VH1 Dance Machine

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VH1 Dance Machine was a half hour music video show on VH1 shown between 1997 and 1998. It was also known as Dance Machine and VH1 Dance.

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Originally Dance Machine was shown in an hour block with The RuPaul Show. At the time the RuPaul Show was longer than a half hour, so Dance Machine filled out the hour, even though both shows were listed as a half hour on the VH1 website and in the tv listings. The show usually opened with a video by RuPaul, or had a video by him/her somewhere during the shows broadcast. Eventually the RuPaul shows were either edited to a half hour or had their commercial breaks shortened so the show would fit into half hour slots, and Dance Machine was replaced with Pop-Up Video in the schedule. The show resurfaced with a morning time slot for several months before being removed permanently.

Dance Machine was criticized by its viewers for not airing pure dance videos and instead airing rotation videos turning it into another non show like Crossroads and Sex Symbols. While some pure dance videos like Gina G's "Ohh Aah, Just A Little Bit" and Amber's This Is Your Night, most of the videos shown were either dance remixes of rotation videos but with the same footage as the Radio mix, non dance rotation videos by semi-Dance artists like Janet Jackson and the Spice Girls, and non dance videos but with dance sounding names like Hanson's "MMMBop". Meanwhile top Dance acts like 2 Unlimited never once had one of their videos shown on the show. Periodically a classic dance video from the 70's or 80's would air on the show.