@laura0181 I just thought I would point out that Jeremy Otth and Laura Keat are two of the dancers in this video. You should also look up Shesha Marvin and wife Nikki (who dances with mikey pedroza)- they've taught and competed all over the nation and some! But, I suppose you already knew that, since you clearly already know everything thing there is to know about lindy.
I was daydreaming about a perfect combination of the two, because I wanted to do it for a talent show, and then I saw this and SCREAMED!!
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Then I saw the video and cried. :( Dance,Dance is an awesome song, but this version was just... blegh. Honestly, I think the dancers were worse, What was with those costumes? And the lame booty-shaking... I hope someone redoes this, because I think it's a great combo, but use the recorded version and get better dancers!!
Once again, the MUSIC is AWFUL. Lindy Hop developed in conjunction with Swing (and early Jazz, if I'm not mistaken), it's not something in itself. Swing music also is not something in itself. We're talking about a musical era.
Yes, this is a good routine and I wish people would stop complaining about the music and stop being so narrow minded. People like that give lindy hoppers a bad name. It's a creative and expressive dance and this was awesome. Besides they are on tv and you are not so get over it!
The group did some really great lindy hop in spite of the music, not because of it.
Too bad DWTS didn't see fit to play classic swing music for classic swing dancing. I guess the producers thought that your typical person today wouldn't be able to relate to real-deal, hot swing music. I think they are mistaken.
Oh well, I guess this at least shows that America's true folk dance is still versatile enough and vital enough to be danced to contemporary music, almost 70 years after the swing era.
The girls need to wear lower heals for sure. If they don't land exactly right when they are comming out of those aerials, someone doesn't have a partner. If they had the actual song instead of a cover I think I would have enjoied the performance a bit more, but oh well.
This is called "ballroom swing", not true Lindy Hop. If you want to see some real lindy hop, try searching anything done by Nick Williams, Laura Keat, Jeremy Ott, Jo Hoffberg, Kevin St. Laurent or people like that.
I know they are swing instructors, but this is a crime against the Lindy Hop. I wonder if they choreographer picked the song or the show. I'm hoping it was the show and they had no choice but to go along with it. No offense to the dancing, athough I bet all those girls dance way better in lower shoes. Look at the landing of that girl's foot after 1:45. DWTS is cheesy. If I had a tv, I would have thrown something at it.
Wrong music, wrong dancing. Sorry but Lindy Hop has just been turned into a slow rather bad gymnastic choreography by unenthusiastic dancers. If you want to see real swing, just Bing or Google.
lol... no it wasnt shag. It was a bunch of great instructors having a ball doing nothing but lifts and jumps and some Charleston and even some Balboa thrown in. I loved it.
Very unlikely band, but MCR's "House of Wolves" would have been an amazing song choice. I was told it's tempo is 215 beats per minute and it has that heavy drum beat...
Ok, so the steps work with any music, but let's face it -- the dance moves much better with music that actually swings! Great dancers, right dance, wrong music.
this isnt fall out boy that they used for the song. they WROTE the song. and its THEIR song. But that is NOT their version. THat is a guy TRYING to sing like patrick stump (and failing) and its some guy who is playing the wrong notes on guitar. they got a cheap crappy cover band version.
I don't think it's "classic". They definitely look like the neo-swing/punk infused crowd of the 90's. Remember when BBVD and Brian Setzer were popular... yeah that time.
I don't know what you people are talking about. This Fall out boy is an awesome song for lindy. It does show that you can lindy to almost anything. I thought it was a refreshing break from seeing lindy routines with the same old 30s - 40s music. Those who can't lindy to music other than swign and blues from this era just aren't good dancers or they are very narrow minded.
PS these people who taught this routine need to teach the contestants of today cause these competitors can't lindy!
agreed. it's possible to lindy to any 8 count though each person will have his or her own preference of songs.
I agree on the lindy this season. it wasn't too great in past ones either..I rarely ever see the basic lindy step/rotation. it's all just one trick to another. the tricks are great but what's the point of calling them lindy hop when you don't even see the steps.
@Kristyleigh83 There are fundamental differences between "the same old 30s and 40s music" and rock and roll. Lindy Hop is based on a swung triple step. In musical terms of "1-e-and-a-2-e-and-a" the swung triple would be 1 a 2. This rhythm simply doesn't exist in rock and roll and thats why it is wrong to dance to it.
@GHunter3016 Since you are going over some technicalities of a dance that was originally built on the foundation of improvisation you must be a new lindy hopper who has bought into all that "lindy hop has to be danced to certain music" mumbo jumbo. Lindy hop can be danced to this kind of music and any other kind of music that a person feels. Granted, it would be hard to do lindy hop obviously to a waltz song, but most music it is doable. I think Sesha and his group did a great job on this.
@Kristyleigh83 I respect your opinion, but I also respectfully disagree.
Yes, they did a great job, but to me, while lindy hop is "doable" to most music (as long as it's in 4/4 time; waltz is in 3/4 time), if I tried to style my dancing to this song, I wouldn't call my dancing lindy hop. And if I danced lindy hop, I wouldn't feel as if I were dancing to the music. Change the music, and the dance will change. That's why today we have west coast swing, hustle, etc. Just my $0.02. Take it FWIW.
Really??? Hmm. Guess I need to spend more time watching shag. aside from the Doug Silton/Tatiana Mollman at Reno Dance Sensation, I've never enjoyed what I've recognized as Shag. Thanks for the correction!
i'm not the biggest fan of this show but i'd have to defend that. it's because they do all their songs with a real band not recorded stuff. its much better to dance to and it just sounds better. it would take too much time AND cost a fortune to get royalties for all the songs they use. still, however, they have the real acts come and perform from time to time.
you wouldn't notice right off, but it actually tells you at the beginning it isn't fall out boy. it took me a couple viewings to realize that it says in smaller print just under that it's the dancing with the stars orchestra and there singers(okay it doesn't mention their singers but you can tell).
You guys are so much fun on the dance floor and in general. I will always be thankful for Shesha and Nikki in being my first Lindy instructors. You all are just completely awesome. Here is the proof right here.
@laura0181 I just thought I would point out that Jeremy Otth and Laura Keat are two of the dancers in this video. You should also look up Shesha Marvin and wife Nikki (who dances with mikey pedroza)- they've taught and competed all over the nation and some! But, I suppose you already knew that, since you clearly already know everything thing there is to know about lindy.
lexxite 3 months ago
whose singing this? it's not a good version
peachykeenlimabeen 4 months ago
Whitey lindy hop dancers from the 1941 film 'Hellzapoppin'
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jusjessieus 7 months ago
I do not mean to be negative...they are awesome. But look at the real Lindy Hoppers
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jusjessieus 7 months ago
I was daydreaming about a perfect combination of the two, because I wanted to do it for a talent show, and then I saw this and SCREAMED!!
...
Then I saw the video and cried. :( Dance,Dance is an awesome song, but this version was just... blegh. Honestly, I think the dancers were worse, What was with those costumes? And the lame booty-shaking... I hope someone redoes this, because I think it's a great combo, but use the recorded version and get better dancers!!
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I feel better now.
XAerifyX 8 months ago
Once again, the MUSIC is AWFUL. Lindy Hop developed in conjunction with Swing (and early Jazz, if I'm not mistaken), it's not something in itself. Swing music also is not something in itself. We're talking about a musical era.
Wanderer123 9 months ago
Why didn't they just use the recorded version?
BenjaminPaulWoodham 1 year ago
great lindy hoppers, the music is a shit
Pabloprock 1 year ago 2
Appropriately, lame, stiff, and stunted. Give me Whitey's Lindy Hop troupe. Peace.
forumghost1 1 year ago
newbies! don't know anything!
Kristyleigh83 1 year ago
Yes, this is a good routine and I wish people would stop complaining about the music and stop being so narrow minded. People like that give lindy hoppers a bad name. It's a creative and expressive dance and this was awesome. Besides they are on tv and you are not so get over it!
Kristyleigh83 1 year ago
The group did some really great lindy hop in spite of the music, not because of it.
Too bad DWTS didn't see fit to play classic swing music for classic swing dancing. I guess the producers thought that your typical person today wouldn't be able to relate to real-deal, hot swing music. I think they are mistaken.
Oh well, I guess this at least shows that America's true folk dance is still versatile enough and vital enough to be danced to contemporary music, almost 70 years after the swing era.
byoungpublic 1 year ago 3
they were in the fallout boy dance dance video, so... ya
SchneiderSchneide 1 year ago
completely wrong music :(
elykarts 1 year ago
The girls need to wear lower heals for sure. If they don't land exactly right when they are comming out of those aerials, someone doesn't have a partner. If they had the actual song instead of a cover I think I would have enjoied the performance a bit more, but oh well.
chib1 1 year ago
boring - maybe it's the so off music
soogoonu 1 year ago
This is called "ballroom swing", not true Lindy Hop. If you want to see some real lindy hop, try searching anything done by Nick Williams, Laura Keat, Jeremy Ott, Jo Hoffberg, Kevin St. Laurent or people like that.
laura0181 1 year ago 5
I know they are swing instructors, but this is a crime against the Lindy Hop. I wonder if they choreographer picked the song or the show. I'm hoping it was the show and they had no choice but to go along with it. No offense to the dancing, athough I bet all those girls dance way better in lower shoes. Look at the landing of that girl's foot after 1:45. DWTS is cheesy. If I had a tv, I would have thrown something at it.
chinamooncake 1 year ago
Hate the song. Hate the costumes. Hate the shoes. Did you see that girl hurt her foot on the landing of that jump around 1:50?
chinamooncake 1 year ago
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chinamooncake 1 year ago
Hate the song. Hate the costumes.
chinamooncake 1 year ago
What fucking idiot decided that this bullshit music was a good choice for lindy hopping?
AChickenBoo 1 year ago
Love DWTS and Fall Out Boy and usually the band does a really good job, but I don't think they were meant to do this song.
BLEACHHATGIRL 1 year ago
I agree, the moves are good the music was awful!
danielle8282 1 year ago 2
The music choice is a joke to go with this dancing. Whoever is responsible on the show needs locking up in a lunatic asylum!
PonytailRuth 1 year ago
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The music choice is a joke to go with this dancing. Whoever is responsible on the show needs locking up in a lunatic asylum!
PonytailRuth 1 year ago
The music choice is a joke to go with this dancing. Whoever is responsible on the show needs locking up in a lunatic asylum!
PonytailRuth 1 year ago
The music choice is a joke to go with this dancing. Whoever is responsible on the show needs locking up in a lunatic asylum!
PonytailRuth 1 year ago
who chose this music. I could throw up.
jaybou263 2 years ago
Wrong music, wrong dancing. Sorry but Lindy Hop has just been turned into a slow rather bad gymnastic choreography by unenthusiastic dancers. If you want to see real swing, just Bing or Google.
jerramy 2 years ago
what terrible music for such amazing dancing.
ladyrasberry 2 years ago
Fall Out Boy and DWTS? Seems like it would be an epic win...and it was good..but..Patrick Stump has way more range than that guy
fobgurly 2 years ago
i actually don't agree. I think the song is a good choice because it shows the world that you can swing to anything.
oklaherseygurl 2 years ago
No. Not to this song.
DarthBizzle138 2 years ago
Great dancing, but the music completely ruined it for me. It's a rock 'n' roll dance for fuck sake!!
shagrat57 2 years ago
this is SO awesome shesha! i had no idea you were on the show :)
bluflames007 2 years ago
i dont think fall out boy was really the right song choice however i REALLY like them.
SmartieCakesRock 2 years ago 7
fall out boy in no way is rock. at all. my chemical romance is a bad choice too.
freshpickedoranges 2 years ago
lol... no it wasnt shag. It was a bunch of great instructors having a ball doing nothing but lifts and jumps and some Charleston and even some Balboa thrown in. I loved it.
foamulator 2 years ago
great moves, WRONG MUSIC
jendeh1000 2 years ago 20
He'd be sad with this comment.
sheshazam 2 years ago
They probably were inspired by the actual Dance, Dance music video where two dancers pull some lindy hop-ish moves.
Dinyctis 2 years ago
Very unlikely band, but MCR's "House of Wolves" would have been an amazing song choice. I was told it's tempo is 215 beats per minute and it has that heavy drum beat...
elphbrat 2 years ago
Ok, so the steps work with any music, but let's face it -- the dance moves much better with music that actually swings! Great dancers, right dance, wrong music.
mcareyop 2 years ago 2
this isnt fall out boy that they used for the song. they WROTE the song. and its THEIR song. But that is NOT their version. THat is a guy TRYING to sing like patrick stump (and failing) and its some guy who is playing the wrong notes on guitar. they got a cheap crappy cover band version.
MarcoLPooperman 2 years ago
Yeah, but that's what DWTS does... just cover bands. Only the PRO dancers get the star music. (mostly)
shpwrckF03 2 years ago
LOL @ Len's face at 3:00.
He's like wtf was that boogaloo hip hop?
TheHornyBug 2 years ago
I actually don't mind the song choice, but I do mind the costuming. It seemed silly to have the classic costumes with Fallout Boy playing.
redtide08 2 years ago
I don't think it's "classic". They definitely look like the neo-swing/punk infused crowd of the 90's. Remember when BBVD and Brian Setzer were popular... yeah that time.
shpwrckF03 2 years ago
those weren't classic costumes..
BrittBonshor 2 years ago
I don't know what you people are talking about. This Fall out boy is an awesome song for lindy. It does show that you can lindy to almost anything. I thought it was a refreshing break from seeing lindy routines with the same old 30s - 40s music. Those who can't lindy to music other than swign and blues from this era just aren't good dancers or they are very narrow minded.
PS these people who taught this routine need to teach the contestants of today cause these competitors can't lindy!
Kristyleigh83 2 years ago
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these guys are great. they did a waterfall!
agreed. it's possible to lindy to any 8 count though each person will have his or her own preference of songs.
I agree on the lindy this season. it wasn't too great in past ones either..I rarely ever see the basic lindy step/rotation. it's all just one trick to another. the tricks are great but what's the point of calling them lindy hop when you don't even see the steps.
mondego32 2 years ago
@Kristyleigh83 There are fundamental differences between "the same old 30s and 40s music" and rock and roll. Lindy Hop is based on a swung triple step. In musical terms of "1-e-and-a-2-e-and-a" the swung triple would be 1 a 2. This rhythm simply doesn't exist in rock and roll and thats why it is wrong to dance to it.
GHunter3016 1 year ago 3
@GHunter3016 Since you are going over some technicalities of a dance that was originally built on the foundation of improvisation you must be a new lindy hopper who has bought into all that "lindy hop has to be danced to certain music" mumbo jumbo. Lindy hop can be danced to this kind of music and any other kind of music that a person feels. Granted, it would be hard to do lindy hop obviously to a waltz song, but most music it is doable. I think Sesha and his group did a great job on this.
Kristyleigh83 1 year ago
@Kristyleigh83 I respect your opinion, but I also respectfully disagree.
Yes, they did a great job, but to me, while lindy hop is "doable" to most music (as long as it's in 4/4 time; waltz is in 3/4 time), if I tried to style my dancing to this song, I wouldn't call my dancing lindy hop. And if I danced lindy hop, I wouldn't feel as if I were dancing to the music. Change the music, and the dance will change. That's why today we have west coast swing, hustle, etc. Just my $0.02. Take it FWIW.
byoungpublic 1 year ago 2
wow way to ruin an amazing song.
lookmarisaisonxo 2 years ago
I'm disgusted at the song choice.
HowBoutUhpssh 2 years ago
Yeah... lindy can't be done to this crap. I'm impressed they were able to do anything great to this.
tbgfan 3 years ago 2
I hate to tell you this but you can lindy to just about anything given somebody who can lead.
navygirl8519 2 years ago 3
agreed!
shpwrckF03 2 years ago
Jeremy, Laura, Shesha, and NIkki, wonderful routine!!!! :) I'm grateful to have such awesome instructors!!
techcoast 3 years ago
Swing outs, circles, charleston. Yup it's lindy. Crappy music though !!!
insightnew 3 years ago 2
What about that Balboa thown in there? LOL
shpwrckF03 2 years ago
lol, that was shag...
BrittBonshor 2 years ago
Really??? Hmm. Guess I need to spend more time watching shag. aside from the Doug Silton/Tatiana Mollman at Reno Dance Sensation, I've never enjoyed what I've recognized as Shag. Thanks for the correction!
shpwrckF03 2 years ago
wtf??? this isn't the real version of the song, its a cheap rip off, they DO NOT sound like that.
Cheap asses wounldn't even pay for the royalties to the real version
TheSunshineBubble 3 years ago
i'm not the biggest fan of this show but i'd have to defend that. it's because they do all their songs with a real band not recorded stuff. its much better to dance to and it just sounds better. it would take too much time AND cost a fortune to get royalties for all the songs they use. still, however, they have the real acts come and perform from time to time.
violetcloud 3 years ago
Social dancing is definately better with live music, but it's actually harder to do a routine to live music because you're not as sure of the timing.
barlin07 2 years ago
you wouldn't notice right off, but it actually tells you at the beginning it isn't fall out boy. it took me a couple viewings to realize that it says in smaller print just under that it's the dancing with the stars orchestra and there singers(okay it doesn't mention their singers but you can tell).
navygirl8519 2 years ago
Who has to be shot for selecting the song??
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Natashasweetie14 3 years ago
this is a really bad song!
12name2 3 years ago
Nice Moves! Bad song choice.
Freebillys 3 years ago
ohhhh yes youre right! poor girl!
kittylikesapples 3 years ago
The poor girls ankle in the white shirt and black skirt!!! Pay attention at 1:45.
krazy77grl 3 years ago
You guys are so much fun on the dance floor and in general. I will always be thankful for Shesha and Nikki in being my first Lindy instructors. You all are just completely awesome. Here is the proof right here.
Love ya!
purecowgirl 3 years ago
shesha and nikki, you guys rule! (and jeremy and laura too). is the OC Swing team performing on national television any time soon? :)
chrisaclark 4 years ago
good dancing, bad music :(
nkobinsky 4 years ago
they are pretty good but the singers not so much
coolness1311 4 years ago
the song is Dance Dance by Fall Out boy but compared to the original THIS SONG IS TERRIBLE I WAS CRYING!!!!!!!!
Syhano 4 years ago
amazing guys!
irishbrat4u 4 years ago
Does anyone know the name of the song?
vikinyc 4 years ago
Just googled the answer. It's DANCE, DANCE by FALL OUT BOY.
vikinyc 4 years ago
dance dance- fall out boy
ladymarmalade012 4 years ago
EXCELLENT!
vikinyc 4 years ago
friggin awesome guys!
bullfrog117 4 years ago
Thats my new favourite Swing Song... I'm downloading it right fucking now.
mickeyandkelly 4 years ago 3
Mickey is tongue in cheek. He's joking. No need to thumbs down him :-)
sheshazam 3 years ago
@mickeyandkelly
You must not be a lindy hopper.
chinamooncake 1 year ago
@chinamooncake Did you even read the username? You must not be a Lindy Hopper. How awkward for you.
MrsWilliamTheBloody 5 months ago 4