Historic moment right here. This is post #500! Let's celebrate with another GIF compilation (25 GIFs this time). As always, be patient. Let them load. 1. Val Kilmer start us off yet again
So, in case you didn't know (I certainly didn't before this), "Stanley Steemer" is a US carpet (and general home surface) cleaning company which uses a characteristic jingle in its advertisements (see below at 0:25).
In the following very cool and entertaining video, Youtube user Mia Gentile performs the Stanley Steemer jingle in a wide array of musical and dance variations. At 1:20-1:34 my personal favorite (with 1:08 to 1:19 a close second).
I was just surfing the internet, just passing the time and I came across this:
And I'm like, "What is this? I don't even" and "WTF did I just watch?".
A few days ago I had read that this... thing called Harlem Shake is gaining popularity and might be the new Gangnam Style, but I didn't really pay much attention.
Apparently (as I learnt through Know Your Meme), Harlem Shake (or as I like to call it, Coloterrorista), created by an artist named Baauer, was uploaded on Youtube on August 23rd 2012 (although there exists an even earlier upload of the same from May 10th 2012).
Apart from the fans of that particular music genre (trap), no one else really noticed it.
Then, on January 30th 2013, Youtube user DizastaMusic (aka Filthy Frank) uploaded this video:
It went viral, spawning an ever increasing number of imitators with all kinds of people doing their own versions. Wikipedia describes the "script" of these videos very nicely:
"Various videos have since been released that start with a lone dancer
(usually wearing a helmet/mask of some kind) dancing to the build up of
the song while other people go about their normal business. Once the
build up reaches a climax and the song "drops", the video cuts to the
same setting but with a bunch of people twerking, jerking, spinning,
humping, and bumping. Other dances are purely improvisational."
From what I've seen, some of the main motifs are (in the same video): masks, helmets, bodysuits, thrusting, spazzing-shaking, punching dolls, staying totally still and generally all types of improvisations.
Below are a few video compilations of Harlem Shake:
Only the future will tell if it's going to be the Gangnam Style of 2013.
Recently, the internets have been on fire with this song, performed by South Korean artist (rapper) PSY.
From Wikipedia: "Gangnam Style" is a Korean language colloquialism that refers to a luxurious lifestyle associated with the Gangnam district, an affluent and trendy area of Seoul.
Looks great LIVE too!
(amazing crowd by the way, enjoying the show, having fun, not squishing each other to death like you see elsewhere...)
Also, Gangnam Style a cappella (or with natural sound if you prefer)
At 0:56 I thought that was the end of him.
Better dancer than me, I admit.
Also... so many semedakia (the cloths that cover the TV, the shelves, everything)!
I've been informed from a trusted source, that this surreal clip is from a Tamil movie (so it's from Kollywood and not Bollywood) and that the short person is in fact a midget and not (thankfully!) a child.
