"The Safety Dance" is a song by Canadian new wave/synth-pop band Men Without Hats, released in Canada in 1982 as the second single from Rhythm of Youth.

"The Safety Dance" found similar success in other parts of the world, entering the UK charts in August and peaking at No.

[7] In 2021, the band released a recording of a new version of the song, reimagined as a mid-tempo ballad, under the title "No Friends of Mine".

Firstly, he explained "The Safety Dance" is not a call for safe sex, and that this interpretation is "people reading into it a bit too much".

"[11] The music video for the song (which uses the shorter single version), directed by Tim Pope,[12] is notable for its British folk revival imagery, featuring Morris dancers, Mummers, Punch and Judy and a maypole.

The identity of the blonde-haired woman by the name of Jenny seen dancing in the video remained unknown until 2013 when she was identified as Louise Court,[16] a journalist who was editor-in-chief at Cosmopolitan and became a director at Hearst Magazines UK in 2015.

[47] In 1996, Status Quo released a cover of the song featuring Tessa Niles on their album Don't Stop.

In the episode, wheelchair user Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale) fantasizes about being able to dance and lead a flash mob performance of the song in a shopping mall.