Funnily enough, I was just watching some of the contemporary crop of dance floor videos on Youtube before arriving here.
Youtube is awash with the bloody things.
Now I don't profess to be a particularly good dancer, but some of the gyrations I see on display are often incongruous at best. I have sometimes been tempted to put a few links on Soul Source to the offending videos, but the problem is that I feel it would be ignorant of me to do so, as who am I to pass judgement on how people express themselves.
When viewing the vintage videos though, (roughly mid 2000's and before) I see dancing that I can connect with, recognise and understand.
It seems to me that much of the new interest and current fascination with Northern Soul seems to revolve around 'the dancing' or 'learning how to dance Northern Soul' without really feeling the music. The music, the artists, the labels, the true passion and the true emotion has, in some way, been lost to this fashion/craze for needing to be seen as 'cool'.
Thankfully, I see that there are still plenty of genuinely great dancers out there though.
Just my opinion folks,
Andrew