I became a teacher last year and the amount of incredible, complex, highly coordinated dancing they pretty much all do is incredible. I saw a 5 year old do a whacky fortnite squat dance into a back handspring. What?!
At least I could teach them the Macarena so I had something to offer because goddamn.
China is teaching white kids how to dance and it's making the government nervous
People criticize tiktok dances, but at least it's motivating kids and young adults to be active. I used to be annoyed by those trends and eventually became indifferent.
Now I think I fully support dance trends.
they should do dances i already know like the mashed potato.
alternatively, i need a cover of Do You Love Me that use fortnight dances
Do You Love Me is so exactly what old rimey rock sounds like that it loops back to timeless. It's like Jojnny B Good, it immediately evokes 50s rock but you can use it anywhere regardless.
If you're being obnoxious and dancing somewhere like in an airport in a way that disturbs or obstructs other people then you're an asshole for disturbing and obstructing people, not for dancing.
If you're just doing some goofy little micro-dance in public or you've got some complex routine and you're doing it with a group of people outside somewhere that is appropriate then more power to you.
The people who are intentionally jerks about this are shitty people. Let people use public spaces how they want, within reason. You don't have to enjoy it. You don't have to appreciate it. You don't have to be a part of it. But you can't honestly tell me to my face that there is already too much joy in the world so on ya bike - go make yourself or someone else happy but leave people be so they can enjoy themselves.
Oh I just meant like a high school kid who shows off in front of his peers at school or something. Not taking up public spaces and being jerks about it.
Black folks been doing that since forever lmao this ain't a new thing by any means
Listen, everybody knows when minorities do anything, it's because they're poor and uncultured. It's a billion times more impressive and praise worthy when white kids do it
Like speaking 2+ languages
i technically speak four languages but its all white people shit. i just beg my friends for translation help whenever i have issues
50 shades of mayo
czech german english polish (cheating, so easy to learn if you know czech) and technically i can read and listen to russian lol. i know enough slavic pidgin stuff to speak to any slavic language speaker at a basic level, along with a handful of more complex concepts. i have friends that translate chinese shit for me
i did live on the czech border for a while so really its all cheating, very common in that area to have that grouping of languages, though grasping russian well is more difficult
The Macarena
Oh my lordy, that takes me back
Though, I also remember a bunch of kids being like "Flakes, you're some kind of Spanish, what's that song about?"
Which like, ugh
It was the answer to the final Jeopardy question on Jeopardy today. The category was 1990s No. 1 Songs, and I guessed Macarena before even reading the clue. The clue itself was the plot of the song “the title character of this song doesn’t care for her boyfriend Vitorino and gets with his 2 friends” LOL. I was shocked that only one of the three contestants responded correctly
You should encourage this and allow them the opportunity to do dance moves as a reward for good behaviour in particular but also good performance - if they all score well on the test or if they have less than 3 classroom warnings for being too rowdy (or whatever) then they get a reward of having 20 mins of dance time at the end of the day.
I mean, if they already love doing it then you are just encouraging the good behaviour by structuring that into a reward system for other good outcomes.
calling it now being totally unable to dance will be the defining characteristic of the alpha/millennial divide they will clown on us for. rightly so
