Dua Lipa’s SNL performance featuring skirted male dancers

[Offkilter69]

Last night’s SNL Dua Lipa first musical number featured male dancers wearing a shear netted tank top with a black skirt, unless it was actually a dress. The second song featured a skirted male band member. I knew there was a reason I kinda like her music!

Way to go Dua promoting unisex fashion!

https://youtu.be/71hoBY14kAw?si=jOAC4hCtEaIdP_GO

https://youtu.be/y4bdpcHRm-s?si=DPwfxVIUmqtsrk7i

[Grok]

Aesthetically, the skirts worked well. To me they had a bit of a Goth vibe.

[Mouse]

Dua Lipa is a smart cookie. I wonder what her thought process was to get to backing dancers in skirts?

[FranTastic444]

Been a fan of Dua Lipa for some time. Love her Tiny Desk performance from a while back (and you get to hear her Sloaney accent, which really works for me ) Love the work she did with Elton John. And her White Town sample reminds me of my teenage years.

[Spirou003]

I don't know what they look like in the clip (long time disconnected from any kind of news or medias, and not the envy to watch it), I can see three reasons why she decided so:
- to make people speak about it, so they watch the clip, eventually like her music => more fans
- she likes seeing skirt dancers, and ske likes seeing beautiful men. Why not combining? (here, I assume that the men dancers are beautiful)
- she wants to bring her stone in the building of gender equality
Maybe someone did interview her about it, or will do it?

[FranTastic444]

Maybe worthy of a separate post, but I have noticed recently that there have been some instances of overt skirting on The Internet (mainly Social Media, but also in news reports) where there has been zero reference to the clothing. Now, I don't know whether this is an age thing (youngsters see it as normal) or general acceptance in society or if the poster (in the case of social media in particular) is removing any comments / questions that reference the clothing or something else. But the fact that seeing guys in skirts is not even worthy of mention seems to me to be progress of sorts.

[Grok]

Noticed that the performers were much younger than me. (I am 67 years old).

[jamie001]

I love Dua Lipa!, Her style, looks, and music are the best! I also love her name!

[Uncle Al]

Something I noticed in the clips;

1st clip; ALL band members but 1(base guitarist) were skirted. All vocalists and dancers were skirted.

2nd clip; All band members were skirted. All vocalists(new group) wore trousers.

To me, that's progress.

As a musician, I didn't fully care for the music.
A typical 3 chord song. No musical imagination.

Uncle Al

[Ray]

Al, I counted five main chords….

It still may not be to your tastes though…

[new2skirts]

Great to see if there's any reaction to this, and if those same skirted dancers feature on other performances she does. Shows the younger crowd have no real issues with skirted men so long as it's smart. They all looked masculine and handsome but I'll have to look for the official video to see if those skirted dancers are there too

[Uncle Al]

Al, I counted five main chords….

It still may not be to your tastes though…

Hi Ray,

The nomenclature of "A Typical 3 Chord Song" is a generic title attributed to most,
if not all, "modern" music writings. IMHO, "modern" music has lost its pizazz,
relying solely on rhythm(beat out quite loudly) to carry the effects to the listener.

The "melody and lyrics", in most modern music, lack inspiration.

Which would you prefer, a ballad - 'I Dreamed a Dream' or the hearty 'Dam Busters March'
Both of these examples create an emotion for the listener.
Dua Lipa's performance lacked these things, leaving me cold.

And yes, I DO know music. I started piano lessons when I was 5 1/2, switched to organ
when I was 9. Throw in the Baritone and Tenor Saxophone when I was around 12-13 years old.
I've played a wide variety of music in my 73 years on this earth. Some really good works and
other, not so good works. A decent sized theatre organ, can reproduce most, if not all, the
sounds of a 16 piece orchesta. A One-Man-Band so to speak

( I really had fun playing Jacques Offenbach - "Can Can" )


Uncle Al

[crfriend]

The nomenclature of "A Typical 3 Chord Song" is a generic title attributed to most, if not all, "modern" music writings. IMHO, "modern" music has lost its pizazz, relying solely on rhythm(beat out quite loudly) to carry the effects to the listener.

The "melody and lyrics", in most modern music, lack inspiration.

Much depends on where one puts the "cut" to "modern" music. I consider Scott Joplin and Aaron Copland "modern" composers, yet they defy the notion of "three-chord wonders" handily.

Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag is a thing of beauty, and I've heard it from a piano-roll cut by the man himself, and I adore Copland's Appalachian Spring (although I usually use its original "working name" of Ballet for Martha. To give a taste of recency, Copland was still alive when Emerson Lake and Palmer re-did his Fanfare for the Common Man -- and approved of the work! "Recent" is a matter of taste.

At the moment, I'm standing in my kitchen listening to Appalachian Spring which I owe to a decades-ago girlfriend as it's a piece I adore and cannot listen to the version I have on tape of her in a performance of it (I'm gutless, and I know it! The 48-year-old tape is three feet to the left of me and down by two feet.)

Really modern music? How can one not discount John Williams and masterpieces like Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra, the incomparable Imperial March, or the deft and delightful Tourists on the Menu from "Jaws"?

And I won't even dabble in the truly greats here.

[Uncle Al]

'Modern Music' for me is almost anything mid - 80's to current 'stuff'.
John Williams is an excellent composer
Nathan Barr wrote the music for the movie 'A House With A Clock In It's Walls' and
it was performed by a theatre organist. The music for the movie was recorded
95% on the theatre organ. Watching the movie, you'ld never guess the sound track
was a theatre organ, it sets the mood so well, kind of drifts into the background.

Uncle Al

[Ray]

Al, I defer to your considerable knowledge on music. That’s one debate I’m not going to win!

Ray