{"id":5368,"date":"2024-12-28T03:23:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T03:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/?p=5368"},"modified":"2025-01-11T20:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T20:58:41","slug":"future-is-female-politics-on-the-dance-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/future-is-female-politics-on-the-dance-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FUTURE IS FEMALE: Politics on the Dance Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Future is Female was a campaign slogan often referenced in 2016. The then United States presidential nominee was the frontrunner to secure a historic presidency. A woman, who might lead the free world. But that hope was squashed by the electoral college. So began the sexist rhetoric. Where did her campaign go wrong?\u00a0 What she said. What she did not say.\u00a0 All bullshit that failed to wholly address the accuracy for why America loathes a woman president.\u00a0 Misogyny.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Punishing women who challenge male dominance must be addressed.\u00a0 A glass ceiling not broken because she did not fight hard enough, say the correct response on a talk show, or look the part. Again, the age-old adage shows its face: women aren\u2019t good enough or can never be great enough.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The same is said for women in the business of music.\u00a0 Women appear as vocalists with no acknowledgement.\u00a0 Their production credits go ignored.\u00a0 Then there is the risk of sexual assault.\u00a0 Death threats.\u00a0 Career death threats-<\/span>if they ever much less had a career to begin with.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Classic house music is guilty as charged.\u00a0 The genre is one big boys club.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Women are reduced to side-pieces instead of showcased in the spotlight.\u00a0 At the main attractions?\u00a0 The lines are very murky.\u00a0 Forget about women headlining major festival lineups.\u00a0 Oftentimes, their pseudonyms are limited to one or two lower slots on digital ads. View any major metropolis\u2019 upcoming electronic dance events and men, cis-and-white, are top bill.\u00a0 Above all, the industry appears unwilling to change. Sadly, neither is America.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps one can dream. In the current era of global regression of democracy and freedoms, there is a movement progressing the voice of music into the embrace of equality and inclusivity in the capital of the Dirty South.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Picture Atlanta on a way too hot Saturday night in September, a party starts off the same. There stands DJ Playr1 with arm in sling cueing Honeysweet\u2019s \u201cExodus of 21<\/a>.\u201d Behind shiny hardware his frame towers. Unassuming. Buried underneath shadows, he is a member of the collective Mood To Move<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mood To Move\u2019s guest headliner steps to bat. Her frame is dainty. Yes, the pronoun she is accurate. The woman with cropped bangs arrives to the rescue playing Detroit\u2019s Delano Smith featuring Diamondancer\u2019s \u201cA Message For The DJ<\/a>. The Jimpster Red Light Mix was released in 2005 when many of these kids dancing boohooed to \u201cWe Belong Together\u201d from Mariah Carey. The illustrious playlist continues with musclecars\u2019 \u201cTonight\u201d (Unreleased Dub), white labels from pop princess Aliyah\u2019s \u201cOne In A Million\u201d to pop queen Janet Jackson\u2019s \u201cThrob\u201d (LP Version). But Mark Broom\u2019s \u201cKlashjamz<\/a>\u201d shines the brightest juxtaposed to Dennis Ferrer\u2019s \u201cRed Room\u201d and LADYMONIX\u2019s recently released remix of Girls of the Internet\u2019s \u201cGravity<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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LADYMONIX<\/p>\n

It is difficult to believe that this is LADYMONIX\u2019s debut appearance in Atlanta. After all, LADYMONIX knows music.\u00a0 She shouts out NDATL\u2019s Kai Alc\u00e9 who is in the building by playing his New Feel version of Mr. G\u2019s \u201cU Feel Mi<\/a>.\u201d One would think the multi-hyphenated sheroe was born and bred in the Motor City. Nope. Everyone is from somewhere else. Born in Baltimore, years spent in Los Angeles, the current Detroiter has aimed to cement her brand of melodic vocals, 90\u2019s dubs, and Detroit Techno.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At Future nightclub where the acoustics need a complete overhaul, the massive space is filled with way too many bat-winged eyelashes and way too many vapors, as a few youngsters exit stage left.\u00a0 There is barely a grey hair or a balding head in the building.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This leads to another political issue with underground dance music events, the generation gap on dance floors. The idea of people retiring from nightlife in their mid-30s is extinct.\u00a0 Boomers and Gen Xers realize that house music is all-life-long and so is going out to dance clubs. This particular phenomenon is true in the world of deep house. As deejays and shejays gray, so do their followers. These house music for lifers greatly contribute to the night life\u2019s economic muscle through culture, community and currency. Take Atlanta, the city too busy to hate, what is most disconcerting is the elders do not intermingle with the kids on dance floors. Most parties are segregated by age.\u00a0 Where promoters target their family and friends and those who appear as them. Understandably, veteran clubbers cringe seeing a mass electric sliding to a low-fi thumper of Whitney Houston\u2019s \u201cQueen of the Night.\u201d\u00a0 And screaming \u201coowa oowa\u201d is as lame as it gets. Yet, instead of thinking that both generations are out of sync with each other, each could learn and benefit from the other\u2019s energy.\u00a0 The club should be an effective establishment that cultivates intentional intergenerational dance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mood To Move with Soul Connection<\/span><\/p>\n

And this is how you capture the perfect photo op. On display are three beautiful women of color across generations at the Georgia Beer Garden\u2019s concrete embrace on a chill, damp Saturday night weeks later. In the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, there stands Atlanta\u2019s luminary DJ Debbie Graham handing over the musical reins to NYC\u2019s Soul Connection\u2019s twenty-something years young, DJ Lovie and Honey Bun.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They say if you don\u2019t mate ’em\u2019 for life, then make’ em\u2019 your work partner for life. This is true for Lindsay Summers (Lovie<\/a>) and Samantha Taylor (Honey Bun) both Brooklyn residents. Lovie hails from Washington DC having attended classes in Seattle for theatre and acting. During the pandemic, Lovie arrived in NYC with a mask and a controller. She met Taylor who showed her how to play CDJs.\u00a0 Thereafter, Lovie applied for and received a slot on The Lot Radio and the rest is herstory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lovie tells her story through a kaleidoscope playlist.\u00a0 It is a who\u2019s who in soulful house music, Blaze\u2019s \u201cGloria Muse<\/a>\u201d (The Yoga Song), Stacy Kidd\u2019s \u201cThe Get Down<\/a>\u201d (Tribute Mix to Paul Johnson), Trinidadian Deep\u2019s \u201cIsland Roots Sonics<\/a>\u201d and Ron Trent featuring Chez Damier\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Try It<\/a>.\u201d There are bops, Destiny\u2019s Child\u2019s \u201cLose My Breath\u201d (Maurice\u2019s Nu Soul) that brings the rowdiest cheer to the patio of the night, and Louie Vega\u2019s Club Mix of Jennifer L\u00f3pez\u2019s \u201cGet Right\u201d both transporting the partiers back to 2004. There is nothing like viewing Lovie\u2019s manicured nails cue and click Nathan Haines featuring Verna Francis\u2019 \u201cEarth Is the Place<\/a>\u201d (Restless Soul Remix), the woman empowerment anthem sprinkled amongst the boys club\u2019s powerhouse anthems: Makam\u2019s \u201cYou Might Lose It<\/a>\u201d (Kerri Chandler JX-8P Mix) to Soul Saver\u2019s \u201c<\/span>Another Day<\/span><\/a>,\u201d produced by Gerald Mitchell from Detroit.\u00a0 Rick The Godson Wilhite City Bar \u201cReopen\u201d Live Dancing and Moodymann\u2019s \u201cBlack Mahogani<\/a>\u201d are Dtown throwbacks.\u00a0 But the feel good moment of the party is dancing underneath the stars to Lone\u2019s \u201cBlue Moon Tree<\/a>\u201d that brings bright smiles and prickly goosebumps.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Honey Bun, born Samantha Taylor in Manhattan but bred in Texas by a mother who worked in urban music, appears behind the CDJs.\u00a0 She recalls living in the recently Bluebonnet state as limiting. So after high school, she studied in Europe.\u00a0 Where she discovered \u201creal\u201d clubbing, learned about RA and danced in old-school Boiler Room videos. Back in the states, Taylor caught the bug to play music. In Bedstuy, she studied the OGs who played soulful house beats on street corners early in the pandemic. Soon after, Taylor conceived the Soul Connection party-the idea inspired by graphics of sex positions from the 1970s as told to DJ Shannon on the podcast Club Management<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Honey Bun\u2019s love for booty-shaking music is evident when playing the Leonce Vocal Mix of Kai Alc\u00e9 featuring Ash Lauryn\u2019s\u00a0 \u201cUnderground & Black<\/a>\u201d and Beyonce featuring Jay-Z\u2019s \u201cDeja Vu\u201d (Maurice\u2019s Nu Soul Mix) both versions that could go hard in strip clubs. But it\u2019s \u201cThe Power<\/a>\u201d of Karizma\u2019s piano opus that opens the heavens for a drizzle that refreshes the soul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The year 2021 marked the first Soul Connection. The party welcomed Black and Brown faces, a refreshing soir\u00e9e challenging white male dominance. Agreeably, Soul Connection might be young, but Lovie\u2019s and Honey Bun\u2019s trajectory is encompassing.\u00a0 Where NYC\u2019s musclecars are carrying the torch for their generation, Lovie and Honey Bun are inspiring young women of color to seize their voice in Black dance music much like a presidential nominee, a woman of color, that inspires girls and women to break barriers. Albeit, Lovie and Honey Bun might not be household names yet, their voices are much-needed in the underground world of dance.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Honey Dijon<\/a>\u2019s Teksupport presents House Nation<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if you have won a GRAMMY, been honored for your LGBTQ advocacy, cat walked in luxury brand fashion shows, have your own clothing line, worked with the greats from Abloh to Beyonc\u00e9. What America hates more than a woman is a trans woman.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Especially a black trans woman.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we fuckin\u2019 celebrate you Honey Dijon!<\/span><\/p>\n

Ninety-six hours after a nail-biting election night, Honey\u2019s muthafuckin\u2019 message falls on deaf ears. That same deafness allowed the same misogynistic political attack to be repeated eight years later. Cue a vice president vs a convicted criminal. This time, more Asian, Latina, and white women stood against the vice president whom was projected to win their vote.\u00a0 Nope. Women regurgitated hurtful tropes, I can\u2019t trust her, she wasn\u2019t a great candidate, oh and the favorite, it\u2019s about the economy, stupid. Asian, Latina, and white women wore those excuses as badges of honor. They stood alongside their men. The same toxic men who removed their reproductive choices.\u00a0 Those women threw their support unquestioned with blind loyalty expected from man\u2019s best friends; bitches.\u00a0 Their faithful submission defeated the feminist cause. How 47% of women can support a womanizer is unfathomable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, afront an imposing illuminated monitor that appears to eye your every move, Queen Honey brings the drama. The sound of viola strings soaring to the rafters before hands clap double-time beneath the ringing of a brass bell that beckons asses to shake to the concrete floor.\u00a0 The congregation gathers in a former cargo ship hanger as a recognizable alto from Baltimore\u2019s Ultra Nate belts \u201cI\u2019ve got something to give\u201d on Quentin Harris\u2019 \u201cGive It 2 U<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Q\u2019s Give U More dramatic opener falls short. The thousands of predominantly white, male, and gay visages appear clueless. Uninterested. Culture vultures. Fashionably late to the party. And purposefully oblivious. They mirror the current climate of more than half of registered voters in this country. Zombies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This party plays out like one tiresome season of \u201cThe Walking Dead.\u201d\u00a0 The zombies spread their plague.\u00a0 Clearly, there is ample space to the left and more than enough room to their right to maneuver around you dancing to Barbara Tucker onstage belting \u201cBeautiful People.\u201d Except this crowd ain\u2019t beautiful.\u00a0 These beeches tread right into you. A brush against your shoulder or a bump in the ribs is felt. If one more bitch touches you, you swear.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When patrons stand in a queue to check in their coats for over thirty-five freaking minutes, there are way too many of them in here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are way too many gays in here. You clarify to your bestie who is both gay and a husband.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What you don\u2019t tell your friend is that there are way too many white gay guys in here. Your bestie is of German and Polish descent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Too many white males in one room causes anxiety. And you have no effing clue of whom all these beeches voted for or if they effing voted at all. After all, this is a Honey Fucking Dijon party.\u00a0 Queen Honey commands equality and inclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly, the crowd is 85% white male gay and they are all shirtless. 5% are women. 5% are people of color. The other 5% is Asian gay dudes. The metrics be damned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hell, this ain\u2019t Nashville, it\u2019s fucking Brooklyn!<\/span><\/p>\n

At Brooklyn Storehouse you expect much more. Except, there is no fashion. And forget about watching anyone duck walk. These fucks are purposefully oblivious. And they don\u2019t give a fuck!<\/span><\/p>\n

These days young people travel in packs. They prey around and talk to each other stealing valuable dance floor real estate until someone passes the fuck out.\u00a0 Like the young guy being carried by another young guy to harm reduction.\u00a0 Wait! Security, look at that guy stealing other people\u2019s valuables like belt bags and crossbody bags from unsuspecting dancers. As others are pushed otherside the fence, to closely guard their belongings and to femme walk to Kevin Aviance chanting live, \u201cCUNTY<\/a>\u201d next to Honey Dijon is the highlight of House Nation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the same beat,\u201d your friend surmises. \u201cHoney has given up on this crowd.\u201d He further explains eyeing a\u00a0 guy splashing water on the face of a baby-faced Asian who is nearly conscious. \u201c[Honey] is just TikToking it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Outdoors, a heaviness hangs in the cool draft buzzing from the East River. A disappointment is realized that even Queen Honey couldn\u2019t bandage. Much like the vice president who lost battleground states to secure her future. Failure is felt. An impending doom lurks. The feeling of having security stolen from you as you stand shivering because your jacket was lost in coat check. A glance around reveals, perhaps, all this white male bashing motivated people to elect a criminal, racist and misogynistic loser back into office-<\/span>their endeavor to take back their perceived power that they never lost to begin with. <\/span><\/i>Albeit, the thug in the White House will once again fuck up even more this divided country. All because America loathes a woman president.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

wrds: aj dance<\/p>\n

grphcs: aj art<\/p>\n

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