Rihanna and Pulp Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes

Hello, I'm TV's Robert Webb and tonight I'm going to tantalise you

with just a few of pop's greatest dance crazes.

# ..When the sun shines we shine together

# Told you I'll be here forever

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

Let's not beat around the bush, our next dance craze is raunchy.

Gene Kelly used to sing in the rain.

Rihanna just strips semi-naked in the stuff and turns

the sexy dial up to 11.

# You can stand under my umbrella

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

I like the way she does the whole Fred Astaire thing

with the umbrella, you know.

She's using it as a prop.

I want to be that umbrella.

You don't actually have an umbrella in the club,

so you have to simulate one.

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

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

You can do whatever you want with your imaginary umbrella.

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

All my umbrellas at home are now called Rihannas.

# ..I'll always be your friend

# Now that it's raining more than ever... #

Our next entry is Common People by Pulp,

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

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

Cocker concocted choreography. Cocker concocted choreography.

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

Anyway, Clocker conclockted choroegty...

for the song on the day of the shoot itself.

# You'll never live like common people

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

The first time I'd seen Jarvis, I thought he was like

a really animated pipe-cleaner.

King of the geeks.

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

Just little flicks here and a little move there.

With a few nifty little moves,

a vintage suit and some oversize bins,

Jarvis made disco-dancing look cool again.

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

Which I'll show for you if you like.

# Sing along with the common people

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

Cos that's like you move in through some double doors or suchlike.

And the stupid things that you do,

I don't know why we've got the windscreen wiper at that point.

Because you think that poor is cool.

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

I made that one up on the day

and managed to teach a few of the other extras in the video it.

But you get the kind of vague idea.

# You'll never live like common people

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

The dance that they did, you kind of enjoyed seeing it,

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

because you just got so into the actual song.

I think the indie kids kind of understood

that that dance was meant ironically.

And therefore, to actually turn up and do that dance

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

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

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

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

I think you can have both things.

I like that high-concept and low concept.

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