Results: Go-Go Dancing
Published on 12/26/2020
To establish a definition, this survey's about dancers, usally female, on stages or flanking the stages where rock, soul and pop acts perform (or on elevated stages, sometimes caged, among a dancefloor full of other dancers) usually dressed fairly modestly. It was especially popular from the mid-1960;s to the early '70's but has never disappareed entierly.
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Before starting this survey, were you familiar with the concept of go-go dancing?
Yes, in the manner described in the opening description.
53%
1191 votes
Yes, but not in the manner described above.
8%
189 votes
Yes, both in the manner described above and otherwise.
13%
294 votes
Unsure
8%
186 votes
No
17%
376 votes
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I was born too late to experience much of go-go dancing's peak popularity but still appreciate the visual complement of innocent sensuality that energetic go-go dancing can add to a musical performance. Would you like to see a go-go dancing revival in popular music performance?
Yes
22%
500 votes
Unsure
23%
525 votes
No
38%
855 votes
Today's popular music might not be well complemented by go-go dancing.
16%
356 votes
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3.
The video accompanying this question is a TV commercial for car parts. I suppose featuring go-go dancing in an ad for automotive supplies in the late 1960's woud be analogous to incorporating grunge music in an ad for plumbing fixtures in the early '90's; that is, a grasp at consumers' attention with something that has nought to do with the product being advertised. Do you like it when advertisers jump on cultral trends in order to shill you goods & services?
Yes
11%
254 votes
Unsure
15%
325 votes
It depends on what's being advertised and/or the trend being exploited.
33%
738 votes
No
32%
714 votes
I'm not exposed to enough adverting to have a legitimate opinion on the topic.
9%
205 votes
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4.
Alas, I couldn't find online any concert footage of the band by whom I had my first live go-go dancing experience, Breakfast With Amy. When I saw the Christian Dadaist psychedelic post-punk alt rockers, they not only shared a stage with two go-go dancing young ladies, but also a man rolling around a hair dryer of the type seen at a salon. Wild! Here's a song on their 1990 debut album; can you imagine it accompanied by go-go dancing?
Yes!
12%
274 votes
Maybe!
24%
545 votes
No!
29%
648 votes
I'm unfamiliar with the song and didn't listen to it here!
34%
769 votes
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5.
A fleshier take on go-go dancing is how it's practiced by dancers in bikinis or other scantier garb with designs and verbiage painted on their skin. It was probably most popularly presented in the U.S. on the TV comedy/variety show Laugh-In. My guess is that this type of go-go dancing is a variant of what's nowadays seen at raves and outdoor music festivals (when they return...). I think it's at least silly and absurd as it is sexy; you? Sexier than it's silly or absurd
9%
193 votes
Sillier or more absurd than it is sexy
12%
260 votes
Sexy and silly/absurd in about equal measure
10%
217 votes
It depends on who's dancing and how s/he's made up (w/ the understanding that a male go-go dancer isn't likely to be dancing in a bikini)
15%
340 votes
I can't decide!
13%
295 votes
I don't care!
42%
931 votes
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