Sunday, March 27, 2011
Should I Still Dance The Way I Used To?
Hi, my name is Yamilette aka Yami and I'm a 16 year old Puerto Rican and Dominican student. You might be wondering why I introduced my race to you, but it has a lot to do with my concern I was hoping maybe you guys could help me with. As you may know, Latinos are known to be very exotic, not only by what what we're mixed with, but because of our culture and our music. I used to dance to reggeton when I was younger and hip hop and reggae like a complete pro, not to brag, but I was also always told that I really knew how to get down and follow the music with my body. A few years later, after coming to my senses and realizing how degrading the songs I was dancing to where, I stopped listening to that kind of music and started getting into rock and roll and pop punk and metal, etc. Obviously in rock we head bang, it's nothing like hip hop for sure. Every now and then when I hear songs that I used to dance to like Missy Elliot's Lose Control, or any of Sean Paul's or Daddy Yankee's song, I kind of miss dancing that music. I know I haven't lost my touch and I still know how to get down, it's like learning to ride a bike, you never really forget. I get the urge to want to dance it again, but my style has completly changed since then and now I wear band shirts and I even know a new set of vocab words I never used before, I cuss a lot less and get into fights a lot less. Which, let's be honest, it's what hip hop and rap really bring to the table the majority of the time. I really want to get back to dancing how I used to, but a lot of the songs like this are so degrading and I never realized how bad it makes a girl look to dance so intimately with someone to a song like that. And above that, people know me for my knew look that I've had now for four years or so. What do you guys think? Should I give it another try despite what I think?
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