Lyndsey Parker has in her article "Dance Dance De-Evolution:Dumbest Dance Fads" which was posted recently in Video Ga Ga Music Blog mentioned that the latest dance craze or attempt at one is Miley Cyrus's "Hoedown Throwdown." In case you don't know, The Hoedown Throwdown is a mix of hip hop, popping, locking and shuffle. Parker has also taken a satirical swipe at the fad dances of yesteryears and named the following as the dumbest dance fads:-
The Village People - "YMCA"
MC Hammer - "Too Legit To Quit"
Los Del Rio - "Macarena"
Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - "Crank That"
Webstar - "Chicken Noodle Soup"
Las Ketchup - "The Ketchup Song"
Beyonce - "Single Ladies"
Cherish, Lil Jon - "Snapping"
Dem Franchize Boyz - "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It"
Kaoma - "La Lambada"
Vince Neil - "The Chicken Dance"
Poison - "Unskinny Bop"
The Rolling Stones - "Harlem Shuffle"
Bart Simpson - "Do The Bartman"
"Dance Dance De-Evolution:Dumbest Dance Fads" seems to have stirred up a hornets' nest. The article has elicited a deluge of comments on the Video Ga Ga Music Blog. While there were bouquets praising Parker for writing an entertaining piece of article, there were also many brickbats as well. Many of the comments posted were informative, entertaining and funny. I found this comment hilarious: "The Mashed Potatoes, Fly, Jerk (no offense), Swim, Frug, Madison, Limbo, Watusi, Pony, Popeye, Lambada, Stroll, Hustle, Walk, etc - May they rest in peace. Hey, now I feel like dancing!"
Sandy G wrote: "I knew the Macarena was a crap when my grandmother came home from a fat camp for old people asking if we had learned about it yet. Said they did it every day as a form of cardio. It was about a month later that it hit town. Another visitor responded: "The article sure sparked interest though, didn't it? I laughed all the way through it. Great entertainment. Way to light a fire under everyone's butt, you go Lyndsey Parker!" I liked this well-said comment: "These dances are meant to look cool, they are meant to be fun and letting loose and forgetting what the others think of you. Just do it and having fun is what it's all about!"
Fad dances, also known as dance crazes are dances which are characterized by a short burst of popularity. In the 1960s, the Twist was a sensational fad dance which took the world by storm. Several dance crazes of the Sixties had names of animals like the Pony, Dog and Monkey . In the 1970s the emergence of the disco phenomenon spawned a succession of dance crazes including the Funky Chicken, Bump, Hustle and YMCA. This continued in the 1980s with the popular song "Walk Like An Egyptian", in the 1990s with "Macarena" and into the 2000s with "The Ketchup Song" dance. Yes, having fun is what dancing's all about! Like Nike proclaimed - Just do it!
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And then there was that crazy but fun dance done to that song from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"; this Rocky Horror Picture Show started out as a play in the 1970s, then made into a movie starring Susan Sarandon (I still can never understand the slightest bit the storyline of this play and movie). I have forgotten how to do the complete dance, just being able to remember the bit of jumping to one side, then jumping to the other side and it ends with everybody falling down and lying stretched out flat on the floor
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