Dansband

Ah, the smell of way too much cologne mixed with sweat, snuff (see “Snus”), moonshine (see “Hembränt”) and over-confidence. This youthful (not really) craze became popular in the 1970’s and is still going strong. Basically, it consists of a band playing songs inspired by country, pop swing and jazz, anything that can be made into a danceable tune. If you haven’t listened to the Baseballs dandsband version of Rihanna’s Umbrella you don’t know the true meaning of the word “remix”. There are a couple of other words I would like to use for it too, but there are way too many people who enjoy this stuff. 

There is no individual dancing, like those darn youngsters and their “disco”, instead everybody pairs up and tries to find their next sexual partner by doing it laterally in a foxtrot/wales type of dance. One heads-up for women trying to these dances – the man always leads. You just follow. It might be hard in the beginning, but if you stick with it you will find yourself starting to obey them outside of the dance floor, too, and you will be a much happier person! How to identify a dansband band: They usually have names with x, å, ä, ö and z.