The next time some plausible bigot starts wielding The Bell Curve or a similarly specious tome to justify, ever so politely, the notion of white racial superiority, I'll just show them this:
Hmm, first this made me think 'why don't people tap dance anymore', then it made me go on youtube and search for 'black people who can't dance'. The results were not pretty.
Look you haven't really lived until your Nokia client (who pays your sodding mortgage and can sleep with your wife) insists you do some Finnish disco dancing in the morning over at some trendy Shoreditch hub, straight after the morning Danish pastries.
The Nicholas Brothers managed to live to a ripe old age. Pretty surprising when you consider the numerous opportunities to die during one of their dance routines.
For me, the nadir of white interpretive dancing was Jimmy Pursey's appearance on Riverside. "We are ... the men in black!"
In the grand tradition of the 1970's I watched the nice young foreign persons with the sound turned off. Instead I threw on the musical stylings of Mr. Robert Zombie. our nice young foreign persons danced like magic pixies in perfect time to 'Living Dead Girl', which was both trippy and awesome. And I'm not even stoned.
Hmm, first this made me think 'why don't people tap dance anymore', then it made me go on youtube and search for 'black people who can't dance'. The results were not pretty.
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Look you haven't really lived until your Nokia client (who pays your sodding mortgage and can sleep with your wife) insists you do some Finnish disco dancing in the morning over at some trendy Shoreditch hub, straight after the morning Danish pastries.
ReplyDeleteMe doing my moves right at the end.
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The Nicholas Brothers managed to live to a ripe old age. Pretty surprising when you consider the numerous opportunities to die during one of their dance routines.
ReplyDeleteFor me, the nadir of white interpretive dancing was Jimmy Pursey's appearance on Riverside. "We are ... the men in black!"
White men dancing is the reason I refuse to attend wedding receptions.
ReplyDeleteSome pissed uncle is guaranteed to wow those in attendance with his Mick Jagger impersonation.
The standing jumps were good but those flying splits at the end were making me wince. I was worried about the ball curve mainly.
ReplyDeleteThe second one is the bad one, right?
ReplyDelete'You love me, you wanna love me tender,
ReplyDeleteHow can I be sure you're not pretender?'
Marvellous!
I shouldn't have watched this at work because now I'm sitting in my office with tears running down my face. That second video is really amazing.
ReplyDeleteWhy is my spam word "expeons"? I'd like to think I'm an ex-peon, but in reality I'm more of a peon now than I was 20 years ago.
Also?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArZRWJwKdWs
Not only can some black people not dance, Bureauista, but some can't do the Groucho-Marx-running-backwards thing.
ReplyDeleteMagnificent Charles. All those fixed grins saying "this is ironic, isn't it? ISN'T IT???"
Die or be killed, Betty. If you look closely, a saxophonist nearly gets his face kicked off.
That's not entirely fair, Garfer. Some white men can throw a few shapes: http://tinyurl.com/3lm56c
I thought the Murphster had none to curve.
Depends, Roland. Where do you stand on Kenny G?
Steerforth: I'm sure at one point he sings "a bit of a bender".
Valerie: That's got to be the final session of an NAACP Confront Your Own Cultural Prejudices Away Day in Hickory Knob, SC.
In the grand tradition of the 1970's I watched the nice young foreign persons with the sound turned off. Instead I threw on the musical stylings of Mr. Robert Zombie. our nice young foreign persons danced like magic pixies in perfect time to 'Living Dead Girl', which was both trippy and awesome. And I'm not even stoned.
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Good job they were in perfect time to Mr Zombie, FN, as they sure as hell weren't to the original tune.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, is it just me, or does the verse sound uncannily like the beginning of Kylie's 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head'?
Of course this post is just more proof that you are the King of Juxtaposition, Tim...
ReplyDeleteOne of the dancers (in the Armi & Danny video) taught me how to dance breakdance. I think I don't have to say how good I am at it.
ReplyDeleteWell, Valerie, if you've got to be king of something...
ReplyDeleteTaiga: Does that include the pretending-to-be-and-old-person dance?