Co-loco, la-li-qua… (Beat Drops) “Now do the Harlem Shake!”
What’s up world. Now, if you’re oblivious to what I just referenced, next time you’re in class “taking notes” on your MacBook, visit your user submitted video site of choice. Either YouTube, for good wholesome family tv dinner fun or WorldStar for your daily dose of ratchetness. Type in the words “Harlem Shake” and watch people as they jump around, gyrate, or hunch a stuffed animal maybe. You may not find it to be the most amusing thing out right now, but I can assure you it’s better than watching Identity Thief. That movie was so horrible, the producers should do like Carnival and re-reimburse everyone for paying to sleep through a bunch of crap.
Anyways, Harlem Shake video uploads are the new epidemic. One of the controversies behind them is that no of the persons in the videos are actually doing the Harlem Shake. You remember it, right? That seizure looking wobble you probably didn’t do at your middle school dance because you saw how stupid the person doing it looked. Wait, did I just describe the original dance, or the videos? It’s kind of hard to tell, there’s a huge gray area.
Let’s do a video breakdown (Shouts out to Tosh point O). First, you’ll notice a single individual doing what looks like a rendition of Jason Bigg’s notorious strip tease in American pie. Baauer’s club mix will be playing as a few individuals sit around pretending to not notice. For the first fifteen seconds, the mix will sound like something you might imagine being played at a pride parade. Then, a quick video cut, the bass will come in and a ton of people will each showcase their head banging capabilities. This is the wildest part. In most videos, people are dressed up in funny costume’s. It looks like the revival of Studio 54.
So, how do we feel about these videos? Well, I keep my ear to the streets and a lot of people expressed their disapproval. One individual said “It’s just a pandemic. A sorry representation of our fun, youthful generation.” And people actually from the city of Harlem, NY are livid about these videos. But is it really that bad? I mean, we just got past Tebowing and Planking. And it’s only a matter of time before the Dirty South invents a new two step. Why not embrace the movement?
Some of my friends have enjoyed watching the videos and want to make their own version. I don’t know how much more creative you can get. Someone’s already beat you to making a cat edition. But go have fun anyways. Television news stations have even participated in this.
Maybe, the Harlem Shake isn’t so bad. Or maybe, we’re to blame it for asteroids hailing out the sky. The only thing left to amaze me is if Christina Tetrick, who’s expected to give birth to quadruplets, uploaded a video of her sonogram and her two sets of twins did the Harlem Shake.
