Mike and Music

I don’t watch a lot of YouTube.  Sometimes I’ll get a hankering to see an old video and I’ll pop over to the site, or I’ll come across a link to something in one of the blogs I’ll read, but YouTube is rarely a site I seek out.

Today, while reading one of the blogs I follow, I saw a reference to a video of a guy doing, move for move, the dance from Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” video.  That song is really catchy, and I had a few minutes, so I clicked on the link.  All I can say is WOW.  It’s this very thin, vaguely effeminate (does that go without saying?) man who has set up a camera in his house, fashioned a one-piece leotard similar to Beyonce’s, and memorized all the moves.  He shakes his moneymaker, wiggles his booty, rolls his neck around, and flails his arms like a queen (again, does that go without saying?).

Okay.  People are weird.  They do things like that and then put the video online for others to watch.  It’s not my thing, but whatever.  Um, except that A LOT of people do that, apparently.  There were also videos of really fat men (also in leotards) doing the dance, and videos of really fat women, teenagers, etc.  I’m sure most of them did it because it’s funny, but it still strikes me as strange.  Are people really that desperate for their 15 minutes of fame?

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