Episode 1 Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes


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Dancing is super-fun. It's a form of expression and it's cool.

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Oh, I know this song. Let's do the routine to it! It brings everyone together. It's great.

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Having a dance craze gives us that chance to do something all together and all feel like we're one animal.

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There's been so many great dance crazes, and I've partaken in most of them.

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It's fun, it's something that everyone can do.

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Oh, it's camp as Christmas.

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You can just do you thing, you know what I'm saying?

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Dance is a way to free the soul and ease the mind.

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The moment these songs start, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

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Better to slap on a smile and get stuck in, I reckon.

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Hello. I'm TV's Robert Webb - actor, writer, and as I'm going to reminding you hundreds of times

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over the course of the next hour, a highly accomplished dancer.

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It's a combination of skills that makes me the perfect...ly adequate choice

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to host Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes, a countdown of the songs that have

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got you bopping like idiots at office parties, wedding discos, or alone in your front room, drunk.

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But who decides which dance crazes are best? Some know-it-all panel of so-called experts? Yes, actually.

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And together, these specialists and BBC3 viewers have picked out the hippest, the sexiest, the quirkiest

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and, let's be honest, the gayest dance crazes from over the last 40 years.

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So finish your drink, kick off your shoes and join me

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on a journey towards the craziest of all pop's great dance crazes.

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Hit it.

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Five, four, three, two, one.

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The dance routine from Rhythm Nation, for me, was life-changing.

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Oh, it would just sort of make me feel so excited to watch that dance.

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The noise of it was just great.

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You know, all of them together, it was just such an amazing video, so striking.

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# With music by our side To break the colour lines... #

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The dance routine for Rhythm Nation was very...

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intricate. It was very different for that time.

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The discipline in that video is incredible.

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They move in one wave and one formation together.

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# We are a part of the Rhythm Nation. #

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I suppose she's singing about being part of a Rhythm Nation, a nation

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entirely founded on the rules of dance.

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But, you know, even the rules of dance has to be strictly enforced

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if you're going to dance in time with one another to that extent.

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Taking a leaf out of her brother's book, the song's message is one of peace and racial harmony.

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So, naturally, it features military uniforms and nunchucks.

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That was me.

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I was the dancer using the nunchucks, yes.

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I just felt that it fit the video. It was my version of this military vibe.

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You know, you need an element of menace.

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Even in the world of dance, power can corrupt.

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Maybe that's the message.

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It was very robotic and accurate,

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and it's the first time we saw her do a little pop-and-lock.

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Ooh, technical.

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It's very important that your fingers stay together, your elbows stay in, and then we hit -

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sharp, sharp, sharp.

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# Sing it if you want a better way of life. #

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I think it's a wonderful craze,

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but I think it's a really difficult one to sort of start up

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and bring onto a dance floor.

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I think, by yourself, you'd suddenly just be coming into

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a bit of a military, you know, and bang, bang, bang, you know,

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and arms sort of giving it large.

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It's not the most intimate of dances, let's just say that.

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At 49, the Spice Girls, the group who tapped into the mid-'90s ladette phenomenon.

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When they sang Spice Up Your Life, it wasn't the plea for women to become independent,

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it was just telling them to go for a vindaloo after a skinful of lager.

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Girl power.

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Wooo!

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-Girl power!

-They were just huge. They were like a force.

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# When you're feeling sad and low... #

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It was five young, loud, in-your-face girls

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thinking they were going to change the world, and they did at one time.

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They did actually change the world, and the world was at their feet.

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A lot of people were copying just the way they acted,

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and little girls wanted to be Sporty,

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or little girls wanted to be Baby Spice.

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# Slam it to the left If you're having a good time... #

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A generation of young girls spiced up their lives and learnt some funky new dance moves.

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It was important for us when we were doing our choreography.

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We wanted to keep the dance routines quite simple, because we wanted people to be able

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to copy them and to do them along with us at home and stuff.

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First of all, some classic Spice Girls moves. One, two, cha cha cha.

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Two, two, cha cha cha. OK, got that?

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Then you can add the arms, you can freestyle a little bit.

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Cha cha cha,

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and then let out the song. Are you ready?

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# La-la-la, la-la-la la-la-la

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# La-la-la, la-la-la-la. #

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A little bit like that.

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# Spice up your life! Aaah!

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# Slam it to the left If you're having a good time... #

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Slam it to the left and shake it to the right.

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I was shaking it everywhere from Europe to New York.

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You couldn't stop me.

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# Yo! I'll tell you what I want... #

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Each Spice Girl had her own unique persona, which gave them highly individual dancing styles.

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Who can forget Scary, Sporty and Arthritic!

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# I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really really, really wanna zigazig-a. #

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Loads of people think that we had our Spice names

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and we lived up to that, but what really happened was

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we'd just presented ourselves as the individuals that we were

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and we were named by Top Of The Pops magazine, and those names just stuck.

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# Make it last forever Friendship never ends. #

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With those characters that they created came their own specific dance. That was really clever.

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# That's the way it is. #

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Victoria's, of course, is the point and pout.

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Posh Spice would always do stuff like that and look away.

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Victoria Beckham was famous for not really dancing at all.

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She'd just point at things, presumably at things that

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she was later just going to get David Beckham to buy her.

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Scary Spice was just - rrarrgh! Very animalistic.

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She growled, she always screamed at the camera.

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She did the high kicks and stuff like that.

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Emma had lots of very cutesy maybe like little shushes.

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Emma was a good dancer.

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She really knew how to get down.

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Geri's, of course, was the peace sign which we all adopted.

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Geri had no rhythm, couldn't put one foot in front of the other.

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It was a little bit unfair, because four of us girls had had dance training and Geri hadn't,

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so we used to do a bit of extra rehearsing, myself and Geri.

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Sporty Spice's signature moves - well, of course, who can forget the back-flip,

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performed a few times on tables.

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Wide stance, point up to the sky - that was a bit of a Sporty.

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The punch, that's a bit of a Sporty and then the signature kick, yeah!

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I've still got it!

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# You have got to give. #

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They all had their own little moves, you know, then they'd all come

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together with something easy, that I think teenagers could pick up on.

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# You gotta, you gotta you gotta... #

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We've worked with some of the world's best choreographers and we always have had these really

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difficult routines, but we just make them easier!

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We learn them and just go, "Can we just make it a bit easier? Because our fans,

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"we need to make it easy for our fans," but it was just because we were lazy!

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You can't sing and do all that, that's why everyone mimes.

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# If you wanna be my lover. #

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# When the sun shines we'll shine together

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# Told you I'll be here forever

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# Said I'll always be your friend... #

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Let's not beat around the bush.

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Our next dance craze is raunchy.

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Gene Kelly used to sing in the rain, Rihanna just strips semi-naked

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in the stuff and turns the sexy dial up to 11.

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# Umbrella You can stand under my umbrella

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# Ella ella, ay, ay, ay... #

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I like the way she's doing the Fred Astaire thing with the umbrella.

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She's using it as a prop.

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I want to be that umbrella.

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# Ella ella, ay ay ay... #

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You don't have an umbrella in the club, so you have to simulate one.

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You do the whole umbrella on the shoulder, the walk,

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put the umbrella out to there, the umbrella out to there.

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You could do whatever you want with your imaginary umbrella.

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# Because when the sun shines we'll shine together... #

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All my umbrellas at home are now called Rihannas!

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# Always be your friend

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# Took an oath I'ma stick it out to the end... #

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Our next entry is Common People by Pulp,

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a band whose lead singer Jarvis Cocker concocted choreography for...

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Hang on, I think I just made up a tongue twister.

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Cocker concocted choreography. Cocker concocted choreography.

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Cocker concocted choreography. Sorry, got a bit carried away there.

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Anyway, Clocker flonkocted choreog...ty for this song on the day of the shoot itself.

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# If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah

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# You'll never live like common people

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# You'll never do whatever common people do... #

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The first time I had seen Jarvis, I thought he was like

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a really animated pipe cleaner.

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King of the geeks!

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He dances so brilliantly, but it's all just little flicks,

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a little flick here and a move there.

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But a few nifty little moves, a vintage suit

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and some oversized bins, Jarvis made disco-dancing look cool again.

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I made up a dance for the video of Common People...

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..which I'll show it to you if you like.

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# Sing along with the common people... #

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Sing along and it might just get you...through,

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because that's like you moving through double doors or something.

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# Laughing at you... #

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And the stupid things that you do - I don't know why we've got the windscreen wiper.

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Because you think that poor is cool -

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I think that's supposed to be a cool pose.

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# I wanna live with common people like you... #

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I made that one up on the day and managed to teach a few of the other extras in the video it.

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You get the kind of vague idea.

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# You better to live like common people

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# You better do whatever common people do... #

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The dance that they did, you enjoyed seeing it,

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but it wasn't one that you copied when you were dancing to it,

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because you just got so into the actual song.

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# And dance and drink and screw... #

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I think the indie kids understood

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that that dance was meant ironically,

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and therefore, to actually turn up and do that dance

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would have meant that you didn't get the joke.

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We had this bee in our bonnet about being a pop band and we thought,

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this song has got some, whatever, socio-political relevance or whatever,

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but still, it wouldn't hurt to have a dance routine that went with it.

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I think you can have both things. I like the high concept and the low concept...

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So I was very pleased that we had a little dance.

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Our next entry features some mummified dancers doing this.

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-Can I stop doing this now?

-No!

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It's 1997's Around the World by French duo Daft Punk,

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or to translate that name into French - Daft Punk.

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It seems silly.

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I'm stopping.

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Daft Punk Around the World

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is like a weird, modern

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music box - you open up the lid and like,

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"What the hell is going in here?"

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It's the most bizarre video in the world.

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Visually, it was amazing.

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It was so simple, yet there was a lot going on.

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Top pop video director Michel Gondry's vision

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was to make each of the dancers represent the instruments.

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It brought us some crazy choreography.

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So, the synchronised swimmers are the high-pitched keyboard synth.

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It's art, go with it.

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What you're watching is the human representation of what Daft Punk have created digitally.

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It's an incredibly clever idea.

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The tall B-boys symbolise the ascending and descending bass guitar.

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The mummies are dancing in time with the song's drumbeat.

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The itchy skeletons are the guitars.

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And the astronauts represent the robot voice

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repeating that one famous vocal over and over and over again.

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# Around the world Around the world... #

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I used to be able to do the skeleton dance.

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My favourite thing is the random spacemen

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who just walk around, and when they get to the front, they get confused.

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One of them turns back on himself and he goes, "No, keep going forwards."

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It's a really nice little ripple of that happening, and you think it's gone wrong, but it hasn't.

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Daft Punk brought robotics back - thanks Daft Punk!

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Robo-dance was popular in the '80s, back when a home computer was a Sinclair ZX80 or a Commodore 64.

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But if the robotic dancers really wanted to mimic computers,

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they should have moved like they were about to print a spreadsheet

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before freezing until they're put to sleep.

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I think the robot is up there with the greatest dance crazes.

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At the point the robot was revealed to the world,

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I don't know a single human being who didn't then give it a go.

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# Oh, Mickey, you're so fine

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# You're so fine, you blow my mind Hey, Mickey! #

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I love a cheerleader, don't you?

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At 45 in our top 50 countdown is Mickey by Toni Basil.

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She was a lady, by the way. Toni, that is, not Mickey.

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# Oh, Mickey, you're so fine

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# You're so fine, you blow my mind Hey, Mickey!

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# Hey, Mickey! #

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# Oh, Mickey, you're so fine You're so fine, you blow my mind

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# Hey, Mickey! Hey, Mickey! #

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Oh, I loved that, she had a ra-ra on and pom-poms.

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Used to fall into splits at the end, of course. Mickey Basil.

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Toni Basil, even. Whatever.

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I wasn't he interested in her name, just in her skirt!

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Toni Basil was choreographer to the stars before she donned her old

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high-school cheerleader outfit and topped the charts in 1982 with this high-octane ditty.

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# You've been around all night and that's a little long... #

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When you think of Hey, Mickey, you think of high energy

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and you think of a cheerleader and you think of Toni just looking hot.

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I was on the floor with pom-poms and mini-skirts. Of course I did! That's a stupid question.

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Pardon me for asking!

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Being a cheerleader isn't easy - have you seen those American

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cheerleaders and what they do? It's an art form.

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# Oh, what you do, Mickey Do, Mickey

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# Don't break my heart, Mickey! #

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# Doo-doo-doo... #

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It's actually quite a butch song, it's not the most feminine dance.

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It's really - grrrrr!

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# Oh, Mickey, what a pity you don't understand... #

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She looks deranged throughout the dance.

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"Oh, Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind, hey, Mickey!"

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The main bit to remember was the, that bit,

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very, very, very sharp jerky movement like that.

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Roll your wrist and you point at whoever you want to go home with -

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it's true. It's such a macho dance!

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Toni doesn't mind a bit of butch. Just take a look at the cheerleaders in her video.

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I think a couple of her dancers are really quite hefty young women.

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But actually she used a couple of men and dressed them up in cheerleading outfits because of all the lifting.

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I didn't realise that then, maybe that's why I thought they were cute.

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I thought there was something wrong. It answers a lot of questions now.

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Actually, Louie, it doesn't.

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That's, in fact, an urban myth.

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The dancers you're drooling over were real cheerleaders from Carson High, California.

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Many of the dancers in our top 50 are about freedom and fun and having

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what I can only described as a gay old time, and that's fine.

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There's a place for that, but it's not now,

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because the only way one can successfully perform the dance

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to Fatboy Slim's Praise You is with the solemnity that it deserves. I thank you.

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# We've come a long, long way together

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# Through the hard times and the good... #

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Praise You was a guerrilla-style video

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featuring the Torrance Community Dance Troupe.

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This genuine-looking footage from 1999 sees them pitching up uninvited

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to perform some wacky dancing on the street outside an LA cinema.

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It is almost like a drama class. It isn't a dance, it's a drama class.

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But they're expressing themselves through movement.

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Whatever they're taking, can I have some?

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There's a routine of sorts, but it's a routine unlike

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anything that would come out of a professional dance studio!

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The video got everyone talking.

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Was it amateur footage?

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Who were these people?

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But those with too much time spotted Norman Cook peering into the camera

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which gave the game away. Turns out they were professional dancers and the stunt was

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the brainchild of troupe leader Spike Jonze - movie writer, promo director and co-creator of Jackass.

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We kind of did it like burglar-style

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so nobody knew that we were filming. Even the people in the theatre

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didn't know we were out there doing these crazy steps.

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I think it was the seriousness and how we played it

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which made it even funnier, because we weren't playing it for laughs.

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But you'd have to be pretty dumb to be taken in by this!

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When I watch that video, it was 100% real.

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They meant every moment of it, so that is genuine expression in that video.

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You know when something is being faked. They were definitely mental.

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I gave every step a funny name, so we would do, like,

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the broken pony.

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You're off to go into that broken pony land.

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The second step is called the bad fish

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because it's swimming in the wrong direction on the river.

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But then another current comes along and you're going the other way

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and you're a bad fishie and you're stuck in the current.

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As long as you danced weird, you suited that dance.

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Like mysterious.

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# Praise you like I should... #

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It's the sort of thing you can see yourself in your own front room,

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I do, anyway, just leaping around and

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doing all that and thinking you're burning off calories!

0:20:400:20:42

It really wasn't a hit at the discos, not at the time.

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I don't think if you're going to be in some disco, taking your date out,

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you would go into a broken pony or do the bad fish,

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it's just not becoming, it's not, style-wise, romantic.

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Number 43 in our dance crazes run-down comes from the Godfather of Soul, James Brown.

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When I reach my 70s, I plan to spend my time eating toffees,

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watching Homes Under The Hammer and pretending to be deaf.

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When James Brown reached his 70s, he was still spending

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his days wearing a jumpsuit and dancing around the stage like he was having some kind of fit.

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His passing in 2006 was mourned not just by his fans, but by the entire prosthetic hip industry.

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# Get up, get on up

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# Get up, get on up

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# Stay on the scene, get on up... #

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(IMITATES INTRO) That iconic bit,

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you hear that and you automatically know what time it is.

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# Stay on the scene, get on up... #

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Watching footage of James Brown is like watching someone possessed by

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this amazing, musical, rhythmic, passionate dancing spirit.

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I would describe James Brown as a firecracker.

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He's up there, he can be smooth,

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and you like that thing, and it just kind of goes crazy.

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I love James Brown.

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He was like one of those preacher dancers. He was like he was possessed by the Lord.

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I definitely think James Brown has inspired many performers.

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Michael Jackson, even Beyonce.

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People want this thing, you know?

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From his leg

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to his spin to when he sings, when he dances, ow!

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70-year-old James Brown - ow!

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Still dancing. I'm like "James Brown, calm down.

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"Calm down, James, because you might break a hip."

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Absolutely the originator of shaking his thang!

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Our next dance craze was spawned by Miley Cyrus's dad, of all people.

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Turns out he's actually a musician,

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and his 1992 track Achy Breaky Heart

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brought line dancing into the big time.

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The song was written by Don Von Tress, a man who, interestingly,

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shares his initials with the medical condition deep vein thrombosis.

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Yes, it's the dance sensation of the summer, the achy breaky!

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Billy Ray Cyrus, for me, is the worst of what America can offer us.

0:23:370:23:41

He's got his mullet on the go.

0:23:410:23:43

It's sort of like a perm and mullet convention in the video. Horrendous.

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But if you could master a grapevine and rock your hips three times,

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you could do the achy breaky, and the routine was most infectious. Not infectious in a good way.

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I mean infectious like conjunctivitis or scabies.

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God, it was catchy.

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You'd be in a club, and then people would start to hurriedly organise lines.

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It's like, "No, stop it."

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The shoulders are going, and all doing this sort of stuff.

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That was the mother of all dance crazes, the whole line dancing thing.

0:24:180:24:22

Somebody called it the Cyrus virus, and now everywhere I play, people show up with

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big posters and banners that say, "We've got the Cyrus virus."

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Billy Ray Cyrus inflicted upon the world an appreciation of line dancing

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-that, by rights, it should never have had.

-Thanks, Billy(!)

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Hi, guys. You can't smell me, but I absolutely stink.

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While I was lifting some really heavy weights, I looked around

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and saw a lot of people in pain and very few people having fun.

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And that's the way it should be when exercise is concerned.

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But try telling that to these crazy geniuses who are in at number 41.

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They won't listen.

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I'm joking!

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The speed and the slope of this treadmill can be varied

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to simulate the physical demands while walking or ascending gradients.

0:25:170:25:22

# It could be ten but then again... #

0:25:220:25:24

I don't know anybody who didn't see that video

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who watched the whole thing like this.

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# Throw on your clothes The second side of Surfer Rosa

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# And you leave me with my jaw on the floor... #

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These are the gymtastic moves for OK Go's Here It Goes Again,

0:25:390:25:43

better known as "the treadmill song".

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I think they did it in one take, which is pretty impressive.

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It only works because it's done in one take.

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These guys have to have rehearsed it so that you genuinely feel you're watching a spectacle.

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Feel free to try this at home...once you've bought eight treadmills.

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It's not really a dance you can do in a nightclub, like,

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"Hello, mate, you come in the nightclub."

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"Coat. Thank you very much."

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"What's this?" "It's a treadmill."

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"What are you doing with a treadmill?"

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"I'm hoping you're going to play that song."

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Just set up the treadmill.

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# Just when you think you've got a hold

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# Here it goes, here it goes Here it goes again... #

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Though the song isn't amazing, but once you've seen the video,

0:26:280:26:32

you've got the video in your head and therefore, the song's brilliant.

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# Here it goes again! #

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Whether you know him as Ricky, Rick, Richard or just plain Dick,

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chances are Ricky Martin is your

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favourite grinning Puerto Rican narcissist.

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Mine too, and this is his first English single, Livin' La Vida Loca,

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a Spanish phrase which roughly translates as "your grandmother smells of donkeys".

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I know, I was shocked and outraged too.

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# Like a bullet to your brain, come on! #

0:27:080:27:10

# Upside, inside out, your grandmother smells of donkeys! #

0:27:100:27:16

# She'll push and pull you down

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# Livin' la vida loca... #

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Let's just forget the fact that he's gorgeous and can shake his bon-bon

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like nobody else,

0:27:250:27:27

but he's got this captivating energy.

0:27:270:27:30

# Livin' la vida loca

0:27:300:27:33

# Livin' la vida loca... #

0:27:330:27:35

Ricky Martin has a great way

0:27:350:27:37

of working the camera, and he can do the smallest of dance moves

0:27:370:27:40

and it will be so effective.

0:27:400:27:42

When he's on stage, he has this fire.

0:27:420:27:44

It's just magnetic.

0:27:440:27:46

It gets everybody on their feet.

0:27:460:27:48

Ricky's Latin dance craze was Puerto Rico's biggest export since...well, ever. And no wonder.

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As you're about to see, La Vida Loca is the perfect way to seduce a woman, or repair a dislocated hip.

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Oh, yeah, we all love a bit of Latin, don't we?

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Especially cos the men wear very tight trousers

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and shake their bum a lot.

0:28:080:28:10

It's a bit of a loosey-goosey.

0:28:100:28:12

Shake. It was loosey.

0:28:120:28:15

The whole body shakes.

0:28:150:28:18

The butt shakes.

0:28:180:28:19

And the hands just flap around.

0:28:190:28:21

It just makes you want to leave your drink

0:28:210:28:24

and get up on the dance floor

0:28:240:28:27

and actually do something.

0:28:270:28:28

It's commercialised. It's dumbed down a bit.

0:28:280:28:31

It just makes it lighter, which is

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the best thing to do for Ricky, because then everyone can join in, so everyone will like it.

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Very clever, Ricky. Very clever.

0:28:370:28:39

At number 39, it's Don't Cha, or in English, "Don't you?"

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Originally performed by the super-sexy Pussycat Dolls, it's more commonly performed now

0:28:480:28:53

by the drunkest girl in whatever club you happen to be in.

0:28:530:28:56

Some people say that it's a basically unpleasant song which objectifies women.

0:28:560:29:00

But I'm prepared to overlook this, because the girls in it have such nice bottoms.

0:29:000:29:06

Come on, girls!

0:29:060:29:08

# Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me? #

0:29:100:29:17

Mmm. Don't Cha?

0:29:170:29:18

When it came out, people were like "Who do they think they are?"

0:29:190:29:22

"Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" They're hot.

0:29:220:29:26

A lot of people said "How arrogant is that?!"

0:29:270:29:29

"Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" But they were right.

0:29:290:29:33

# Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me? Ow, don't cha? #

0:29:340:29:42

This song's for all of our girls out there. Let me hear you scream!

0:29:420:29:45

The idea that Don't Cha

0:29:450:29:48

was for the sisters, which I think

0:29:480:29:49

is the nonsense that they came out with after people raised an eyebrow

0:29:490:29:53

about this woman-hating track...

0:29:530:29:56

If they want to call that feminism, then I'm more than happy to ignore them.

0:29:560:30:01

It was cheeky, you know what I mean?

0:30:010:30:05

It's not serious. It was all in fun.

0:30:050:30:08

The Pussycat Dolls were formed in 1995 as a burlesque dance troupe

0:30:100:30:14

performing at the Viper Room nightclub in LA.

0:30:140:30:19

Back in the day, we were straight burlesque.

0:30:190:30:22

People had always seen burlesque as a sort of striptease.

0:30:220:30:25

And although we say we were burlesque, we never stripped.

0:30:250:30:29

We stripped layers of corsets down to another corset, and down to another bra.

0:30:290:30:33

There were layers of things, but there was no nudity involved.

0:30:330:30:38

We have a Pussycat Doll leg, and sometimes they take it beyond.

0:30:380:30:42

HE WHIMPERS

0:30:440:30:47

But even if you can't get your legs behind your ears, you could enrol

0:30:470:30:51

in a class to learn how to flaunt your inner doll through dance.

0:30:510:30:56

I definitely think Pussycat Dolls helped bring back burlesque in a new-age millennium way.

0:30:560:31:02

It was a global phenomenon which we could never have anticipated.

0:31:020:31:07

I have got an inner doll directly in correspondence with how much gin I have.

0:31:070:31:12

And then inner doll comes out of me and does weird dance moves that aren't seen at any other time.

0:31:120:31:19

At number 38, S Club 7, a made-for-telly pop group created by pop mogul Simon Fuller.

0:31:240:31:31

Like some evil Frankenstein character, he formed a fully-functioning pop group

0:31:310:31:36

from the rotting body parts of seven decomposing pop singers.

0:31:360:31:39

And with this song, Reach, he struck gold and was laughing all the way to the bank, literally.

0:31:390:31:45

You should have seen him. Actually, it looked a bit weird.

0:31:450:31:49

Now, I've been watching your attempts at dancing,

0:31:490:31:53

and I must say, they are complete rubbish. What are they?

0:31:530:31:57

ALL: Complete rubbish.

0:31:570:31:59

We were playing ourselves. The TV show was about us

0:31:590:32:02

trying to make it, trying to be successful.

0:32:020:32:05

I beg your pardon?

0:32:050:32:07

It was one of the biggest kids' TV shows at the time.

0:32:070:32:10

You'd wake up in the morning and watch S Club, and they would always dance

0:32:120:32:15

and they would always entertain you and you'd have your favourite one

0:32:150:32:19

and want to copy their style.

0:32:190:32:21

Everybody wanted to know the moves.

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If you were at a youth club and you didn't know the moves to an S Club tune, then who are you?

0:32:240:32:29

Dance routines are definitely important, because we don't have instruments to play.

0:32:290:32:33

So you kind of need something else, and we had some really fun and easy-to-pick-up dance routines.

0:32:330:32:39

# Don't stop, never give up

0:32:410:32:42

# Hold your head high and reach the top... #

0:32:420:32:45

The moves weren't hard, so anyone could do it.

0:32:450:32:47

Like the iconic S.

0:32:470:32:49

They did it in slow motion, slowed it down for you to do it with them.

0:32:490:32:54

# Reach for the stars... #

0:32:540:32:57

# Reach for the stars. Climb every mountain, yeah... #

0:32:570:33:01

# Reach for the stars... #

0:33:010:33:05

Everybody remembers this part.

0:33:050:33:07

Reach.

0:33:100:33:11

Reach!

0:33:110:33:12

I used to do it in the playground with all the bigger girls.

0:33:120:33:18

I got bullied anyway, so it didn't help.

0:33:190:33:21

But...

0:33:210:33:22

..dinner ladies loved me.

0:33:250:33:27

But even an S Club party has to come to an end at some point.

0:33:270:33:31

When their management brought out the S Club Juniors, the band must have known their time was up.

0:33:310:33:36

I auditioned for S Club Juniors. They were holding auditions everywhere

0:33:390:33:44

and they were like "You want to be in S Club Juniors! Come on down.

0:33:440:33:47

"You have to make a dance routine."

0:33:470:33:49

Me and my friends would all practise in the school yard.

0:33:490:33:53

When we got there, it didn't quite go to plan.

0:33:530:33:57

There was a lot of crying involved.

0:33:570:33:59

Dark place. Very dark place.

0:33:590:34:03

The original concept of S Club was to leave at 21, kind of like a Scouts movement.

0:34:030:34:08

# Don't stop movin' Can you feel the music? #

0:34:080:34:12

The Juniors came along, and they were really good.

0:34:120:34:14

Two of them are doing well. They're in the Saturdays.

0:34:140:34:17

Yes, there's a young Rochelle. And there's Frankie.

0:34:170:34:20

If it wasn't for the Juniors, you probably wouldn't have two sexy girls that are in the Saturdays right now.

0:34:200:34:26

# Let's get physical... #

0:34:310:34:34

At number 37 on our countdown of pop's greatest dance crazes,

0:34:340:34:38

it's a routine that took us back to the 1980s, with big hair, tiny leotards and woeful music.

0:34:380:34:44

It's Call On Me by Eric Prydz.

0:34:450:34:47

As well as being a great way to keep in shape,

0:34:470:34:51

it's also a lot of perfectly harmless, well-meaning fun.

0:34:510:34:55

I find it's best enjoyed with the sound on mute,

0:34:550:34:57

so you can hear the key in the front door.

0:34:570:35:00

The video for Call On Me is trying to recreate a scene

0:35:050:35:08

from the film, Perfect.

0:35:080:35:10

It's a pretty hot scene.

0:35:100:35:11

And Jamie Lee Curtis is instructing in an aerobics class,

0:35:110:35:15

and John Travolta's in there, getting pretty sweaty and watching her.

0:35:150:35:19

It wasn't until I got on set and they handed me my outfit, and it was a leotard.

0:35:190:35:23

I was like "Is there anything else to go with it?"

0:35:230:35:26

And they said "Oh, yeah, here's some leg warmers."

0:35:260:35:29

Brilliant.

0:35:290:35:31

They've got the neon colours on, they've got the leg warmers on the go.

0:35:310:35:35

They've got the really high-cut leotards.

0:35:350:35:37

There was some serious waxing in that video.

0:35:400:35:43

Those leotards were verging on indecent, I'd say.

0:35:430:35:47

I'd say decent.

0:35:470:35:49

I love that video.

0:35:490:35:50

Most guys do love that video.

0:35:500:35:53

That's what we want to see. Come on.

0:35:530:35:56

They weren't wearing clothes. That's great!

0:35:560:35:59

That's how I normally work out in the gym.

0:35:590:36:02

I just do that. Yeah.

0:36:020:36:06

That looks disgusting.

0:36:100:36:13

I think the move that stands out the most in Call On Me

0:36:130:36:17

is obviously the pelvic thrust.

0:36:170:36:19

So what you need to do for that, take the legs very wide, get down really low, and then just pelvic thrust!

0:36:190:36:26

There's what I like to call the peeing dog, which is this one,

0:36:260:36:30

where we do lots of leg-raises up here.

0:36:300:36:33

This one here, which is actually very good for the butt. Squeezing in.

0:36:330:36:39

I don't remember the dance routine so much as the bottom of the woman doing the dance routine.

0:36:390:36:45

If you want someone to look at your dance routine, then don't wear a G-string leotard.

0:36:450:36:52

Technically, Call On Me didn't spawn a dance craze, which is why I demanded it be disqualified.

0:36:540:36:59

But millions of men admired the "choreography"

0:36:590:37:01

online, and Tony Blair said it made him fall off his rowing machine, so I allowed it to be reinstated.

0:37:010:37:09

That bloke has clearly discovered the best gym in the world, and he's not letting on to his mates.

0:37:110:37:16

He can't believe his luck.

0:37:160:37:18

He gets his little running shorts on every week, gets in there and he's like "They're still all here!"

0:37:180:37:23

He enjoyed it, that's for sure, and I think there were a lot of men out there that were quite envious.

0:37:230:37:27

I'm surprised he didn't have to have sturdier shorts in the situation he was in.

0:37:270:37:33

I think it made a lot of 14-year-old boys extremely happy.

0:37:330:37:38

I was 15. I had a tape, and I recorded it on it.

0:37:390:37:43

And so my mum wouldn't know, I put that it had The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air on it.

0:37:430:37:48

-Oh, dear.

-Ooh!

0:37:480:37:51

Gently! Gently! Slow.

0:37:560:38:00

OK, right.

0:38:000:38:02

Hi, guys. As you can see, I've been skateboarding my whole life.

0:38:020:38:06

So it'll come as no surprise to you...

0:38:060:38:09

that I'm actually an expert in the next dance craze, breakdancing.

0:38:090:38:14

I'd perform a bit for you now, but it'd probably blow your minds, so the BBC has asked me not to.

0:38:140:38:20

Here's our number 36, Jason Nevins vs Run DMC, It's Like That.

0:38:200:38:26

And it goes a little something like this.

0:38:310:38:35

I've always wanted to be able to breakdance,

0:38:350:38:37

cos I grew up in the '80s and there were loads of kids

0:38:370:38:40

with lino, and going out with their ghetto blasters and everything.

0:38:400:38:45

Run DMC, that video was so cool.

0:38:480:38:52

-Everyone in it was amazing at breaking and dancing. It was all very...

-Yeah.

0:38:520:38:56

..in your face.

0:38:560:39:00

When that song came out, it was like "Whoa, there are some serious moves

0:39:000:39:03

"that we are not knowing about that we need to know about."

0:39:030:39:07

In 1998, New York DJ Jason Nevins remixed this vintage Run DMC tune.

0:39:090:39:13

It's Like That was huge.

0:39:130:39:16

Number one in over 30 countries, with almost 5 million copies sold.

0:39:160:39:19

The video showed b-boys battling b-girls, and introduced

0:39:190:39:24

a new generation to the dance-off and classic '80s breaking moves.

0:39:240:39:30

A breakdance battle was all about two crews battling each other with moves to see who's got

0:39:300:39:35

supremacy within style and moves, so you've got different aspects.

0:39:350:39:40

You've got power, which is the head-spins, the flares and all that stuff.

0:39:400:39:44

You've got style, which is more the top-rocking.

0:39:440:39:47

And you've got footwork itself. So it's Kool And The Gang.

0:39:470:39:51

When they're battling, a lot of it's freestyle.

0:39:530:39:56

So it's all off the top of your head, just going with the song.

0:39:560:39:59

So everything you're doing is just like...

0:39:590:40:02

OK, we're going to take it down and do some b-boy styles. Let's go.

0:40:050:40:08

That's my boy.

0:40:230:40:25

For me, it was all about that dude with the crazy, curly hair.

0:40:280:40:33

It was just such a weird style.

0:40:330:40:36

His top-rocking was just, like, shaking his head.

0:40:360:40:38

There was someone in it that looked like me,

0:40:400:40:43

had hair like me.

0:40:430:40:46

He did have my hair. I think I told a few people I was in that video. It was a lie.

0:40:460:40:49

How would that even work?!

0:40:490:40:51

Breakdancing is perhaps the least accessible dance craze

0:40:540:40:58

on this countdown. Only people like me with real skills can pull off these moves.

0:40:580:41:02

But there are many who have tried and bear the scars to this day.

0:41:020:41:05

When Run DMC comes on, I think a lot of men think they can breakdance, and they will give it a go.

0:41:080:41:13

We've had people try to do the caterpillar and open their chin up, so there's just claret everywhere.

0:41:130:41:20

It's hilarious, because when that song comes on, a circle immediately develops, and nobody knows why.

0:41:220:41:27

It's just a thing that happens.

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And for the first two minutes, no-one gets in the middle. Everyone's like...

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"You do it, you do it!"

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You'll get five or six drunken men that can't breakdance.

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I used to just do a roly-poly.

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But as soon as you did a roly-poly, as long as you looked confident, I'd do a roly-poly and go...

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and people would cheer.

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When pop stars have children, they dream of making music for grown-ups.

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But when pop stars are grown-ups, it seems they dream of making music

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for children, which explains why they give themselves baby names

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like Dappy and Biffy and Gaga.

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The dance craze at number 35 in our chart is definitely one for the under-fives.

0:42:110:42:15

It's the Kings In Da Ghetto, proving that the UK urban music

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scene isn't too cool to embrace a primary school jig, with their take on Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes.

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Personally, I prefer The Wheels On The Bus Go Round And Round by the Wu-Tang Clan.

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A brand new dance is sweeping the nation.

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Ladies, let me see you go down low.

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If someone said to you "They've put Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes into a song", you'd probably go "Really?"

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# Head and shoulders, knees and toes knees and toes... #

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But until you actually hear it and the fact that it's on a grime tune, it's cool.

0:42:520:42:58

# Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes... #

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But our one is better.

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These enterprising lads made their very own video that they posted online,

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and their amateur efforts became a surprise hit.

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I made the video.

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-Well, we all made the video, but I mean that...

-He was the cameraman.

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I was the main guy, walking round and asking anybody "Can you do Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes, please?"

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You're just seeing normal people on the road doing Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes.

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And the whole point it is to embarrass yourself.

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-The more you embarrass yourself, the better it looks.

-It's not very hard to know that dance, is it?

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Head, shoulders, knees... but they did it in a cool way.

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Head, shoulders, knees and toes.

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When that first dropped

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on 1Xtra, I couldn't quite believe my ears

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and I was like, "Is it that simple?

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"We've literally got to do Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes?" Amazing.

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We've all got our own versions, like he does it in a specific, like...

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-The bestest.

-Basically he's the Mr Motivator of Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes.

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Minus the spandex.

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-He does it the most stiff.

-He's the stiff one!

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And then I do it for the basics, for the people that just can't get down to their toes.

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# Let me see you go down low... #

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He keeps going "Ladies, let me see you get down low,

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"ladies, let me see you get down low"

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and you think, "They can't get any lower."

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It doesn't matter if you're at the bar, sitting down,

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you're going to come to the dance floor and everyone does it.

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It looks wicked when you see like 3,000 people all doing the dance at the same time.

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I went to Ayia Napa last year and Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes was the one, literally

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when you see everyone do it in unison, you forget that it was ever a ridiculous kiddie tune.

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-# Ladies, you gotta wind down low. #

-That was the news.

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Good night.

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At number 34, it's Rock Your Body by Justin Timberlake.

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Of course, some people call him Justin Trousersnake

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because of his penchant for storing a cobra in his pants.

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# Dance with me I wanna rock your body... #

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It was only in 2007, when the cobra laid its eggs resulting

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in over 400 horrific bites, that Justin was persuaded to release the snakes back into the wild.

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# Got time, but I don't mind

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# Just want to rock you, girl... #

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White boys aren't supposed to be able to dance like that.

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Hello! He was amazing.

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I think Justin Timberlake is one of the best dancers around.

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He's got that whole kind of mmm vibe, like the crotch, mmm, yeyah.

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If you look at what Justin Timberlake did in Rock Your Body, it's the minimal movements,

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but executed right on the money.

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# Don't be so quick to walk away... #

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Justin Timberlake, I think,

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was completely influenced by Michael Jackson, but he does it in his own way which is really cool and sexy.

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It is sexy. It is sexy.

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You can see he's been influenced by Michael Jackson, you can feel that,

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but he was just...

0:46:030:46:04

There was a freedom, he was really cool.

0:46:040:46:07

What it is about Justin Timberlake's dance is his swagger.

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He's very effortless.

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He uses his clothes a lot, you can tell he feels very sexy about himself.

0:46:120:46:17

He is sexy, he is sexy.

0:46:170:46:19

I loved that. I fell in love with that video. I was like,

0:46:190:46:21

"Mmm, maybe I want to get back in the dance studio."

0:46:210:46:24

# Just something about you. #

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And it wasn't just Bradley who was inspired to dance like him.

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Justin's debut solo album, Justified,

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sold seven million copies and critics called him the sexiest man in music.

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Sexier even than the stunning Mick Hucknall.

0:46:350:46:38

# I kind of noticed something one night

0:46:380:46:41

# In your colourful face... #

0:46:410:46:45

Most boys wanted to dance like Justin and if they said they didn't,

0:46:450:46:50

they did secretly and all girls wanted to bed him openly, end of story, full stop, exclamation mark.

0:46:500:46:55

# Ain't nobody love you like I love you... #

0:46:550:46:58

He's a little bit of a flirt and I think the girls like that,

0:46:580:47:03

you know, and he plays off of it and that's in his music.

0:47:030:47:06

It takes the stigma away from guys dancing, doesn't it?

0:47:060:47:10

They need to learn some moves to impress the ladies.

0:47:100:47:13

Justin Timberlake brought about for the ordinary bloke a huge, big problem.

0:47:130:47:18

I think women wanted their blokes to dance like him

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and that, of course, takes an enormous amount of ability

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and talent because he's a complete natural.

0:47:260:47:29

Although it didn't stop a lot of guys trying, that's for sure!

0:47:290:47:33

# Sing this song with me... #

0:47:330:47:35

When it comes on in a club, everyone thinks that they can dance so everyone's like "Justin Timberlake!"

0:47:350:47:42

It gets all serious and everyone puts their dance face on.

0:47:420:47:46

As long as you dance sexy, I think you've done the Justin Timberlake.

0:47:460:47:50

It's easy to forget that national sweetheart, Cheryl Cole was once

0:47:530:47:57

convicted of assault after thwacking a loo attendant in the face.

0:47:570:48:01

But not that easy, not when Cheryl herself insists on reminding us

0:48:010:48:05

of her rampant thumpiness with angry songs like Fight For This Love.

0:48:050:48:09

This song has a dance routine that Bruce Lee would've been proud of, featuring as it does

0:48:090:48:14

Cheryl thrashing around with her fists as if in a futile attempt to deck her wardrobe assistant.

0:48:140:48:19

# Too much of anything can make you sick

0:48:230:48:26

# Even the good can be a curse curse... #

0:48:260:48:31

Fight For This Love - great track. It had a lot

0:48:310:48:33

of meaning behind it if you looked at all of the tabloid fodder.

0:48:330:48:36

For her, as a woman, she's just saying, you can go through so many

0:48:360:48:40

ups and downs in a relationship,

0:48:400:48:43

but if it's right, you'll fight till the end, basically.

0:48:430:48:47

# Anything that's worth having

0:48:470:48:49

# Is sure enough worth fighting for... #

0:48:490:48:53

Whilst our Chezza's fight for her love with her hubby, Ashley, would eventually end in the divorce court,

0:48:530:48:58

her debut solo single was a global smash.

0:48:580:49:01

There were a few iconic moves in there, the whole hand-wafting move

0:49:030:49:06

and some old moves like this.

0:49:060:49:10

It was a great routine.

0:49:100:49:11

# Fight for this love

0:49:110:49:13

# If it's worth having it's worth fighting for... #

0:49:130:49:16

The three key moves

0:49:160:49:17

are the Cheryl chop

0:49:170:49:19

which is all this business.

0:49:190:49:22

The shoulder pop.

0:49:220:49:24

Which doesn't look impressive unless you've got other people doing it behind you.

0:49:260:49:30

And the drop and roll.

0:49:320:49:35

Which is...

0:49:350:49:37

seemingly quite important, get the knees up.

0:49:370:49:40

# Anything that's worth having... #

0:49:410:49:44

You are now officially fighting for this love.

0:49:440:49:48

# We gotta fight... #

0:49:480:49:49

The video was as much about Cheryl's look as the moves,

0:49:490:49:52

not ideal if you happen to listen to the song on the radio.

0:49:520:49:55

Her look was all about those leather trousers.

0:49:550:50:00

Red military with spray-on legs, you know.

0:50:000:50:03

She alternated between being in the army and wearing her pyjamas, didn't she?

0:50:050:50:09

She had MC Hammer pyjamas on for some of it and then in other bits

0:50:090:50:14

she looked like a majorette who'd spent half the day waist-deep in a pond, didn't she?

0:50:140:50:20

But however fabulous, she was about to be outdone by, of all people, Rufus Hound.

0:50:200:50:26

-For Sport Relief, performing - and I'm not making this up...

-You couldn't.

0:50:260:50:31

..Cheryl Cole's Fight For This Love, it's Rufus Hound.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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The whole of Fight For This Love is about jerky movements

0:50:410:50:44

and moving your body in a way that, naturally, nobody's body moves.

0:50:440:50:48

By the time I was actually on stage doing it, I was just rattling

0:50:480:50:52

with ibuprofen, I'd had to go to an osteopath, my whole spine and legs are not used to moving in the way

0:50:520:50:59

that they're forced to move.

0:50:590:51:01

# Anything that's worth having

0:51:010:51:03

# Is sure enough worth fighting for... #

0:51:030:51:07

By the time I was doing it, she was in the papers with her and Ashley calling it a day.

0:51:080:51:13

I didn't want "Here's you going through a divorce and ha, ha, ha,

0:51:150:51:19

"here's me laughing at your greatest achievement, boo you!"

0:51:190:51:22

So when I met her and she said it really cheered her up,

0:51:220:51:25

that was a very nice feather in the cap.

0:51:250:51:27

# If it's worth having it's worth fighting for... #

0:51:270:51:30

Although she did talk to me like I'd won the X Factor.

0:51:300:51:34

It wasn't like "Hey, we both work in the entertainment business, I enjoyed the dance, well played."

0:51:340:51:40

She just went, "I thought you did very well, I think you've really showed there what you could do."

0:51:400:51:46

That would make such a great recruitment video for the Salvation Army.

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# Ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen... #

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And number 32

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in our top 50 countdown of pop's greatest dance crazes,

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we have Ciara and Missy Elliott with a song called One, Two, Step.

0:52:030:52:08

# This beat is... #

0:52:080:52:09

Which doubles as an educational song for children unable to count to two

0:52:090:52:13

and a motivational mantra for people frightened of walking up stairs.

0:52:130:52:17

Ciara is just totally hot and can dance her head off.

0:52:190:52:24

Now, that, I'd like to see.

0:52:240:52:26

Ciara's One, Two, Step dance is a very old-school dance that was done

0:52:260:52:29

back in the day of disco and she took it and revamped it.

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# You got to get it on Let me see you one, two, step... #

0:52:330:52:37

One, Two, Step, it tells you exactly what to do,

0:52:370:52:40

Ciara was quite a new artist at the time, everyone was like, "Wow, this girl can move it!"

0:52:400:52:45

She seems to be able to bend all sorts of ways, doesn't she, Ciara?

0:52:450:52:48

She's unbreakable, that one.

0:52:480:52:50

Ciara can do from sexy to really hardcore ghetto South Central choreography.

0:52:500:52:57

I remember in the nightclub whenever that song came on,

0:52:570:53:01

more people would do the stumbling legs...

0:53:010:53:04

..than the one, two, step.

0:53:040:53:06

Those wobbly legs, that's called the Crip Walk.

0:53:060:53:09

In America, they have the Bloods and the Crips.

0:53:090:53:11

They were big gangs, and the Crips as a gang sign, they would do this dance, it's a Crip Walk.

0:53:110:53:17

It's hard to do, but you would catch me

0:53:170:53:19

in the clubs doing that and doing the little one, two, step.

0:53:190:53:22

# Crank back three times from left to right... #

0:53:240:53:27

# Soulja Boy off in it... #

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At number 31 in Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes,

0:53:320:53:34

it's Soulja Boy who is A, not a soldier and B, no longer a boy.

0:53:340:53:38

But what he lacks in basic honesty, he more than makes up for in sweet, sweet moves.

0:53:380:53:43

# Soulja Boy, off in it... #

0:53:430:53:46

That was the twist of the 2000s.

0:53:460:53:49

It's probably the biggest dance craze of my era, actually, of my generation.

0:53:490:53:55

The first time I heard it, I was like, "OK, now I need to learn this dance." I was on YouTube trying

0:53:550:54:00

to learn it before anyone else and do it all just as good Soulja Boy did.

0:54:000:54:05

This dance for Soulja Boy's 2007 hit Crank That might look good, but it's not appropriate in cramped spaces.

0:54:070:54:14

Try doing this in the middle of a crowded dance floor and someone will lamp you, and quite right too.

0:54:140:54:19

Soulja Boy, don't bang into people, yeah? So it goes...

0:54:190:54:23

I think you've got to jump side to side.

0:54:270:54:32

Everyone feels silly doing it, do it like you don't care.

0:54:320:54:35

It gets a bit crazy, that one as well because people, they decide

0:54:350:54:39

it's all about who travels the furthest on the whoo...

0:54:390:54:42

so everyone is hopping... about ten metres on the whoo.

0:54:420:54:47

Whoo!

0:54:470:54:48

# He wind me, whoo... #

0:54:480:54:50

# Superman that! #

0:54:500:54:53

Cos I mean, come on, how cool is that?

0:54:540:54:57

If it sounds like it was

0:54:570:54:59

written using a Casio toy keyboard, that's because it was, kind of.

0:54:590:55:04

The DIY track was made in his dad's recording studio and released on the internet

0:55:040:55:07

with a video demonstrating the now-famous dance.

0:55:070:55:11

When I heard the song, I was like, "Really?" It sounded like one of those bad demos.

0:55:110:55:15

These days, you can go and make your own music, it's as simple as that,

0:55:150:55:19

I know 13-year-olds that actually make their own music.

0:55:190:55:22

He produced it, wrote it, made his own dance,

0:55:220:55:28

got all the money!

0:55:280:55:30

-The song wasn't all that.

-It's true.

0:55:320:55:34

# Soulja Boy... # Actually it is really good.

0:55:340:55:37

-It's brilliant, I love that song.

-I do like it.

0:55:370:55:39

Soulja Boy holds the record as the youngest person to write, perform and produce a US number-one hit.

0:55:390:55:45

But when we found out what young Soulja Boy

0:55:450:55:48

was actually rapping about, we were less keen on kids doing his dance.

0:55:480:55:52

That's a really dirty one, isn't it?

0:55:520:55:54

I think it's meant to be...

0:55:540:55:57

What he's saying is quite rude, but we won't go into that.

0:55:570:56:00

Because it's very vulgar.

0:56:000:56:01

So it's, "Oi, what you doing, stop singing that song. Soulja Boy, you should be ashamed of yourself."

0:56:010:56:07

So that's your lot.

0:56:140:56:16

If, like me, you spent the whole show dancing along

0:56:160:56:19

to each and every song, then like me,

0:56:190:56:21

you probably stink. Take a shower.

0:56:210:56:24

Seriously, have a shower now.

0:56:240:56:26

Goodbye!

0:56:270:56:30

# Move it! I like to move it move it

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# I like to move it, move it

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# I like to move it, move it

0:56:340:56:36

# You like to...move it

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# I like to move it, move it

0:56:380:56:39

# I like to move it, move it

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# I like to move it, move it

0:56:410:56:43

# You like to...move it

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# I like to move it, move it

0:56:450:56:47

# I like to move it, move it

0:56:470:56:49

# I like to move it, move it You like to...move it. #

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