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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Dec 11, 2012 14:18:04 GMT -5
Yer, it's about the people in that area trying to emulate Beverley Hills. And that is the root of it. It is a slightly more politcally charged Version of Beverly Hills by Weazer but with a dance beat.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2012 18:48:40 GMT -5
I've seen it and don't get the big deal. The song isn't good or entertaining and the video isn't all that funny. I'm baffled by its popularity. It's kinda like when That singing fish you could hang on the wall was a big deal Except this is free. ........well, unless you don't count all the dead brain cells.
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Post by sryans on Dec 11, 2012 23:12:31 GMT -5
*shrugs* I just think it's this generation's macarena. In a year I'd be surprised if a lot of people even remember it. It's a tad early to treat it as though it'll change the course of pop culture. Everyone still remembers the macarena though
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 11, 2012 23:17:10 GMT -5
*shrugs* I just think it's this generation's macarena. In a year I'd be surprised if a lot of people even remember it. It's a tad early to treat it as though it'll change the course of pop culture. Everyone still remembers the macarena though But nobody has thought about it since 1997, unless someone like me reminds people that it once was a thing that was huge before fading into obscurity as a barely remembered 90's song.
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Post by chazraps on Dec 11, 2012 23:31:04 GMT -5
Everyone still remembers the macarena though But nobody has thought about it since 1997, unless someone like me reminds people that it once was a thing that was huge before fading into obscurity as a barely remembered 90's song. No, it has a pretty memorable place in history as a cross-generational worldwide phenomenon. There's still "Macarena" jokes in popular shows, movies and pretty much all media. It's not like any time you've mentioned "Macarena" people struggle to remember what you're talking about like, say, Jimmy Ray.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2012 23:31:48 GMT -5
Everyone still remembers the macarena though But nobody has thought about it since 1997, unless someone like me reminds people that it once was a thing that was huge before fading into obscurity as a barely remembered 90's song. Source?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2012 23:39:50 GMT -5
But nobody has thought about it since 1997, unless someone like me reminds people that it once was a thing that was huge before fading into obscurity as a barely remembered 90's song. Source? i50.tinypic.com/j17osg.png[/img]
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 11, 2012 23:48:00 GMT -5
But nobody has thought about it since 1997, unless someone like me reminds people that it once was a thing that was huge before fading into obscurity as a barely remembered 90's song. There's still "Macarena" jokes in popular shows, movies and pretty much all media. I can honestly say I can't recall hearing any macarena jokes in pop culture years, much less a lot of them. The only mention I've heard of it in recent years was a list of awful songs that included it, usually pretty high. It's impact was minimal, it was a big deal for a few years than faded away without leaving much of a lasting impact.
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Dec 11, 2012 23:53:00 GMT -5
I still hear about it a whole heck of a lot. Many cracker weddings still play it too.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 11, 2012 23:57:01 GMT -5
Every college dance I went to since I started had the macarena and EVERYBODY always went straight into the dance, so people still remember it.
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Post by Kash Flagg on Dec 12, 2012 0:16:49 GMT -5
I feel stupid for saying this, but if you say the word "macarena" people are most likely gonna know what it is pretty fast. It may not be talked about but Achky Breaky Heart and Cotton Eye Joe aren't talked about either and most people keep trying to forget them.
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Post by chazraps on Dec 12, 2012 0:21:33 GMT -5
"Macarena" is the default setting whenever sitcoms do the "learning to dance"/"he looks like he's dancing"/"can't you dance" troupes.
It may have not launched "Macarena"-wave or "Macarena"-core sub-genres, but it's a 90s touchstone that even teenagers who weren't alive for it know what it is.
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 12, 2012 0:40:52 GMT -5
"Macarena" is the default setting whenever sitcoms do the "learning to dance"/"he looks like he's dancing"/"can't you dance" troupes. We must watch vastly different sitcoms, because in all the recent sitcoms I've seen, I can't recall a macarena reference, even if there's a bad dancing reference or a scene where it'd fit. I obviously worded my point terribly (although I'm still baffled and disbelieving of the notion that people are still making macarena references and jokes in pop culture of today). It's not that I think it's going to be wiped from everyone's mind like we're in Men In Black, it's that I think the song is going to have utterly no lasting impact. It was in reference to saying that the song has actual importance, I don't see it. It was that when it comes to 90's music, even when talking in-depth about the music of the 90's, it's very easy to leave out without anyone noticing or arguing for it. Being popular and having views doesn't ascribe importance to something, importance comes from having an impact over time. The macarena was the same way. It was a big fad that lasted a year or so, but has fallen to being just another song that you might hear in the sort of settings where you hear silly safe dance songs that even the most uncoordinated can dance to. But does the fact that it was a silly dance song that even the most uncoordinated can dance to make it important, or mean it had any lasting impact? Not really, it just means that they made a silly little dance song that even the most uncoordinated can dance to. That's where I see Gangam Style being. Replace "Hey, macarena" with "Hey, Sexy Lady" and one ridiculous looking dance with another, and you pretty much have the same thing. Annoyingly catchy, but the phenomenon will be reduced solely to being inserted in a set of dance mix that a dj can play at a wedding. That's the impression I had when I saw it, it's going to be crammed between YMCA and Sweet Home Alabama at me nephew's wedding 20 years from now, if that. People will then remember that it was a thing that existed back in the 2010's. But I think that'll be the most anyone will be able to say for it.
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Post by sryans on Dec 12, 2012 3:19:43 GMT -5
I am not sure I get your point, is there anything wrong with that?
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Dec 12, 2012 4:27:03 GMT -5
"Macarena" is the default setting whenever sitcoms do the "learning to dance"/"he looks like he's dancing"/"can't you dance" troupes. It may have not launched "Macarena"-wave or "Macarena"-core sub-genres, but it's a 90s touchstone that even teenagers who weren't alive for it know what it is. This. It came out the year I was born, and I still know the dance!
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 12, 2012 10:04:39 GMT -5
I am not sure I get your point, is there anything wrong with that? As I said, I responding to what Chaz said about the song being important. I don't see it, I see it just being a little fad that happened, then the song disappears from the public consciousness without having any lasting impact. Granted, I underestimated the passion people apparently have when talking about the macarena when I made that comparison, but I still don't think that song has proven to be important, and I think Gangam style is going to take a similar path. A lot of songs do that, and people will still remember them because usually the song has something obnoxiously catchy that will forever stick with people who lived during the hype, but that's not the same thing as being an important song. Is there anything inherently wrong with that? No, but as I said, I was just commenting on the idea that it was important.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Dec 12, 2012 10:09:55 GMT -5
I learned the Macarena because I was forbidden to learn the Lambada.
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Dec 13, 2012 13:35:50 GMT -5
I am not sure I get your point, is there anything wrong with that? As I said, I responding to what Chaz said about the song being important. I don't see it, I see it just being a little fad that happened, then the song disappears from the public consciousness without having any lasting impact. Granted, I underestimated the passion people apparently have when talking about the macarena when I made that comparison, but I still don't think that song has proven to be important, and I think Gangam style is going to take a similar path. A lot of songs do that, and people will still remember them because usually the song has something obnoxiously catchy that will forever stick with people who lived during the hype, but that's not the same thing as being an important song. Is there anything inherently wrong with that? No, but as I said, I was just commenting on the idea that it was important. Anything that has as much global impact as this song is important as it can tell you about society at the time. Histories have done music studies to see what types of songs are popular at certain times and have been able to find trends in how they relate to local, national and world societies. It isn't important to you, but anything that effects so many people is important in some way. Doesn't mean it is good at all, lots of important things are truly awful. But they are still important.
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Post by Cela on Dec 13, 2012 16:39:13 GMT -5
Anyone have a link to the most viewed page? Can't find it for some reason.
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 13, 2012 16:59:43 GMT -5
As I said, I responding to what Chaz said about the song being important. I don't see it, I see it just being a little fad that happened, then the song disappears from the public consciousness without having any lasting impact. Granted, I underestimated the passion people apparently have when talking about the macarena when I made that comparison, but I still don't think that song has proven to be important, and I think Gangam style is going to take a similar path. A lot of songs do that, and people will still remember them because usually the song has something obnoxiously catchy that will forever stick with people who lived during the hype, but that's not the same thing as being an important song. Is there anything inherently wrong with that? No, but as I said, I was just commenting on the idea that it was important. Anything that has as much global impact as this song is important as it can tell you about society at the time. Histories have done music studies to see what types of songs are popular at certain times and have been able to find trends in how they relate to local, national and world societies. It isn't important to you, but anything that effects so many people is important in some way. Doesn't mean it is good at all, lots of important things are truly awful. But they are still important. And I think this is a very important disconnect in how we view things. People associate views with impact, but I don't think there's a direct correlation between them. It's not that those songs spent a week on top of the charts so they were automatically important, it's that those songs happened to show trends in society at the time. Not every song does that, and in this day and age where you can get your entertainment and media from absolutely anywhere at any time, rather than a select few TV stations and radio programs, lots of hits are far less likely to actually show a trend or be indicative of how society at large views something. Gangam style is going to have to show some change beyond flash mobs and people doing the dance at banquet halls to really qualify as important.
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