Thread 127800045

This caused gen x to lose their fucking minds

>>127800045 (OP)
Great song

>>127800045 (OP)
Is that Jimmy Fallon?

Macarena tiene un novio que se llama
Que se llama de apellido Victorino
En la jura de bandera del muchacho
Se las dio con sus amigos, ay!

>>127800045 (OP)
It was artificially pushed just like all other music at that time. No one knew what music was out there unless it was played on the radio or TV, and that only happened if the record industry paid for the airtime.

white people love any dance moves that use arms instead of hips

>>127800045 (OP)
I think it was more marketed towards millennials i.e. kids and teens at the time. I hated it at the time and I still hate it.

>>127802194
no dude it was for our parents they just made us do it

>>127801447

1995 was such a gay and retarded year if you were an American while some of the greatest Hardcore, Jungle, Trance and Techno bangers came out around that time

It was ok but it was definitely no Mambo No. 5

isn't this song about a girl (Macarena) who cucks his boyfriend with two of his friends while he's in the army

>>127801447
>No one knew what music was out there unless it was played on the radio or TV,
Just pure nonsense.

>>127803115
who names their child macarena

fucking shit fucking fucking shit bro wow look at me say fuck

>>127801447
not really. it was organically popular. a dance craze

>>127803842
>a dance craze
The original had better rythmic content, with bass lines and all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5hXdSEnWA

It was ok but it was definitely no Crazy Frog

>>127800045 (OP)
There has been a truly shocking amount of violence tied to this song at Latin dance clubs. Shootings, brawls, parking lot beat downs. It's shameful that such a fun song has sparked such bloodshed.

The Macarena Non Stop CD single was the very first CD I ever bought. I remember at the neighborhood pool we went wild and all got out of the pool to do the Macarena when the song came on.

>>127805151
I'm a millennial, not a gen Xer tho

>>127805114
really. why?

>>127801447
It wasn't quite as bad in the mid 90's, but there's a story about Outkast's Hey Ya in Charles Duhigg's book The Power of Habit where the record producers were convinced that the song was going to be a hit, but when it played on the radio people kept changing the channel. So they sandwiched the song between two already popular songs to force people to listen to Hey Ya until they got used to it and started liking it.

>>127800045 (OP)
one of the worst songs ever made

>>127800045 (OP)
Everybody! even my grandmother born in 1931 was doing the fucking dance

I was going to say nothing has ever achieved such ubiquity since, but then I remembered Gangnam Style.

>>127806095
Explain why it's bad without mentioning any of the cultural context surrounding it

>>127807380
it sounds like shit