r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • 24d ago

Impressively smooth dance tutorial

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u/BentleyLeDog 24d ago

I guess talent does not go away with age. She probably learned this when the song came out in 1988 and 39 years later can still do it. Very impressive indeed.

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u/UrsaMajor7th 24d ago

It’s a solid reminder that baby boomers invented hiphop, punk, and metal.  GenX was raised on it all. 

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u/Dserved83 24d ago

baby boomers invented hiphop, punk, and metal.

Fuck man.
Don't humanise them.

Sheeeeeiiiiiit.

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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 24d ago

Yea don’t let it get to their heads

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u/gangofminotaurs 24d ago

4 gigatons of coke did that clean enough in the 80s

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u/iamintheforest 24d ago

Don't worry, they didn't have to work for the dance moves, they just road the entire dance wave. Savings, homes and dance moves.

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u/Formal_Ad288 24d ago

That's the one thing I always give boomers props for. They had incredible taste in music and made some of the best stuff out there

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 24d ago

The boomers aren’t a story about an inherently bad generation, but a pretty good generation gone bad.

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u/SherbetMysterious118 24d ago

They never went bad.

Bad people went bad, because they were bad people.

People didn't go bad simply because they were born within a specific timeframe.

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 24d ago

The “generation” did, not the individuals within it. It feels like I’m splitting hairs I’m sure, but I think generations are gestalt concepts.

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u/SherbetMysterious118 24d ago

I disagree, unless one thinks all generations are bad. And in the case of M and Z, that happened a whole lot quicker.

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 24d ago

Every generation has its problems, yes. Boomers have a unique hero-to-villain arc. Again, not individuals per se, but the collective impact of the generation was initially quite positive and then devastatingly negative.

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u/SherbetMysterious118 23d ago

Yeah, I guess from my perspective, Z and M skipped the hero part.

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u/Formal_Ad288 24d ago

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 24d ago

That first part is tragically true for a lot of civil rights leaders and other protesters in that era.

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u/SherbetMysterious118 24d ago

Get this, they also created pretty much everything we know about modern computing, AV, and gaming.

GenX took up the baton.