Expert: Bong Santos - 3/29/2008

Question
Bong, thanks for some of the answers you gave for others...they helped me, too. I need your help. our school we'll have a presentation called dances through the decades...each has it's own name , like "The Swinging 60’s", 70’s Disco Fever ("The Hustle” and "Play that Funky Music”, 80’s  WE DON'T HAVE YET-that's where we need you, pls.We'll do “Let’s Get Physical”and "Rico Mambo”, 90’s   WE DON'T HAVE TOO-baka may idea ka...(“Gonna Make You Sweat”and "Pop") and 2000's WALA PA RING NAME,hehehe. we'll do “Run the Show”and "All for One” of HSM2....help us pls...ASAP..God bless!   Gracia


Answer
Dear Gracia,

The 80's can be classified into several dances, the early 80's fad was the aerobics era from where songs like PHYSICAL by OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, FAME and FLASHDANCE...WHAT A FEELING by IRENE CARA and MANIAC by MICHAEL SEMBELLO made a killing in the music scene. The later part was dominated by breakdancing. DARING AND FUN 80'S would be appropriate. You may just add something like RICO MAMBO and other Italo dance tunes from the late 80's since they were also big then.

The 90's introduced us to HOUSE MUSIC and TECHNO. Ito na yung time ng GONNA MAKE YOU SWEAT, PUMP UP THE JAM & PUMP UP THE VOLUME. It may well be called TOUGHIES 90's. Please refer to this link for more info on this dance genre:   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno

The 2000's they say spells the comeback of the disco era what with FERGIE, GWEN STEFANI, RIHANNA and even MARIAH CAREY dominating the charts albeit with a touch of R&B. Well, you can also squeeze in a bit of HSM too. As for the name, I'll skip on this one, I'm an 80's expert, remember?

Maraming salamat po!!


BONG M. SANTOS
Manila, Philippines