Vardaan Arora, Dance Like You | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 68^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight the song, “Dance Like You” performed by Vardaan Arora.

Prepare to beam with P-R-I-D-E 🏳️‍🌈! Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 celebrates, embraces, and spotlights songs by LGBTQ musicians or allies.  Here, we provide background and insight into musician(s) and analyze + go gaga over the decadent bops served up.  When the music dictates deeper, more transcendent discussion, we ensure the point is fully articulated.  All styles of music are welcome while the songs can be classics or brand-spanking new. So, without further ado, in the 68^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight “Dance Like You” performed by Vardaan Arora.

“I wish I could dance like you / Throw it back in a dive at two / I wish I could move like you / Dance like you.” Ooh-wee! When you see a confident, handsome man, it’s easy to be envious.  For the handsome, talented Indian actor and musician Vardaan Arora 😍, he desires more than dancing, moving, or throwing it back like him.  Arora, based in New York, was born and raised in New Delhi, India. As a South Asian, he represents an underrepresented demographic: the South Asian LGBTQ community. The out-and-proud Arora ‘brings the heat’ on his 2018 dance-pop bop, “Dance Like You”. He penned the three-minute cut while Sonic Pilot produced it.

“Dance Like You” is a vibe from the get-go. It boasts an infectious groove that is readymade for the dance floor. The synths are electrifying as well.  The beautiful Vardaan Arora delivers equally beautiful vocals.  Specifically, during the verses, Arora keeps it cool.  He never gets too high or too low. He brings tuneful melodies to the table as he is enticed by a hottie.  “Sittin’ here, nervous / When you walk in / Talkin’ in circles, I’m shaking,” he sings in the first verse.  In the second, he asks him, “Tell me your secret / Promise I won’t tell / Don’t tell me to leave it / I know you don’t care.” In the catchiest section that is not named the chorus (the pre-chorus), Arora memorably asserts, “Your grass is green than the way you make me feel / I’m tryna hide it, but my lips don’t seem to seal.”  Word.  The chorus, excerpted above, is the section to beat; it’s catchy as albeit. But the non-bridge, spoken by Vardaan, is sweet too: “You thought I was going to sing a bridge, didn’t you  / I just wanna dance like you.” Vardaan Arora is the sugar honey iced tea – have I mentioned how handsome and talented he is? In all seriousness, “Dance Like You”, which is six years old, continues to slap.

Vardaan Arora // “Dance Like You” // Vardaan Arora // 2018

Vardaan Arora, Dance Like You: Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 No. 68 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Vardaan Arora; Elias Souza, Los Muertos Crew from Pexels; CatsWithGlasses, David, Maicon Fonseca Zanco, Square Frog, Sudo from Pixabay]