I know what you're saying! I love the 70's. There was real dancing. No grinding up on each other or doing sex moves, just good, get down, get with it, get funky dancing. The music had a beat, rhythm, and soul in it, no computerized music like today's music. When you take the instruments out of music, you take the soul out. I love watching the girls dance. They could get down as much as the guy's. They really came to dance, not just show off to the camera, like in the 80's and 90's Soul Train. I love the music, it makes me want to dance. I love the styles. I especially love the afros. If only that can become popular once more. I could really rock an afro now. I thought most of the girls dressed fashionably, stylish, urban chic, they didn't have everything hanging out or revealing their bodies, though they nice shapes showed. I liked how the show truly represented what the 70s were all about, black beauty, black pride, soul, etc. Most of the girls on the show represented black beauty. The whole show did, you saw a sea of blacks from every complexion truly representing together and showing the world their culture in dance, music, and style, and it inspired so many, even to this day. I think the styles some of the guy's wore were crazy though. I want to thank all those 1000s upon 1000s of dancers for contributing to the show and making it what it is. I enjoy watching them even now and I wonder what became of most of them. What they did will last forever.
Starting in the late 70's, that when Soul Train started turning into a beauty contest, especially with the women. The prettiest women started being picked, not the best dancers. It became like a stripper club show after awhile. The men were really the only ones dancing after awhile, because the women were just showing out. After awhile you stopped seeing black women, and more Hispanic, or biracial women, that's when the soul went. A lot of people just started coming on the show to try to use the show to make it for themselves. I guess what kept people watching was for the singers. When they change the lines to single sex, that's when the show loss it's appeal to people. The rumor was a lot of the men didn't want to go down the line with the women, because the guys felt the women couldn't dance anymore.
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SmokyBrownEyes
14 years ago
Great post rhythmbluessoul. You pretty much summed it up. The 70s rocked. at least on Soul Train. I noticed that in the mid-late 80s the women were more into showing off their outfits from the mall than dancing but I liked when they had Rosie Perez on (she was serious about her dancing) hahaha and of course "the Asian lady with the long hair". Her name is Cheryl Song, at least on that VH1 Special they did on Soul Train a while back. Also notice that from the late 70s on they had a lot of performers lip-syncing their songs. It took the fun out of the performance when you sound excactly like the album. Sometimes it was so obvious it was sad.
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