When you think of traditional British folk dance, you think Ceilidh, Morris, Maypole, Irish Jig/Step, etc. What you DON'T think is Michael Flatley !
So here we have 'Irish Dance' (defined by its broadest possible definition !) in the form of Generation-Z pop tunes, dancers and singers in tarty make-up and cheap outfits, tattooed muscley blokes who look like they were drafted in from a building site, Millennium-era Terminator-style robot-dancers, highly plastic digitally-projected backdrops of unicorns, and for the sake of calling it 'Irish', all that prestigious (ie: pretentious) overly-proficient step-tapping. (The latter kinda the polar-opposite of the traditional orientation and purpose of British folk dance as a cultural medium for everyone !)
DON'T GO AND SEE THIS PLASTIC AMERICANIZED MILLENNIUM CORPORATE TRIPE !
So here we have 'Irish Dance' (defined by its broadest possible definition !) in the form of Generation-Z pop tunes, dancers and singers in tarty make-up and cheap outfits, tattooed muscley blokes who look like they were drafted in from a building site, Millennium-era Terminator-style robot-dancers, highly plastic digitally-projected backdrops of unicorns, and for the sake of calling it 'Irish', all that prestigious (ie: pretentious) overly-proficient step-tapping. (The latter kinda the polar-opposite of the traditional orientation and purpose of British folk dance as a cultural medium for everyone !)
DON'T GO AND SEE THIS PLASTIC AMERICANIZED MILLENNIUM CORPORATE TRIPE !