Very dense indeed...

So I've noticed that various bloggers are talking about The Killer's single Human and many seem to have been counfounded by their line 'Are we Human or are we Dancer?'  "Wouldn't it be more grammatically correct to say 'Are we human or are we dancers?'" they asked.

The short answer is 'no'

The long answer is as follows:

Brandon Flowers was impressed by Hunter Thompson who accused America of raising a 'generation of dancers'.  As farfetched as it may seem, Thompson, an American, from Kentucky, used a very clever analogy.  Follow me here:  What does a dancer do?  He follows a beat, imitates the great dancers' moves and tries to perfect them, follows very very strict rules when it comes to dress and facial expressions etc.

So what Thompson meant by a "generation of dancers", was that we have become puppets' whose purpose is that of impressing people by behaving in ways which is expected of us by their unwritten rules.  Freedom was replaced by laziness and people did away with creative thinking.

Had I been the author of the song I would have been mighty proud - all those who criticised the song for its triviality were simply confirming Thompson's idea... you all belong to the species of dancer (not dancers).  You cannot think out of the box and you are too lazy to research something before you haphazardly talk about it.

Inspired by my friend Chris' blog