Without any real purpose and a stark contrast to the uniqueness of electronic music, does the ‘sit down’ have any place on modern dance floors?

The trend has been gaining a notoriety across dance floors at clubs and festivals across the world, with the strange phenomenon of ‘sitting down’ and waiting for the beat to drop before jumping up again on cue from the DJ becoming increasingly more popular. A trend, while seemingly harmless, we just don’t get…

Since the inception of dance floors everywhere, they have and always will be about moving to the music, feeling the rhythm and all the goodness that comes along with hearing some drums, hi-hats and bass assorted into a piping hot slice of euphoria.

These blissful moments are a far cry from being told what to do, waiting, crushed alongside a couple hundred other sweaty punters and jumping around for 10 seconds once the drop lands, much like the drop not 5 minutes earlier. If that wasn’t enough, those that choose not to ‘sit down’ are often shamed or shunned for not joining in the fun, regardless if they may have been there from the start of the night or consistently throwing the most shapes.

The act of crouching down like you need to drop something else on the dance-floor isn’t localised to any particular genre either, what started out in the worlds of EDM has now crossed to house, techno and even hardstyle and seems to be gaining even more popularity and also representing the peak of a DJ set.

Seems like the trend was a natural ascension once audiences stopped looking at each other, and instead turned to DJs for feedback on how to, exactly have fun. But, personally, being transported back to being 6 years old and being told what to do really doesn’t take our fancy and instead we’d rather forget about boring places.

Does the sit down have a place on modern dance floors?