Thanks to lockdown I have the time to write this. This is me (Miguel Gutierrez, on the right) and my friend Howie Rigberg (on the left) doing my choreography - I called it "Aerobicon" - way back in 2000/2001. It was the first in a series of duets I made over that year called "tandemonium." Howie and I had been in a band together for years in the late 90s called Princess and when that band ended Howie went on to do his music project My Robot Friend. We originally performed this dance at The Performance Garage (where The Wooster Group does their stuff) in the summer of 2000. Writer Laurie Weeks , who had just interviewed Kathleen Hanna for Index Magazine, saw it and told Kathleen about it. Kathleen called me up and asked me if we would perform it at their CMJ show that fall and of course I said yes. We did it there and LeTigre loved it (the rehearsal on the day of the show was actually the first time they saw it) so they decided to film it. It was shot in the attic of Kathleen Hanna and Adam Horowitz's (aka Ad-Rock of The Beastie Boys) house on Spring Street in Manhattan. I thought they were just going to play it during their shows and that would be that. We did end up performing it with them again at least one other time that I can remember at the Bowery Ballroom. Le Tigre put the video on their website and that was cool. Then whoever "iamthewalrus" is posted it on RUclips without crediting me or my friend Howie and it went "viral." (In the early aughts a couple million views seemed viral, but I know it ain't Cardi B viral). At one point I wrote iamthewalrus a dm on RUclips and said, Hey can you please credit me? But I never heard back. Also at some point a few years later I was with my friend Julie Kim, who had also been in Princess, and she said, Hey let's watch that video together it's been a while, and that was when I saw that tons of people had made copycat videos, which blew me away. I was, and continue to be, really happy that so many people got into it. I just think it's hilarious that it's my most "successful" dance that no one realizes I made. (This is one of my biggest pet peeves about all music videos posted on RUclips - they rarely name the choreographer and no one thinks to ask.) You can see us performing it as part of tandemonium in 2001 on my Vimeo channel -
I just can't seem to stop watching this... ...it's somewhat mesmerizing *adds learning the dance to Le Tigre's Deceptacon to her list of things to do before she dies* 0.0
Literally every quiet girl on the inside
The only video in existence that legitimizes 144p
10/10 would play at funeral
probably the best no-budget official music video ever made.
This song is just
The original just dance:
18 years ago wtf
Back in my days, this was a high-class meme.
The original tik tok
last night the DJ played this. And some people started to dance like this. Now I understand why <3
Thanks to lockdown I have the time to write this. This is me (Miguel Gutierrez, on the right) and my friend Howie Rigberg (on the left) doing my choreography - I called it "Aerobicon" - way back in 2000/2001. It was the first in a series of duets I made over that year called "tandemonium." Howie and I had been in a band together for years in the late 90s called Princess and when that band ended Howie went on to do his music project My Robot Friend. We originally performed this dance at The Performance Garage (where The Wooster Group does their stuff) in the summer of 2000. Writer Laurie Weeks , who had just interviewed Kathleen Hanna for Index Magazine, saw it and told Kathleen about it. Kathleen called me up and asked me if we would perform it at their CMJ show that fall and of course I said yes. We did it there and LeTigre loved it (the rehearsal on the day of the show was actually the first time they saw it) so they decided to film it. It was shot in the attic of Kathleen Hanna and Adam Horowitz's (aka Ad-Rock of The Beastie Boys) house on Spring Street in Manhattan. I thought they were just going to play it during their shows and that would be that. We did end up performing it with them again at least one other time that I can remember at the Bowery Ballroom. Le Tigre put the video on their website and that was cool. Then whoever "iamthewalrus" is posted it on RUclips without crediting me or my friend Howie and it went "viral." (In the early aughts a couple million views seemed viral, but I know it ain't Cardi B viral). At one point I wrote iamthewalrus a dm on RUclips and said, Hey can you please credit me? But I never heard back. Also at some point a few years later I was with my friend Julie Kim, who had also been in Princess, and she said, Hey let's watch that video together it's been a while, and that was when I saw that tons of people had made copycat videos, which blew me away. I was, and continue to be, really happy that so many people got into it. I just think it's hilarious that it's my most "successful" dance that no one realizes I made. (This is one of my biggest pet peeves about all music videos posted on RUclips - they rarely name the choreographer and no one thinks to ask.) You can see us performing it as part of tandemonium in 2001 on my Vimeo channel -
This song was released in 1999.
This choreography is the most beautiful thiing i have ever seen
After 10 years I discovered the name of this song. I have found it. I feel complete.
I watch this video when I am sad and it makes me not sad.
BEST. WORKOUT. VIDEO. EVER.
I just can't seem to stop watching this...
...it's somewhat mesmerizing
*adds learning the dance to Le Tigre's Deceptacon to her list of things to do before she dies* 0.0
Currently learning this dance for when I walk the stage at my graduation
why did i only see this 15 years later
This song will never get old.