Thursday, September 6, 2012

Dangdut ala Twist

As always and on cue the band played the evergreen Hindi song and in it's original twist configuration. The girls all lined up in rows started to sync with the beat with the more experienced teaching the new comers the basic steps. Twist can never be much difficult as one has only to gyrate but in tune with the rhythm and not carelessly flailing away. Zul gagap being one who will always be present regardless the days separating apart was present among the rows of dancing girls. He tuned in with one of the veterans and he was laughing away with the novices looking forlorn like since they had only arrived and were quite desperate to literally know the steps to the dance. However as per normal it will take the most a few weeks when they can accomplish every wiggle to every ditty and would become veterans of dangdut concourses and in turn will teach the even newer newcomers. Such was the intensity of dangdut then with every dancing girl a true dangdut exponent. But even then, a score years ago dangdut has passed its prime and only for a short period of a year a bit more or a bit less that it was revived. The time of Amelina and her aah - aah number. Zul gagap was well known then not as a Notable from the Aristocracy nor the Glitterati but an ordinary Joe who loves dangdut. Never was he a heavy too, only an insignificant dangdut and dangdut club fan. He was in a dangdut groupie always available from 5pm happy hours to about nearly midnight when proper dangdut prancing starts and the open karaoke patrons leave the short while after open singalongs ends. Tired and sometimes if not most of times inebriated they go back to sleep to come another day. The girls only knew them for a short while before the hardcore dangduters cum cavorting customers arrived, usually, just before the witching hour. But can say that the karaokers are the ones the girls are most comfortable to be with for they are mostly punctual when the girls are fresh and sober and not sort of, forced at about the minutes prior to the graveyard shift to join the most important - midnight prancers cum hardcore patrons - and also the ones bringing in the most business/money to the girls and the club.

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