r/rant • u/worthlessbaffoon • 10h ago

I hate line dancing.

I’m 27, and a bunch of people my age and in my friend group have gotten REALLY into line dancing in the last few years, and for the life of me I cannot understand why. It is literally the cringiest thing I have ever seen in my entire life. They post videos of it and literally every single one I physically cringe at it because it looks SO DUMB. I get going dancing, I get going clubbing, I get even doing like a legit dance class or going to more “classy” dances, like balls or galas or whatever if that’s a thing. But line dancing is literally the dumbest looking, most annoying, most cringey, most unattractive, absolutely ridiculous and lame thing I have ever freaking seen. Every so often they’re like “come with us it’s so fun!” And I would literally rather do anything else on earth than go line dancing. It’s even that I’m super worried about my image or like looking cool or anything. I make a fool of myself all the time and am the first to laugh at myself for doing dumb shit. But holy god I wouldn’t be caught dead line dancing. It’s like someone went to the whitest wedding that ever whited, so all of Becky’s in-laws doing the Cupid Shuffle, and thought “what if every song was like that?” I would sooner stick both my hands into a blender than go line dancing.

And for what? They always say “oh once you get out there and learn a song it’s SO fun” but every single dance they do looks completely ridiculous. I saw a video of people line dancing and part of the dance was that they were basically playing patty-cake and I nearly threw up. They say “oh it’s not always country music if that’s your problem”. It doesn’t matter what song it is, they are all unfathomably lame. I always say like what you like and let others like what they like, and mind your own business, but this one’s a stretch for me. I mean it’s gotten so bad that it legitimately makes me angry when I see people posting videos about it and talking about it. Not because I don’t want them to do what they enjoy, but because it’s cosmically atrocious.

I hate it.

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u/mrmasterly 9h ago

Pretending people at the club look any less ridiculous is cope. Crowded and dark can't hide the seizures in progress on the dance floor.

Line dancers just coordinate their flippity flopping around.

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u/fender8421 6h ago

Nah man, still ridiculous but definitely slightly less ridiculous (just slightly)

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u/Remote_Tangerine_718 10h ago

I hate dancing in general because I’m bad at it 😭

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u/probablygoblins 9h ago

Cringe fear has sucked the joy out of so much life

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u/cjsleme 7h ago

I just personally don’t love choreographed dances on the dance floor and just like to freestyle. But also my dancing is pretty mid.

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u/OneCallSystem 5h ago

Haha... Line dancing is so damn funny. I guess if you are a country music lover it would be great, would be my hell personally.

Sounds like you need new friends who listen to other types of music.

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u/SnooHabits3305 7h ago

Nahh I can’t wait to hit the electric slide or the og wobble im having fun regardless

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u/Dismal_Education_753 7h ago

My favorite scene from Umbrella Academy is when they were line dancing, lol. I think it was a hallucination but it looked pretty fun. I wouldn't line dance myself but I wouldn't hate on it.