TIL 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Safety_Dance#Meaning_of_the_song



Submitted March 30, 2015 at 05:12PM by New_Car_Wrecked http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/30spjg/til_that_the_safety_dance_is_a_protest_against/