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Turns out Bob went to McGill University and so did some of the Men without hats members (Ivan I think).

Lance from London, United KingdomAs if we hadn't "spotted" men without hats songs in enough places I even found them in a 2004 scifi book titled "Death of a Sanitation Engineer" by Bob Pellerin.

Will H from Washington Stateyou forgot biodome.

Phillip Fry makes the comment: "That dance wasn't as safe as they said it was."

Jerry from Obx NcThe song was prominently mentioned in an episode of Futurama (Episode 53: 'Future Stock').

Nickster from Minneapolis, MnBeavis and Butthead watched the video, leading Butthead to comment: “He keeps saying he can dance, but it’s like, he CAN’T dance!”.

It's actually "Danser!", which is the French verb meaning "to dance."

Steve from Ottawa, OntarioThere is an error in the lyrics, shortly after the opening verses.

Don from Port Orange, FlAnyone know who the blonde lady is that is dancing in the "Safety Dance" video?.

Doroschuk stated that “it wasn’t a question of just being anti-nuclear, it was a question of being anti-establishment.

Secondly, he explained that it is not an anti-nuclear protest song per se despite the nuclear imagery at the end of the video. Doroschuk says that is reading too much into the lyrics. Firstly, he notes it is not a call for safe sex. Thus, the song is a protest and a call for freedom of expression.ĭoroschuk responded to two common interpretations of the song. The bouncers did not like pogoing so they would tell pogoers to stop or be kicked out of the club. To uninformed bystanders this could look dangerous, especially if pogoers accidentally bounced into one another (the more deliberately violent evolution of pogoing is slamdancing). New wave dancing, especially pogoing, was different from disco dancing, because it was done individually instead of with partners and involved holding the torso rigid and thrashing about.

The writer/lead singer, Ivan Doroschuk, has explained that “The Safety Dance” is a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s new wave music in clubs when disco was dying and new wave was up and coming. 6 in early November, and entering the New Zealand charts in November, eventually peaking at no. “The Safety Dance” similarly found success in other parts of the world, entering the UK charts in August and peaking at no. When it finally did, the record became a bigger hit than it had been in Canada, peaking at no. In the meantime, “The Safety Dance” was released in the US on March 16, but did not enter the US charts for a few months. The song entered the Canadian top 50 in February 1983, peaking at no. The song was written by lead singer Ivan Doroschuk after he had been kicked out of a club for pogoing. “The Safety Dance” is a song by Canadian new wave band Men Without Hats, released in Canada in 1983 as the second single from Rhythm of Youth.