--- title: Man Fined For Singing 'Everybody Dance Now' description: Apparently Taoufik Moalla's rendition in his car of 1990's chart-topper "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" was a bit too loud. canonical: https://time.com/4994566/everybody-dance-now-singing-fine/ author: Eli Meixler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-24T07:41:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:48:14.252Z og:title: A Man Has Been Fined For Singing 'Everybody Dance Now' og:description: Taoufik Moalla, 38, said: “I don’t know if my voice was very bad" og:url: https://time.com/4994566/everybody-dance-now-singing-fine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc558f9ec9fad76f5/6988e317e76ad2d86962fac8/gettyimages-507333750.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: C+C MUSIC FACTORY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Man Has Been Fined For Singing 'Everybody Dance Now' twitter:description: Taoufik Moalla, 38, said: “I don’t know if my voice was very bad" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc558f9ec9fad76f5/6988e317e76ad2d86962fac8/gettyimages-507333750.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Man Has Been Fined for Singing the 90s Hit _Everybody Dance Now_ in His Car by [Eli Meixler](https://time.com/author/eli/) ## Eli Meixler Oct 24, 2017 7:41 AM UTC  C+C Music Factory at the 1992 American Music Awards on Jan. 27, 1992. C+C Music Factory at the 1992 American Music Awards on Jan. 27, 1992.ABC Photo Archives—ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images by [Eli Meixler](https://time.com/author/eli/) ## Eli Meixler Oct 24, 2017 7:41 AM UTC Not everyone wants to hear you sing in public. Especially if you’re going to belt out cheesy 90s dance music. A Canadian man [has been fined](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/23/canada-police-make-man-sweat-for-screaming-everybody-dance-now-in-car) C$149 ($118) for singing the 1990 hit “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” a little too loudly. The violation? “Screaming in a public place”. Taoufik Moalla, 38, was pulled over on September 27 while driving near his home in suburban Montreal and enjoying C+C Music Factory’s chart-topping dance hit a little too much, [the BBC reported](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41726495). “I don’t know if my voice was very bad and that’s why I got the ticket, but I was very shocked,” Moalla [told](http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/fun-police-montreal-man-says-he-was-given-149-ticket-after-singing-while-driving-1.3643552) local CTV News. “I understand if they are doing their job, they are allowed to check if everything’s okay, if I kidnapped someone or if there’s danger inside but I would never expect they would give me a ticket for that.” Moalla [denied](http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-man-ticketed-for-singing-in-his-car) that his crooning was “loud enough to disturb anyone.” He [said](http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-man-ticketed-for-singing-in-his-car): “They asked me if I was screaming. I said, ‘No, I was singing,’ ” Apparently the police disagreed: Moalla was issued a ticket, which he intends to contest, [according to](http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-man-ticketed-for-singing-in-his-car) the Montreal _Gazette_. According to [Montreal legal codes](http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-175.html), screaming “to cause disorder” violates “peace and tranquility”, and is punishable with a $50-1,000 fine. Other [curious Montreal prohibitions](http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/six-strange-canadian-laws-still-on-the-books-1.3533115) include paying with too many coins at check-out, dueling, practicing witchcraft, and holding more than two garage sales in a year. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4994566/everybody-dance-now-singing-fine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4994566/everybody-dance-now-singing-fine/"},"headline":"A Man Has Been Fined for Singing the 90s Hit Everybody Dance Now in His Car","datePublished":"2017-10-24T07:41:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:48:14.252Z","description":"Taoufik Moalla, 38, said: “I don’t know if my voice was very bad\"","url":"https://time.com/4994566/everybody-dance-now-singing-fine/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Canada","onetime","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc558f9ec9fad76f5/6988e317e76ad2d86962fac8/gettyimages-507333750.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eli Meixler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eli/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc558f9ec9fad76f5/6988e317e76ad2d86962fac8/gettyimages-507333750.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"C+C MUSIC FACTORY","caption":"C+C MUSIC FACTORY","creditText":"ABC Photo Archives—ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4994566/everybody-dance-now-singing-fine/","name":"A Man Has Been Fined for Singing the 90s Hit Everybody Dance Now in His Car"}}]}] ```