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| Length = | Label = | Writer = Ivan Doroschuk | Producer = Marc Durand | Last single = "I Like" (1982) | This single = "The Safety Dance" (1983) | Next single = "I Got the Message" (1983) }} "The Safety Dance" is a song by Canadian new wave band Men Without Hats, released in Canada in January 1983 as the second single from ''Rhythm of Youth''. The song was written by lead singer Ivan Doroschuk after he had been kicked out of a club for pogoing.〔Sperounes, Sandra (May 12, 2011). . ''Edmonton Journal''. Retrieved May 12, 2011.〕 The song entered the Canadian top 50 in February 1983, peaking at no. 11 on 14 May. 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. When it finally did, the record became a bigger hit than it had been in Canada, peaking at no. 3 in September 1983. It also reached no. 1 on ''Cash Box'', as well as no. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Dance Chart. "The Safety Dance" similarly found success in other parts of the world, entering the UK charts in August and peaking at no. 6 in early November, and entering the New Zealand charts in November, eventually peaking at no. 2 in early 1984. ==Meaning of the song== 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. 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. To uninformed bystanders this could look dangerous, especially if pogoers accidentally bounced into one another (the more deliberately violent evolution of pogoing is slam dancing). The bouncers did not like pogoing so they would tell pogoers to stop or be kicked out of the club. Thus, the song is a protest and a call for freedom of expression. Doroschuk responded to two common interpretations of the song. Firstly, he notes it is not a call for safe sex. Doroschuk says that is reading too much into the lyrics. 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 stated that "it wasn't a question of ''just'' being anti-nuclear, it was a question of being anti-establishment."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= True Meaning of the Safety Dance )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Safety Dance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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