Tuesday, October 30, 2007

The latest dance craze in France

Or at least in Paris.

Watch this film clip on YouTube. It is a song called "A Cause des Garçons". It's incredibly popular with teenage French boys who like to practice the dance in the video either alone or with their friends. In public. And by "in public" I mean in parks, in shopping centres, and pretty much any open space that isn't filled with people walking through. They don't seem to mind that it looks ridiculous. Sometimes they have portable cd players, so passers-by can hear the music too, but often they just use ipods or other personal music devices so the random public aren't privy to the sound of the track.

I think it is a silly dance; it's more embarrassing than the Macarena and far more complex, so requires a lot of practice to get it right.

5 comments:

David Barry said...

It's reached Le Mans, though people aren't dancing it in the streets or whatever.

Sean said...

It's like a plague.

I wonder if the dancing craze will reach Le Mans or if the health authorities can contain it in Paris.

Anonymous said...

That's actually quite scary!

Sean said...

Yeah, especially when you imagine random teenage boys doing it in random places.

I saw a group of them doing it in a shopping centre, near McDo, with Ipods, which meant that other people couldn't hear the music, they could only see them dancing. They didn't seem to mind that half the patrons of McDo were watching them.

lisbeth said...

Oh please, can someone video them trying to dance like that!? I mean that is just hilarious... Hahahahahha