Dissect DJs - The Contours - Do You Love Me

Episode Date: April 11, 2024

We take it back to '62 to break down one of the original soul jams of the classic rock era with The Contours - "Do You Love Me". See the full episode podcast here: https://youtu.be/fGJWc-mh-9sWith a thorough review of the legendary dance scene from Dirty Dancing when Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) meets Baby (Jenny Grey), as well as the classic music video featuring three dancers doing the mashed potatoes on a single step, some backstory of the original recording of the track, and as always- a deep breakdown of the lyrics and the inside meaning behind the song itself. Work! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You broke my heart because I couldn't dance. You didn't even want me around. And now I'm back to let you know I can really shake them down. I said DJs. Work, work, work. Oh, because it's the Thai six. Work, work. The DJ's like that.

Work, work. I got to change the battery. Thanks you got to do. I didn't realize it was like dead. Always something. Give me two seconds Well, what's going on, everybody? It's your boy DJ MCJ, J.

And I am here alone this evening. We're going to go ahead and do a podcast by myself and talk about the contours. That's not true. That's not true. Guys doesn't take a while. Contours do you love me. Now, this song brings a lot of joy and fun to me.

Why? Why does this song do this? There's a couple different reasons. One, dirty dancing. We all remember it. from the classic watermelon carrying scene when she comes into a party. And she comes in and it's just an absolute rager happening

to this specific song. Learn a lot of my dance moves from that. Two, my only game while I was a single man was dancing. I would blow it in conversation. I would stumble in any other aspect of dating. But when it came to dancing, let me tell you something. I am magic on the flow.

I could burn some rug. I cut some rug. That was my only game I ever had. So when he asked, when the contour is asked, do you love me now that I can dance? I could only imagine what it must feel like to initially start and not be a dancer. And then have the sudden ability to now be able to dance. and the drastic amount of confidence

and sheer thrill that must come to your life once you develop dance skills especially when prior to you had none you sir have reached another realm in this life so that's the second reason and the third reason I love this song is because

I don't know if any of you have seen this but the video to this song is I just started to say see it and they had the main singer who's getting it he's doing his thing in the front and then three backup dancer singer dudes that i don't know if they like the job i don't know if they were happy about the position they're at castle can you agree like these guys in their position and they're dancing god excellent um i do a good job i i was planning him and cutting through all that because first of all battery is dead i didn't i didn't prepare for that but then also it said the card was

full once i tried to record that's bullshit i formatted the card like when We started recording, so I got to figure that shit out earlier, but I didn't have time to figure out what that is. Anyways, so many things I wanted to jump in as you were going through that. First of all, I love that you referred to the dirty dancing scene as the watermelon scene. Watermelon carrying. Because the watermelon. Because, okay, the reason that we're doing this episode, because recently I made a video comparing Super Bowl 58 characters to 80s movies. So it's like which 80s movie would each character of the Super Bowl 58 be?

Great video. I'm a social just go check it out at Kelly Castle. So I compared Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey to dirty dancing. And in doing so, I grabbed the footage from it and that scene when they first meet. And as I was putting that together, I was just like, that is such a gem. I got to fucking listen to that song. And I looked up the music video, found this. And that was when I was reminded of the whole, like, her first line to Johnny, just like, oh, I carried the watermelon.

Yeah. And then she's just like, I carried the watermelon. What? She's doing you Came with me She's with me I carried a watermelon A waterline

Swayze is just such A G in that scene I fucking love his whole Like he just dominates the room The second he comes in He takes a swig of a beer And then he just like Fucking hits it

He goes straight to party It gets straight to party hard He starts grinding on one chick Him and his one girl I'm just like getting it They're just like Do you love it? He's like, yeah, this is the party.

Honestly, that seed made me, like, think that's what parties were and was looking forward to when I... You got to go to the basement for that party, though. It's not the party on the main floor. That party was that, man. We had certain parties that developed into that back in our day, and that was good times. And then he's like, oh, yeah, you think they're a couple, right?

And he's like, they're not. And then at the same time, they're all fucking, like, grinding at shit. He's picking her up on his shoulder, and she's, like, doing this shit, dude. Show me an example of Swayze and whatever homegirl's name was. I don't know. I know Swayze was doing a lot. A lot of extra body moves. Let's show the clip.

Show the clip. Everybody's just getting it. Everybody at the party's getting it. This is the definition of dirty dancing right here. Look a baby. She's shocked. All right. All right.

All right. Here comes Swayze. Fear. Bears. Swig. Let's go, girl. Oh, she's into it. Fallback, the fallback.

Good case, sir. I love that, dude. Everybody's got to be involved for that, though. I know. They're all ready for it. She was brushing her vagina here at him. Then he shows up and he's like, what's she doing here? He's like, oh, she was with me.

They just starts grinding every single woman in the place for a second. Right. And then he finds her. So then he walks up to a baby right here and he's just like, what's she doing here? And his cousin's like, oh, she's with me. And he just kind of looks at her. And he does one of these where he's like, like, he just walks away.

It's like nothing, nothing else needs to be said. And then later, and this is the most gangster thing he does in the whole scene, and he's kind of like dancing, he's still killing the floor as he does, and he literally just looks at her and he does one of these. He's like, and she's, of course, going to be like, oh, my God. God is calling me. I must respond. I want to be in that party.

Yeah, that party is so good. Everybody's just getting it. Dude, any party in a basement with 1980s Patrick Swayze and Just a handful of like watermelons. You saw it. Yeah. I love that move. It's just going to be a blast, man.

With this song playing, there's just, that's the elements that you need for a good time. Okay. Woo! Man, why are we in the studio right now? Not at that party. Like I said, every time I've ever seen that, that scene, that was what I thought parties should be. Yeah. And only been a part of a few parties that were like that.

And let me tell you, they were epic each time. they're doing everybody's just getting it everybody's on the same level everybody's enjoying every song that's where you want to be for sure so the thing that i also wanted to note about it was there's the line where she's like wow they look great together he's like yeah you think they'd be a couple right and she's like you're there and he's like no not since we were kids they look great together yeah you think they were a couple wouldn't you why aren't they not not since we were kids Like, all right, wait, hold up. First of all, what does that mean?

Yeah, yeah. So, wait, what does that mean? How old were they? They're like the hottest people in the room. They're crushing on the dance floor. They're grinding all up over each other. And if you told me like, oh, no, they were just like always friends. First of all, already suspect.

But also, you're like, not since we're kids. I'm like, okay, so there's some kind of history? Define kids. I don't know. I don't really remember the backstory is actually explained in the movie. I haven't actually watched it in a while. But it's just like, I have questions. I have more questions than answers at this point.

Either way, the fact that Patrick Squazy could just, like, be, like, a pro dancer. Like, he could be the dance professional on dancing with the stars in this movie. And yet he's the star. I just feel like Swayze can't be rated enough, underrated. Underrated Superstar Ever. As well as this song. Yes. We don't talk about enough about this song.

It doesn't get played enough. So we should play more right now. So what that said, he's asking her if she loves him or not, and he's asking her to then watch him. So he's still into this girl and actually did learn to dance to try to prove to her so that now hopefully she can love him. See, he shouldn't have done that. He should, now that he can dance, he should completely dis her and be like, look what you missed out on. Look what you could have had. Look at the potential that I had that you didn't see.

and look what I have created of myself. So you're saying that the whole crux of the song, it literally starts. We played the slow part, right? When he's like, you broke my heart? Okay. That's how we started this. Because it starts, we haven't gone over the lyrics at all, but I'll just say the beginning intro says,

you broke my heart because I couldn't dance. You didn't even want me around. And now I'm back to let you know I can really shake him down. Do you love me? So yeah, I can really move. She straight dissed him because he couldn't dance. Yeah. Now, I want to be able to fly on a wall on that initial scene

when he was just like, I don't know what this is. I started busting out like the, I'm doing the leg thing, you can't see it. She was like, uh-uh, I ain't dancing with you. Like, get out of here. Then finally he went out, figured out how to dance. And what if he said, he was like,

why don't you love me? And she's just like, have you seen how you dance? fans. Bye. And she just, like, walked away, dissed them like that. I imagine some mean girls type shit. You hit a bye? Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the 60s?

Yes. She had the first ever recorded, byei. And that sent him into Mamba mentality mode. He was just, like, in the basement, like Patrick Swayze in this movie, just working on his mashed potatoes and his do the twist. And he was just like doing it in the mirror and everything. And then he finally came back and he's just like, Now that I can dance

Hey, watch me now Hey! Here's a good part. Here's a good part. It's gonna fade out. Right? All right, let's talk about it. Here's it comes. These just fades. It does this on the natural record. Wait, we got to play it out. It's on beat though.

Here's the only reason I know this. If you listen, keep counting the beat as you go, love it. And it just like drops out for a second. All right, let's listen to it. Let's listen to it and then I wanted to discuss it because this is one of the reason I wanted to do the song. And then it just kind of awkwardly fades out from there

where it actually, I don't know. It does fade out this time. If you can hear it, but if you hear it in the headphones like we are right now, it kind of like goes from right to left. I believe that this must have been just like a poor recording of the initial song because this song was recorded in 1962. Think about that. This is like early.

You did it turn the volume back up in the end? Music recording. I think that there was a fuck up in the initial recording of it. And just because it was like early music, like they didn't, they probably had one shot at like the record that like went to the radio. And then it's something got fucked up in there somehow, whether it was like from the team that recorded it or the version that they sent to the radio. Whatever it was, that was a recorded version that forever got played.

Because there's really no reason for the music to just drop out there for like a whole eight count. And I love thinking about how early this isn't music. Like think about 1962. This is like 10 years after like real actual music began. You go back to just like a decade or two before that. And there was no rock and roll. There was just kind of jazz, you know? There was like some obviously classical music and stuff.

And for the entire history and eternity before that. And that process of recording music was an entirely different elaborate thing. So it's interesting to imagine, and that's why I love that we actually do have the video of these guys in their original music video. But it's such early, both video and music recording, that I think it was a fuck-up. And then-

So I got it here. In 1962, as they were recording, producer John Stewart accidentally turned down the volume. I knew it! And I made that up. I just made that up just to mess with you. That's your partner in dissecting. You actually had, you pulled up an article.

Yeah, yeah, I pulled up an article, and they just started to make it up. You know it, you finish the episode by yourself. You want to do it? There's nothing about it. I tried to find it. I really was looking. I really was looking to see. I'm not letting them fuck with the episode that bad.

You're going to fucking ruin my episode. I wanted to do the contours, and your fucking bullshitting is not going to fuck up the whole episode, all right? I already had to fight a dead battery Right as the video episode started Not gonna let it fuck up the way John Stewart let the recording of the contours Does it actually give you everybody? It looks like you look something up

Here's a quick story with this though It was originally made for the temptations But they failed to arrive for the recording session At the same time but in a different Motown studio The Contours arrived to record It Must Be Loved which is a different song And then Gordy asked them to cut Do You Love Me instead

So the song became their first song which wasn't even supposed to be there so it was supposed to be the temptations. It's crazy that Barry Gordy and the temptations both go back that far too. Man, I'm so fascinated by like OG, like rock and roll

soul music. It's like, just because you think about how new all of this was, like just think about, let's use this comparison, okay? What's a new form of music that like wasn't even around in like 2009? Like, what's something that's like started

in the past like 10? years. That's 10 years? That would be like reggaeton or some shit. Let's think of like the party rock stage when like that that all started. That was like 2010. That was like 2010. So like what that was to like when this song was came out. So let's just say this song is now the party rock stuff would have been like just old school jazz and that was it like maybe like Elvis and maybe like when did Elvis even start? I feel like he wasn't even didn't even go back to like 1950 or something. Yeah, Elvis hadn't even been around yet. And he was like kind of one of the pioneers of rock.

He was like Chuck Berry was, I don't know. I just love how new all of this was. And how exciting this must have been when this song hit, you talk about like, we're so jaded on good music now. And like when we hear new stuff, hearing this come out, they must have never heard it sound like this. This must have made dance wars pop like a dance floor had never popped before. Like, I just, I don't know, I love a magic.

There you go. Elvis had only been around for, eight years from his start. Yeah, start. I also did want to address the video because I was another thing you started to get into, but I wanted to inside cover when I was playing ketchup. I wanted to talk about Baby and Johnny and Dirty Dancing in their watermelon scene. But you were talking about these guys, they don't really look like they want to be there.

They didn't know. You see them? They're kind of like being forced to dance in the background. You guys want to get paid? Do that dance. Now. Go. You know the moves.

Twist. Twist now. But they are all on point. They're all unbeat. Like they're moving in very good sync. Here's the debate. I didn't realize there was debate until I watched the video. But I wanted to ask you personally, what is the mashed potatoes?

See. They didn't do it in the video. Exactly. I always thought it was the mashed potatoes because I saw you do that like fucking years ago when you heard this song. Maybe I'm wrong. I remember you. I always thought that that dance was the mashed potatoes was that. because I remember you doing that to this song like 12 years ago and you're like do the mashed potato

and I was like that seems like a 50s dance I could see it but then when I watch these guys do it they do a way swagger dance they're kind of like man mashed potatoes do the twist and we all know what the twist is yeah dude they do kind of like this little like side stuff it's a leg day I've been doing the mashed potato wrong for forever my whole life and you had me doing it wrong here it is we'll say this is the official and this looks like it's now judy you're a dance instructor so what are we going to hear on this program right what's coming up? Mashed

potatoes and here's the mashed potato time with D-D-Sharp and Rockin'Reunion these are way too many white people to actually there's no way that they should be the ones teaching me the mashed potatoes there's got to be an original mashed potatoes you need you need to pull up

a bunch of white people with like glasses and like dresses down their angles so teach me how to do it. This kind of looks like this. Yeah, yeah, but that is kind of what they're doing. They're like, I mean, they're not doing it. Yeah, they're not doing it. Yeah, they're not doing it.

Yeah, they're not doing it. I don't know. Pull up the version. I mean, they're making it look whack. These people suck. I know, I get it. I'm just saying it is that is the day. They see it just makes out.

I get it. So who taught you that the mashed potatoes? Oh, man. My first DJ gig, I, you know, learned from them. They made me do stupid dances and stuff. I get it. Somebody taught you. Oh, man.

You've been teaching. it wrong to people for years. Well, I've been doing this dance. I just didn't call it the Master Tale. This is called the funky chicken. Dude, I need to see somebody that is actually good. This is the white as dance video. All right, I'm actually, you got to send me the leg of this. I'm actually going to put this down here.

This is the whitest dance video. I have ever seen. Look this guy. He's bringing that. Oh, man. Oh, my God. Oh, man. I got your other shit. Think about the fact that whoever brought their

like camcorder to this dance set did not know that they were going to be like put on YouTube as the defiance of what the mashed potatoes dance was for years like they probably recorded that dance in like 1989 maybe and they didn't know that they were or either that or just everybody looks like they're from 1989 but next thing you know they're on YouTube for years it's a danger but you don't think they were anticipating that they were going to they're showing they're showing how to do it look it they're showing it actually tutorial oh man now that looks like the funky chicken I don't know

And then elbows in, lazy. I want to see the actual contours do it again. I had a hard time finding other visuals of the contours performing this. I only find one other one from like 1989, and it was mostly a performance with like the original dirty dancers, as they called them. And it was an interesting performance, but here we go. They do it way cool.

No arm movements. Yeah, yeah, that was a cool little feet thing they did Why are they all on one step? I don't know. They could have spread out so much. Was it like a studio space issue? Why haven't they? I keep turning it on because we forget that we played the whole thing

a couple times now at this point. But it's so good! I swear that's definitely a recording studio issue. There's no reason that it was actually supposed to... No, I told you. I told you. You made up some bullshit, and I don't believe you. You've lost all credibility for it. from whenever you actually look up shit on the show.

Stick to dad jokes. I gotta say the actual crux of the story of the song, kind of sad, because it's just a guy not only asking but screaming, Do you love me? Now that I can dance, like, let's take it out of, like, the dope soul jam sound that it's with. Hey, do you love me?

Now that I can dance, like you broke my heart because I could, not dance. But do you love me now? But now that I can dance, do you love me? Do you love me now? Look at the mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes.

You do my twist. Yeah, it's a sad, sad track. It is, man. But man, is it jam. Oh, man. It's definitely a timeless beat that can actually play on any dance for four years. And that, as you know, is my kind of jam to bring up here in the dissect T. What that said?

Slaps and snaps for the legendary. Do you love me? Now that I can dance, I'm going to go with. It was like looking in a mirror. Yeah, that's a good song. Okay, so that was four slaps, a mashed potatoes, a do the twist, a snap, and a five slap. Five slap.

Yeah, no. This song is forever worked. It's one of those songs that, like, I remember exciting me. Like, at the very first time I heard it in life, which was probably when I was, like, three years old. and exciting me to this day when I hear it. And you don't hear it all the time to where it gets played out. It's spaced out enough in life.

And then add to the fact that it reminds you of like the best scene from dirty dancing. I would argue the best scene. I know that's debatable, but it's my favorite scene from the movie. It's pretty good. I agree with you. Yeah. It brings the energy. Like at that point in the movie, it really does.

But yeah, I'm agreeing with you. I gave you the same exact four slaps, twist. a little bit of mashed potatoing and then a little snap and then another slap This song just hits man It takes back memories And it gets you dancing

And although the story's a little bit sad It's to him asking and begging Whatever man If it's the 60s and he was breaking it down And we're supposed to be a temptation song These guys took it over And made a song for themselves And I think this is the only song

We all know from the Contours So with that Great job gentlemen And uh Do you know what a contours It's a bird? It's a bird, right? Not that I know.

It sounds like something that you would name a football team after, because Justin always likes name as a chondor. I had condor. No, contours. It's the contours. It's an outline, especially of curving. I'm in a regular figure. Shape of a sleek contour is like a car.

It's like a shape figurary. I don't think that they did it for what it is. It just sounds like a soul group from the 60s. So would a good team name be the contour condors? Sure. That sounds like something you would use for one of your football teams. It's got alliteration. It's about birds.

Everything about it. And anybody that knows Justin's flag football career knows that that's really all he cares about. That didn't bring it home the trophy at the end. Oh, man. Classic, y'all. Hope you enjoyed it. And we taught Justin what the mashed potatoes are. I want to apologize to the video because I had this bad habit.

I did it again for this video that I looked down. We did 100 episodes without video, okay? You have to understand that I am locked in. on just listening and trying to come up with the best possible dad jokes throughout my career here. And I did look down a lot. So sorry for the video if you think I looked down a lot. Tell me. Tell me.

Go to the Instagram. Go to Gmail, Dysect DJs at Gmail. Hit us up and tell me, hey, Justin, stop looking down. You look like an idiot. And I'll be like, oh, shit. And I won't even care. They call me that because I'll be happy that you responded. So hit us up.

Tell me. Tell us. Tell me Watch me now Hey Nick