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Episode Date: May 12, 2025

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listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. This week's episode of Miss Me contains some very strong language and some adult themes. Hi! Welcome to Listen Bitch, the dancing episode. We're not gonna be doing dancing. We're just gonna talk about dancing with all of you today, but we do like a dance. We do like a dance.

Oh, God, yeah. We danced on stage together at Miss Me Live. Actually, still, can't quite believe we did that. When I... That was really fun. I thought that was fun dancing. Yeah, just can't believe we had it in us to like just do a bit of

racket dancing on stage at Hackney Empire. Bloody hell. Yeah, yep that happened. We've danced many dances together over the years and I'm sure all those things will come up today. Let's have our first question for today's Listen Bitch. The theme is dancing. It's Jessica here from Sorry. I work in sustainability but I absolutely love to dance on a night out. Now my dancing is pretty crazy especially after I have a drink and it's like I don't really give a shit what I do. But my signature dance move is definitely like a slut drop slash Russian, like, Kozakie type dancing. And the next day I generally cannot walk. My question for you My question for you is what would you say each other's signature dance is and can you do it on camera for us all to see? Love you both, keep doing what you do. I absolutely love listening to the podcast every week.

That's really sweet but fuck no, I'm not doing that today. No, I will not be doing that. If you want to see our signature dance moves, take a look at Listen Bitch. Sorry, Miss Me Live. That's where they came up. Sometimes you dance in the mirror and post it on Instagram. No, that was not... Yes you do. I don't think it's really sweet when you do that. I like it. I did for a few years. I now can't believe I used to do that. Can I say a lot of that

was locked down. So I was dying for a dance and attention. Yeah, I did. I used to do some dancing in the mirror and then post it on Instagram. Only stories. Yeah, glad you remember that. Lily's signature dance move is of course, the rag of wine. Is it? The classic. Don't really know what my dancing is just not very good. No, that's not true.

But I definitely don't dance as much now that I don't drink or do the other stuff that goes with drink. Yeah, but you said to me when we were away, a few years ago you said, I haven't danced in, I can't even remember the last time I danced. And I think since then, you've done a lot more dancing.

It's been a bit more of a dance heavy few years for you. My birthday party and Miss Me Live and Charles's Terrace in Kenya. We had a little dance there. Yeah, that's true. We had a little dance there. I got a video of that. Maybe I'll put that up and you can see us. No, let's not do that. But yeah, thank you. Was that Jessica? I'm sorry.

Yes, works in sustainability, doing good work, doing the Lord's work. Thank you, Jessica. Let's have another question. What else do you guys do? I like hearing about the jobs. Hey, Lily and Makita. It's Dawn from Penticton, BC, Canada. I'm a fashion designer here and since we moved at the end of COVID, I really miss dancing because there's nowhere to do it here. So I throw a couple dance parties a year and they're usually decade themed or sometimes genre. So my question was, do you have a favorite decade or type of music that you like to dance to?

Love the show and keep it going. All the way from Canada, bloody hell. I don't know whether you'll understand this so much in Canada, but I, yeah, I'm a, no, I'm sure you will, a 90s R&B freak. Okay. That shit gets me going. Boys to Men, SWV, Jade, Mary Jo Blige, what's the 411 era? Yeah, that's when I really, you can't stop me. If anyone plays 90s R&B, I am on

the film. Mariah Carey, that's the kind of stuff that gets me. So I think the 90s in general in the R&B land was my favorite. Lily? I just like raga, I just like dancing to raga and dance. It's kind of the only thing that really gets me going to be honest. Yeah, when did that start? When did it start?

I think when we were about 15. Yeah, I don't know why it starts. Maybe Carnival, maybe it was Carnival. That's true, that's true. Although Carnival's quite hard to dance at. Because there wasn't really anyone like the elders in our family that like introduced that to me. No.

I was just drawn to it. I don't know why. Maybe like pirate radio? I don't know, something. Something about it really gets you going though, doesn't it? Makes you happy. Yeah about it really gets you going though, doesn't it? Makes you happy. Yeah, it really does. Hence coming out to red rat tight up skirt at the Hackney Empire.

Hey, you're going to need a tight up skirt. You make me a joke. I'm a black person first. I cannot believe we're doing this in front of others on a stage. But yeah, I love dancing. I think I stopped dancing for a really long time. I think we call those years the grout show years when I decided to chat shit instead.

And then it came back like a ton of bricks and revitalized my being actually, which is when I started dancing on Instagram a lot. I was sort of finding a new, no, I was re-finding an old part of myself that had been lost for a very long time. And I suddenly felt really free. I wanted to ask you with sobriety and dancing, because basically dancing is an expression of freedom, I suppose. Like, you do have to feel free to dance, and that's why I think a lot of people need a drink before they dance.

But I'd like to know that I could dance without alcohol. And I think I can. And I think I'd enjoy it just as much. I remember going to a gig once in Los Angeles and there was this band who are quite famous band who shall remain nameless because I don't wanna out them. And there was a woman that was dancing, feeling pretty free and not being sort of self-conscious at all, you know, just with the band and having a really nice time.

And the band, said band, were just standing there behind her just laughing and pointing. It was devastating. So mean when people do that, when somebody is just like expressing themselves and like having a joyful moment and you know, and you just laugh at them. It's just horrible. I remember thinking, what fucking bitches. And you're fucking musicians. You're in a band.

Like what the fuck? What the fuck? How can you be taking the piss out of somebody that's enjoying music when that's what you profess to do for a fucking vocation, twats? Anyway. Was it the... Yes. Oh my... Fucking knew it! Obviously we're not going to put that in, but yes. We'll beep it. That's why I don't think I like when people say I'm a good dancer or I'm a bad dancer. I don't think anyone's a good or bad dancer. It's just how close do you feel to yourself and can you get close to yourself like that to feel free enough to start moving.

And boy, like dancing is actually quite weird. And if you watch, I was just watching this fantastic Beatles documentary by Ron Howard, from Ron Howard called Eight Days a Week. And it was all this like really kind of, what's it called when they sort of modernize the film? So it's like old footage, but they kind of give it that new glossy look. So it's really clear. Oh yeah. When they sort of like recondition it. Yeah. Yeah. Reconditioned. And it was, you know, these deep parties in the sixties and dancing was, it felt different. It felt really like united and everyone sort of doing the same move.

And I think that's maybe been lost a bit, that idea of like, like if you look at the 60s, they sort of all do the same side shuffle. And I think that would have been quite a beautiful way to be out and dancing. In the 80s, my mom and Auntie Nana Cherry, dancing was like a very signature part of who they were in the world. There weren't that many other young black girls around on the punk scene. My mum used to say when they felt intimidated, they would just look at each other and just sort of go into kind of a dance together and it would really bring their power back to them. I think me and Naima still dance, Naima Nana's

daughter, we dance like that as well. There's something quite spiritual and connected to our parents that I feel when we all are dancing together. Even when me, you and Phoebe are dancing, I feel something very old is connecting us through our parents and the way they sort of were together and the way they used to move together. Yeah. I think something quite magical happens when me and Phoebe are dancing. Phoebe's a bit more jump up than me. Another question please, another question. Hi, Lily, I'm Akita.

My name is Lauren. I'm from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. My question on dancing is, how do you think dancing has changed since you were kids? Lily, I know you have young teenagers. Do you notice a difference in their attitude towards dancing? Last time I went dancing was in my prom like a few years ago. Anyways, love you both. Take care. Bye. Yeah. Do the girls dance when you take them to those gigs? What's their vibe? You know, it's so funny. Marnie, my youngest, has like this sort this insatiable, she wouldn't know it because I don't think

she even knows that it's called house music. But whenever we're in a public place, like in a restaurant or something, and there's house music playing, she starts moving her shoulders or doing internal dance. She loves it. She feels it. House music, oh my God, Marnie. Okay, so she's a dirty little raver. Yeah, or like dance music, you know,

she just, we're like a sort of four to the floor, like, you know, beats, she likes beats. But the other one is in totally informed by TikTok. So it's all routines, you know, all they do is they sit up, they listen to music upstairs and they make up routines. Isn't that funny? So I guess TikTok has changed dancing in that way. See, that kind of takes freedom away from it and everything becomes a bit more choreographed. Although we did like to make up dances when we were young. Did I make you do that with me?

No. Oh, maybe that was a Bella and Phoebe, but I definitely would do like choreographed dances and make my mom watch. To boys to men. Yep. That's sweet. That's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's just such a precocious little shit. Like, watch me dance. Like, okay, Makia. And my mom said I had a real predilection to dancing to James Brown when I was young. So I think I've always been quite into the like, a duck and now kind of getting into and feeling the passion of it. But you did used to take Marnie to those silent discos, which were quite housey when she was young. Maybe she learned it there. Yeah, maybe just in her in it. Um, wait, one more thing I was gonna say. Oh yeah, choreographed dances.

thing I was to say, oh yeah, choreographed dances. I'm really bad at choreographed dances. The candy is a really big part of being a black person and I didn't know how to do it for a while, for a long time. And it would come up at Christenings or birthday parties and weddings and I'd be like, shit, it's the candy, I gotta get out of here. And then about two years ago I said, no, I can't live like this. So I got my white Swedish friend, Nati, to teach me in my house, like for like two hours, like properly like rehearse it and teach me. So I can't not know this anymore. And then at Tyson's baby shower, the whole party did the candy and I could do it with

them because I'd rehearsed and I'd practiced. And there's something really fun about yes, hurry. This is probably like Ethel with TikTok and choreographed dancing. Something lovely about all moving together at the same time in a hurry, this is probably like Ethel with TikTok and choreographed dancing, something lovely about all moving together at the same time in a room, you know, like a hold down. Yeah. But the black version. Yeah. Is the candy the same as the electric slide? Because when I'm rehearsing for, you know, the plays that I've done with Matthew Dunst and my director, that's like something that we all do as part of our warm-up. Oh, to like get relaxed with each other?

Yeah, or maybe not, no, because every day we do like a, like sort of, what do you call it, like sort of exercises where you go from one thing to another. What do you call that? I can't remember. I actually have no idea. What do you mean one thing to another? Well, you'll do like, you know, sit-ups for a minute and then you'll move on to the next thing and it'll be like press ups for a minute. Circuit training. Circuit training, okay. So we do that.

And then I feel like maybe in the afternoon or something when everyone's feeling a little bit tired and a little bit, you know, over it, then we'll do the electric side. We should do that as a Miss Me team. We should do that. We should have a little dance before we record sometimes just to get everyone in the... Will's ready. See you at the candy before the next record. We may do that. Let's have another bloody

question. Let's keep this rave alive. Hi, Lily and Keith. My name's Colby. I'm 25 and I'm from Birmingham. Thank you so much for the podcast. Look forward to listening to you guys twice a week, every week, without fail. You guys just make me laugh all the time. So thank you so much. So this week's subject being dancing. I always said if I could go back in time

and really go for one career path, I would love to be a dancer. Just dancing, touring the world. I'd love to be on stage being like a backup dancer for a big singer, something like that. It was the life I should have lived. So my question for you guys would be, if you could be a backup dancer for any artist, if you could dance, then what artist would you pick? Me personally, I'll pick Miley Cyrus.

I'm a huge fan and her Bangerz Tour was just bonkers and I wish that I was in the back doing some twerking and stuff with her. So that's my question for you guys. I hope you're having a lovely day and take care. Bye bye. Thank you, sweetie pie. Wait, hang on a minute.

Weren't you on that tour? I was on the Bangerz Tour, yeah. You were, weren't you? I wasn't a backup dancer though. I was a support act. No, I know. I just remember that tour was pretty massive and you were on that bloody tour. I know more about backing dancers than any normal human being should because of Pop World. And in those days, every pop star had backup dancers. Like that's what your performance looked like. And it's so strange, if you see these performances over and over again, you just see these people as shapes

behind Britney Spears or behind like Melly or whoever. And then I would see them in like, in the lunch queue later. And I'd be like, you're like a person. You're not just this like shape behind Christina Aguilera. Like actually those dancers have personalities and they're actually people. I think for a long time I just used to see that as just like background.

But it's quite a life being a backing dancer. Like you travel the world, you get very into these people. If you think about like the Madonna documentary. Oh my God, on my Sheezus tour, I think I had four dancers, maybe six dancers, and I would share a bus with them and let me tell you the arguments that they used to have with each other were fucking crazy. Like they were intense. Hierarchy stuff. Just like, just like inviting, like it was just, it was crazy. And I'd never had dancers before and never again. They were all really lovely people as individuals, but

together and like stuck on a tour bus and having to share a dressing room, like living on top of each other like that. And probably sharing hotel rooms as well, I would have thought. Not all six in one, but you know the floor two to two to each anyway to answer his question i would think if i was to be a backup dancer on somebody's thought i would choose somebody whose audiences are the fucking mentalists so maybe like you know lady gargo or beyonce or something because you just feed off of that energy every night, right? Right. My answer is Mary J. Blige. Okay. There you go.

Seeing my other life as Mary J. Blige's backup dancer, I really would have liked that. Definitely tour the world, get close to her, support her through things she's going through. But I'd probably be with a pack of backup dancers, like you're saying, and everyone's probably trying to get close to Mary, and it probably would get quite heated when you're on those tours. But yes, in Fantasyland, I'd be Mary J. Blige's backup dancer,

and Lily would be Lady Gaga's. On that note, shall we take a break? Let's have a break. Let's have a Kit Kat. Yeah, let's. The Dear Daughter podcast received some fantastic letters from our listeners recently. I just had a lot of emotion and I had to put it somewhere. Together, we're creating a handbook to life for our children. Feelings that you don't know how to express verbally, write it down.

Enjoy the life you have. No one can tell you what tomorrow will bring. Dear daughter from the BBC World Service, listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Welcome back to the dancing edition of Listen Bitch. It's making me want to dance, making me want to shack out. Any other words that we used for dancing? Shack out. I like the word shubs. You know what shubs mean? Yeah, shubs is good. Shubs is when you're having like... Do I know what shubs means? Yeah, of course I know what shubs means? Yeah, shubs is good. Shubs is when you're having like... Do I know what shubs means? Yeah, of course I know what shubs means. Okay, the lady in Canada might not, so let me just explain it. Oh no, you explain it. Come on, shubs queen.

What's a shubs? Me? Explain what shubs is. Party. It's a party. Shubs is a party, it's a wave. It is, but isn't it a bit more like, I feel like a shubs is a house party. Basically when people say, I'm gonna have a little shubs for my birthday, you're like, ooh, yeah you are.

Shubsy. I know someone having a shubs soon. I can't wait for their shubs. That's another question then. Let's have another one. Hey, Malila Keeta. I'm Matt from Bristol, and something I heard a long time ago

is that women are very attracted to men's sweat. Like it sounds very animal but it's the pheromones and it's the energy and it makes me think that's got everything to do with dancing. So I don't know when you say it out loud it sounds a bit gross but is it something you've ever thought about, ever noticed? Do you agree with that? That men who dance harder are giving up more pheromones because they're all sweaty and energetic and you can't help but just be a bit attracted to that. Interested to know what you think about that. Okay, I don't know about the sweat thing, but I did think it new when we were doing

dancing today and I started to think about men that I've actually enjoyed dancing with. My friend Jessie, our friend Jessie, we love dancing together and that's just Jessie likes the same cheesy Mariah Carey shit that I do. But the boy like romantically that I've enjoyed dancing with the most would be Sam Parker. He's a bloody good dancer, especially for a little white boy from Notting Hill. He's a very good dancer. And when, this was someone I was sort of dating when I was 18 and I loved him so much,

but we had this beautiful connection of dancing and we actually still have it. We just don't see each other that much and we don't dance together that often. But I'll never forget how connected that made us and how much fun it was to dance with a boy I was seeing and the fact that we loved to do that thing together. We would dance at the gate quite a lot in the old days. And one of our favorite, what was the song we used to like?

Oh yeah, Family Affair, Mary J. Bride. Play that, me and Sam Parker will be on the floor, probably even still today. That's good memories actually, it was nice to remember that. Yeah, I don't really have any memories of like dancing with a romantic partner. I certainly don't find male sweat particularly attractive. So it's a no from me. So that's that from you. Have you ever been asked to dance by a man,

like not normal, like traditional dancing? You know, in a film, I was watching First Wives Club the other day and like Diane Keaton goes to see her ex-husband at this like restaurant in Manhattan in the 90s. And there's like a dance floor. And I think that was quite common. But if someone said, would you like to dance? Would you know how to do it?

You know that like waltz kind of, me neither. When did everyone learn that like standard way to dance? I don't know how to do that kind of dancing, but I'd like to learn so that if a man goes, can I take your hand to dance? I'd actually know what to do. I was going to do Strictly one year. They got in touch and I had a meeting

and I was saying to my family, I was like, it's just not me, it's just not me. And everyone was like, but it's dancing and you love dancing. It was like, yeah, but not me. Like, it's just not me. And everyone was like, but it's dancing. And you love dancing. It was like, yeah, but it's performative acting dancing, which is so not for me. Be quite fun to learn all those dances, but I just don't think I would have been very good at them.

They work with someone else anyway, which I think was the right decision. I think unless you're gonna make it, like AJ Adudu did in her year, which was just so unbelievably excellent, I'd say step away from the Strictly offers unless you can AJ it, which I didn't think I could, to be honest. That's my advice for anyone that might be thinking about doing Strictly comp dancing. Let's have another question please.

Hi, this is Hannah from East Sussex, formerly from Essex. I'm a gardener slash farmer. My question is, if you got to go on Strictly Come Dancing, what dance would you pick? Like what would be your favorite one to do? And do you have a song that you'd love to dance to? Thanks, love it, bye. Okay, how embarrassing because when I was rehearsing in my like sitting room for like,

if I'm going to do this Strictly thing, I better find a song and like try and do this. Oh my gosh, I actually forgot this. And the song I went for was Beyonce's Come Take My Hand. I will let you go. I'll be your friend, I will love you so deeply and I would like throw myself back and forth around my fit. Yeah. Thank God they didn't want me to do it. So yeah, I probably I would probably do, I would definitely do like a Beyonce type song with lots of like, maybe the cha cha. Maybe that's the cha cha.

I don't know what any of the dances are and I don't want to strictly so I can't give you any answers. Sorry for being so uninteresting. No, you know what you could do? You could do me. What is it called? The jive. You could do the jive if you want to do.

It's actually making me feel sick talking about it. I don't want to do any of the dances on Strictly. Please. Me neither. Me neither. That's a no from Lil. It's a no to the Jive and it's a no to the list. I think we'll move on to the next question. Can we have another question please? Thanks for that, Lo. Hi, Makita and Lily. This is Jamie from Hertfordshire and my question is for dancing. I absolutely love dancing. Dancing to me is life. I dance in the kitchen, in the bathroom,

with my kids, with my husband. Everything is just dancing. It means the world to me. I go to contemporary dance classes every week and I just dance my heart out and all the people around me love dancing and to me it's just life and makes me happy and bubbles up my soul and is everything in life. So my thing is I dance to the beat of the music but lots of my friends dance to the words of the music and I was just wondering which one you guys do. Alright love the podcast, love you guys, bye! Do you listen to the beat or the lyrics? I think it's a combination isn't it? Yeah I'd say it's a combination, I'd say it's a combination of the two. Like Red Rat you're dancing, oh no, but you're also dancing to the ding, ding, ding.

It's that terrible description. Yeah. That's a really tricky question to answer. I mean, yeah, cause like the sort of tempo of the lyrics. Yeah, I don't. In the old days, we used to, I don't know whether you were there, but we used to headbang, okay?

We used to headbang. When we went to see Smashing Pumpkins and that's very much like standing straight oh my god and you saw the head banging is stupid and you just you don't really move your body it's just it's just like that and that is to the lyrics i guess i think like head banging to nir and stuff, you would be very much lyrics led. I think when you're dancing to all things at once and it all comes together, that's probably when dancing feels the best. When you're not thinking about it too much, babe. When you're not thinking in my... I suppose if it's not particularly beat driven music, so if it's like some modern like pop music, you know, like female singer song like Sabrina Carpenter or something, then yeah,

I would be dancing to the lyrics rather than the beat. But if I was listening to ragga or drum and bass or jungle, then it's the obviously the beat that you're dancing to. Concisely put. Thank you. Let's have another question. Lil and Keith. I'm Sam. I'm originally a Manchester girl and currently, well, yeah, live in Australia in Brisbane and I've done for about the last five years dancing. I am nearly 51 and recently just went to a Ministry of Sound gig that was over here and danced for six hours

like I was 21 years old and literally felt like every bone and joint was aching on the way home. Is there ever an age when enough's enough? When you just gotta do a cha-cha slide left and a right and chill instead of bouncing round like you're 21. Is there a time to stop and tame your dancing? I just love a dance. I would dance all night on water. Love you guys so much. Bye. Ah, dance all night on water. That sounds good. No bloody way. My nanny still loves a dance and it's when she feels, I guess, free and also happy. I love that she's 88 and she still goes, she's got like a total little groove, my nan. You've

seen nanny dance and you can't actually get her off the dance floor once she started. There was a night about five years ago, so she was probably in her early 80s, and whatever party it was had finished, and she nearly went to like a sort of warehouse rave with our friend Ted to like keep the rave alive. And I was like, Nanny, you're not going to hackney wick to keep dancing, you need to end this now. But she had a good time, maybe did a good three, four hours.

I probably haven't danced like that since squat parties. Pfft, don't have it in me to do a six hour dance anymore. Six hours, yeah. Crikey. I'd be lucky if you get me for six minutes. No, I don't think that you can be too old to dance. I think that, you know, it's a release. You know, that's like saying, you know, can you be too old to go to a football match? Like, it's, you know, it's the same sort of thing. It's like somewhere to let your emotions and your energy run free. And yeah, you definitely can't be too old to dance. Never.

I mean, you might physically find it more difficult, but no, no. Keep dancing. I was actually gonna take my nan to this, remember I was telling you I was gonna do some community center stuff with her local stuff, and there's this kind of like ballroom dancing group thing. I'm like, would she be into that?

I thought it might be quite sweet. Go meet some people and like waltz around with them a bit. Might be good for her. Yeah, should. Take her out. Do you wanna ask for the next question then, babe? We'll have the last question please. Hi, my name's Lydia and I'm from the Cultural Epi Centre,

otherwise known as Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. Welcome to the Forties Club, Lily. Love the podcast both. I wanted to know what song is it that wherever you are, whatever you're doing makes you just have to get up and dance? Or West Yorkshire Palance it's a re-bop. Cheers! Bye! A re-bop. A re-bop. What's your re-bop? What just gets you going? Like don't say a genre tell me a tune. One song that gets me going. Romy? Um, it's fine Oh, I know what mine is.

Mine would be Optimistic Sounds of Blackness is just like a deep powers terrorist song, which is West London where we were kids and the family would play it a lot. You'd hear other people's houses playing it a lot. And it's just this beautiful song. It's got such a great sentiment. It's like literally as long as you keep your head

to the sky, you can win. And I remember listening to it when I really was going through something and it really, really helped me. And now when I hear it, it brings me a lot of joy. It doesn't remind me of that pain. It just reminds me of what I did actually with that pain and how much dancing really saved me. So if that's on car and actually Nick, Nick Bam played it as like the first tune at Theo's birthday party. And I was like on the roof having a cigarette, heard the tune. I was like, shit, ran down to the dance floor and my mom was running from one side and Phoebe was running from the other.

We were all just like, sounds of blackness, optimistic. So that is like a tune that means a lot to me and will always make me dance? Mine would be maybe, I mean there's so many but maybe like So Me Like It by Spice. Yes Lil, that is your tune. Thank you for this dancing edition of Today's Listen Bitch. I really enjoyed it. I feel like we've all kind of held hands and danced together. Like some sort of Whirly gig. If you know what I'm talking about, then good for you. Lily knows. Lily knows what Whirly gig is.

I do know what Whirly gig is, yeah. Yes, you do. I do. I'm so sorry to do this to you, but it's your turn to pick a theme for Listen Bitch. Oh, shit sticks. Okay, the theme for next week's Listen Bitch is... Clothes.

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