It’s only natural, I suppose, that a young artist would take that sentiment and use it for the foundation of a song and dance like this one. I think it’s telling, though, that this song is called “Watch Me.” After all, we’re doing a lot of watching ourselves these days. There’s just something about a fun dance that invites people to imitate it and participate, and all the more so in the YouTube era. Watching the video, I recalled previous dance crazes in our culture, from the Electric Slide to the Macarena to PSY’s “Gangnam Style” routine. Still, we’re not in twerking territory here. Some of these gyrations are mildly suggestive, and a few performers’ outfits could be characterized as immodest.
Those shots are intercut with images of many, many others, from very young to very old, doing their own signature takes on the whip, the nae nae, the duff, and so on.
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The video features Silentó performing these moves in a school gym full of enthusiastic, imitative students of all ages (plus a few adults, too). The structure he uses to introduce each move is pretty similar: “Now watch me whip (kill it!)/Now watch me nae nae (OK!).” Elsewhere, we get instructions like, “Do the stanky leg” and, “Now break your legs.” Knowing that we’re not talking about a mob hit here helps especially with that last maneuver. Do the Stanky Leg?Īfter introducing himself-”You already know who it is/Silentó”- this teen leads listeners (and viewers) through that litany of dances with names such as “whip,” “nae nae,” “the stanky leg,” “break your legs,” “bop,” “duff” and “Superman.” Having that interpretative decoder key, however, makes all the difference-especially when it comes to several steps that otherwise might sound problematic. Except that if you don’t know that it’s name-checking a bunch of recent dance moves, you probably won’t be able to make heads or tails of it. There’s not much to the song itself, actually.
This 17-year-old’s song “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” has ignited the viral dance sensation of 2015 via its oft-imitated video. If someone you know suddenly busts out dance moves you’ve never seen before, films them and uploads the footage to YouTube, well, you can probably thank Silentó.
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