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Old bros, DESCRIBE the macarena craze
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Date: June 8th, 2015 12:59 AM Author: contagious hell how big was it? did everyone know the song? was it a widespread cultural phenomenon? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#28066080) |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:00 AM Author: doobsian meetinghouse Huge
Yes, but only in the sense they'd heard of it and knew the general beat/sound
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:02 AM Author: Massive Exhilarant Range Round Eye shit would come on over elementary school loudspeaker and the whole school would do it simultaneously (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#28066102) |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:02 AM Author: Self-absorbed brass prole it was crazy. you'd be walking down the street and some guy would pull up in an el camino and yell "DOOOOOOOOOO THE MACARENA" and everybody - I mean EVERYBODY - would drop what they were doing and start dancing. marching bands were doing it at football games. macarena played on every radio station, even public radio and stations that don't play music. corporate culture became infected and F500 companies were scheduling 'macarena breaks' for their workers just to channel the zeitgeist into something structured and try to cut down on distractions throughout the day from people bursting into dance. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#28066105) |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:19 AM Author: yellow provocative preventive strike home some people reading this might think this is a joke, but i was there, and this is exactly how it went down. it was insane. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#28066250) |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:22 AM Author: curious state cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#28066279) |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:05 AM Author: curious state It was absolutely absurd, like there was something in the drinking water that made everyone go crazy. You heard it multiple times per day and everyone would do it at least once per day.
If you were at a sporting event they would play it like three times and everyone jumped up and did it. Janet Reno did it. Tons of high level serious people were doing the macarena in public. Teachers would lead their classes in the macarena. Whole schools would do the macarena at assemblies. Basically anytime there was a large gathering of people, the macarena was done.
I still remember every move. If you played it I would probably start doing it like the manchurian candidate.
Strange times in america my friend. |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:07 AM Author: doobsian meetinghouse Tbf, it was strange but sweet and innocent. Not like the post apocalyptic hell scape we face today because of the insanity libs are foisting on us (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#28066139) |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:10 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle Affirmative Action (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#28066161) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 10:00 PM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (πΊπΈ π΅π±) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941451) |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:10 AM Author: contagious hell 180.
the 90's was a bizarre time in american history, a break from reality. things were going so well that stuff like the macarena craze and the lewinsky "scandal" actually made the news. |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:11 AM Author: 180 carmine library genital piercing the branch davidians were actually in the middle of a Macarena competition when the ATF raided the compound. really slowed their reaction time cuz they didn't want to stop
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:14 AM Author: doobsian meetinghouse Poor bastards
Fuckin no good atf |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:13 AM Author: Primrose casino tank I hated it until I went to an O's game and it was played and this hot teen girl near me started doing the macarena. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#28066187) |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:14 AM Author: doobsian meetinghouse I want to go back to the 90s :( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#28066206) |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:16 AM Author: lascivious unhinged gas station lol yes absolutely everyone knew it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#28066218) |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:18 AM Author: curious state just watch this. the people are possessed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NpscLUEx0Y
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:23 AM Author: big big-titted death wish selfie oh what a time it was. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#28066286) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 8:11 PM Author: Big Bear Energy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941214) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 10:48 PM Author: Robert Byrd Schitt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941513) |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:24 AM Author: Poppy Persian catchy tune (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#28066292) |
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Date: June 8th, 2015 1:25 AM Author: doobsian meetinghouse Odd craze very interesting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#28066302) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 8:15 PM Author: Junko Enoshima When I was in kindergarten my school had a Cinco de Mayo party and the sixth graders led us in the Macarena. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941224) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 8:18 PM Author: ....,....,.......,.........,....,.,.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGIr4Mq_4C8 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941230) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 9:39 PM Author: watermelon felon ((zurich is stained)) goddamn it, i didn't need to be reminded of this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941419) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 9:32 PM Author: Emperor Dwayne Johnson III?s Furious Haka Face ( ) Early example of spicy Latinas dancing being introduced to square white culture via the music video on repeat on VH1 and MTV. Real visceral experience for the 90s American mind, both male and female. See also, Gloria Estefan. The trend would fragment and crescendo with the Ricky Martin/Enrique Iglesias and Shakira/JLo era pop stars. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941416) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 9:56 PM Author: Big Bear Energy how dare you omit RICO SUAVE himself GERARDO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941445) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 9:59 PM Author: Emperor Dwayne Johnson III?s Furious Haka Face ( ) Apologies. Thank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941449) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 10:04 PM Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth) agreed. would add that gloria estefan (conga) and madonna singing in spanish (la isla bonita) was a full 10 years earlier, 1985-86. what's crazy about macarena is how literally everyone knew it, it was everywhere. the next massive song after macarena was shakira (hips don't lie), 2005. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941454) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 10:43 PM Author: the discombobulator Lol at putting Hips Don't Lie in the same category as Macarena. Next big cultural phenomenon song (if you exclude My Heart Will Go On because that wasn't the main craze, it was an offshoot of the Titanic craze) was Who Let The Dogs Out in 2000 |
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Date: June 16th, 2026 7:08 AM Author: watermelon felon ((zurich is stained)) who let the dogs out somehow endures. my younger son came home from either kindergarten or preschool singing that shit just a couple years ago. i hate to say it, because i couldn't and can't stand that song, but it's kind of catchy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941759) |
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Date: June 16th, 2026 7:38 AM Author: Senior Ethics Official Right. Wltdo is the correct Next musical cultural phenom of at least similar resonance. But it didnt have a dance. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941801) |
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Date: June 17th, 2026 9:36 AM Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth) haha thanks - you are totally right. big song, but even close to the same thing with respect to the craze/dance (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49943697) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 10:58 PM Author: average/ordinary/typical citizen/person It was certainly the "Wet Ass Pussy" of its day. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941540) |
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Date: June 15th, 2026 11:02 PM Author: Amanda Reckonwith Popular but cringy. Remember going out for drinks after work and if it came on the office shrews would get all excited, jump up to dance and try to drag you with them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49941558) |
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Date: June 17th, 2026 9:38 AM Author: animeboi (.) it was overrated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2902133&forum_id=2#49943703) |