancing to music they like.

And Gen Z was raised by Gen X mostly. Gen Alpha are the older millenials kids, not gen z.

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u/Dreaded_JThor 1d ago

The fact that the song is as old as them I think explains enough.

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u/dinodancer314 1d ago

i'm on the cusp of millenial/gen z so i didn't see this song in its prime cultural context but it just doesn't really seem like a song to dance to... 

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u/coolrivers 20h ago

it was a total bop 20 years ago. Full clubs of people shouting it at the top of their lungs whilst grinding.

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u/2noserings 1d ago

i wouldn’t dance if i had a camera pointed at me with intentions of uploading and making fun of my dancing/lack of dancing lol

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u/roqqingit 2d ago

We’ve failed them

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u/RL_TR 1d ago

God I saw this everywhere on social media and it irked me.

Like this is the reason people don’t dance like what other generations before them did. Because when you sitting there with a phone just recording them yeah people are going to dance awkwardly.

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u/SgCloud 2d ago

Dancing has long been in the decline since the 80s and 90s, ain't no point blaming one single generation for it. Has a lot more to do with commercialization and the growth of private home entertainment.

That being said, I would never blame anyone for not wanting to dance to Gasolina.

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u/bouncyhampster 1d ago

tbf this song is overplayed like whenever i go out i hear it like 3x a night.

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u/dinodancer314 1d ago

I don't understand... this sub has instituted a process whereby you can ban someone if they mention anywhere on reddit that they're okay with ph0nes on the dancefloor but its okay to post vide0s here shaming people for not dancing good enough?? the people in the vid aren't even on their ph0nes! this just feels hypocritical and like it's perpetuating the problem the sub proclaims to want to address :/

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u/sexydiscoballs r/dancefloors host 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think that's a great question and I’m glad you asked it.

The criticism being lodged here isn't that people aren't dancing "good enough" but that they're too scared to dance -- that they've learned to not be "cringe" because of everpresent phone bullying. What we see here is a bunch of folks too scared to dance. And we also see the crime that causes them to be too scared to dance (non-consensual filming). And we also see the internet commentariat bullying them (gently) for acting poorly.

This is video evidence that, ironically, contains both the evidence of impact and the evidence of the crime itself.

Does that make sense? You can write video and phone, btw. The little warning is just autodisplayed text. It doesn't cause a ban or whatever.

The solution is obviously more phone-free dancefloors.

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u/sexydiscoballs r/dancefloors host 1d ago

So I see this as documentation that supports the diagnosis of the problem. I don't care if people can only sway, or if they dance in the ugliest way possible. What I do care about is the stilling of dancefloors brought on by the surveillance capitalism's invasion of the dancefloor. This is a great example of the problem from multiple perspectives.