Tap Your Troubles Away

Feeling blue, pal? Dejected? Feeling like you have to look up to look down? Feeling lower than a snake’s belly, or whale poop—and that’s at the bottom of sea? Feeling like the whole darn world is going to Hell in a hand basket? Well, it is, so at least you’re not also crazy.

If you want to feel better right NOW, may I suggest you watch the video below. Hellzapoppin’ Swing Dance Scene, from the 1941 film Hellzapoppin’, will make you smile! That little bit of pure joy on toast, might be just what it takes to extricate your gaze from your navel. Or, if 5:03 minutes aren’t enough to shake you out of your doldrums, rent 42nd Street, or the original Japanese version of Shall We Dance? or Singin’ in the Rain or The Wizard of Oz—all guaranteed to help you tap your troubles away. Well—how about that? I feel better already.