0:00:03 > 0:00:07Hello, I'm TV's Robert Webb, and tonight I'm going to tantalise you
0:00:07 > 0:00:11with just a few of pop's greatest dance crazes.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19Our next dance craze was spawned by Miley Cyrus' dad, of all people.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22Turns out he's actually a musician,
0:00:22 > 0:00:24and his 1992 track Achy Breaky Heart
0:00:24 > 0:00:26brought line dancing into the big time.
0:00:26 > 0:00:30The song was written by Don Von Tress, a man who, interestingly
0:00:30 > 0:00:35shares his initials with the medical condition deep vein thrombosis.
0:00:37 > 0:00:43Yes, it's the dance sensation of the summer, the Achy Breaky!
0:00:43 > 0:00:48Billy Ray Cyrus, for me, is like the worst of what America can offer us.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50He's got his mullet on the go.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53It's sort of like a perm and mullet convention in the video.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Horrendous, horrendous.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59But if you could master a grape vine and rock your hips three times,
0:00:59 > 0:01:04you could do the Achy Breaky, and the routine was most infectious.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Not infectious in a good way,
0:01:06 > 0:01:09I mean infectious like conjunctivitis or scabies.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11And my God, it was catchy!
0:01:11 > 0:01:15You'd be in a club and then people would start
0:01:15 > 0:01:17to hurriedly organise lines.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19It's like, "No, no, stop it."
0:01:19 > 0:01:24The shoulders are going and all doing this sort of stuff.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27That was the mother of all dance crazes, really,
0:01:27 > 0:01:29the whole line dancing thing.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33Somebody just called it the Cyrus Virus and now everywhere I play
0:01:33 > 0:01:37people show up with big posters and banners that say, "We've got the Cyrus Virus."
0:01:37 > 0:01:43Billy Ray Cyrus inflicted upon the world an appreciation of line dancing
0:01:43 > 0:01:46- that by rights it should never have had.- Thanks, Billy.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57Hi, guys, you can't smell me, but I absolutely stink.
0:01:57 > 0:01:58While I was lifting some really,
0:01:58 > 0:02:02really heavy weights, I looked around and saw a lot of people in
0:02:02 > 0:02:07pain and very few people having fun, and that's the way it should be when exercise is concerned.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11But try telling that to these crazy geniuses who are in at number 41.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13They won't listen.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17I'm joking.
0:02:21 > 0:02:25The speed and the strength of this treadmill can be varied to simulate
0:02:25 > 0:02:28the physical demands while walking on ascending gradient.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34I don't know anybody who didn't see that video who just, like,
0:02:34 > 0:02:36watched the whole thing like this.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38# All you guys are second saddle to the rest
0:02:38 > 0:02:41# And you leave me with my jaw on the floor... #
0:02:46 > 0:02:50These are the gymtastic moves for OK Go's Here It Goes Again,
0:02:50 > 0:02:53better known as the treadmill song.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55- I think they did it in one take. - Yeah.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Which is pretty impressive.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00It only works because it's done in one take.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03These guys have to have reversed it so that you genuinely feel you're watching a spectacle.
0:03:03 > 0:03:09Feel free to try this at home, once you've bought eight treadmills.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12It's not really a dance that you can do in a nightclub, like, "Oh,
0:03:12 > 0:03:16hello, mate, come in the nightclub, coat, thank you very much."
0:03:16 > 0:03:17"What's this?"
0:03:17 > 0:03:19"It's a treadmill."
0:03:19 > 0:03:23"What are you doing with a treadmill?!" "I'm hoping you're going to play that song."
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Just set up the treadmill...!
0:03:26 > 0:03:30# Just when you think you've got to go
0:03:30 > 0:03:31# Just when you get on a roll
0:03:31 > 0:03:35# Here it goes, here it goes here it goes again... #
0:03:35 > 0:03:38The song isn't amazing, but once you've seen the video,
0:03:38 > 0:03:42you've got the video in your head, and therefore the song's brilliant.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55Whether you know him as Ricky, Rick, Richard or just plain Dick, chances
0:03:55 > 0:03:59are Ricky Martin is your favourite grinning Puerto Rican narcissist.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02- # She's into superstition... # - Mine too!
0:04:02 > 0:04:06And this is his first English single, Livin' La Vida Loca,
0:04:06 > 0:04:08a Spanish phrase which roughly translates as,
0:04:08 > 0:04:10your grandmother smells of donkeys.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15I know, I was shocked and outraged, too.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17# Like a bullet to your brain, come on!
0:04:17 > 0:04:23Upside, inside out, your grandmother smells of donkeys.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26# She'll push and pull you down
0:04:26 > 0:04:28# Livin' la vida loca... #
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Let's just forget the fact that he's gorgeous
0:04:31 > 0:04:34and can shake his bomba like nobody else,
0:04:34 > 0:04:37but he's got this captivating energy.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41# Livin' la vida loca Livin' la vida loca... #
0:04:41 > 0:04:45You know, Ricky Martin has a great way of working the camera, and he
0:04:45 > 0:04:48can do the smallest of dance moves and it will just be so effective.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52When he's on stage, he has this fire, it's just like magnetic.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54It gets everybody on their feet.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00Ricky's Latin dance craze was Puerto Rican's biggest export since... well, ever!
0:05:00 > 0:05:04And no wonder. As you're about to see, la vida loca
0:05:04 > 0:05:06is the perfect way to seduce a woman.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09Or repair a dislocated hip.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Oh, yeah, we all love a bit of Latin, don't we?
0:05:12 > 0:05:14Especially because the men usually wear
0:05:14 > 0:05:16very tight trousers and shake their bum a lot.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20It's a little bit of a loosey-goosey shake.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24It was loosey. The whole body shakes.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28The butt shakes and the hands just flap around.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31It just makes you want to leave your drink
0:05:31 > 0:05:34and get up on the dance floor and actually do something.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38It's commercialised, dumbed down a little bit. It makes it a bit
0:05:38 > 0:05:41lighter, which I suppose is the best thing, because then everyone
0:05:41 > 0:05:43can join in so everyone's going to like it.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Very clever, Ricky. Very clever...
0:05:49 > 0:05:54At number 39, it's Don't Cha, or in English "Don't you."
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Originally performed by the super-sexy Pussycat Dolls,
0:05:56 > 0:05:58it's more commonly performed
0:05:58 > 0:06:01now by the drunkest girl in whatever club you happen to be in.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05Some people say that it's a basically unpleasant song which
0:06:05 > 0:06:09objectifies women, but I'm prepared to overlook this,
0:06:09 > 0:06:13because the girls in it have such nice bottoms.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15Come on, girls!
0:06:17 > 0:06:20# Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
0:06:20 > 0:06:23# Don't you wish your girlfriend was a freak like me? #
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Don't Cha!
0:06:25 > 0:06:28I think when it came out, people were like,
0:06:28 > 0:06:30"God, who do these girls think they are?"
0:06:30 > 0:06:34Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me? They're hot!
0:06:34 > 0:06:37A lot of people were saying, "How arrogant's that?!"
0:06:37 > 0:06:40But they were right.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44# Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
0:06:46 > 0:06:48- # Don't cha!- Don't cha! #
0:06:48 > 0:06:52This song's for all of our girls out there, let me hear you scream!
0:06:52 > 0:06:55The idea that Don't Cha was for the sisters,
0:06:55 > 0:06:58which I think is the nonsense that came out with
0:06:58 > 0:07:01after people raised an eyebrow about this woman-hating track...
0:07:03 > 0:07:06If they want to call that feminism, then, erm...
0:07:06 > 0:07:08I'm more than happy to ignore them.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11It was cheeky, you know what I mean?
0:07:11 > 0:07:14It's not serious, you know, it was all in fun.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17# Loosen up my buttons, baby... #
0:07:17 > 0:07:21The Pussycat Dolls were formed in 1995 as a burlesque dance troupe
0:07:21 > 0:07:25performing at the Viper Room nightclub in LA.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Back in the day, we were straight burlesque.
0:07:28 > 0:07:32People had always seen burlesque as a sort of striptease,
0:07:32 > 0:07:35and although we say we were burlesque, we never stripped.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38We stripped layers of corsets down to another corset,
0:07:38 > 0:07:43and down to another bra, there were layers and layers of things, but there was no nudity involved.
0:07:45 > 0:07:50We have a Pussycat Doll leg, and sometimes I take it beyond.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57But even if you can't get your legs behind your ears, you could enrol
0:07:57 > 0:08:04in a class to learn how to flaunt your inner doll through dance.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06I definitely think Pussycat Dolls
0:08:06 > 0:08:09helped bring back burlesque in a new-age,
0:08:09 > 0:08:12millennium way. It was, you know, a global phenomenon
0:08:12 > 0:08:14which we could have never anticipated.
0:08:14 > 0:08:19I have got an inner doll directly in correspondence with how much gin
0:08:19 > 0:08:25I have, and then inner doll comes out of me and does all weird dance moves
0:08:25 > 0:08:27that aren't seen at any other time.