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Why Haven’t These People Been On Dancing With The Stars?
By Uncle Dave Friday December 16, 2011
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“Wait till the wimens see me do this!” //// Actually, it was the music track that made the video. I might be turning gangsta?
I like the people that are being mocked.
Are you sure they are being mocked?
I think they think these folks are having fun
Truly, “drive-by” surfing. I couldn’t look away! It’s like seeing a car accident on the highway.
I blame Irish jig dancers and Corey Flatly for this.
Please excuse me while I go dig out my eyes.
(Not really.)
Just add snakes and you got a religion!
Its Michael Flatley. 🙂
I refer you to the excellent “Another Irish Drinking Song off the album “Brontosaurus” by “Da Vinci’s Notebook“.
They aren’t on Dancing with the Stars because they don’t need “stars.” Flat foot and clog dancing are remnants of how people used to entertain themselves before mass media turned most of us into couch potatoes. I have long been and advocate for what might be called the green/simplicity analog for the arts. That is, we are more entertained and healthier when we sing, dance, or play music ourselves than when others, however “talented” do it for us.
While one may take this video as mocking either Appalachian or Hip Hop culture, what it really does is show the universality of music and dance. Dancing and making music is what is important, not the genre. Oh, and this dancing might not have all come from the British Isles. Some people think Indian dances influenced these styles, and it is possible there is African influence as well.
That’s going to become more popular as most of can’t afford to pay the utility bills. (There will be no need to extend the wireless network beyond urban centers either.[Though the US military will come to the rescue once again with the deployment of self-organizing ad-hoc networks of solar powered devices.])
When the only way to entertain yourself is to dance around, making a gull durned fool of your’n self, some people become most excellent fools. (That and sex. 🙂 )
Eventually, the 1%ers become the .1%ers as more and more people fall out of the economy, and they swell the 99%ers by joining them as they weren’t required anymore by the billionaire everything owners.
I hope I will not live to see the day, but my grand-nephew might. Go, you clog-dancing Texan fool…
I was watching for Jesco White.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Al9r4ahuK1w
Who says white guys can’t dance?
Why Haven’t These People Been On Dancing With The Stars?
Because they’re too good…
Damn, you beat me to it.
It’s amazing how similar some of the older dance styles are to modern hip-hop dance, which makes these mashups so revealing and entertaining. The best I can remember is the “Walk it Out” video that showed a Bob Fosse choreographed dance from the 70’s dubbed with UNK’s rap song.
Fancy footwork, but no crotch-grabbing?
This won’t sell well in the urban market…
Looked a little silly, but not a fat one in the bunch. hmm..
That because most of the videos were from before the ’70.
The obesity epidemic only started when Earl Butz came up with a corn based agriculture policy at Nixon’s behest.
I took a few years for all the girls to develop “muffin top” belt lines and for all of the children to become behemoth monstrosities.
Now its commonplace for people to have legs, just their legs, which weigh more than their entire grandparents used to.
Of course granny and grand-pappy died of diabetes in the intervening years.
Tap dancing = krunking for white people who do not know how to dance with their arms
“Play That Funky Music, White Boy”…
Clogging mystifies me….I just don’t get it. Must be a white people thing.
>> Silenus says:
>> While one may take this video as mocking either Appalachian or Hip Hop culture, what it really does is show the universality of music and dance.
No mocking here. I think its awesome. I just love those pure, authentic expressions of culture. It seems like it is getting rarer and rarer these days.
I didn’t see many “fingers up”, therefore they must “give a ƒµ¢k.”
No Jesco, but several clips were of his papy. A well respected step dancer in his time. Here is a Jesco link FYI.
His pappy being the legendary D Ray White.
The documentary “The wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia” is a MUST SEE for anyone trying to get some insight to this culture. Exec producer was Johnny Knoxville.
http://wildandwonderfulwhites.com/