Billboard caught up with DJs across eras and genres to figure out how the practice has evolved from one generation to the next.
Millions of people inevitably shared their opinions, but an especially fervent disapproval of the interaction arose amongst straight men, particularly young straight men. What was once a key element of the American cultural fabric and a commonplace, uncontroversial practice had become the center of a firestorm of discomfort, disapproval, and outright rejection.
“Dance has traditionally been a thing where you know you could just be walking on the dance floor, the music is groovy, and you reach your hand out and you dance with someone,” muses DJ Zoe Crazy, a 2022 FAMU graduate who specializes in DJing Atlanta proms. “With the cameras and the social media, it definitely takes some of that comfort away. You never know who you’re dancing with. You don’t know who’s posting what. Everything can be seen. I think it makes people a little more judgmental.
Just as the omnipresence of phones and cameras have stunted the ability to organically create moments of vulnerability to set the stage for a slow dance moment, so too has the evolution of the lyrical content of songs that sonically fit into the typical slow dance canon. “I feel like the content directly relates to it — to me, slow [dancing] goes with more romantic music,” DJ R-Tistic, who has been DJing for about 16 years, says.
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