Moves like dadda: why embarrassing dancing is a pop staple

From Thom Yorke to Bruce Springsteen and, most recently, Friendly Fires, the dad dance makes an everyman out of pop starsThe video for summer anthem Love Like Waves by Friendly Fires is utterly generic in almost every way: there is a swimming pool, a DJ, a nice location and plenty of young people having a wonderful time. Except for one thing, that is. For a reason that we may well never discover, nobody in it can dance very well. They’re all giving it their best shot. Some of them clap the