Do you do the Electic/Cha-cha Slide at parties??

[tinkntraining]

Guilty -- I still join-in on the Electric Slide AND the Cha-cha -- but, gotta admit, by absolute favorite is the Booty Call -- now that's fun!!!

 

[GeorgeG]

I don't know if I speak for all musicians, but I hate those songs and most songs like them. They may be fun for some people, but's it torture to have to play them. It's not that they're difficult to play. They're not. They are just very annoying to play. Kind of like disco... I guess that's why we have DJs who can start those songs, hand out silly hats, and walk away for a few minutes.

As for dancing to them... I don't! I'm basically a slow dance guy, if I dance at all.

 

[Angelhalo]

I don't know if I speak for all musicians, but I hate those songs and most songs like them. They may be fun for some people, but's it torture to have to play them. It's not that they're difficult to play. They're not. They are just very annoying to play. Kind of like disco... I guess that's why we have DJs who can start those songs, hand out silly hats, and walk away for a few minutes.

As for dancing to them... I don't! I'm basically a slow dance guy, if I dance at all.

LOL, well our DJ didn't walk away. he was the best DJ EVER. he handed out hats and then put one on himself and led the group. He was sooooooooooo worth the money!

 

[blowinbubbles]

Okay, what is the song that is a group dance, that goes "to the left, to the left, to the right, to the right" or whatever.

I saw it at my brother's wedding, and then later at a party.

hehe. . thought I might need to learn these dances!

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Okay, what is the song that is a group dance, that goes "to the left, to the left, to the right, to the right" or whatever.

I saw it at my brother's wedding, and then later at a party.

hehe. . thought I might need to learn these dances!

I think you mean the cha-cha slide.

I don't do the dances but my DD loves them. I don't think they're all that horrible but that's just me.

Oh and Cotton-eyed Joe is a big one by us too. She loves them all! I'll have to tell her they play them at the sail away party. She'll be pumped!

 

[Ride Junkie]

Cringe. Especially when I hear the first few bars of "Macarena".

 

[jen0610]

Heck ya I'll do both of them.

At the kids schools roller skating parties, when they do the cha-cha slide, you don't have to have on skates to go out and do it, so DD and her friends always come get me to do it with them.

 

[MontanaZoo]

Is the Cha Cha slide worse than the chicken dance?

 

[suzimar57]

sure do dance the "electric slide", as well as the "chicken dance" and "YMCA!"

 

[ecuagoddess]

Nope, and like a PP, I told the DJ I would give him a huge tip to stay away from ANY LINE DANCING. He got it.

 

[PghLybrt]

NO!!!!!

Although the type of parties I goto those songs would never make the light of day!

 

[Mahnahmahnah]

My Grandmother totally screwed up our play list at our wedding. She of course requested Chicken Dance. And the Electric Slide - there was no Cha-Cha then....

These are the other songs she requested:

Gloria
The Greek Syrto (sp) line dancing (we're not even Greek! )
Italian line dancing songs

And the best - a polka !

Everyone was so blasted they all danced to it

 

[Barb]

I love to dance. Unfortunately, I don't usually have any one to dance with. So line dances work well for me. I do as many as I can figure out!

 

[dispor]

I can't imagine inviting a GUEST to my wedding, accepting a gift from them (and possibly a shower gift, too) and telling my DJ that under no circumstances was he to play a song they requested.

Not putting it on a list of songs that you are specifically requesting the DJ to play is completely different - that I can understand.

 

[DVC Sadie]

Why yes, yes I do, doesn' everybody?

Everybody, get on the floor, lets do this dance and lets dance some more.

 

[Subi WRX]

Cringe

We gave our wedding DJ a whole list of songs that we were not to hear. All group/line dances were included in the list of banned songs. Cha Cha wasn't out then, but I despise the Electric Slide and the chicken dance.

We also would not allow a dollar dance (don't get me started on how cheesy I think these are).

I don't understand the popularity of the song Love Shack either. I can't stand that one. Not sure why others hear in it. That and the sound track to Grease. Ick. Guess I'm a whack-a-do.

P.S. Where else except weddings do you hear these songs? Just cruises, I guess?

 

[englishteacha]

I teach 7th grade. My cool factor went way up when I did the Cha Cha Slide with them at a dance. I do the Macarena, the Electric Slide, the Cotton Eyed Joe, and I'll do the Chicken Dance though I despise it. Most dancing I do is with youth at school or at camp, so these songs are often played. Love Shack and YMCA are popular, too. Oh, and the Hand Jive. My arms get tired during that one!

A couple years ago, after that MTV reality show "The 70s House" or whatever it was called, my students wanted to learn The Hustle. I looked up the moves online and we figured it out together. It was a lot of fun.

 

[The_Horned_King]

I'll do the CASPER SLIDE -part 2 (the actual name of the song by the way!)

I refuse to do the electric slide which has always been and will always be a women's line dance. No man should eve do that silly dance.