You would have thought I had lobsters crawling out of my ears with the way they looked at me.
"Are you kidding me?!" Lainie exclaims.
"No." I say, slightly offended because apparently I am showing my age. The generation gap begins. I kind of feel like my dad on the day back in college when I told him that my friends thought he was "the bomb."
"Oh good!" He says. He hesitates for a breath and then asks, "What's that?"
So Lainie and Jackie proceed to look up videos of this Soldierboy dance on Youtube.com. There were thousands of these videos. One was of a very young ballet class doing this dance. There were cheerleaders, average joes, and other dancers all over the country. It's everywhere.
We continued to talk about music of our youth when Lainie then shows me this video of a bridal party dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller. I mean they were doing the actual moves from the video! These are my kind of people! I used to dance in the backseat of our van (when I was 5 or so) to that song everytime it came on. So obviously I was interested. After that video, I happened to see a listing for "Indian Thriller." I told Lainie to click on it because I had to see if it was up to par with the original. Little did I know.
Words cannot describe the hilarity that ensued due to "Indian Thriller." Tears were streaming out of my eyes, I was laughing so hard. I highly recommend this video. You have to see it!! The dancing alone is enough.
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I had never even heard of this whole thing until I was putting together this year's media guide and read the answer to questions like "what's your favorite song". I believe the correct spelling is "Soulja Boy" which may be wrong and shows my age as well. At the SoCon volleyball tournament, our PA played this particular song and one of App State's players got up and did the dance in the stands. It was amazing. The whole gym was transfixed and gave her a standing ovation. However, the first time I heard of such a dance was when our PA (Eric - the really, really big guy) was doing it as I walked into the gym...AMAZING is all I can say, which is more than I could say at the time. Don't worry about age...you're still younger than those who thought you were crazy in your younger days...Love ya!
Come on dawg...it's "soulja boy". You better get with it. I'm 30 something doing this dance at peprallys with the teachers at my school. Soooo funny!!!
Happy Birthday today cuz! Thinking of you...and imagining you dancing like the Indian Thriller...
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