It's without a doubt that I've posted a few too many times about Apple products, smartphones, and my hatred for any phone that's bigger than 4.2". I don't see a point in making an obvious point any more obvious, so I'll just skip right to the main point of today : The Harlem Shake.
I've been relatively well known for not taking part in a lot of popular things. I've never had a Facebook account, nor a LinkedIn, Google+, or any kind of social media account. It's without a doubt that I've found the concept flawed, but I also didn't want to just become another statistic. People on these sites are often used as part of news reports these days because it's just a great gauge to see what people are thinking and adds another dimension to conducting interviews with bystanders. Let's face it, what better opinion to get, other than someone who's got nothing better to do with their time, other than tweet about something they most likely have little understanding about?
But I digress and get back to The Harlem Shake. Perhaps, it's the first big dance phenomenon since Gangnam Style. Everyone made a Gangnam Style parody video ever since it started popping up on YouTube last year. No parody video of Gangnam Style made actually addresses that PSY was actually making fun of the posers who live in the Gangnam area. Most of them seemed to just lip sync and do a half-assed dance immitation of a fat man with sun glasses singing a song that to an untrained ear really does sound like every other Korean song : no more than 20 words, completely repeated over and over.
That's perhaps what makes the Harlem Shake even more ridiculous because it really doesn't consist of much. Or anything for that matter. 30 seconds, half of which was occupied by one masked person doing a really terrible excuse of a dance while the rest of the room is minding their own business, and then another half of everyone doing a terribly lame excuse of a dance together. There is no merit to this. There is no choreography, or organization, or even any artistic value. Yet everyone has a fascination to make their own version. What is so hard about making a 30 second video of half-assed dancing?
It's been at least two to three weeks since I've heard about the Harlem Shake, and I had figured that these videos would end soon. Porn stars have made their own version, and now even YouTube has gone ahead and figured out a way to stop this madness by totally one-upping anyone who's done it. Click here to take a look.
Let's finally put this to rest. Gangnam Style never caught on in Japan, and it was great, but no one seemed to adopt that bit. Let's hope the Harlem Shake isn't catching on, and hopefully, someone will eventually give up with this atrocity soon.
