I'm Willa Paskin, the host of Decoder Ring's late podcast about cracking cultural mysteries. Coming up in our new season, slow dancing. You know, that hands on hips zombie sway. I wouldn't call it dancing.
It used to be a rite of passage. You know, stiffening your arms, Frankenstein's monster style. But something has happened to it. My generation does not slow dance.
We don't slow dance. Also this season, provocative experimental art was hidden in plain sight on the 90s hit TV drama Melrose Place. Like there was a real pool float that looked like a sperm about to fertilize an egg. And of all the instruments out there, why were so many of us as kids taught to play the recorder?
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