Will It Go Round In Circles is a 70s soul song by Billy Preston. I love it because of the brass, the grooves, the chorus, everything, but especially the verse that goes:
I've got a dance, I ain't got no steps, no
I'm gonna let the music move me around
I've got a dance, I ain't got no steps
I'm gonna let the music move me around
And then the chorus is so good! My dance with no steps, will go round, and fly, and who knows what else? I'm just going to let the music get into my body and my body will do whatever it feels like. Music, move me around!
This is one of my core beliefs, a thing in my soul: we can all dance and we don't need to learn any steps, don't need to study dance to dance.
Just do it.
Dance performances are wonderful, inspiring too, but they shouldn't make us feel like we should not do our own thing, that our own thing is bad, or unacceptable. We were born to dance and move our bodies to music in all kinds of ways.
Outside of a dance studio, off of a stage, or even there (maybe especially there), we should be encouraged to respond to the music without any prescribed notions about what is the correct way to dance. We should not be told that our bodies are not acceptable for dancing. Everybody, every body can dance. You've got some moving parts, so move them.
I encourage you to dance when you have the opportunity. In a bar, at a festival, in your own living room, dance your heart out! Dance the way your body and soul tells you to. Let others inspire your dance moves, your steps, but don't let them dictate to you or make you feel less than a beautiful treasure. Do your own dance.
Will it go 'round in circles?
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky?
Will it go 'round in circles?
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky?
Here's Donny Osmond singing this song! Oh, Donny of the purple socks, you are much much more than a teenage heartthrob!
