On the flipside

The crotch-shaking gyrating generation

Dance and music have evolved over time and we younger people enjoy a lot of house music, hip hop and kwaito. Black Africans like a beat, a "gong". I love kwaito and enjoy my Sghubu!  I equally appreciate my hip hop, and who doesn't know commercial house music?  It's everywhere, you cannot ignore it.

What I have always noted is the kind of songs and dance moves that are likely to be the hits!  It is often the songs that are explicit, uncouth and often demeaning to females that are likely to be big!  Do you remember the song by a certain Ludacris that went, 'Move b**** get outta the way, get outta the way!'  I doubt he was referring to men!  Yet, whenever I went to parties and clubs and this song played, it would often be women who would go wild, screaming, gyrating and shaking what their mamas gave them!  It doesn't matter what it says right?  It's just a song!

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