# Safety Dance, parody of music video **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-dance-parody-of-music-video/643828 "2012-12-12T15:04:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-dance-parody-of-music-video/643828/1 "2012-12-12T15:04:28Z")
I remember the song “Safety Dance” fondly. My taste in music is obviously not particulary high brow. But at the time I never managed to catch the music video that went with it. A few years ago I eventually dug it up on the series of interconnected tubes. The video was even odder than the song. Well, here is a parody of the song/video. This may be the most perfect parody I have ever seen. The new lyrics fit in perfectly. They match the scenes perfectly. Nothing feels forced. And to top it all off many of the lines are pretty damn funny. Link safe for work, but watch the volume of course. Video component is bit too low res though. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v7aGFrVSTAY/hqdefault.jpg "Men without hats - Safety Dance literal version") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7aGFrVSTAY) ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-dance-parody-of-music-video/643828/2 "2012-12-12T15:32:02Z")
This one is also pretty damn crazy, but it may be the first time Hooked on a Feeling has made any sense. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztHAcNbHKF0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztHAcNbHKF0) ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-dance-parody-of-music-video/643828/3 "2012-12-12T15:47:05Z")
Holy moly. Yep, parody or not, that is certainly another weird assed video that flew under my pop culture radar. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-dance-parody-of-music-video/643828/4 "2012-12-12T21:10:47Z")
Funniest of all time: [Literal Version, “Total Eclipse of the Heart”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovEDhFfgdOo). ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-dance-parody-of-music-video/643828/5 "2012-12-12T21:32:13Z")
Oddly enough, Rembert Browne, a writer for Grantland, reviewed this video upon first watch [a few days ago.](http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/63188/rembert-explains-the-80s-men-without-hats-safety-dance) He’s 25 years old and has a running series where he reviews things from the 80’s and comments on how fucked up they were. His best was his review of the Very Special Episode of _Punky Brewster_ where she had the fortitude to [Just Say “No”.](http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/58082/rembert-explains-punky-brewster-and-hard-drugs) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-dance-parody-of-music-video/643828/6 "2012-12-13T02:17:00Z")
Oh, thanks for sharing the Safety Dance, I LOVE that song and video. But the parody was hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safety-dance-parody-of-music-video/643828/7 "2012-12-13T04:01:57Z")
My favourite: the literal version of A-Ha’s “[Take On Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ).”