Soulja Boy was the first to successfully start the trend in catchy synchronized dance music in September of 2007, with his hit single "Crank That (Soulja Boy." Since then, others have came out with their own versions of catchy dance music like "You’re a jerk" by New Boyz, and Catdaddy by the Rej3ctz.
Many people have criticized (including me) this style of music and say it is giving hip-hop a bad name. However, I disagree in some ways. Let’s be honest, how serious can you take these artists who put out songs like this? I mean this has almost become a different genre of music in itself, so I don't even like to call it hip-hop. Nonetheless, it’s fun to dance to and people always have a good time when they actually learn the dance (or think they have learned the dance).The bottom line is, it’s fun to do.
My mother even tried to "jerk" when "You’re a Jerk” came out. It was too funny, she was horrible, but we all got a great laugh out if it. When I asked her about it she said
“I think it is great that people who never met each other can be united by a dance that everybody knows,”
“Teach Me to Dougie" is arguably the biggest synchronized dance of all time. I’ve seen Celebrities, athletes, and entertainers enjoy the song and publicly display their “dougie” skills on camera. NFL stars have hit the dougie in the end-zone after scoring a touchdown and NBA players have dougied during player introductions. NBA rookie John Wall hit his own version of the dougie in his very first home game by tying in his “John Wall dance” and it instantly became a YouTube sensation.
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My 12 year old little brother even caught on to the Dougie hype. This just proves that it doesn’t matterwhat age you are or how good you are at it, the goal is to just have fun doing it. Check my brother Brandyn Waterford out gettin’ his version of the Dougie on.
Video by Phil Waterford
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