Posted on 06/20/2015 9:23:17 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
Just after sunset on a recent Friday night, what looked like a silent flash mob or a mass game of charades was taking place in a cordoned-off cobblestone square in the South Street Seaport: some 300 people dancing wildly, sans music. Or so it seemed.
There were actually three D.J.s dueling for the crowd’s attention, but their tunes could be heard only through wireless headphones, which glowed red, blue or green depending on which channel the reveler chose...
...“I used to go to clubs, but the music is too loud,” said Andre Coppedge, 38... “Here you party the whole time, and if you don’t like the song, you just change the frequency.”
...To an onlooker with no headphones, it sounded like an impromptu a cappella battle of the bands, with a bunch of people pogoing up and down singing Kriss Kross’s “Jump” while others yelled the words to Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It.”
Whether the experience is isolating or integrating depends on whom you ask.
“This is what we’ve been reduced to: dancing with ourselves,” said Bernadette Gay, 56...
...Ms. Gay, who works for a health care company, tried the silent disco channels briefly, but returned the big black wireless headphones, deciding she herself was the best D.J. "... It’s isolating. Where’s the connection?”
...Weddings, particularly destination ones, are a new market... Besides the live D.J., guests can choose between the bride’s channel and the groom’s channel (after the first dance, of course)...
...“When I’m home, people tell me I have no rhythm. But I can do anything here.” In other words, who can tell if it’s bad rhythm or she’s just dancing to a different beat?...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Isolating. But still a cool concept.
For those who identify as “trans-musical”.
I loathe trance music.
I was dancing with this girl-irl
The most beautiful in the wor-orld
Then I had some gas
and I let it pass
and now I’m dancing with my self-elf
I honestly don’t know why anyone would in public put themselves in a situation where they will not hear what’s going on around them.
When I was younger and fit enough to enjoy dancing, a big part of the fun was knowing that we were all experiencing the same song at that some time, volume and tempo. For the most part, public dancing was never meant to be a private experience. Otherwise stay home and dance in front of the medicine cabinet for free.
I have a wild, silent disco in my living room where I dance with gorgeous, invisible women.
What a blast....
Predicted.
Some think that song is really about masturbation.
That's something that's bothered me for years about people listening to earphones or headphones in public. I seriously don't get it. The deliberate blocking of such a basic survival tool indicates, to me, an almost suicidal level of denial. That one thing, to me, explains virtually all of liberalism.
It was unbelievably hilarious, we instantly named it the "Night of the Dancing Dead"
Of course, none of us had a clue about this C&W line dance crap, but done in silence it was absolutely the funniest thing you ever saw!
I understand wanting privacy or wanting to be separated while still in the crowd, but it’s way too dangerous. It’s how people die accidentally or get injured. They need a buffer but its too much of a buffer and they can’t function properly because nobody else around them is in the buffer either and aren’t acting like it. They aren’t being extra careful, they expect everyone to be paying attention to like, trying to stay out of trouble, like they give a sh1t they want to keep living, etc.
I was just looking for that graphic!
Might not be that hard to get wind of something noisy despite the headphones. I stopped going to dance places because the music was so loud that it was sometimes painful and damaging - couldn't hear squat under those conditions either. At least with this method, one can hear the music w/o causing hearing damage.
Before the Disco they can go to a movie theater with a dark screen to watch the movie in their head.
“The deliberate blocking of such a basic survival tool “
Count me in there. I cringe when I see these people and I can hear their music even at a distance.
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