0:00:02 > 0:00:07Dancing is super-fun. It's a form of expression and it's cool.
0:00:07 > 0:00:11Oh, I know this song. Let's do the routine to it! It brings everyone together. It's great.
0:00:11 > 0:00:17Having a dance craze gives us that chance to do something all together and all feel like we're one animal.
0:00:17 > 0:00:22There's been so many great dance crazes, and I've partaken in most of them.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26It's fun, it's something that everyone can do.
0:00:26 > 0:00:27Oh, it's camp as Christmas.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30You can just do you thing, you know what I'm saying?
0:00:30 > 0:00:35Dance is a way to free the soul and ease the mind.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39The moment these songs start, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Better to slap on a smile and get stuck in, I reckon.
0:00:47 > 0:00:54Hello. I'm TV's Robert Webb - actor, writer, and as I'm going to reminding you hundreds of times
0:00:54 > 0:00:58over the course of the next hour, a highly accomplished dancer.
0:00:58 > 0:01:05It's a combination of skills that makes me the perfect...ly adequate choice
0:01:05 > 0:01:09to host Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes, a countdown of the songs that have
0:01:09 > 0:01:16got you bopping like idiots at office parties, wedding discos, or alone in your front room, drunk.
0:01:16 > 0:01:23But who decides which dance crazes are best? Some know-it-all panel of so-called experts? Yes, actually.
0:01:23 > 0:01:30And together, these specialists and BBC3 viewers have picked out the hippest, the sexiest, the quirkiest
0:01:30 > 0:01:35and, let's be honest, the gayest dance crazes from over the last 40 years.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38So finish your drink, kick off your shoes and join me
0:01:38 > 0:01:43on a journey towards the craziest of all pop's great dance crazes.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45Hit it.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Five, four, three, two, one.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59The dance routine from Rhythm Nation, for me, was life-changing.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03Oh, it would just sort of make me feel so excited to watch that dance.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05The noise of it was just great.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09You know, all of them together, it was just such an amazing video, so striking.
0:02:09 > 0:02:14# With music by our side To break the colour lines... #
0:02:14 > 0:02:16The dance routine for Rhythm Nation was very...
0:02:16 > 0:02:21intricate. It was very different for that time.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25The discipline in that video is incredible.
0:02:25 > 0:02:31They move in one wave and one formation together.
0:02:31 > 0:02:36# We are a part of the Rhythm Nation. #
0:02:36 > 0:02:40I suppose she's singing about being part of a Rhythm Nation, a nation
0:02:40 > 0:02:42entirely founded on the rules of dance.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45But, you know, even the rules of dance has to be strictly enforced
0:02:45 > 0:02:49if you're going to dance in time with one another to that extent.
0:02:49 > 0:02:54Taking a leaf out of her brother's book, the song's message is one of peace and racial harmony.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58So, naturally, it features military uniforms and nunchucks.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01That was me.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04I was the dancer using the nunchucks, yes.
0:03:04 > 0:03:09I just felt that it fit the video. It was my version of this military vibe.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11You know, you need an element of menace.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15Even in the world of dance, power can corrupt.
0:03:15 > 0:03:16Maybe that's the message.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21It was very robotic and accurate,
0:03:21 > 0:03:25and it's the first time we saw her do a little pop-and-lock.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Ooh, technical.
0:03:30 > 0:03:35It's very important that your fingers stay together, your elbows stay in, and then we hit -
0:03:35 > 0:03:38sharp, sharp, sharp.
0:03:38 > 0:03:43# Sing it if you want a better way of life. #
0:03:43 > 0:03:45I think it's a wonderful craze,
0:03:45 > 0:03:49but I think it's a really difficult one to sort of start up
0:03:49 > 0:03:50and bring onto a dance floor.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54I think, by yourself, you'd suddenly just be coming into
0:03:54 > 0:03:57a bit of a military, you know, and bang, bang, bang, you know,
0:03:57 > 0:03:59and arms sort of giving it large.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05It's not the most intimate of dances, let's just say that.
0:04:10 > 0:04:16At 49, the Spice Girls, the group who tapped into the mid-'90s ladette phenomenon.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19When they sang Spice Up Your Life, it wasn't the plea for women to become independent,
0:04:19 > 0:04:23it was just telling them to go for a vindaloo after a skinful of lager.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Girl power.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Wooo!
0:04:38 > 0:04:42- Girl power!- They were just huge. They were like a force.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45# When you're feeling sad and low... #
0:04:45 > 0:04:48It was five young, loud, in-your-face girls
0:04:48 > 0:04:52thinking they were going to change the world, and they did at one time.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56They did actually change the world, and the world was at their feet.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59A lot of people were copying just the way they acted,
0:04:59 > 0:05:01and little girls wanted to be Sporty,
0:05:01 > 0:05:04or little girls wanted to be Baby Spice.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07# Slam it to the left If you're having a good time... #
0:05:07 > 0:05:12A generation of young girls spiced up their lives and learnt some funky new dance moves.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15It was important for us when we were doing our choreography.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19We wanted to keep the dance routines quite simple, because we wanted people to be able
0:05:19 > 0:05:24to copy them and to do them along with us at home and stuff.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28First of all, some classic Spice Girls moves. One, two, cha cha cha.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Two, two, cha cha cha. OK, got that?
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Then you can add the arms, you can freestyle a little bit.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Cha cha cha,
0:05:36 > 0:05:39and then let out the song. Are you ready?
0:05:40 > 0:05:44# La-la-la, la-la-la la-la-la
0:05:44 > 0:05:46# La-la-la, la-la-la-la. #
0:05:46 > 0:05:48A little bit like that.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51# Spice up your life! Aaah!
0:05:51 > 0:05:54# Slam it to the left If you're having a good time... #
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Slam it to the left and shake it to the right.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58I was shaking it everywhere from Europe to New York.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00You couldn't stop me.
0:06:00 > 0:06:01# Yo! I'll tell you what I want... #
0:06:01 > 0:06:07Each Spice Girl had her own unique persona, which gave them highly individual dancing styles.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Who can forget Scary, Sporty and Arthritic!
0:06:10 > 0:06:13# I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really really, really wanna zigazig-a. #
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Loads of people think that we had our Spice names
0:06:16 > 0:06:19and we lived up to that, but what really happened was
0:06:19 > 0:06:23we'd just presented ourselves as the individuals that we were
0:06:23 > 0:06:27and we were named by Top Of The Pops magazine, and those names just stuck.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30# Make it last forever Friendship never ends. #
0:06:30 > 0:06:37With those characters that they created came their own specific dance. That was really clever.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39# That's the way it is. #
0:06:39 > 0:06:42Victoria's, of course, is the point and pout.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Posh Spice would always do stuff like that and look away.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Victoria Beckham was famous for not really dancing at all.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51She'd just point at things, presumably at things that
0:06:51 > 0:06:54she was later just going to get David Beckham to buy her.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Scary Spice was just - rrarrgh! Very animalistic.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01She growled, she always screamed at the camera.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03She did the high kicks and stuff like that.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07Emma had lots of very cutesy maybe like little shushes.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Emma was a good dancer.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11She really knew how to get down.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Geri's, of course, was the peace sign which we all adopted.
0:07:14 > 0:07:19Geri had no rhythm, couldn't put one foot in front of the other.
0:07:20 > 0:07:25It was a little bit unfair, because four of us girls had had dance training and Geri hadn't,
0:07:25 > 0:07:29so we used to do a bit of extra rehearsing, myself and Geri.
0:07:31 > 0:07:36Sporty Spice's signature moves - well, of course, who can forget the back-flip,
0:07:36 > 0:07:39performed a few times on tables.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44Wide stance, point up to the sky - that was a bit of a Sporty.
0:07:44 > 0:07:49The punch, that's a bit of a Sporty and then the signature kick, yeah!
0:07:49 > 0:07:51I've still got it!
0:07:51 > 0:07:53# You have got to give. #
0:07:53 > 0:07:57They all had their own little moves, you know, then they'd all come
0:07:57 > 0:08:00together with something easy, that I think teenagers could pick up on.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03# You gotta, you gotta you gotta... #
0:08:03 > 0:08:08We've worked with some of the world's best choreographers and we always have had these really
0:08:08 > 0:08:11difficult routines, but we just make them easier!
0:08:11 > 0:08:16We learn them and just go, "Can we just make it a bit easier? Because our fans,
0:08:16 > 0:08:19"we need to make it easy for our fans," but it was just because we were lazy!
0:08:21 > 0:08:25You can't sing and do all that, that's why everyone mimes.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27# If you wanna be my lover. #
0:08:28 > 0:08:31# When the sun shines we'll shine together
0:08:31 > 0:08:34# Told you I'll be here forever
0:08:34 > 0:08:36# Said I'll always be your friend... #
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Let's not beat around the bush.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Our next dance craze is raunchy.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44Gene Kelly used to sing in the rain, Rihanna just strips semi-naked
0:08:44 > 0:08:47in the stuff and turns the sexy dial up to 11.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51# Umbrella You can stand under my umbrella
0:08:51 > 0:08:54# Ella ella, ay, ay, ay... #
0:08:54 > 0:08:57I like the way she's doing the Fred Astaire thing with the umbrella.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00She's using it as a prop.
0:09:00 > 0:09:01I want to be that umbrella.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05# Ella ella, ay ay ay... #
0:09:05 > 0:09:09You don't have an umbrella in the club, so you have to simulate one.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13You do the whole umbrella on the shoulder, the walk,
0:09:13 > 0:09:16put the umbrella out to there, the umbrella out to there.
0:09:16 > 0:09:20You could do whatever you want with your imaginary umbrella.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26# Because when the sun shines we'll shine together... #
0:09:26 > 0:09:31All my umbrellas at home are now called Rihannas!
0:09:31 > 0:09:32# Always be your friend
0:09:32 > 0:09:35# Took an oath I'ma stick it out to the end... #
0:09:37 > 0:09:40Our next entry is Common People by Pulp,
0:09:40 > 0:09:43a band whose lead singer Jarvis Cocker concocted choreography for...
0:09:43 > 0:09:46Hang on, I think I just made up a tongue twister.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49Cocker concocted choreography. Cocker concocted choreography.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Cocker concocted choreography. Sorry, got a bit carried away there.
0:09:52 > 0:09:58Anyway, Clocker flonkocted choreog...ty for this song on the day of the shoot itself.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02# If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah
0:10:02 > 0:10:05# You'll never live like common people
0:10:05 > 0:10:08# You'll never do whatever common people do... #
0:10:08 > 0:10:11The first time I had seen Jarvis, I thought he was like
0:10:11 > 0:10:14a really animated pipe cleaner.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17King of the geeks!
0:10:17 > 0:10:21He dances so brilliantly, but it's all just little flicks,
0:10:21 > 0:10:24a little flick here and a move there.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28But a few nifty little moves, a vintage suit
0:10:28 > 0:10:33and some oversized bins, Jarvis made disco-dancing look cool again.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38I made up a dance for the video of Common People...
0:10:39 > 0:10:41..which I'll show it to you if you like.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43# Sing along with the common people... #
0:10:43 > 0:10:47Sing along and it might just get you...through,
0:10:47 > 0:10:51because that's like you moving through double doors or something.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54# Laughing at you... #
0:10:54 > 0:10:58And the stupid things that you do - I don't know why we've got the windscreen wiper.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04Because you think that poor is cool -
0:11:04 > 0:11:07I think that's supposed to be a cool pose.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11# I wanna live with common people like you... #
0:11:11 > 0:11:18I made that one up on the day and managed to teach a few of the other extras in the video it.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21You get the kind of vague idea.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24# You better to live like common people
0:11:24 > 0:11:26# You better do whatever common people do... #
0:11:26 > 0:11:29The dance that they did, you enjoyed seeing it,
0:11:29 > 0:11:32but it wasn't one that you copied when you were dancing to it,
0:11:32 > 0:11:35because you just got so into the actual song.
0:11:35 > 0:11:36# And dance and drink and screw... #
0:11:36 > 0:11:39I think the indie kids understood
0:11:39 > 0:11:42that that dance was meant ironically,
0:11:42 > 0:11:45and therefore, to actually turn up and do that dance
0:11:45 > 0:11:48would have meant that you didn't get the joke.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55We had this bee in our bonnet about being a pop band and we thought,
0:11:55 > 0:12:00this song has got some, whatever, socio-political relevance or whatever,
0:12:00 > 0:12:03but still, it wouldn't hurt to have a dance routine that went with it.
0:12:03 > 0:12:07I think you can have both things. I like the high concept and the low concept...
0:12:07 > 0:12:11So I was very pleased that we had a little dance.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24Our next entry features some mummified dancers doing this.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30- Can I stop doing this now?- No!
0:12:32 > 0:12:37It's 1997's Around the World by French duo Daft Punk,
0:12:37 > 0:12:40or to translate that name into French - Daft Punk.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45It seems silly.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47I'm stopping.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57Daft Punk Around the World
0:12:57 > 0:12:59is like a weird, modern
0:12:59 > 0:13:01music box - you open up the lid and like,
0:13:01 > 0:13:03"What the hell is going in here?"
0:13:04 > 0:13:07It's the most bizarre video in the world.
0:13:07 > 0:13:08Visually, it was amazing.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11It was so simple, yet there was a lot going on.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Top pop video director Michel Gondry's vision
0:13:15 > 0:13:19was to make each of the dancers represent the instruments.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22It brought us some crazy choreography.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26So, the synchronised swimmers are the high-pitched keyboard synth.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28It's art, go with it.
0:13:30 > 0:13:37What you're watching is the human representation of what Daft Punk have created digitally.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39It's an incredibly clever idea.
0:13:39 > 0:13:44The tall B-boys symbolise the ascending and descending bass guitar.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46The mummies are dancing in time with the song's drumbeat.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49The itchy skeletons are the guitars.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51And the astronauts represent the robot voice
0:13:51 > 0:13:56repeating that one famous vocal over and over and over again.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58# Around the world Around the world... #
0:13:58 > 0:14:00I used to be able to do the skeleton dance.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06My favourite thing is the random spacemen
0:14:06 > 0:14:09who just walk around, and when they get to the front, they get confused.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16One of them turns back on himself and he goes, "No, keep going forwards."
0:14:16 > 0:14:21It's a really nice little ripple of that happening, and you think it's gone wrong, but it hasn't.
0:14:21 > 0:14:26Daft Punk brought robotics back - thanks Daft Punk!
0:14:26 > 0:14:32Robo-dance was popular in the '80s, back when a home computer was a Sinclair ZX80 or a Commodore 64.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35But if the robotic dancers really wanted to mimic computers,
0:14:35 > 0:14:38they should have moved like they were about to print a spreadsheet
0:14:38 > 0:14:41before freezing until they're put to sleep.
0:14:41 > 0:14:47I think the robot is up there with the greatest dance crazes.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50At the point the robot was revealed to the world,
0:14:50 > 0:14:54I don't know a single human being who didn't then give it a go.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57# Oh, Mickey, you're so fine
0:14:57 > 0:14:59# You're so fine, you blow my mind Hey, Mickey! #
0:15:01 > 0:15:03I love a cheerleader, don't you?
0:15:03 > 0:15:07At 45 in our top 50 countdown is Mickey by Toni Basil.
0:15:07 > 0:15:11She was a lady, by the way. Toni, that is, not Mickey.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18# Oh, Mickey, you're so fine
0:15:18 > 0:15:20# You're so fine, you blow my mind Hey, Mickey!
0:15:20 > 0:15:22# Hey, Mickey! #
0:15:22 > 0:15:26# Oh, Mickey, you're so fine You're so fine, you blow my mind
0:15:26 > 0:15:28# Hey, Mickey! Hey, Mickey! #
0:15:28 > 0:15:32Oh, I loved that, she had a ra-ra on and pom-poms.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36Used to fall into splits at the end, of course. Mickey Basil.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39Toni Basil, even. Whatever.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42I wasn't he interested in her name, just in her skirt!
0:15:43 > 0:15:47Toni Basil was choreographer to the stars before she donned her old
0:15:47 > 0:15:53high-school cheerleader outfit and topped the charts in 1982 with this high-octane ditty.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58# You've been around all night and that's a little long... #
0:15:58 > 0:16:01When you think of Hey, Mickey, you think of high energy
0:16:01 > 0:16:05and you think of a cheerleader and you think of Toni just looking hot.
0:16:08 > 0:16:12I was on the floor with pom-poms and mini-skirts. Of course I did! That's a stupid question.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Pardon me for asking!
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Being a cheerleader isn't easy - have you seen those American
0:16:17 > 0:16:19cheerleaders and what they do? It's an art form.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22# Oh, what you do, Mickey Do, Mickey
0:16:22 > 0:16:24# Don't break my heart, Mickey! #
0:16:24 > 0:16:26# Doo-doo-doo... #
0:16:29 > 0:16:34It's actually quite a butch song, it's not the most feminine dance.
0:16:36 > 0:16:37It's really - grrrrr!
0:16:37 > 0:16:40# Oh, Mickey, what a pity you don't understand... #
0:16:40 > 0:16:42She looks deranged throughout the dance.
0:16:42 > 0:16:47"Oh, Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind, hey, Mickey!"
0:16:47 > 0:16:50The main bit to remember was the, that bit,
0:16:50 > 0:16:53very, very, very sharp jerky movement like that.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00Roll your wrist and you point at whoever you want to go home with -
0:17:00 > 0:17:03it's true. It's such a macho dance!
0:17:06 > 0:17:12Toni doesn't mind a bit of butch. Just take a look at the cheerleaders in her video.
0:17:12 > 0:17:17I think a couple of her dancers are really quite hefty young women.
0:17:17 > 0:17:24But actually she used a couple of men and dressed them up in cheerleading outfits because of all the lifting.
0:17:24 > 0:17:28I didn't realise that then, maybe that's why I thought they were cute.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31I thought there was something wrong. It answers a lot of questions now.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Actually, Louie, it doesn't.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35That's, in fact, an urban myth.
0:17:35 > 0:17:40The dancers you're drooling over were real cheerleaders from Carson High, California.
0:17:42 > 0:17:46Many of the dancers in our top 50 are about freedom and fun and having
0:17:46 > 0:17:49what I can only described as a gay old time, and that's fine.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51There's a place for that, but it's not now,
0:17:51 > 0:17:54because the only way one can successfully perform the dance
0:17:54 > 0:18:00to Fatboy Slim's Praise You is with the solemnity that it deserves. I thank you.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18# We've come a long, long way together
0:18:18 > 0:18:22# Through the hard times and the good... #
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Praise You was a guerrilla-style video
0:18:24 > 0:18:27featuring the Torrance Community Dance Troupe.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31This genuine-looking footage from 1999 sees them pitching up uninvited
0:18:31 > 0:18:35to perform some wacky dancing on the street outside an LA cinema.
0:18:37 > 0:18:41It is almost like a drama class. It isn't a dance, it's a drama class.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44But they're expressing themselves through movement.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Whatever they're taking, can I have some?
0:18:47 > 0:18:50There's a routine of sorts, but it's a routine unlike
0:18:50 > 0:18:54anything that would come out of a professional dance studio!
0:18:57 > 0:19:00The video got everyone talking.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01Was it amateur footage?
0:19:01 > 0:19:04Who were these people?
0:19:04 > 0:19:08But those with too much time spotted Norman Cook peering into the camera
0:19:08 > 0:19:12which gave the game away. Turns out they were professional dancers and the stunt was
0:19:12 > 0:19:18the brainchild of troupe leader Spike Jonze - movie writer, promo director and co-creator of Jackass.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22We kind of did it like burglar-style
0:19:22 > 0:19:26so nobody knew that we were filming. Even the people in the theatre
0:19:26 > 0:19:29didn't know we were out there doing these crazy steps.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36I think it was the seriousness and how we played it
0:19:36 > 0:19:40which made it even funnier, because we weren't playing it for laughs.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44But you'd have to be pretty dumb to be taken in by this!
0:19:44 > 0:19:46When I watch that video, it was 100% real.
0:19:46 > 0:19:51They meant every moment of it, so that is genuine expression in that video.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55You know when something is being faked. They were definitely mental.
0:19:56 > 0:20:00I gave every step a funny name, so we would do, like,
0:20:00 > 0:20:02the broken pony.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08You're off to go into that broken pony land.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12The second step is called the bad fish
0:20:12 > 0:20:15because it's swimming in the wrong direction on the river.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19But then another current comes along and you're going the other way
0:20:19 > 0:20:22and you're a bad fishie and you're stuck in the current.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28As long as you danced weird, you suited that dance.
0:20:28 > 0:20:29Like mysterious.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31# Praise you like I should... #
0:20:34 > 0:20:37It's the sort of thing you can see yourself in your own front room,
0:20:37 > 0:20:40I do, anyway, just leaping around and
0:20:40 > 0:20:42doing all that and thinking you're burning off calories!
0:20:45 > 0:20:49It really wasn't a hit at the discos, not at the time.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52I don't think if you're going to be in some disco, taking your date out,
0:20:52 > 0:20:57you would go into a broken pony or do the bad fish,
0:20:57 > 0:21:01it's just not becoming, it's not, style-wise, romantic.
0:21:08 > 0:21:15Number 43 in our dance crazes run-down comes from the Godfather of Soul, James Brown.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18When I reach my 70s, I plan to spend my time eating toffees,
0:21:18 > 0:21:22watching Homes Under The Hammer and pretending to be deaf.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25When James Brown reached his 70s, he was still spending
0:21:25 > 0:21:30his days wearing a jumpsuit and dancing around the stage like he was having some kind of fit.
0:21:30 > 0:21:37His passing in 2006 was mourned not just by his fans, but by the entire prosthetic hip industry.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41# Get up, get on up
0:21:41 > 0:21:44# Get up, get on up
0:21:44 > 0:21:46# Stay on the scene, get on up... #
0:21:46 > 0:21:49(IMITATES INTRO) That iconic bit,
0:21:49 > 0:21:52you hear that and you automatically know what time it is.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55# Stay on the scene, get on up... #
0:21:55 > 0:22:00Watching footage of James Brown is like watching someone possessed by
0:22:00 > 0:22:05this amazing, musical, rhythmic, passionate dancing spirit.
0:22:07 > 0:22:11I would describe James Brown as a firecracker.
0:22:11 > 0:22:12He's up there, he can be smooth,
0:22:12 > 0:22:15and you like that thing, and it just kind of goes crazy.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17I love James Brown.
0:22:17 > 0:22:22He was like one of those preacher dancers. He was like he was possessed by the Lord.
0:22:26 > 0:22:30I definitely think James Brown has inspired many performers.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Michael Jackson, even Beyonce.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37People want this thing, you know?
0:22:40 > 0:22:41From his leg
0:22:41 > 0:22:44to his spin to when he sings, when he dances, ow!
0:22:46 > 0:22:4970-year-old James Brown - ow!
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Still dancing. I'm like "James Brown, calm down.
0:22:51 > 0:22:55"Calm down, James, because you might break a hip."
0:22:57 > 0:23:02Absolutely the originator of shaking his thang!
0:23:09 > 0:23:13Our next dance craze was spawned by Miley Cyrus's dad, of all people.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Turns out he's actually a musician,
0:23:16 > 0:23:19and his 1992 track Achy Breaky Heart
0:23:19 > 0:23:21brought line dancing into the big time.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24The song was written by Don Von Tress, a man who, interestingly,
0:23:24 > 0:23:29shares his initials with the medical condition deep vein thrombosis.
0:23:31 > 0:23:36Yes, it's the dance sensation of the summer, the achy breaky!
0:23:37 > 0:23:41Billy Ray Cyrus, for me, is the worst of what America can offer us.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43He's got his mullet on the go.
0:23:43 > 0:23:48It's sort of like a perm and mullet convention in the video. Horrendous.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53But if you could master a grapevine and rock your hips three times,
0:23:53 > 0:23:59you could do the achy breaky, and the routine was most infectious. Not infectious in a good way.
0:23:59 > 0:24:04I mean infectious like conjunctivitis or scabies.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06God, it was catchy.
0:24:06 > 0:24:11You'd be in a club, and then people would start to hurriedly organise lines.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13It's like, "No, stop it."
0:24:13 > 0:24:18The shoulders are going, and all doing this sort of stuff.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22That was the mother of all dance crazes, the whole line dancing thing.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28Somebody called it the Cyrus virus, and now everywhere I play, people show up with
0:24:28 > 0:24:31big posters and banners that say, "We've got the Cyrus virus."
0:24:31 > 0:24:37Billy Ray Cyrus inflicted upon the world an appreciation of line dancing
0:24:37 > 0:24:40- that, by rights, it should never have had.- Thanks, Billy(!)
0:24:46 > 0:24:50Hi, guys. You can't smell me, but I absolutely stink.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54While I was lifting some really heavy weights, I looked around
0:24:54 > 0:24:57and saw a lot of people in pain and very few people having fun.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00And that's the way it should be when exercise is concerned.
0:25:00 > 0:25:05But try telling that to these crazy geniuses who are in at number 41.
0:25:05 > 0:25:06They won't listen.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11I'm joking!
0:25:14 > 0:25:17The speed and the slope of this treadmill can be varied
0:25:17 > 0:25:22to simulate the physical demands while walking or ascending gradients.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24# It could be ten but then again... #
0:25:24 > 0:25:26I don't know anybody who didn't see that video
0:25:26 > 0:25:29who watched the whole thing like this.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32# Throw on your clothes The second side of Surfer Rosa
0:25:32 > 0:25:34# And you leave me with my jaw on the floor... #
0:25:39 > 0:25:43These are the gymtastic moves for OK Go's Here It Goes Again,
0:25:43 > 0:25:45better known as "the treadmill song".
0:25:47 > 0:25:50I think they did it in one take, which is pretty impressive.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53It only works because it's done in one take.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57These guys have to have rehearsed it so that you genuinely feel you're watching a spectacle.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01Feel free to try this at home...once you've bought eight treadmills.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05It's not really a dance you can do in a nightclub, like,
0:26:05 > 0:26:07"Hello, mate, you come in the nightclub."
0:26:07 > 0:26:09"Coat. Thank you very much."
0:26:09 > 0:26:11"What's this?" "It's a treadmill."
0:26:11 > 0:26:14"What are you doing with a treadmill?"
0:26:14 > 0:26:16"I'm hoping you're going to play that song."
0:26:16 > 0:26:19Just set up the treadmill.
0:26:21 > 0:26:25# Just when you think you've got a hold
0:26:25 > 0:26:28# Here it goes, here it goes Here it goes again... #
0:26:28 > 0:26:32Though the song isn't amazing, but once you've seen the video,
0:26:32 > 0:26:35you've got the video in your head and therefore, the song's brilliant.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38# Here it goes again! #
0:26:45 > 0:26:49Whether you know him as Ricky, Rick, Richard or just plain Dick,
0:26:49 > 0:26:51chances are Ricky Martin is your
0:26:51 > 0:26:54favourite grinning Puerto Rican narcissist.
0:26:54 > 0:27:00Mine too, and this is his first English single, Livin' La Vida Loca,
0:27:00 > 0:27:04a Spanish phrase which roughly translates as "your grandmother smells of donkeys".
0:27:06 > 0:27:08I know, I was shocked and outraged too.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10# Like a bullet to your brain, come on! #
0:27:10 > 0:27:16# Upside, inside out, your grandmother smells of donkeys! #
0:27:16 > 0:27:19# She'll push and pull you down
0:27:19 > 0:27:21# Livin' la vida loca... #
0:27:21 > 0:27:25Let's just forget the fact that he's gorgeous and can shake his bon-bon
0:27:25 > 0:27:27like nobody else,
0:27:27 > 0:27:30but he's got this captivating energy.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33# Livin' la vida loca
0:27:33 > 0:27:35# Livin' la vida loca... #
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Ricky Martin has a great way
0:27:37 > 0:27:40of working the camera, and he can do the smallest of dance moves
0:27:40 > 0:27:42and it will be so effective.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44When he's on stage, he has this fire.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46It's just magnetic.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48It gets everybody on their feet.
0:27:50 > 0:27:56Ricky's Latin dance craze was Puerto Rico's biggest export since...well, ever. And no wonder.
0:27:56 > 0:28:02As you're about to see, La Vida Loca is the perfect way to seduce a woman, or repair a dislocated hip.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06Oh, yeah, we all love a bit of Latin, don't we?
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Especially cos the men wear very tight trousers
0:28:08 > 0:28:10and shake their bum a lot.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12It's a bit of a loosey-goosey.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15Shake. It was loosey.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18The whole body shakes.
0:28:18 > 0:28:19The butt shakes.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21And the hands just flap around.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24It just makes you want to leave your drink
0:28:24 > 0:28:27and get up on the dance floor
0:28:27 > 0:28:28and actually do something.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31It's commercialised. It's dumbed down a bit.
0:28:31 > 0:28:32It just makes it lighter, which is
0:28:32 > 0:28:37the best thing to do for Ricky, because then everyone can join in, so everyone will like it.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39Very clever, Ricky. Very clever.
0:28:43 > 0:28:48At number 39, it's Don't Cha, or in English, "Don't you?"
0:28:48 > 0:28:53Originally performed by the super-sexy Pussycat Dolls, it's more commonly performed now
0:28:53 > 0:28:56by the drunkest girl in whatever club you happen to be in.
0:28:56 > 0:29:00Some people say that it's a basically unpleasant song which objectifies women.
0:29:00 > 0:29:06But I'm prepared to overlook this, because the girls in it have such nice bottoms.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08Come on, girls!
0:29:10 > 0:29:17# Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me? #
0:29:17 > 0:29:18Mmm. Don't Cha?
0:29:19 > 0:29:22When it came out, people were like "Who do they think they are?"
0:29:22 > 0:29:26"Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" They're hot.
0:29:27 > 0:29:29A lot of people said "How arrogant is that?!"
0:29:29 > 0:29:33"Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" But they were right.
0:29:34 > 0:29:42# Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me? Ow, don't cha? #
0:29:42 > 0:29:45This song's for all of our girls out there. Let me hear you scream!
0:29:45 > 0:29:48The idea that Don't Cha
0:29:48 > 0:29:49was for the sisters, which I think
0:29:49 > 0:29:53is the nonsense that they came out with after people raised an eyebrow
0:29:53 > 0:29:56about this woman-hating track...
0:29:56 > 0:30:01If they want to call that feminism, then I'm more than happy to ignore them.
0:30:01 > 0:30:05It was cheeky, you know what I mean?
0:30:05 > 0:30:08It's not serious. It was all in fun.
0:30:10 > 0:30:14The Pussycat Dolls were formed in 1995 as a burlesque dance troupe
0:30:14 > 0:30:19performing at the Viper Room nightclub in LA.
0:30:19 > 0:30:22Back in the day, we were straight burlesque.
0:30:22 > 0:30:25People had always seen burlesque as a sort of striptease.
0:30:25 > 0:30:29And although we say we were burlesque, we never stripped.
0:30:29 > 0:30:33We stripped layers of corsets down to another corset, and down to another bra.
0:30:33 > 0:30:38There were layers of things, but there was no nudity involved.
0:30:38 > 0:30:42We have a Pussycat Doll leg, and sometimes they take it beyond.
0:30:44 > 0:30:47HE WHIMPERS
0:30:47 > 0:30:51But even if you can't get your legs behind your ears, you could enrol
0:30:51 > 0:30:56in a class to learn how to flaunt your inner doll through dance.
0:30:56 > 0:31:02I definitely think Pussycat Dolls helped bring back burlesque in a new-age millennium way.
0:31:02 > 0:31:07It was a global phenomenon which we could never have anticipated.
0:31:07 > 0:31:12I have got an inner doll directly in correspondence with how much gin I have.
0:31:12 > 0:31:19And then inner doll comes out of me and does weird dance moves that aren't seen at any other time.
0:31:24 > 0:31:31At number 38, S Club 7, a made-for-telly pop group created by pop mogul Simon Fuller.
0:31:31 > 0:31:36Like some evil Frankenstein character, he formed a fully-functioning pop group
0:31:36 > 0:31:39from the rotting body parts of seven decomposing pop singers.
0:31:39 > 0:31:45And with this song, Reach, he struck gold and was laughing all the way to the bank, literally.
0:31:45 > 0:31:49You should have seen him. Actually, it looked a bit weird.
0:31:49 > 0:31:53Now, I've been watching your attempts at dancing,
0:31:53 > 0:31:57and I must say, they are complete rubbish. What are they?
0:31:57 > 0:31:59ALL: Complete rubbish.
0:31:59 > 0:32:02We were playing ourselves. The TV show was about us
0:32:02 > 0:32:05trying to make it, trying to be successful.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07I beg your pardon?
0:32:07 > 0:32:10It was one of the biggest kids' TV shows at the time.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15You'd wake up in the morning and watch S Club, and they would always dance
0:32:15 > 0:32:19and they would always entertain you and you'd have your favourite one
0:32:19 > 0:32:21and want to copy their style.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24Everybody wanted to know the moves.
0:32:24 > 0:32:29If you were at a youth club and you didn't know the moves to an S Club tune, then who are you?
0:32:29 > 0:32:33Dance routines are definitely important, because we don't have instruments to play.
0:32:33 > 0:32:39So you kind of need something else, and we had some really fun and easy-to-pick-up dance routines.
0:32:41 > 0:32:42# Don't stop, never give up
0:32:42 > 0:32:45# Hold your head high and reach the top... #
0:32:45 > 0:32:47The moves weren't hard, so anyone could do it.
0:32:47 > 0:32:49Like the iconic S.
0:32:49 > 0:32:54They did it in slow motion, slowed it down for you to do it with them.
0:32:54 > 0:32:57# Reach for the stars... #
0:32:57 > 0:33:01# Reach for the stars. Climb every mountain, yeah... #
0:33:01 > 0:33:05# Reach for the stars... #
0:33:05 > 0:33:07Everybody remembers this part.
0:33:10 > 0:33:11Reach.
0:33:11 > 0:33:12Reach!
0:33:12 > 0:33:18I used to do it in the playground with all the bigger girls.
0:33:19 > 0:33:21I got bullied anyway, so it didn't help.
0:33:21 > 0:33:22But...
0:33:25 > 0:33:27..dinner ladies loved me.
0:33:27 > 0:33:31But even an S Club party has to come to an end at some point.
0:33:31 > 0:33:36When their management brought out the S Club Juniors, the band must have known their time was up.
0:33:39 > 0:33:44I auditioned for S Club Juniors. They were holding auditions everywhere
0:33:44 > 0:33:47and they were like "You want to be in S Club Juniors! Come on down.
0:33:47 > 0:33:49"You have to make a dance routine."
0:33:49 > 0:33:53Me and my friends would all practise in the school yard.
0:33:53 > 0:33:57When we got there, it didn't quite go to plan.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59There was a lot of crying involved.
0:33:59 > 0:34:03Dark place. Very dark place.
0:34:03 > 0:34:08The original concept of S Club was to leave at 21, kind of like a Scouts movement.
0:34:08 > 0:34:12# Don't stop movin' Can you feel the music? #
0:34:12 > 0:34:14The Juniors came along, and they were really good.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17Two of them are doing well. They're in the Saturdays.
0:34:17 > 0:34:20Yes, there's a young Rochelle. And there's Frankie.
0:34:20 > 0:34:26If it wasn't for the Juniors, you probably wouldn't have two sexy girls that are in the Saturdays right now.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34# Let's get physical... #
0:34:34 > 0:34:38At number 37 on our countdown of pop's greatest dance crazes,
0:34:38 > 0:34:44it's a routine that took us back to the 1980s, with big hair, tiny leotards and woeful music.
0:34:45 > 0:34:47It's Call On Me by Eric Prydz.
0:34:47 > 0:34:51As well as being a great way to keep in shape,
0:34:51 > 0:34:55it's also a lot of perfectly harmless, well-meaning fun.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57I find it's best enjoyed with the sound on mute,
0:34:57 > 0:35:00so you can hear the key in the front door.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08The video for Call On Me is trying to recreate a scene
0:35:08 > 0:35:10from the film, Perfect.
0:35:10 > 0:35:11It's a pretty hot scene.
0:35:11 > 0:35:15And Jamie Lee Curtis is instructing in an aerobics class,
0:35:15 > 0:35:19and John Travolta's in there, getting pretty sweaty and watching her.
0:35:19 > 0:35:23It wasn't until I got on set and they handed me my outfit, and it was a leotard.
0:35:23 > 0:35:26I was like "Is there anything else to go with it?"
0:35:26 > 0:35:29And they said "Oh, yeah, here's some leg warmers."
0:35:29 > 0:35:31Brilliant.
0:35:31 > 0:35:35They've got the neon colours on, they've got the leg warmers on the go.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37They've got the really high-cut leotards.
0:35:40 > 0:35:43There was some serious waxing in that video.
0:35:43 > 0:35:47Those leotards were verging on indecent, I'd say.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49I'd say decent.
0:35:49 > 0:35:50I love that video.
0:35:50 > 0:35:53Most guys do love that video.
0:35:53 > 0:35:56That's what we want to see. Come on.
0:35:56 > 0:35:59They weren't wearing clothes. That's great!
0:35:59 > 0:36:02That's how I normally work out in the gym.
0:36:02 > 0:36:06I just do that. Yeah.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13That looks disgusting.
0:36:13 > 0:36:17I think the move that stands out the most in Call On Me
0:36:17 > 0:36:19is obviously the pelvic thrust.
0:36:19 > 0:36:26So what you need to do for that, take the legs very wide, get down really low, and then just pelvic thrust!
0:36:26 > 0:36:30There's what I like to call the peeing dog, which is this one,
0:36:30 > 0:36:33where we do lots of leg-raises up here.
0:36:33 > 0:36:39This one here, which is actually very good for the butt. Squeezing in.
0:36:39 > 0:36:45I don't remember the dance routine so much as the bottom of the woman doing the dance routine.
0:36:45 > 0:36:52If you want someone to look at your dance routine, then don't wear a G-string leotard.
0:36:54 > 0:36:59Technically, Call On Me didn't spawn a dance craze, which is why I demanded it be disqualified.
0:36:59 > 0:37:01But millions of men admired the "choreography"
0:37:01 > 0:37:09online, and Tony Blair said it made him fall off his rowing machine, so I allowed it to be reinstated.
0:37:11 > 0:37:16That bloke has clearly discovered the best gym in the world, and he's not letting on to his mates.
0:37:16 > 0:37:18He can't believe his luck.
0:37:18 > 0:37:23He gets his little running shorts on every week, gets in there and he's like "They're still all here!"
0:37:23 > 0:37:27He enjoyed it, that's for sure, and I think there were a lot of men out there that were quite envious.
0:37:27 > 0:37:33I'm surprised he didn't have to have sturdier shorts in the situation he was in.
0:37:33 > 0:37:38I think it made a lot of 14-year-old boys extremely happy.
0:37:39 > 0:37:43I was 15. I had a tape, and I recorded it on it.
0:37:43 > 0:37:48And so my mum wouldn't know, I put that it had The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air on it.
0:37:48 > 0:37:51- Oh, dear.- Ooh!
0:37:56 > 0:38:00Gently! Gently! Slow.
0:38:00 > 0:38:02OK, right.
0:38:02 > 0:38:06Hi, guys. As you can see, I've been skateboarding my whole life.
0:38:06 > 0:38:09So it'll come as no surprise to you...
0:38:09 > 0:38:14that I'm actually an expert in the next dance craze, breakdancing.
0:38:14 > 0:38:20I'd perform a bit for you now, but it'd probably blow your minds, so the BBC has asked me not to.
0:38:20 > 0:38:26Here's our number 36, Jason Nevins vs Run DMC, It's Like That.
0:38:31 > 0:38:35And it goes a little something like this.
0:38:35 > 0:38:37I've always wanted to be able to breakdance,
0:38:37 > 0:38:40cos I grew up in the '80s and there were loads of kids
0:38:40 > 0:38:45with lino, and going out with their ghetto blasters and everything.
0:38:48 > 0:38:52Run DMC, that video was so cool.
0:38:52 > 0:38:56- Everyone in it was amazing at breaking and dancing. It was all very...- Yeah.
0:38:56 > 0:39:00..in your face.
0:39:00 > 0:39:03When that song came out, it was like "Whoa, there are some serious moves
0:39:03 > 0:39:07"that we are not knowing about that we need to know about."
0:39:09 > 0:39:13In 1998, New York DJ Jason Nevins remixed this vintage Run DMC tune.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16It's Like That was huge.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19Number one in over 30 countries, with almost 5 million copies sold.
0:39:19 > 0:39:24The video showed b-boys battling b-girls, and introduced
0:39:24 > 0:39:30a new generation to the dance-off and classic '80s breaking moves.
0:39:30 > 0:39:35A breakdance battle was all about two crews battling each other with moves to see who's got
0:39:35 > 0:39:40supremacy within style and moves, so you've got different aspects.
0:39:40 > 0:39:44You've got power, which is the head-spins, the flares and all that stuff.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47You've got style, which is more the top-rocking.
0:39:47 > 0:39:51And you've got footwork itself. So it's Kool And The Gang.
0:39:53 > 0:39:56When they're battling, a lot of it's freestyle.
0:39:56 > 0:39:59So it's all off the top of your head, just going with the song.
0:39:59 > 0:40:02So everything you're doing is just like...
0:40:05 > 0:40:08OK, we're going to take it down and do some b-boy styles. Let's go.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25That's my boy.
0:40:28 > 0:40:33For me, it was all about that dude with the crazy, curly hair.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36It was just such a weird style.
0:40:36 > 0:40:38His top-rocking was just, like, shaking his head.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43There was someone in it that looked like me,
0:40:43 > 0:40:46had hair like me.
0:40:46 > 0:40:49He did have my hair. I think I told a few people I was in that video. It was a lie.
0:40:49 > 0:40:51How would that even work?!
0:40:54 > 0:40:58Breakdancing is perhaps the least accessible dance craze
0:40:58 > 0:41:02on this countdown. Only people like me with real skills can pull off these moves.
0:41:02 > 0:41:05But there are many who have tried and bear the scars to this day.
0:41:08 > 0:41:13When Run DMC comes on, I think a lot of men think they can breakdance, and they will give it a go.
0:41:13 > 0:41:20We've had people try to do the caterpillar and open their chin up, so there's just claret everywhere.
0:41:22 > 0:41:27It's hilarious, because when that song comes on, a circle immediately develops, and nobody knows why.
0:41:27 > 0:41:30It's just a thing that happens.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33And for the first two minutes, no-one gets in the middle. Everyone's like...
0:41:33 > 0:41:37"You do it, you do it!"
0:41:37 > 0:41:42You'll get five or six drunken men that can't breakdance.
0:41:42 > 0:41:45I used to just do a roly-poly.
0:41:45 > 0:41:50But as soon as you did a roly-poly, as long as you looked confident, I'd do a roly-poly and go...
0:41:50 > 0:41:52and people would cheer.
0:41:58 > 0:42:02When pop stars have children, they dream of making music for grown-ups.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05But when pop stars are grown-ups, it seems they dream of making music
0:42:05 > 0:42:09for children, which explains why they give themselves baby names
0:42:09 > 0:42:11like Dappy and Biffy and Gaga.
0:42:11 > 0:42:15The dance craze at number 35 in our chart is definitely one for the under-fives.
0:42:15 > 0:42:19It's the Kings In Da Ghetto, proving that the UK urban music
0:42:19 > 0:42:26scene isn't too cool to embrace a primary school jig, with their take on Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes.
0:42:26 > 0:42:30Personally, I prefer The Wheels On The Bus Go Round And Round by the Wu-Tang Clan.
0:42:32 > 0:42:35A brand new dance is sweeping the nation.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37Ladies, let me see you go down low.
0:42:41 > 0:42:47If someone said to you "They've put Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes into a song", you'd probably go "Really?"
0:42:47 > 0:42:52# Head and shoulders, knees and toes knees and toes... #
0:42:52 > 0:42:58But until you actually hear it and the fact that it's on a grime tune, it's cool.
0:42:59 > 0:43:02# Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes... #
0:43:02 > 0:43:04But our one is better.
0:43:06 > 0:43:09These enterprising lads made their very own video that they posted online,
0:43:09 > 0:43:12and their amateur efforts became a surprise hit.
0:43:12 > 0:43:14I made the video.
0:43:14 > 0:43:18- Well, we all made the video, but I mean that...- He was the cameraman.
0:43:18 > 0:43:24I was the main guy, walking round and asking anybody "Can you do Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes, please?"
0:43:24 > 0:43:29You're just seeing normal people on the road doing Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes.
0:43:29 > 0:43:32And the whole point it is to embarrass yourself.
0:43:32 > 0:43:37- The more you embarrass yourself, the better it looks.- It's not very hard to know that dance, is it?
0:43:37 > 0:43:40Head, shoulders, knees... but they did it in a cool way.
0:43:40 > 0:43:41Head, shoulders, knees and toes.
0:43:43 > 0:43:44When that first dropped
0:43:44 > 0:43:47on 1Xtra, I couldn't quite believe my ears
0:43:47 > 0:43:50and I was like, "Is it that simple?
0:43:50 > 0:43:53"We've literally got to do Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes?" Amazing.
0:43:53 > 0:43:59We've all got our own versions, like he does it in a specific, like...
0:43:59 > 0:44:04- The bestest. - Basically he's the Mr Motivator of Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes.
0:44:04 > 0:44:06Minus the spandex.
0:44:07 > 0:44:12- He does it the most stiff. - He's the stiff one!
0:44:12 > 0:44:17And then I do it for the basics, for the people that just can't get down to their toes.
0:44:17 > 0:44:19# Let me see you go down low... #
0:44:20 > 0:44:23He keeps going "Ladies, let me see you get down low,
0:44:23 > 0:44:24"ladies, let me see you get down low"
0:44:24 > 0:44:26and you think, "They can't get any lower."
0:44:28 > 0:44:31It doesn't matter if you're at the bar, sitting down,
0:44:31 > 0:44:34you're going to come to the dance floor and everyone does it.
0:44:34 > 0:44:39It looks wicked when you see like 3,000 people all doing the dance at the same time.
0:44:39 > 0:44:43I went to Ayia Napa last year and Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes was the one, literally
0:44:43 > 0:44:48when you see everyone do it in unison, you forget that it was ever a ridiculous kiddie tune.
0:44:48 > 0:44:51- # Ladies, you gotta wind down low. # - That was the news.
0:44:51 > 0:44:53Good night.
0:44:57 > 0:45:01At number 34, it's Rock Your Body by Justin Timberlake.
0:45:01 > 0:45:03Of course, some people call him Justin Trousersnake
0:45:03 > 0:45:06because of his penchant for storing a cobra in his pants.
0:45:06 > 0:45:09# Dance with me I wanna rock your body... #
0:45:09 > 0:45:12It was only in 2007, when the cobra laid its eggs resulting
0:45:12 > 0:45:17in over 400 horrific bites, that Justin was persuaded to release the snakes back into the wild.
0:45:17 > 0:45:19# Got time, but I don't mind
0:45:19 > 0:45:21# Just want to rock you, girl... #
0:45:21 > 0:45:25White boys aren't supposed to be able to dance like that.
0:45:25 > 0:45:28Hello! He was amazing.
0:45:28 > 0:45:31I think Justin Timberlake is one of the best dancers around.
0:45:31 > 0:45:39He's got that whole kind of mmm vibe, like the crotch, mmm, yeyah.
0:45:40 > 0:45:44If you look at what Justin Timberlake did in Rock Your Body, it's the minimal movements,
0:45:44 > 0:45:46but executed right on the money.
0:45:46 > 0:45:48# Don't be so quick to walk away... #
0:45:48 > 0:45:50Justin Timberlake, I think,
0:45:50 > 0:45:56was completely influenced by Michael Jackson, but he does it in his own way which is really cool and sexy.
0:45:56 > 0:45:59It is sexy. It is sexy.
0:45:59 > 0:46:03You can see he's been influenced by Michael Jackson, you can feel that,
0:46:03 > 0:46:04but he was just...
0:46:04 > 0:46:07There was a freedom, he was really cool.
0:46:07 > 0:46:11What it is about Justin Timberlake's dance is his swagger.
0:46:11 > 0:46:12He's very effortless.
0:46:12 > 0:46:17He uses his clothes a lot, you can tell he feels very sexy about himself.
0:46:17 > 0:46:19He is sexy, he is sexy.
0:46:19 > 0:46:21I loved that. I fell in love with that video. I was like,
0:46:21 > 0:46:24"Mmm, maybe I want to get back in the dance studio."
0:46:24 > 0:46:26# Just something about you. #
0:46:26 > 0:46:29And it wasn't just Bradley who was inspired to dance like him.
0:46:29 > 0:46:31Justin's debut solo album, Justified,
0:46:31 > 0:46:35sold seven million copies and critics called him the sexiest man in music.
0:46:35 > 0:46:38Sexier even than the stunning Mick Hucknall.
0:46:38 > 0:46:41# I kind of noticed something one night
0:46:41 > 0:46:45# In your colourful face... #
0:46:45 > 0:46:50Most boys wanted to dance like Justin and if they said they didn't,
0:46:50 > 0:46:55they did secretly and all girls wanted to bed him openly, end of story, full stop, exclamation mark.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58# Ain't nobody love you like I love you... #
0:46:58 > 0:47:03He's a little bit of a flirt and I think the girls like that,
0:47:03 > 0:47:06you know, and he plays off of it and that's in his music.
0:47:06 > 0:47:10It takes the stigma away from guys dancing, doesn't it?
0:47:10 > 0:47:13They need to learn some moves to impress the ladies.
0:47:13 > 0:47:18Justin Timberlake brought about for the ordinary bloke a huge, big problem.
0:47:18 > 0:47:23I think women wanted their blokes to dance like him
0:47:23 > 0:47:26and that, of course, takes an enormous amount of ability
0:47:26 > 0:47:29and talent because he's a complete natural.
0:47:29 > 0:47:33Although it didn't stop a lot of guys trying, that's for sure!
0:47:33 > 0:47:35# Sing this song with me... #
0:47:35 > 0:47:42When it comes on in a club, everyone thinks that they can dance so everyone's like "Justin Timberlake!"
0:47:42 > 0:47:46It gets all serious and everyone puts their dance face on.
0:47:46 > 0:47:50As long as you dance sexy, I think you've done the Justin Timberlake.
0:47:53 > 0:47:57It's easy to forget that national sweetheart, Cheryl Cole was once
0:47:57 > 0:48:01convicted of assault after thwacking a loo attendant in the face.
0:48:01 > 0:48:05But not that easy, not when Cheryl herself insists on reminding us
0:48:05 > 0:48:09of her rampant thumpiness with angry songs like Fight For This Love.
0:48:09 > 0:48:14This song has a dance routine that Bruce Lee would've been proud of, featuring as it does
0:48:14 > 0:48:19Cheryl thrashing around with her fists as if in a futile attempt to deck her wardrobe assistant.
0:48:23 > 0:48:26# Too much of anything can make you sick
0:48:26 > 0:48:31# Even the good can be a curse curse... #
0:48:31 > 0:48:33Fight For This Love - great track. It had a lot
0:48:33 > 0:48:36of meaning behind it if you looked at all of the tabloid fodder.
0:48:36 > 0:48:40For her, as a woman, she's just saying, you can go through so many
0:48:40 > 0:48:43ups and downs in a relationship,
0:48:43 > 0:48:47but if it's right, you'll fight till the end, basically.
0:48:47 > 0:48:49# Anything that's worth having
0:48:49 > 0:48:53# Is sure enough worth fighting for... #
0:48:53 > 0:48:58Whilst our Chezza's fight for her love with her hubby, Ashley, would eventually end in the divorce court,
0:48:58 > 0:49:01her debut solo single was a global smash.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06There were a few iconic moves in there, the whole hand-wafting move
0:49:06 > 0:49:10and some old moves like this.
0:49:10 > 0:49:11It was a great routine.
0:49:11 > 0:49:13# Fight for this love
0:49:13 > 0:49:16# If it's worth having it's worth fighting for... #
0:49:16 > 0:49:17The three key moves
0:49:17 > 0:49:19are the Cheryl chop
0:49:19 > 0:49:22which is all this business.
0:49:22 > 0:49:24The shoulder pop.
0:49:26 > 0:49:30Which doesn't look impressive unless you've got other people doing it behind you.
0:49:32 > 0:49:35And the drop and roll.
0:49:35 > 0:49:37Which is...
0:49:37 > 0:49:40seemingly quite important, get the knees up.
0:49:41 > 0:49:44# Anything that's worth having... #
0:49:44 > 0:49:48You are now officially fighting for this love.
0:49:48 > 0:49:49# We gotta fight... #
0:49:49 > 0:49:52The video was as much about Cheryl's look as the moves,
0:49:52 > 0:49:55not ideal if you happen to listen to the song on the radio.
0:49:55 > 0:50:00Her look was all about those leather trousers.
0:50:00 > 0:50:03Red military with spray-on legs, you know.
0:50:05 > 0:50:09She alternated between being in the army and wearing her pyjamas, didn't she?
0:50:09 > 0:50:14She had MC Hammer pyjamas on for some of it and then in other bits
0:50:14 > 0:50:20she looked like a majorette who'd spent half the day waist-deep in a pond, didn't she?
0:50:20 > 0:50:26But however fabulous, she was about to be outdone by, of all people, Rufus Hound.
0:50:26 > 0:50:31- For Sport Relief, performing - and I'm not making this up... - You couldn't.
0:50:31 > 0:50:35..Cheryl Cole's Fight For This Love, it's Rufus Hound.
0:50:35 > 0:50:37CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:50:41 > 0:50:44The whole of Fight For This Love is about jerky movements
0:50:44 > 0:50:48and moving your body in a way that, naturally, nobody's body moves.
0:50:48 > 0:50:52By the time I was actually on stage doing it, I was just rattling
0:50:52 > 0:50:59with ibuprofen, I'd had to go to an osteopath, my whole spine and legs are not used to moving in the way
0:50:59 > 0:51:01that they're forced to move.
0:51:01 > 0:51:03# Anything that's worth having
0:51:03 > 0:51:07# Is sure enough worth fighting for... #
0:51:08 > 0:51:13By the time I was doing it, she was in the papers with her and Ashley calling it a day.
0:51:15 > 0:51:19I didn't want "Here's you going through a divorce and ha, ha, ha,
0:51:19 > 0:51:22"here's me laughing at your greatest achievement, boo you!"
0:51:22 > 0:51:25So when I met her and she said it really cheered her up,
0:51:25 > 0:51:27that was a very nice feather in the cap.
0:51:27 > 0:51:30# If it's worth having it's worth fighting for... #
0:51:30 > 0:51:34Although she did talk to me like I'd won the X Factor.
0:51:34 > 0:51:40It wasn't like "Hey, we both work in the entertainment business, I enjoyed the dance, well played."
0:51:40 > 0:51:46She just went, "I thought you did very well, I think you've really showed there what you could do."
0:51:46 > 0:51:52That would make such a great recruitment video for the Salvation Army.
0:51:53 > 0:51:56# Ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen... #
0:51:58 > 0:52:00And number 32
0:52:00 > 0:52:03in our top 50 countdown of pop's greatest dance crazes,
0:52:03 > 0:52:08we have Ciara and Missy Elliott with a song called One, Two, Step.
0:52:08 > 0:52:09# This beat is... #
0:52:09 > 0:52:13Which doubles as an educational song for children unable to count to two
0:52:13 > 0:52:17and a motivational mantra for people frightened of walking up stairs.
0:52:19 > 0:52:24Ciara is just totally hot and can dance her head off.
0:52:24 > 0:52:26Now, that, I'd like to see.
0:52:26 > 0:52:29Ciara's One, Two, Step dance is a very old-school dance that was done
0:52:29 > 0:52:33back in the day of disco and she took it and revamped it.
0:52:33 > 0:52:37# You got to get it on Let me see you one, two, step... #
0:52:37 > 0:52:40One, Two, Step, it tells you exactly what to do,
0:52:40 > 0:52:45Ciara was quite a new artist at the time, everyone was like, "Wow, this girl can move it!"
0:52:45 > 0:52:48She seems to be able to bend all sorts of ways, doesn't she, Ciara?
0:52:48 > 0:52:50She's unbreakable, that one.
0:52:50 > 0:52:57Ciara can do from sexy to really hardcore ghetto South Central choreography.
0:52:57 > 0:53:01I remember in the nightclub whenever that song came on,
0:53:01 > 0:53:04more people would do the stumbling legs...
0:53:04 > 0:53:06..than the one, two, step.
0:53:06 > 0:53:09Those wobbly legs, that's called the Crip Walk.
0:53:09 > 0:53:11In America, they have the Bloods and the Crips.
0:53:11 > 0:53:17They were big gangs, and the Crips as a gang sign, they would do this dance, it's a Crip Walk.
0:53:17 > 0:53:19It's hard to do, but you would catch me
0:53:19 > 0:53:22in the clubs doing that and doing the little one, two, step.
0:53:24 > 0:53:27# Crank back three times from left to right... #
0:53:30 > 0:53:32# Soulja Boy off in it... #
0:53:32 > 0:53:34At number 31 in Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes,
0:53:34 > 0:53:38it's Soulja Boy who is A, not a soldier and B, no longer a boy.
0:53:38 > 0:53:43But what he lacks in basic honesty, he more than makes up for in sweet, sweet moves.
0:53:43 > 0:53:46# Soulja Boy, off in it... #
0:53:46 > 0:53:49That was the twist of the 2000s.
0:53:49 > 0:53:55It's probably the biggest dance craze of my era, actually, of my generation.
0:53:55 > 0:54:00The first time I heard it, I was like, "OK, now I need to learn this dance." I was on YouTube trying
0:54:00 > 0:54:05to learn it before anyone else and do it all just as good Soulja Boy did.
0:54:07 > 0:54:14This dance for Soulja Boy's 2007 hit Crank That might look good, but it's not appropriate in cramped spaces.
0:54:14 > 0:54:19Try doing this in the middle of a crowded dance floor and someone will lamp you, and quite right too.
0:54:19 > 0:54:23Soulja Boy, don't bang into people, yeah? So it goes...
0:54:27 > 0:54:32I think you've got to jump side to side.
0:54:32 > 0:54:35Everyone feels silly doing it, do it like you don't care.
0:54:35 > 0:54:39It gets a bit crazy, that one as well because people, they decide
0:54:39 > 0:54:42it's all about who travels the furthest on the whoo...
0:54:42 > 0:54:47so everyone is hopping... about ten metres on the whoo.
0:54:47 > 0:54:48Whoo!
0:54:48 > 0:54:50# He wind me, whoo... #
0:54:50 > 0:54:53# Superman that! #
0:54:54 > 0:54:57Cos I mean, come on, how cool is that?
0:54:57 > 0:54:59If it sounds like it was
0:54:59 > 0:55:04written using a Casio toy keyboard, that's because it was, kind of.
0:55:04 > 0:55:07The DIY track was made in his dad's recording studio and released on the internet
0:55:07 > 0:55:11with a video demonstrating the now-famous dance.
0:55:11 > 0:55:15When I heard the song, I was like, "Really?" It sounded like one of those bad demos.
0:55:15 > 0:55:19These days, you can go and make your own music, it's as simple as that,
0:55:19 > 0:55:22I know 13-year-olds that actually make their own music.
0:55:22 > 0:55:28He produced it, wrote it, made his own dance,
0:55:28 > 0:55:30got all the money!
0:55:32 > 0:55:34- The song wasn't all that.- It's true.
0:55:34 > 0:55:37# Soulja Boy... # Actually it is really good.
0:55:37 > 0:55:39- It's brilliant, I love that song. - I do like it.
0:55:39 > 0:55:45Soulja Boy holds the record as the youngest person to write, perform and produce a US number-one hit.
0:55:45 > 0:55:48But when we found out what young Soulja Boy
0:55:48 > 0:55:52was actually rapping about, we were less keen on kids doing his dance.
0:55:52 > 0:55:54That's a really dirty one, isn't it?
0:55:54 > 0:55:57I think it's meant to be...
0:55:57 > 0:56:00What he's saying is quite rude, but we won't go into that.
0:56:00 > 0:56:01Because it's very vulgar.
0:56:01 > 0:56:07So it's, "Oi, what you doing, stop singing that song. Soulja Boy, you should be ashamed of yourself."
0:56:14 > 0:56:16So that's your lot.
0:56:16 > 0:56:19If, like me, you spent the whole show dancing along
0:56:19 > 0:56:21to each and every song, then like me,
0:56:21 > 0:56:24you probably stink. Take a shower.
0:56:24 > 0:56:26Seriously, have a shower now.
0:56:27 > 0:56:30Goodbye!
0:56:30 > 0:56:32# Move it! I like to move it move it
0:56:32 > 0:56:34# I like to move it, move it
0:56:34 > 0:56:36# I like to move it, move it
0:56:36 > 0:56:38# You like to...move it
0:56:38 > 0:56:39# I like to move it, move it
0:56:39 > 0:56:41# I like to move it, move it
0:56:41 > 0:56:43# I like to move it, move it
0:56:43 > 0:56:45# You like to...move it
0:56:45 > 0:56:47# I like to move it, move it
0:56:47 > 0:56:49# I like to move it, move it
0:56:49 > 0:56:53# I like to move it, move it You like to...move it. #
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