Gabby Barrett's 'Dance Like No One's Watching is featured in this week's Makin' Tracks column.
In successful child-rearing, Mom and Dad essentially make themselves obsolete — after doting on the kids, sinking time and money into them, those children grow up, move away and create lives of their own. It makes things complicated, but there’s a sweet full-circle experience when the grown-up offspring come to understand the sacrifice that was involved in raising them as they, in turn, parent the next generation.
“I think in his brain it was this big, iconic wedding song,” recalls Weisband. “He was like, ‘If you can write one of those, they’re huge.’ And so we took on the challenge.” When the chorus was mostly finished, they started building the rest of the story. Verse one relied, in part, on Weisband’s memory of a father/daughter Valentine’s dance at elementary school, when her dad guided her through her insecurities about dancing in front of her classmates. Verse two zoomed ahead to Dad helping pack the trunk as the protagonist heads off for college — shades of The Chicks’ “Wide Open Spaces.
Weisband played “Dance Like No One’s Watching” for her dad later that week, and he managed to hold it together. “I remember he went, ‘It’s good,’ and just turned away,” she says. “He had to wait till after my wedding to be like, ‘That song’s amazing.’ ” “The lyric ‘Girl, it’s a big world/ And it’s so easy to get lost in’ — that lyric hits me and just brings me back to the memories of really starting to do things all on my own,” she says.
“She was so pregnant,” says Copperman. “She was sitting on a stool, and it just kind of flies out of her mouth. You’re like, ‘Wow, how did that just happen?’ ”
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