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Valentine’s Day: slow music is not dead!
Valentine’s Day: slow music is not dead! – (France 2)
Valentine’s Day will take place on Wednesday February 14. Has slow music, which became a social phenomenon in the 1960s, disappeared today?
In Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), every year around Valentine’s Day, it’s “slow party” : two hours of melee, and an irresistible playlist, between Whitney Houston and Scorpions. “You just have to let yourself be carried away by the music, by the emotion, and let yourself go”, confides an amateur. Slow is the only couple dance that requires no technique.
Slow music is less popular
Arriving in France at the end of the 1950s, it quickly became essential at balls and surprise parties. He then invites himself to all the parties, to campsites, nightclubs and dances. In 1980, Vladimir Cosma composed the hit of teenage emotions, the music for the film La Boum. “When I composed this music, I had never composed a slow song in my life (…) and I composed the theme like a beautiful melody from a classical symphony”, explains the latter. Since the end of the 90s, slow music has become much less popular. Fortunately, there is still Valentine’s Day to enjoy a little.
