“My son discovered Men Without Hats through a Crazy Frog video,” Doroschuk says, referring to the hop-happy video game character. Over the years, the song has appeared in everything from prime-time cartoons South Park and Family Guy to an episode of the hot new HBO series I May Destroy You. Though The Safety Dance was on the pop charts nearly 40 years ago, it has never really gone away. “I’m happy we live in a society where people can express themselves freely.” Hats are optional, but masks? “I don’t think it’s my role to be making pronouncements on that,” says Doroschuk, 62, speaking from Vancouver Island, his home for the past two decades. Of course, that free expression might come at a cost to others. Men Without Hats was mostly dormant from 1993 until Doroschuk resurrected it in 2010. “The song is about the resisting of blandly following the pack, and to follow your own inner voice.” “Men Without Hats come from a punk background,” says the band’s singer and chief songwriter. Should we be allowed to dance if we want to? Public social dancing is frowned upon, even disallowed. Today we’re ruled, in many ways, by COVID-19. “You can act really rude and totally removed,” Doroschuk sang, a rebel back when the free world was ruled by Thatcher and Reagan. The song, along with the group’s Pop Goes the World, was recently inducted in the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Ivan Doroschuk wrote The Safety Dance, an international hit for the Montreal synth-pop robots Men Without Hats in 1982. The easy, fast & fun way to learn how to sing: 30DaySinger.Please log in to bookmark this story. The song was also a massive success in South Africa, reaching No. "The Safety Dance" found similar success in other parts of the world, entering the UK charts in August and peaking at number 6 in early November, and entering the New Zealand charts in November, eventually peaking at number 2 in early 1984.
It also reached number 1 on Cash Box, as well as number 1 on the Billboard Dance Chart. When it finally did, the record became a bigger hit than it had been in Canada, spending four weeks at its peak position of number 3 in September and October 1983, and staying on the Billboard Hot 100 for 24 weeks. In the meantime, "The Safety Dance" was released in the US on March 16, but did not enter the US charts for a few months. The song entered the Canadian top 50 in February 1983, peaking at number 11 on May 14. The song was written by lead singer Ivan Doroschuk after he had been kicked out of a club for pogo dancing.
"The Safety Dance" is a song by Canadian new wave/synth-pop band Men Without Hats, released in Canada in 1982 as the second single from Rhythm of Youth.
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