Thirty posts, and no one has mentioned “Cheek to Cheek”? :eek:
*Heaven, I’m in Heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak;
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we’re out together dancing, cheek to cheek
Heaven, I’m in Heaven
And the cares that hung around me thru the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler’s lucky streak
When we’re out together dancing, cheek to cheek*
Old 97s - “The Dance Class”. The protagonist is an agoraphobe in love with a girl in a dance class across the street.
“I’m wishing I could leave my house
But it’s been a year since I went out
You’re so far over there in your dance class
I am in love with whoever you are
Whoever you are…”
Well, take it up with the OP, but ISTM that it’s pretty clear that the OP’s criterion is a description of someone else dancing. Not about the emotions that the experience of dancing makes the narrator feel (which is what “Cheek to Cheek” is about), even if the singer happens to be a famous dancer in real life.
For example, the OP explicitly disqualified “The Safety Dance”, which is also about the narrator’s feelings about dancing.
I realize that all songs about dancing are also about the people doing the dancing, but for the purpose of this thread I would just like to stick to songs about the dancers themselves.
Would Copacabana count? Lola is a dancer, but most of the plot of the song is about stuff to the side of that (a couple men fighting over her, her being a has-been who’s still trying to cling to when she was Hot Stuff)…though it is all consequences of her dancing.