Possibly dumb question: dancing is a pretty small part of most people's lives. So why is it such an overwhelming motif in popular music?
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Sex at least is aspirational for most people. Is dancing?
close to a human universal - also more songs are about short-term mating than the % of the population actually engaged in it
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"music related in part to dance" is on donald brown's old list of human universals at least
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it's fun to think about dancing just like it's fun to imagine short-term mating, and they go together
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