Video of the Day – New Dance or Old Cooning?
September 21, 2006 by Marc Lamont Hill
Today’s video of the day is the red-hot “Chicken Noodle Soup.” The song is standard pop fare, but the video and accompanying “Chicken Noodle Soup” dance is sweeping the nation. The dance, which is a hybrid of the Toe Wop and the Harlem Shake, has been catching fire since June.
Am I getting old or is this dance, with all of the shuffling and light footing, nothing more than new-school minstrelsy?
Here’s a clip of the actual video:
Here’s a young woman doing the Chicken Noodle Soup:
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11 Comments
1. Samuel Beatrice wrote:
Ting please be nice.
September 21, 2006 @ 3:25 pm2. Rodney Dugue wrote:
Straight Coonery Without A Doubt…Diddy did something comparable to this… I just wrote something on that at my blog
RD
September 21, 2006 @ 6:06 pm3. Rodney Dugue wrote:
@Hal…If I’m not mistaken the chorus is a double-entendre. Think R. Kelly (Let it Rain).
RD
September 21, 2006 @ 6:10 pm4. omodiende wrote:
actually, white folks have done things as horrific, but they usually had to put on blackface to do it.
September 21, 2006 @ 7:19 pm5. jay wrote:
Who in the hell made up this dance????, it looks like something
George Jefferson does. Anyway I think it’s very funny, it’s just kids having fun.
6. omodiende wrote:
jig? The newest self-titled derogatory racial term meant to empower and be cool at the same time?
September 22, 2006 @ 4:18 pm7. Mitch wrote:
I don’t know so much about the dance, but the song itself is most irritating. I think it’s going to rank right up there with the music to Electric Slide as one of the worst dance songs in history by the time it’s through. I must be getting old myself.
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