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Totally Inappropriate!

Over at Milkbreath and Me (pretend that’s a link, people. I’m not a real blogger, more of an essayist with an internet connection), Rachel has a post about the music she bellydances to that is not, in fact, Middle Eastern. I thought I was the only pelican in the wilderness who bellydanced to The Immigrant Song, but apparently not.

So, in the interest of furthering the Totally Inappropriate! series of bellydance albums, here’s my album:

Gett Off—Prince

Couldn’t Stand the Weather—Stevie Ray Vaughan

Crosstown Traffic—Jimi Hendrix

Tales of Brave Ulysses—Cream

When the Levee Breaks—Led Zeppelin. This one is good for taxim moves because of Bonham’s 1/2 time drumming.

Subdivisions—Rush

Wildflower—The Cult

Money for Nothing—Dire Straits

Crazy Train—Ozzy Osborne

Superstition—Stevie Wonder

But wait, there’s more! There’s the Totally Inappropriate! New Wave album, featuring such stellar classics as Duran Duran’s Hungry Like The Wolf and New Order’s Bizarre Love Triangle, not to mention such beloved melodies as Lovecats, by The Cure, and Depeche Mode’s Master and Servant. Who could resist these fabulous songs? Not you. Not me.

If we all work together, we can embrace the Totally Inappropriate! music to bellydance to, and reclaim it and bring it into the light, as Totally Appropriate! Just think of the endless possibilities: Bellydancing to Klezmer music, Country and Western, even Didgeridoo! Who says we can’t?