I'm glad the article touched on The Madison, cause that's what it was called when I was at school
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No one outside Australia even remembers this song exists and the entire phenomena is the highest form of cringe culture that Australia has produced.
I’m proposing to nominate it as a crime against humanity under the auspices of the United Nations.
@maculata
Maybe people will stop doing it when they hear a government department came up with it. 🤞
Australian DJ in London: puts on that fucking song. All Australians in party or club: start doing that fucking shit. Everyone else: fucking leaves.
@maculata I never learnt it, but as a teenager I knew a large number of scout/rover types who did. Every party, 18th, 21st, even a couple of weddings, it would come on and every one of them would get up and do it. At the time I felt very left out, but later I realised I'd been lucky.
As an emigrant I really dread my citizenship test when I’ll be asked to perform The Dance.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But a new study has found the routine to American singer Tina Turner's 1973 song Nutbush City Limits was invented by the New South Wales education department.
University of South Australia sociologist Jon Stratton said instructions for the Nutbush were distributed to teacher training institutions as a teaching aid in 1975.
Legendary pop singer Turner, who died in May last year, wrote the lyrics to the song which refer to her childhood hometown, Nutbush in the US state of Tennessee.
Edith Cowan University visual and cultural studies professor Panizza Allmark said they were inspired to research the routine following an episode of Hamish and Andy's Gap Year.
He singled out the song's "strong rock beat" that makes it easy to dance to, but said the Nutbush was quintessentially Australian.
"This is what happens in London for example: put on Nutbush City Limits at some party, all the English people go, 'Oh yeah, boring, don't dance to that these days'.
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