The Harlem Shake meme exploded online last week, as a video maker named Filthy Frank took an infectious beat created by a producer named Baauer and invented a cooky dance sequance. Move over, Gangnam Style. You're being replaced with this dance move that's coming back in style (after first gaining popularity back in the early 2000s).
So what is the Harlem Shake?
Having said that, it's not an entirely new thing. The dance you can see in the videos embedded below has been around in various stages of evolution for a few decades (since 1981 says popular speedy journalistic source Wikipedia).
Having said that, it's not an entirely new thing. The dance you can see in the videos embedded below has been around in various stages of evolution for a few decades (since 1981 says popular speedy journalistic source Wikipedia).
The dancing seems to vary from video to video however, so feel free to twerk or whatever when you make your own tonight. Just make sure you wear a mask, which seems to be part of it, although by the time we've figured it out completely there'll probably a new thing to learn.
Videomakers around the globe took the same 30-second clip from the song, choreographing surreal dances in everyday locations, including firemen, office workers and an entire news team.
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