The Macarena: It Lives, Perhaps Improbably
I mentioned this oddness to two of my non-game-attending pals, and they both gave me the same “well, duh” response: “Yeah, it’s like the Chicken Dance of now,” by which they meant that it had achieved the sort of wedding/Sweet 16 ubiquity that allows future generations to keep the tradition alive. But I’ve thought it over, and I haven’t heard “Macarena” at a wedding/DJed gathering in a good ten years. I hadn’t even heard the song in full in at least one year, although there was a snippet of it on some VH1 “The ’90s Were Totally Absolutely Rad, Dude” special that I flipped past on a rainy day of recent days.
Anyway, this response has just befuddled me on all sides, and so I turn it over to you, Idolator readers. Is “Macarena” an already-in-place piece of the novelty-dance canon, or do we still have time? And does this mean that it’s taken the place of the Achy Breaky on your local bad DJ’s playlist, just in time for Billy Ray Cyrus to debut his new frizz-free ‘do?
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Los Del Rio – The Macarena [YouTube]