Come on 90s kids, don't be ashamed.
I need to know something, it's bugged me for too long a part of today - the dance routine isn't in the video so how the heck did it catch on?
Candy by Cameo has a dance routine not in the video too, but this is in the aside.
Maybe I'm a bit too bored of a bank holiday... or being naive.
I'm sure it won't be a revelation.
also
the 'macarena' dance.
who the fuck came up with that?
I think
that one WAS in the video.
Endless primary school discos?
Maybe it was on Top Of The Pops once...I definitely remember it being on TOTP.
I remember dancing to it at a primary school disco
along with that Superman song, with a dance routine involving brushing your teeth and flying...
I have no idea.
Funnything is the mAracana one was in the video wasn't it?
Hold that thought
I'm going to check youtube. Though not even wikipedia knows...
What was the dance routine?
My mind must have blanked the memory out
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JbpZAqAucp8
So yes it was on TOTP. But it couldn't have caught on just from there!
Funny.
That is the Macarena
Isn't it?
I think it was popular in holiday resorts..
..and then got transported back to the UK when people returned (like some hideous virus).
Amazing!
And everyone did it exactly the same way? I want to know who started it.
Here you go...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_%28Whigfield_song%29
oh dear....
CD single - Australia (Released in 1997 in Australia)
1. "Saturday Night" (Radio Mix)
2. "Saturday Night" (Euro Beagle Mix - Radio Edit)
3. "Saturday Night" (Euro Beagle Mix - Extended)
4. "Saturday Night" (Classic Vocal Remix - US Remix)
5. "Saturday Night" (Nite Mix)
6. "Saturday Night" (Radio Edit)
7. "Saturday Night" (Beagle MIx)
8. "Saturday Night" (Deep Nite Mix)
9. "Saturday Night" (Dida Mix)
10. "Saturday Night" (Deep Nite Extra Mix)
11. "Saturday Night" (Fishbone Beat's Trance Beat Mix)
12. "Saturday Night" (Fishbone Beat's Afternoon Mix)
Genius!
Oh for the return of the Beagle mix! Them were the days eh.
Holiday Trips to France
as a teenager with my parents can confirm this. The Dutch love their novelty pop and dance moves, so I'm blaming them. Every two-bit disco at every campsite/resort would suddenly fill with Dutch kids doing that dance. And then they'd sing along to "I Want To Be A Hippy" by Technohead. Great times.
Joe - www.anewbandaday.com
Dee Dee na na na
christ, I hate that song.
I remember people doing a simultaneous dance to it though.
Whatever happened to Whigfield?
But
wiki doesn't mention where it came from! It's a phenomenon, I'm gonna pitch a documentary about it to ITV2. Perhaps.
What happened to her? Well... maybe she's still getting ready to go out and deciding what to do with her hair? Indecision's v. difficult to get out of.
I've always wondered
if she actually made it out.
i heard
that she converted to islam and was one of the 9/11 hijackers
she's still around:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_In_The_Night_%28Whigfield_Song%29
whigfield
ahhh
first erection memories...
for some reason
my most prominent whigfield memory is when i was shopping for a cd player in boots (christ, remember when boots sold electronics?) and the guy working there used a cd of saturday night to demo them.
i was considering getting the boots own brand one, but thanks to whigfield i realised it sounded absolutely fucking terrible, and i went for an aiwa instead. which i still have!
Alba > Aiwa
.
Bollocks
Everything > Alba
.
whigfield is the bane of my life. my last name is very similar to whigfield and people still point it out :'(
at the job centre once a few years ago the guy took my form to photocopy it and returned subconsciously whistling 'saturday night'
:D
LOL
I was forced to dance to this on Saturday night whilst on a hen night, I had forgotten the moves but everyone else there knew exactly what they were doing :-/
Forced?
Nah, you loved it.
didi na na na
;)
Oh okay then
It was fun (when drunk).
mags like smash hits
used to publish the dance moves, I guess cribbed from TOTP and the like. I know this because I'm flipping cool.
Did
people over 12 read Smash Hits? I still can't comprehend how the dance became that universal!