0:00:02 > 0:00:04# I see you, baby Shakin' that ass... #
0:00:04 > 0:00:11Hello. I'm TV's Robert Webb, and we're here to catch up with some of Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18# Too much of anything can make you sick
0:00:18 > 0:00:22# Even the good can be a curse... #
0:00:22 > 0:00:27Fight For This Love, great track and it had a lot of meaning behind it
0:00:27 > 0:00:30if you looked at all of the tabloid fodder.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34As a woman, she's saying you can go through so many ups and downs in a relationship,
0:00:34 > 0:00:39but if it's right we will fight to the end, basically.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41# Anything that's worth having
0:00:41 > 0:00:44# Is sure enough worth fighting for... #
0:00:44 > 0:00:50Whilst our Chezza's fight for her love with hubby Ashley would eventually end in the divorce court,
0:00:50 > 0:00:52her debut solo single was a global smash.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55# We gotta fight... #
0:00:55 > 0:00:57There were a few iconic moves in there,
0:00:57 > 0:00:59there was the whole... hand wafting move.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03You know, some old moves like this. It was a great routine.
0:01:03 > 0:01:04# Fight for this love
0:01:04 > 0:01:08# If it's worth having it's worth fighting for... #
0:01:08 > 0:01:09The three key moves
0:01:09 > 0:01:11are the Cheryl chop...
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Which is all of this business.
0:01:15 > 0:01:16The shoulder pop...
0:01:17 > 0:01:22Which doesn't look impressive unless you've got other people doing it in time behind you.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26And the drop and roll.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Which is seemingly quite important. Get the knees up.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36# Anything that's worth having... #
0:01:36 > 0:01:39You are now officially fighting for this love.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44The video was as much about Cheryl's look as the moves.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47Not ideal if you happen to be listening to the song on the radio.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Her look was all about those leather trousers.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Red military with spray-on legs.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00She alternated between being in the army and wearing her pyjamas -
0:02:00 > 0:02:04she kind of had MC Hammer pyjamas on for some of it,
0:02:04 > 0:02:10and in other bits she looked like a majorette who'd spent half the day waist-deep in a pond.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12Didn't she?
0:02:13 > 0:02:19But, however fabulous, she was about to be outdone by, of all people, Rufus Hound.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22For Sport Relief, performing - and I'm not making this up...
0:02:22 > 0:02:27- You couldn't.- ..Cheryl Cole's Fight For This Love, it's Rufus Hound!
0:02:27 > 0:02:31CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:02:32 > 0:02:36The whole of Fight For This Love is about jerky movement
0:02:36 > 0:02:40and moving your body in a way that naturally nobody's body moves.
0:02:40 > 0:02:45By the time I was on stage doing it, I was rattling with ibuprofen,
0:02:45 > 0:02:47I'd had to go to an osteopath...
0:02:47 > 0:02:53My whole spine and legs are not used to moving in the way that they're forced to move.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55# Anything that's worth having
0:02:55 > 0:03:00# Is sure enough worth fighting for... #
0:03:00 > 0:03:05By the time I was doing it, she was in the papers with her and Ashley, you know, calling it a day.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10I didn't want, like, "Here's you going through a divorce and ha ha ha.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13"Here's me laughing at your greatest achievement. Boo you".
0:03:13 > 0:03:19So when I met her and she said it really cheered her up, that was a very nice feather in the cap.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22# ..If it's worth having it's worth fighting for... #
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Although she did talk to me like I'd won the X Factor.
0:03:25 > 0:03:29It wasn't like, "Hey, we both work in the entertainment business.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31"I enjoyed the dance, you know, well played".
0:03:31 > 0:03:34She just went... MIMIC CHERYL: "I thought you did very well.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38"I think, you know, you've really showed there what you could do".
0:03:38 > 0:03:43That would make such a great recruitment video for the Salvation Army.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50Ladies and gentlemen... Oooh weee!
0:03:50 > 0:03:53At number 32 in our top 50 countdown
0:03:53 > 0:03:54of pop's greatest dance crazes,
0:03:54 > 0:03:59we have Ciara and Missy Elliot, with a song called 1, 2 Step...
0:03:59 > 0:04:01This beat is...
0:04:01 > 0:04:05..which doubles as an educational song for children unable to count to two,
0:04:05 > 0:04:09and a motivational mantra for people frightened of walking upstairs.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11# Everybody... #
0:04:11 > 0:04:15Ciara is just totally hot and can dance her head off.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Now that I'd like to see.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21Ciara's 1,2 Step dance is a very old school dance
0:04:21 > 0:04:24that was done back in the day of disco, she took it and revamped it.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26# We about to get it on
0:04:26 > 0:04:29# Let me see ya 1, 2 Step... #
0:04:29 > 0:04:311, 2 Step tells you exactly what to do.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Ciara was quite a new artist at the time.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36Everyone was like, "Wow, this girl can move it!"
0:04:36 > 0:04:40She seems to be able to bend all sorts of ways, doesn't she, Ciara?
0:04:40 > 0:04:42She's unbreakable, that one.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45You know, Ciara can do from sexy to like,
0:04:45 > 0:04:49really hardcore ghetto South Central choreography.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53I remember in the nightclub, whenever that song came on,
0:04:53 > 0:04:57more people would do the stumbling leg than the 1, 2 Step.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00The wobbly legs, that is called the crip walk!
0:05:00 > 0:05:04In America, they have the Bloods and the Crips. They're a big gang.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08Crips, as a gang sign, they would do this dance, and it's a crip walk.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12It's very, very hard to do, but you would catch me in the club doing
0:05:12 > 0:05:13that and doing the little 1, 2 Step.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27At number 31 in pop's greatest dance crazes, it's Soulja Boy,
0:05:27 > 0:05:30who is A) not a soldier, and B) no longer a boy.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32But what he lacks in basic honesty,
0:05:32 > 0:05:35he more than makes up for in sweet, sweet moves.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38# Soulja Boy off in it, oh...! #
0:05:38 > 0:05:41That was the twist of the 2000s.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45It's probably the biggest dance craze of my era,
0:05:45 > 0:05:47actually, of my generation.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51The first time I heard it, I was like, "I need to learn this dance."
0:05:51 > 0:05:53I was on YouTube trying to learn it
0:05:53 > 0:05:57before anyone else and do it all just as good as Soulja Boy did.
0:05:58 > 0:06:03This dance, for Soulja Boy's 2007 hit Crank That might look good,
0:06:03 > 0:06:05but it's not appropriate in cramped spaces.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Try doing this in the middle of a crowded dance floor,
0:06:08 > 0:06:09someone'll lamp you. Quite right too.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12So, Soulja Boy, don't bang into people, yeah?
0:06:12 > 0:06:17So it goes, "Whooo, hey watch me, whooo."
0:06:20 > 0:06:23I think you got to jump side to side.
0:06:23 > 0:06:24Don't feel silly doing it,
0:06:24 > 0:06:27do it like you don't care.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Gets a bit crazy that one as well, cos people, they decide
0:06:30 > 0:06:34it's all about who travels the furthest, and they'll, "Whooo!"
0:06:34 > 0:06:36So everyone is hopping. And whoooo!
0:06:36 > 0:06:42About ten metres and, "Whoooo!" Whooo! Hey, ride me!"
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Superman and ho!
0:06:44 > 0:06:49Whooo! Cos I mean, come on, I mean how cool is that?
0:06:50 > 0:06:53If it sounds like it was written using a Casio toy keyboard,
0:06:53 > 0:06:55that's because it was, kind of.
0:06:55 > 0:06:59The DIY track was made in his dad's recording studio and released
0:06:59 > 0:07:01on the internet with a video
0:07:01 > 0:07:03demonstrating the now famous dance.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06When I heard it I was like, "It sounds like one of those really bad demos".
0:07:06 > 0:07:10These days you can go and make your own music. It's as simple as that.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14I know 13-year-olds that actually make their own music.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17He produced it, wrote it,
0:07:17 > 0:07:21made his own dance... Got all the money.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25The song wasn't all that.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28HE SINGS GIBBERISH Ho! Actually it is really good.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30- Brilliant. I love that song. - I do like it.
0:07:34 > 0:07:40At number 30, it's Bucks Fizz with their Eurovision winning song Making Your Mind Up.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43In a bid to win the votes of the more backward European nations,
0:07:43 > 0:07:47the song featured a routine that managed to be both childish and sexist.
0:07:47 > 0:07:52It culminated in the male members of the band yanking off the skirts of the ladies. Like this...
0:07:53 > 0:07:57Oh, your one doesn't do it.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Making Your Mind Up.
0:08:04 > 0:08:09# You gotta speed it up And then you gotta slow it down... #
0:08:09 > 0:08:12# And if you believe that a love can hit the top
0:08:12 > 0:08:13# You gotta play around... #
0:08:13 > 0:08:17I used to remember doing that in the playground. That was my era.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20# ..Making your mind up! #
0:08:20 > 0:08:24SHE SINGS GIBBERISH # Making your mind up! # Is that it?
0:08:24 > 0:08:28We were put together specifically to wear
0:08:28 > 0:08:30bright colours, to all be blonde,
0:08:30 > 0:08:35and to all do a happy little routine that would catch the judges' eyes.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40# Don't let your indecision take you from behind... # Hands on bum.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42# Take you from behind... #
0:08:42 > 0:08:47# Trust your intuition Don't let others change your mind! #
0:08:47 > 0:08:51Don't let others change your mind. See, they had a message.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53They had a positive message.
0:08:53 > 0:08:58I'd leap onto Mike, legs akimbo, run back to my mic stand.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00The most memorable part of the song.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03# But if you want to see some more... #
0:09:03 > 0:09:09There was a point where they whipped the girls' skirts off to show off their knees.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13The skirts came off and that was it. History was made.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Lady Gaga... nothing.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18We saw Cheryl Baker's knees!
0:09:18 > 0:09:21I'm sure that we won Eurovision because of the skirts.
0:09:21 > 0:09:22We only won by four points.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26I'm sure that those four points were from people who were glad the skirts came off.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29# And soon you will find that there comes a time
0:09:29 > 0:09:32# For making your mind up. #
0:09:32 > 0:09:33# Duh-duh! # Finished.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35APPLAUSE
0:09:35 > 0:09:40At 29, it's a Python-esque take on an original '60s skank dance,
0:09:40 > 0:09:43by which I mean this.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45MUSIC: "One Step Beyond" By Madness
0:09:51 > 0:09:56God, it's knackering. Yes, it's Madness with One Step Beyond.
0:09:56 > 0:10:02The tune was originally written by Jamaican ska singer Prince Buster, and it wasn't...
0:10:02 > 0:10:04Oh, sod it. Watch the VT.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08Hey you! Don't watch that. Watch this!
0:10:08 > 0:10:10One step beyond!
0:10:12 > 0:10:14I'm a massive Madness fan,
0:10:14 > 0:10:19so you got to do all that, and you got to do the sort of running on the spot. It's just like drunken...raaah!
0:10:21 > 0:10:23If you say the words One Step Beyond to me,
0:10:23 > 0:10:25the first thing that comes into my head
0:10:25 > 0:10:29is an overweight man jogging on the spot ferociously
0:10:29 > 0:10:33and occasionally flailing out his arms and striking bystanders.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34One step beyond!
0:10:34 > 0:10:39It's one for the football supporters, isn't it, Madness? Whooa!
0:10:40 > 0:10:44You know, they're called Madness, so everything that they do
0:10:44 > 0:10:49can be as frenetic and insane and crazy as you like.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54Their Jamaican ska inspired moves and high energy songs
0:10:54 > 0:10:58made blokes everywhere want to climb on the nutty train.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00All aboard.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02The idea of dancing
0:11:02 > 0:11:04had kind of fizzled out a little bit,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07certainly amongst white working class,
0:11:07 > 0:11:09middle class boys.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11One step beyond!
0:11:11 > 0:11:15And in fact, my hand has been shaken on a number of occasions by people
0:11:15 > 0:11:19who've thanked me, in part, for making blokes dance again.
0:11:21 > 0:11:28When they were in the pop charts, I would have been six, seven, eight, so all those family dos,
0:11:28 > 0:11:35it was just lashed up blokes like my dad going, "Right, House Of Fun, you're bloody right it is."
0:11:38 > 0:11:40It did make you want to dance.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Your feet would go with the drums and your hips with the bass
0:11:42 > 0:11:46and the elbows with the high hat or something like that.
0:11:46 > 0:11:51I would imagine they could bring out Madness the DVD as a workout DVD,
0:11:51 > 0:11:53because it is really energetic.
0:11:53 > 0:11:58I think it burns about 4,000 calories every time you do it, so...
0:12:02 > 0:12:05So, that's your lot. If, like me, you spent the whole show
0:12:05 > 0:12:10dancing along to each and every song, then, like me, you probably stink.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14Take a shower. Seriously, have a shower. Now.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Goodbye!
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