This post is more fun if you imagine we’re all at the Singles Jukebox High School Disco…

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Jonathan Bradley: Hey, I remember those dances!
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Megan Harrington: This will be fun for wedding season, which, may I remind you, is just around the corner!
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Iain Mew: Sometimes when someone insistently tells you about how great something is, especially while it’s happening, it can just bring a further remove to actually enjoying the thing. But their enthusiasm can still be a fun experience on its own, as can speedy Gameboy tunes.
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Alfred Soto: From “The Twist,” “Macarena,” and “Crank That” to “Harlem Shake,” songs that kickstart dance crazes have — must have — a certain buoyancy. “Do the NaeNae” is OK as hooks go. I’ll sit this one out. 
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Katherine St Asaph: “Evolution of Dance” wasn’t that great either.
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Thomas Inskeep: This is what happens when we allow YouTube and, even worse, Vine, to “create” “stars.” You get shit like this annoyingly-voiced kid just randomly rapping about popular dances. There’s no “there” here, but what is here is jaw-droppingly terrible. 
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Micha Cavaseno: You know, believe it or not, there are rules to teenagers doing novelty dance records I’ve formed in my eight or nine years of experiencing them and feeling their joy invade my life, to varying degrees. Usually you can tell if a rapper/group is either: A) faker rap nerds trying to cash in on a trend (see John Walt/iLLie); B) industry pros milking a trend whilst being incredibly inaccurate to the makeshift dance movement’s sonic trends (We Are Toonz/Audio Push); C) The lovable “movement pushers” who will inevitably fall off (New Boyz/Dem Franchize Boyz); or D) kids who just want to be along for the ride and the buzz. (We. Will. Never. Forget. You.) No not the dreaded blog buzz, but phone-blowing-up buzz. That vibration you get when everyone sees you and you feel like a star in your local mall. A trembling sensation I… will never experience in my life. But Silento’s totally D, and you can tell because the song is not exceptional but it’s so feel-good and sugar-rush dimple-grin as this kid knows he’s going to do a video of him attempting these dances and fucking it up, get 400-or-so video replies on Vine, the gram, YouTube and wherever of his friends either improving or making a mess of it. Its the sort of DIY joy that creeper Calvin Johnson imagined kids doing but probably would be irritated by the culture surrounding.
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Will Adams: To be fair, it probably took at least a half hour for Silento to compile the right GIFs for his “8 Times These Dance Moves Came In Handy” BuzzFeed Community post. The least I can do is listen once.
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