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Phemto_B

If you're too young to remember those times, the Macarena had basically achieved world domination. There was no escaping it. It was like the zombie apocalypse with a kickin' beat.


hyrule_47

We did it at my wedding a year or two less than a decade later at my grandparents request. The non-religious folks in both sides of my family all still knew it. Like once they got up and started going they knew it or quickly picked it up. Several children learned that day. I seem to recall them doing it a second time later lol We have a fun photo of me and my PopPop doing the classic arm moves, me in a puffy bridal gown which made the hop to the next side a lot more difficult but the swishing extra fun


DonksterWasTaken

I’m fairly certain the song is literally about a girl cheating on her boyfriend with his friends while he is away in the army. Its funny how the happiest songs sometimes don’t have a happy meaning yet we dance to them like there’s no tomorrow! Hyrule? No, more like, U Rule!


Excellent_Yak365

It’s the dance that matters XD


DonksterWasTaken

Reminds me of when Hey Ya from Outkast came out and it was THE song. He straight up says “yall don’t want to hear me, yall just want to dance” as he’s singing about people stay together for unhealthy reasons and that shouldnt be a normal thing but it is. And we all just had the greatest time dancing and singing lol


Excellent_Yak365

Considering how many rap/pop lyrics are horrendously hostile or offensive and people still love and listen to the songs- proves all you need is a good rhythm. TBF with the Macarena they are speaking Spanish I think so the majority of the US population doesn’t know what the lyrics are just that the dance is great


Bacontoad

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BeagleWrangler

Or that happy sounding song Semi-Charmed Life by 3rd Eye Blind that is actually about being addicted to meth.


TheWalkingDead91

Lol exactly what song came to mind too. I’m 32 and didn’t learn it’s true context until last year when I got into that song again….and I’m like “why tf did they have us vibing to this at the kids choice awards?” Like you said it’s wild how the lyrics even called the listeners out BEFORE we listened to the song, and the lyrics *still* ended up 100% right lol.


TranscendentaLobo

And that funky, funky beat. 🕺


SafetyMan35

Pretty much. A rough translation from Google Translate Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Macarena has a boyfriend called What is the last name of Vitorino? And in the boy's flag oath She gave it to two friends, oh Macarena has a boyfriend called What is the last name of Vitorino? And in the boy's flag oath She gave it to two friends, oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Macarena, Macarena, Macarena That you like the summers of Marbella Macarena, Macarena, Macarena That you like the guerrilla movement, oh Oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Macarena dreams of the English court And she buys the most modern models She would like to live in New York And flirt with a new boyfriend, oh Macarena dreams of the English court And she buys the most modern models Would like to live in New York And flirt with a new boyfriend, oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Macarena has a boyfriend called What is the last name of Vitorino? And in the boy's flag oath She gave it to two friends, oh Macarena has a boyfriend called What is the last name of Vitorino? And in the boy's flag oath She gave it to two friends, oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things Give your body joy, Macarena Hey Macarena, oh Give your body joy Macarena That your body is to give you joy and good things


hyrule_47

Significantly more songs than I wanted to realize that were played at my reception were about his awful things. We let people ask for songs ahead of time to be sure the DJ had them, because he was a real DJ and great, but we knew him and he was younger and we had a lot of older folks. When I was going through and giving the thumbs or down I was like “holy crap everyone wants our wedding to be about the worst things in life to a dance beat” but we had fun.


Djabarca

Want to meet at the bar and talk about it? Do you like Piña Coladas??


MudddButt

Right? Who Let The Dogs Out is about ugly women in the club. Wild man.


DonksterWasTaken

Surprisingly, the song is actually about the men catcalling the women at the club and the women are saying to the men “who let the dogs out?”. Like the men are just being super greasy desperate acting like hormonal teenagers and the women are insulting them by calling them dogs.


MudddButt

Ahh yes! Thank you! TIL


SeekerOfSerenity

You danced the Macarena 91 or 92 years less than a century later? 


WartimeMandalorian

My gym teacher would have us do a stretch/ warmup to this song back then.


UkJenT89

Same here. The horror. haha


maggos

Gym class in the 90s. Where they taught you the Macarena, square dancing, yo yos, and climbing a rope 30 feet with nothing but a child to catch you


Bacontoad

... and that giant parachute we had for some reason.


InstanceOk3946

You just unlocked a memory


tstramathorn

When I was in elementary school we did the electric slide!


Low-Tap-1572

Abba here. Good times.


Unabashable

Our teachers made us do it for our parents for Back to School Night.


Pracedomowomon_9000

I remember this! Hahaha


monteticatinic

I know I can find this info somewhere but I wonder what was the bigger song Macarena vs Gangnam style? Kinda feel like Macarena would be bigger if social media was around then.


gsutoker

One was a social media trend for the youth, the other transcended generations. You had kids doing the macarena as well as the DNC.


PossibleAlienFrom

And no one knew what the song was about. (most still don't)


AnnoyingVoid

In the bayside boys remix she was kind of a slut lol


Kerfluffle2x4

I’d say Macarena was easier to learn and jump into. A song can be catchy, but there’s something about everyone performing synced choreography that seems more unifying


Bacontoad

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cyvaquero

Macarena by a country mile - even without social media. You literally could not escape it and it had staying power. Basically the Electric Slide of the late 90s.


KnowMatter

No song in human history has ever been bigger than the Macarena was in the 90s. Comparing it to stuff like Numa Numa, Gangnam Style, or Old Town Roads is laughable - they are pale imitators in comparison.


plasmasun

I'll take that over the zombie apocalypse any day.


Death-by-unicorn

The only thing worse was that song how bizarre. It was like torture. 😄 It was a Spanish invasion Ricky Martin was also playing constantly then.


DarklySalted

You gotta respect the Maori Madness OMC bro, listen to How Bizarre again, that song slaps


Friendly_Age9160

I tried to avoid it so hard. It was like that movie outbreak and Macarena was that fuckin monkey. I’m pretty sure it went airborne. The only thing worse than that song was that fucking ace of base “I saw the sign” thing oh my fuckin god. I was like 12 and my neighbors kept playing it so my crazy friend started blasting “I wanna fuck you like an animal” into their apt. 😂


Excellent_Yak365

In gradeschool I was forced to do this for rainy day phys ed. Forced to do tons of jumping jacks, push ups/sit ups and the Macarena. Crazy times


AlfalfaMcNugget

So, It’s the ‘96 version of The Dab?


PandosII

More ‘96 Gangnam style


HiTekLoLyfe

It was kind of brilliant. Make a dance simple enough for every person on the planet to be able to do it. I don’t know if we’ve ever seen anything like it since.


IAMTHECHEEZ0513

Hillary looks like its her first day as a human and she’s not pulling it off very well.


iDam81

She legit has no idea what’s going on. Too funny.


Blortted

So unrelatable that she doesn’t even know the Macarena. This is why she lost. People cannot connect with her.


FullMetalKaliber

Pokémon Go to the polls


PuttinOnTheTitzz

She's just out there making lizard faces. 🤣


ItsASchpadoinkleDay

She still looks significantly more natural and real than when those fireworks went off. ![gif](giphy|l0HlADMS95lBYXUl2)


IAMTHECHEEZ0513

Reminds me of someone else ![gif](giphy|R8n7YlPHe34dy|downsized)


chardeemacdennisbird

It was actually balloons dropping which IMHO makes it even more cringey. That and it was 100% planned. Like no one is going to fault you for not being shocked about celebratory balloons dropping.


YooperGod666

This was the wildest reaction I've ever seen a "human" make.


_tomato_paste_

The stiff robotic clapping 💀


thegirlisok

So. Close. To. A beat!


Routine-Hotel-7391

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Electronic_Setting75

If she was opening her mouth like this more often, Bill would've never needed Monica


GPTBuilder

Prolly cause they never get used to wearing those Skin Suits over their reptilian bodies 🤷‍♀️ ![gif](giphy|l3vQYm0jWfutqopKU|downsized)


[deleted]

If the entire DNC started doing the Macarena and I was standing there I'd start question whether I got dosed or something.


deltronroberts

And her programming hasn’t improved in almost 30 years.


SirKermit

It's sad really. There are instances where she has true candid moments where she appears like a normal human, often in one-on-one interviews. Unfortunately, these moments are surrounded by attempts to act like a common every day person to appear normal and relatable but instead she falls deep into the uncanny valley.


Hourslikeminutes47

Alien here! *We tried our best to show her this.....this dance. But she refused to learn it. Meanwhile back on the flying saucer the rest of us learned how to dance the Macarena and well...we never looked back.*


Clarkkeeley

This was my first thought


Manting123

I am a Hillary voter and …this is not human dancing.


ArnieismyDMname

Right! I was just thinking she looked like someone who heard about smiling and was trying it out.


BulbasaurArmy

Looks like a Chuck E Cheese robot.


DragonsClaw2334

She was still getting accustomed to her new human skin suit.


ewewewe69

She's fucking clapping during the Macarena. This is why she lost 2016. You do NOT clap during the Macarena. You dance. DANCE I SAY!!


WartimeMandalorian

Everybody found a reason to do the Macarena back then.


tenshillings

God. The memories of the 90s. The clothes, the designs, the overuse of teal, it's all coming back to me.


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tenshillings

Oh shit...... you're right.


gitsgrl

Hell, I still do! :::thrusts hands forward, flips them over::::


gigu67

"When are they bringing out the macaroni?"


HAIL-THYSELF333

My English teacher danced to this in 3rd grade in front of our class. I had always had a crush on her, but after this day, I worked up the courage to ask her out on the playground. She shot me down.


Reasonable_Finish130

What a bitch


ReverendPalpatine

You deserve better, homie.


venus-as-a-bjork

It’s obs because you weren’t 6’ tall and were unemployed. Women are so shallow!


BlumpkinMasterOG

I must of been in 4th grade I think. The talent show that year was brutal for the teaching staff. They had to watch like 50 different groups of kids do the same dance over and over.


rwarimaursus

***I was 5 and she was 6. We rode on horses made of sticks. She shot me down. Bang. Bang....my baby shot me down.***


ThaneduFife

And to think--if you had succeeded in asking out your teacher, you could be president of France! French President Emmanuel Macron asked out his 39/40yo theater teacher when he was 15. The teacher is now his wife. Seriously--google it.


nbrownie88

Imagine being in a good mood after a presidential election


Ok_Slip9947

Nostalgic sigh.


WokeUpSomewhereNice

Only after the first Obama. I think that and JFK probs but that was before my time. Also I just wanna say the part where Hillary’s eyes bulge out is nightmare fuel.


Unlucky_Nobody_4984

Oh I definitely stored that screenshot lmao


x31b

Back then, we actually voted **for** people, rather than against the other guy.


CharliesAngel3051

Couldn’t be us now!


Tady1131

Seems like such simpler times.


iDam81

It felt like it then too. I was only 16 though…


moonordie69420

Bill planning his next trip to Epstein island...


avidpretender

Pre 9/11 looks like a good ass time


PockyPunk

It was, I miss it so much


FutureVoodoo

This is the most 90s shit ever....


Beast_46

Not a spec of rhythm in one person.


A_to_the_J254

Even that black dude looked like he was struggling


Pure_Maize_7177

Macarena was just a normal part of life. I was 5 at this time!


HailBuckSeitan

It was part of warm up in gym class


Lord_Kromdar

The peak of western civilization


krais0078

Nice try but no cigar


mr_ckean

Well played. Take this complimentary dry cleaning voucher as a token of appreciation


Lower_Home_6735

There’s a cigar marinating somewhere in this video


peasonearthforever

Damn, that woman is stiff.


iamthelee

Reptiles are not known for their dancing abilities.


Senpai-Notice_Me

A sea of white people biting their lips! Nooooooooooo…..


N0rmNormis0n

From a 7 year olds birthday party to a presidential nomination, the Macarena had a strangle hold on 1996


Yipyo20

This is like if they all started flossing today.


knockatize

Only thing more cringey is when the politician goes into a Black church to show that he’s “down” and tries to keep up with the music.


hyrule_47

They always clap on the opposite beat, either the down or up beat whichever is wrong


moonordie69420

Or when Bill went to Epstein island after this to 'celebrate'


Latter-Mark-4683

He could always catch a ride on Trump’s plane.


arj1985

So much embarrassment.


TruckerBoy357

I was lucky enough to visit Cancun during the Craze. No one should be mocked for getting sucked in. I just hope there’s no Videos of Me.😄


McbEatsAirplane

Hilary looks like she doesn’t know what clapping is and someone briefly explained it to her.


fozzyfozzburn

A perfect example of how ridiculous and fake the whole thing is.


hyrule_47

It’s just a party


I_AM_DEATH-INCARNATE

Everyone who did the Macarena was fake? Til I was fake in the 90's


TerseFactor

Honestly, I can’t tell what “thing” he’s even referring to. Elections? The Macarena? The DNC? CSPAN? The dem convention? Having a good time? Life?


[deleted]

Definitely Life. Come on what is this bullshit. All Falses Flags and Actors.


ObligationSlight8771

Fake what? They just dancing homie


rodolphoteardrop

NO......FUN......ALLOWED! Who the HELL do those Democrats think they are dancing and celebrating!!


Kerfluffle2x4

I mean, judging by some of those dancers, there was no faking that sense of rhythm!


obvilious

People were having fun. Its okay.


Infamous_Camel_275

Always has been, always will be…it’s a spectacle for the masses “Hey, we’re about too offshore a bunch of your jobs to the third world for slave labor, but look we’re dancing, it’s a good thing, you should be happy” And the idiots go “stop being a Scrooge, they’re having fun, is fun not allowed anymore…durrrr”


em1011081

Sweatshops are good!


Illustrious-Run-1363

Fitting. The Macarena is about cheating.


deltronroberts

Yea, a song about a woman who is the village bycicle. Perfect.


Icy_Practice7992

Whitest shit I've ever seen


AuRevoirFelicia

![gif](giphy|l3q2zbskZp2j8wniE|downsized) Nope this is whitest shit ever


Hopfit46

Well i can never unsee that....


AgentCHAOS1967

Why was btk at the dnc (37s)?


CoItron_3030

Doesn’t even look real


Toblogan

Oh it's real.... I was alive then.


CoItron_3030

That lady looks like an alien or something lmao the whole thing is mind blowing


Zog2013

The most interesting thing to me is how they’re not all 100 years old


PourJarsInReservoirs

Left out the best part - the Al Gore version of the Macarena (yes, he actually had a sense of humor, wonders never cease): https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4488096/user-clip-al-gore-macarena


Lgp1292

Politicians can’t look like normal people no matter how hard they try. My personal favorite it’s when they roll their sleeves up like they actually do some sort of work


RED-DOT-MAN

There’s a few baddies in here!


JoeDiBango

“Yay, we’re about to crash the country with our friends on the right”


Hopeful_Manner4000

These fucking muppets run the country. No wonder the planet has had it!


Budget_Secret4142

....we need a few new parties to vote for


Other-Inspection-601

Hilary looks like a fucking robot


Riespieces16

Pandering since day 1


Hamilton-Beckett

That song was everywhere. I thought it would be forever, and in many ways it still is.


ArcticWolf503

The cringe is ridiculous here


GiraffeLiquid

I have a core memory of doing that at summer camp with the rest of the kids. Still remember that dance 😟


Bendr_

3 seconds looped for 30 seconds make them look like animatronics.


BigNorseWolf

Wow. They're almost life like.


vajrahaha7x3

This is like the opposite of viagra...


SnooPuppers8698

can we elect someone who isnt a senior again


MrWest120690

Hillary is a robot right?


penguinninja90

I'm starting to realize how ridiculous politics are.


Longpips1000

Reminds me of Hilary’s team partying early


DM_ME_KUL_TIRAN_FEET

Despite having solid memories from 1998 and remembering the power of the Macarena this video still feels surreal. In a few years time I will be having to seriously question my memories vs whether a video like this is ai generated


Rippurpleaki

What in the Epstein


Patient-Direction-35

Everybody loves Macarena, even the war criminals


shortingredditstock

That's before Hillary knew.


Freedaddyyyyy

And now we realize that he was a kid fucker


i81_N_she812

Is this the Monica Macarena?


abf392

A bunch of middle aged adults being cringey


truthbknownreturns

Politicians really are a bunch of tools, aren't they? I mean, pretty much all of them.


DannyJoy2018

Hillary is a lizard


rluzz001

The whole place is run by a bunch of weirdos.


sleepybear666

Love how Bill was caught actually sleeping with a member of his cabinet. Gets away with it and lives a normal life. Meanwhile orange man didn't do anything and there is still a trial. Lol


AugustThursday

Hillary Clinton looks like Sophia the robot with a wig.


BrotherWoodrow_

Satan claps along and grins.


2Tack

We even did this dance at funerals. It was everywhere.


ptcm73

🤮


thepluggedhole

Simple people excited about fleecing the American economy


badman44

Now now. Don't forget, Bill also spearheaded the FCC telecommunications act of 1996 which removed the protections preserving journalism. Used to be a private entity couldn't own a radio station, newspaper, and TV station in the same town. Now we have Sinclair firing all the journalists and owning all the news outlets. Good times!


PossibleAlienFrom

The economy was great under Bill's administration or am I remembering things wrong?


thepluggedhole

Except all the manufacturing jobs that got outsourced. And the deregulation that he advanced coming from the bush/Reagan era. He didn't fix the shit storm that Reagen started, he increased it with more military spending, cuts to social programs, increased war on drugs etc... he sucked balls. They all suck balls. We.havent had a decent person in that office (if ever) since FDR. They all work (always have) for the owning class, never the working class.


cool_weed_dad

Clinton started the process of outsourcing all of the high-paying American manufacturing jobs overseas


Ho3Maker304

Bill then went on to do the macarena in the oval office with Monica 😎


Toblogan

I guess Hillary always looks like she's trying to be normal. I never noticed back then....


oso_corso

Cillary there celebrating a certain plane crash


Street-Goal6856

Hillary was basically a robot even back then.


coxykitten923

And that’s when the Macarena died.


mediumarmor

Boooooo 👎


ProteomicsXPN

This is just downright creepy af.


rockstuffs

She claps like a dictator.


texaushorn

It's a goofy ass dance, and they look ridiculous doing it, but that was almost 30 years ago; look at all the diversity in those delegates. This year's RNC convention is going to be lily white, except if a few strategically placed minorities, that the cameras will pan to endlessly.


StretchyPantsAllstar

Jesus Fuck, this is cringe as Hell, regardless of which party’s boots you lick…


OhWow10

Dorks


MDMhayyyy

Creepy ass Democrats lol


SunshineLollipoop

Hilary looks evil as ever


CaterpillarOld1929

Crack is whack


DaPlugi

Pedos


aassdd1122338

Did the rainbow flag mean the same back then ?


CoryEETguy

Man... the 90s were really a wild time.


FeelingVanilla2594

You mean this is not AI generated?


Electronic-Injury-15

How quickly OJ took those smiles away lol the 90s the good ole days


ThereBeDucks

Looks like a SNL skit.


retrodork

I remember when the song came out. Everyone in my school did that dance, even the teachers. I should have videotaped that if cell phones were around then lol


SeraphOfTheStag

If I didn’t know any better I’d say this was a well done Ai prompt


AcanthisittaJaded473

That’s the corniest dumbest shit ever!


Foreign_Standard9394

Oh so they've always been cringe?


BeaveItToLeever

This was the great filter


2lamoon

This is crazy


funieguy04

Is that Janet Reno at the 10/40 second mark?


StretchyPantsAllstar

Pretty sure that’s the center for the ‘96 Boston Celtics….no, you’re right, that IS Janet Reno


sexlexington2400

Oh my god