Friday, July 18, 2008

Wait, how does that go?

Last night my friend Viktoria and I were driving home and heard the song Crank That by Soulja Boy on the radio, and suddenly it came to our attention that neither one of us knew the dance made to go along with the song. Once we got back to my apartment we did some searching on YouTube to find instructions to the infamous dance. Finally we found a video of Soulja Boy himself instructing his listeners on what to do. After multiple failed attempts we both had our complaints about this instructional how to. I was hard enough to conquer the poor grammar and annunciation throughout the video, but when you throw in the fact that Soulja Boy rarely tells you what leg to lead with it becomes even harder. This is one rapper who definitely needs to work on his instructional dialogue. Not to mention, if you’re facing the screen while trying to dance you’ll be completely backwards. This video would have done a much better job communicating to its audience if the language were clearer and more concise, or perhaps just proper language versus slang terms. It also would have been a lot more helpful to have better visual aid while practicing the steps. An aerial view of what your legs and feet should be doing would have been ideal. Then the viewer could face the screen to memorize the steps without being intangibly tangled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLGLum5SyKQ

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