[Muffled rap music playing the distance.]

[momebie]

Everyone knows the most accurate way to do science is LJ polls, and since barbed_whispers is clearly just MAKING THINGS UP I thought I'd come here to verify.

[Poll #1917179]


In other terrifying news, someone mashed up Cotton Eyed Joe and Gangnam Style, because why not I guess?

Comments

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

I still love the mashup. I love it so much.

I USED to know the dance. Which is why I said yes. Because I'm sure that if I were thrown in with a bunch of people who knew it I'd end up being able to figure it out again. ;)

[marilla82.livejournal.com]

I am TERRIFIED OF THAT MASHUP.

[gisforgreen.livejournal.com]

Just gonna leave this here.

[ceredonia.livejournal.com]

You have just enriched my life. I thank you.

[scifigirl.livejournal.com]

I did know the dance but I don't anymore. But I figured knowing it at one time counted.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

That... is a thing that exists. I don't even know what to do with this.

[i-smell-apples.livejournal.com]

Oooh I should have said yes too then!

[roadrunner1896.livejournal.com]

That is what I wanted to say, too. After all, it was a long time and many less kilos ago.

[bringing-words.livejournal.com]

Yes, me too. I don't remember it being that complicated...

Haha, that mash up is great.

[scribewraith.livejournal.com]

That mashup is awesome. the clip, the clip, tis awesome!

[seratonation.livejournal.com]

God damn now it's stuck in my head. I don't even know the words >:(

[rapunzelita.livejournal.com]

And by "the dance of my people", I of course mean the dances of 16th century Western Europe (France and Britain weren't that different dance-wise at the time). Because that is what I do as a reenactor.

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

Most of those group dances really aren't -- I just wanna know how kids my age knew the dance? It's really weird. Like how do we know ANY of these dances? Just...how? Who taught us? I just know I follow what everyone else is doing, so...

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

It's like the Hustle and Cha-Cha Slide. Even if you don't thnk you know them, you KNOW them. Gahhhh.

(At least Cha-Cha Slide comes with directions? lololol)

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

This is seriously the best. The best.

[paper-tzipporah.livejournal.com]

The only stupid dance I learned as a kid that I still mostly remember is the macarena.

[barbed-whispers.livejournal.com]

i am so happy that so many people knew there was a dance. SUCK IT, KL :P

[barbed-whispers.livejournal.com]

i can't speak for anyone else, but we learned some dances like this in school. not this one in particular, but we learned the achey breaky heart and the electric slide and a couple of other random dances. it was a unit in gym class all through elementary school!

[ceredonia.livejournal.com]

Wow, hard to find a video more 90's.

Also, damn you, flashing back to middle school.

OH GOD I SANG ALONG TO THE "His friends were SOOOO FINE" PART. WHY DO I STILL KNOW THIS?

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

My sister pulled me aside before my first middle school dance and said to me, "Since this is a dance, you'll need to know the Macarena." And then she showed me how to do it using a teddy bear.

Surprise, surprise, this was 1996.

[midnitemaraud-r.livejournal.com]

I know the song, and knew there was a dance, but the only reason I actually knew the dance was because it was my niece's favorite song for a while when she was like 5 and she taught me the dance. :-P That and the Cha Cha Slide thingame. (They (my niece and nephew) love Gangnam Style, too, and sang it when I took them to karaoke. They would also dance it around the house. A lot. My sister wanted to kill me for introducing the song to them.)

Also, this post needs more Bucky!

[xsnarkasaurus.livejournal.com]

I know the dance. I cannot DO the dance. But I know the dance.

also, Roommate xcyanide and I started singing Jolene. We are a We Heart Dolly Parton household.

[yavieriel.livejournal.com]

This ^

or the Virginia Reel, because that's what they teach you at private schools in old Southern cities like where I grew up.

Also I'm not sure if the dance I know to Cotton-Eye Joe is the one everyone else knows? Because it's a line dance. There's a lot of linedancing around here in backwoods Ohio where I live now. >.>

[jerel.livejournal.com]

And here's how the Animaniacs do Macarena.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Have you ever heard Jack White's cover? He's no Dolly, but it's pretty awesome.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I think I skipped the era where it was big at weddings. I still end up doing YMCA and sometimes even the Macarena, but no Cotton-Eyed Joe.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I still kind of love that video.

[starbuck92.livejournal.com]

Where is the petition to get Downey to dance to this one? :D