Followup to the last post - there's a common miconception about Lindy (perpetuated, alas, by not a few British lindy folk, amongst others) that this 'bouncy kicky' style is what it's all about - and that couldn't be further from the truth.
The essence of Lindy distills down to musical interpretation and smooth connection with your partner. The oft-abhorred 'bouncy kicky' style (I think) is, at its worst, a bad caricature of the kind of performace styles seen in clips like the
Hellzapoppin sequence.
And, of course - because of the core connection & musical aspects of the dance, it does lend itself very well to
other forms of music.
The mistake I made when I first tried learning Lindy was to approach it as 'another dance just like MJ, but with different moves' - and then to get put off by some of the things I thought (wrongly) were trademark Lindy moves. I only really started to progress when I realised how wrong I was about that whole impression I had of the dance.