Headbanging is, as you know, bobbing your head up and down to any type of music, or without music, if you so choose
I say it is dancing because you are moving along with the music, whether or not your whole body is moving doesnāt matter. It all depends on the type of headbanging, also.
Thereās the light headbang, just your head and upper-back move, the medium, where the movement is decidedly faster, and then thereās the āfull on headbangā where you bend to your waist and headbang.
To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.
a. To leap or skip about excitedly.
b. To appear to flash or twinkle: eyes that danced with merriment.
c. Informal. To appear to skip about; vacillate: danced around the issue.
3. To bob up and down.
Youāre gonna have a fairly hard time defining dancing, as, like music, drawing, crafting, and writing, itās a form of artistic expression. And when you get down to it, itās more complex than you might think.
Originally posted by Skankinā Garbage Youāre gonna have a fairly hard time defining dancing, as, like music, drawing, crafting, and writing, itās a form of artistic expression. And when you get down to it, itās more complex than you might think.
All Iām saying is that there is no real definition to what dancing isā¦ there can be any number of ways to dance. But moving along to music is definitely dancing, so headbanging IS dancing.
while maybe its dancing if you look at it literally, i dont think headbanging fits the connotation of dancing at all. and the connotation is wahts important.
If you moved more than your head, I think it could count as dance.
Some say that Pat Boone danced when he sangā¦he sorta swayed like he needed to shift his weight on his feet, and snapped his finger to the beat of Tutti Frutti (more or lessā¦the guy had the rhythm of a squid out of water.)
Originally posted by Sinistral I define dancing as bad foreplay. If I wanna get laid, there are faster and more efficient ways to get to it.
LOL! That reminded me of a party I went to a few months ago. I saw one couple sitting on a couch, doing what I can only describe as āclothed sexā. I mean, the girl was sitting on the guys lap, going through all the motions and everything. It looked rather silly, actually.
Real dancing is cool, though. I used to think that any dancing outside of the organized stuff (you know, like swing dancing or salsa, where there are actually certain moves) was dumb, but then I learned to just have fun with it. Itās kinda silly, but Iāve found it to be quite fun, and Iām glad I gave it a try after being put off by the idea for so many years.
But to get back to Rounās original post, I would only consider headbanging as dancing if you involve more than just your head. If all youāre doing is bobbing your head, then youāre really doing nothing more than those Night at the Roxbury guys.
On behalf of my fellow ass shakers,no, head banging is exactly what it impliesā¦banging your head around Dancing involvesā¦ettique(in some forms) freestyle and class or an extreme limited amount of clothing depending on where you are:kissy: head banging is just going out and out crazy and attempting to give you brain damage.
To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.
This can not be an exact definition. A drummer movest rhythmically to CREATE music, and we certainly donāt call playing music dancing, do we?
The next definitions need to be taken in context, which I will provide for each.
a. To leap or skip about excitedly.
b. To appear to flash or twinkle: eyes that danced with merriment.
c. Informal. To appear to skip about; vacillate: danced around the issue.
a. Insufficient. Ingest several jalepeno peppers. Youāll be running around in pain. Can you call it dancing? I think not.
b. I could strap fireworks all over my body and blow myself to kingdom comeā¦sure, Iād flash and twinkle quite a bit, but I sure as hell wouldnāt be dancing.
c. Eh. It already says itās informal. Thatās clear enough.
To bob up and down.
My first thought for this third definition is that it is a more poetic use of ādance.ā For example, the flowers and grass on a windswept plateau ādanceā along to the breeze. To me, number three is a literary use of ādance.ā
In any case, donāt headbang. Waltz. Waltzes are fun. And they probably wonāt make you run the risk of jolting your brain around too much and making you into an idiot.
