Festivids - The Vids I Made

I was struck by the song “Dance the Night” from the first moment I heard it, watching the Margot Robbie-led Barbie movie. The lyrics capture a role that I have seen women feel forced into playing my entire life: the always-calm, charming presence made up to be beautiful who supports everyone else’s happiness, regardless of her own.

“Watch me dance, dance the night away. My heart could be burnin', but you won't see it on my face. … I'll still keep the party runnin', not one hair out of place.”

It’s a role that men rarely recognize that women are forced or pressured into taking, because society never expects men to know that. The fake concept is that women are natural hostesses and caretakers, that they all like having that role, and that it’s “just how women are.”

Bullshit.

Anyway, “Dance the Night” is a banger of a dance song, and it also has the sociopolitical thread running through its lyrics.

( Then Festivids came up - SPOILERS FOR THE AFTERPARTY )