Music for the Electric Slide
Don’t Electric Slide to Snoop Dogg
By Lucy Bushman
In bars all across the south, disc jockeys have specific songs for line dancing, including the Electric Slide. But in some select bars, every song seems to be a line-dancing song. If you have been to one of these bars, you know what I mean.
When Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Achy Breaky Heart” or Brooks and Dunn’s “Boot Scootin Boogie” come on, you know the cowboy boot-wearing folk will make their way to the stage for a rip-roaring good time. Other classic line-dancing country songs are “Watermelon Crawl,” by Tracy Byrd; “Chattahoochee,” by Alan Jackson; and “I Feel Lucky,” by Mary Chapin Carpenter. Some non-country songs for line dancing are “Electric Boogie,” by Marcia Griffiths; “The Chicken Dance;” “Macarena,” by Los Del Rios; and “Cotton Eye Joe,” by Rednex (which could be considered country music also).
But when Snoop Dogg or Jay Z play on the loudspeakers and folks get out there in a line, something is weird. Maybe it’s the only way some people know how to dance, but they shouldn’t take up the whole floor, sliding and stepping in unison to music that is meant for bouncing and thumping. The clientele of such places need to expand their repertoire of dance moves.
Some places even go as far as to line dance to Mariah Carey ballads and Frank Sinatra. Or to Guns n Roses or John Mellencamp. Why? Why not slow dance with a partner, or bring back the air guitar and the banging head? These are not songs for line dancing.
So what makes for a “good” and “bad” line-dancing song? A good line-dancing song has a repetitive element that is usually upbeat and happy. “The Chicken Dance” is a good example. Sometimes, like “The Chicken Dance” or “Electric Slide,” the intent of the song is to have a dance. These songs created a specific dance. Others, like “Achy Breaky Heart” just happen to have an upbeat repetition and people – I don’t know who – decide to put some steps to it. Bad line-dancing songs have either a slow beat or somber tone. Many current rap and R&B songs are somber, with lyrics about life in the streets or beating up whores. They are not good Electric Slide songs because they don’t promote the community togetherness that is at the heart of line dancing. Even heavy guitar songs are usually accompanied by lyrics that verge on the vulgar side.
Why would anyone want to dance next to a friend during a song about drive-by shootings or smoking crack? Boot Scoot Boogie is better any day.
There is a contradiction here. “Achy Breaky Heart” is lyrically a sad song. It’s about a break-up. But the tender subject matter is handled so non-tenderly, that it isn’t sad; it’s a playful song about a break-up. This projects “Achy Breaky Heart” from sad song into the realm of acceptable songs for line dancing.
Lucy Bushman is an accomplished niche website developer and author.
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Electric Slide Lyrics
This article aims to share the most famous electric slide lyrics worldwide.
How Many Electric Slide Lyrics Are There?
There are several popular Electric Slide lyrics produced in the music industry (of course, exempting the ones that are unofficially launched to the public). One Electric Slide lyrics was written by Wildlife, which is about a son writing a letter (the song lyrics) to his father about a girl he’s in love with. Another one was composed under Grandmaster Slice’s album and the song was called Electric Slide (Shall We Dance) which was mostly about dancing and having fun. These electric slide lyrics, though, are a tad bit related to the more popular electric slide song Electric Boogie by Marcia Griffiths in the 1990′s.
Electric Slide Lyrics
Sung by Marcia Griffiths © 1990
It’s Electric!
You can’t see it
[It's electric!]
You gotta feel it
[It's electric!]
Ooh, it’s shakin’
[It's electric!]
[Jiggle-a-mesa-cara
She's a pumpin' like a matic
She's a movin' like electric
She sure got the boogie]
You gotta know it
[It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie!]
Now you can’t hold it
[It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie!]
But you know it there,
Yeah here there everywhere
I’ve got to move,
I’m going on a party ride
I’ve got to groove, groove, groove,
And from this music
I just can’t hide.
Are you comin’ with me?
Come let me take you on a party ride
And I’ll teach you, teach you, teach you
I’ll teach you the electric slide
Some say it’s mystic
[It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie]
You can’t resist it
[It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie]
You can’y do without it
[It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie]
Jiggle-a-mesa-cara she’s a pumpin’ like a matic
She’s movin’ like electric
She sure got the boogie
Don’t wanna lose it
[It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie]
But you can’t choose it
[It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie]
But you know it’s there,
Yeah here there everywhere
Horn Instrumental
I’ve got to move,
Come let me take you on a party ride
And I’ll teach you, teach you, teach you
I’ll teach you the electric slide
Horn Instrumental
Some say it’s mystic
[It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie]
You can’t resist it
[It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie]
You can’y do without it
[It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie]
Jiggle-a-mesa-cara she’s a pumpin’ like a matic
She’s movin’ like electric
She sure got the boogie
Don’t wanna lose it
[It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie]
But you can’t choose it
[It's electric
Boogie woogie, woogie]
But you know it’s there,
Yeah here there everywhere