What is even more crazy, is that I have been doing most of these dance moves myself. The other dance moves named in Horses, are: the pony, mash potato, the alligator, twist.
Turns out the 1960s was the era of dance moves with groovy names. The strangest most peculiar of all is that when I was just listening to the song and that lyric “do the watusi” would come up, I would imagine myself doing a dance… very similar moves to the actual watusi dance!!! In the early 1990s, the butterfly (the legs. The word ‘watusi’ was used to describe the “Tutsi people of Africa, whose traditions include spectacular dances. The naming of the American dance may have been inspired, in particular, by a scene in the 1950 film King Solomon’s Mines which featured Tutsi dancers” (borrowed this info from Wikipedia). The monkey and the pony were popular dances of the 1960s, and breakdancers of the 1980s did the crab and the spider. Well, turns out it is the name of a dance move that became popular in the 1960s.
I noticed half way through the song, there is a lyric “do the watusi” and I thought: ‘What the hell is that?’ One of my all-time new favourite songs from the History of Rock & Roll is Horses by Patti Smith. Then you do the watusi, yeah do the watusi”
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“Do you know how to pony like bony maroneyĭo you know how to twist, well it goes like this, it goes like thisīaby mash potato, do the alligator, do the alligatorĪnd you twist the twister like your baby sister
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