Here are a few of the most common dances of the 1990s.
The Running Man: The Running Man is a dance that originated in the 1980s but achieved renewed popularity in the 2000s. It consists of a hopping or sliding step done in such a way at speed to simulate a runner. The Running Man achieved celebrity focus in 2007 with Britney Spears doing an homage to it during her M+M's: Concerts From The HOB Tour 2007 and Scarlett Johansson stating of her dancing in an interview with Seventeen that, "I do a great Running Man." First Lady Laura Bush even did a bit of Running Man during a March 2007 event in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2008 saw the re-release of Something Good, the video is highly based in the 80's during the running man craze and features many people getting up and dancing to the song doing the running man.
The Clown Walk: The Clown Walk (also known as the C-Walk) refers to a modern dance style, usually done to hip hop music. It is a variation of the Crip walk, a gang related dance.
Cha-Cha Slide: Cha-Cha Slide is a song/dance track sometimes referred to as the "Casper Slide". This song is often played at dance clubs, parties, skating rinks and weddings in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. The Cha Cha Slide is also a dance created by Chicago's DJ Casper, (aka Mr. C). Cha Cha Slide is a line dance with called instructions. DJ Casper developed the Cha Cha Slide in 1996 for Bally Total Fitness; it became a hit with gym members, and the dance's popularity prompted Mr. C to record Cha-Cha Slide: The Original Slide Album. It was released on September 19, 2000. The following year, the dance caught on around Canada and the USA, where urban contemporary radio stations (and later mobile DJs), particularly in Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Arkansas, Memphis, and Detroit.
Chicken Noodle Soup: The basic dance features exaggerated shuffling, arm swinging, and a pantomime of the song's lyrics. Detractors have derided the whole Chicken Noodle Soup phenomenon as irritating and corny.
Crank Dat / Soulja Boy Dance: "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" is the hit debut single by rapper Soulja Boy from his debut album Souljaboytellem.com. It spent seven weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 2007. The song is easily recognized with its steel pan melody.
The Cupid Shuffle: The Cupid Shuffle is a song by Cupid. It has spawned a popular line dance and has drawn a lot of comparison to DJ Casper's "Cha Cha Slide." The dance is becoming popular, especially in hip hop dance circles and the song is known for its bass line.
Ketchup Song Dance: "The Ketchup Song" is the English title of the song "Aserejé" which was an international hit in 2002. The song exists in two versions, Spanish and English, with the latter performed in a mixture of English and Spanish, described as "Spanglish".
Snap dance: Snap dance is a subcategory of pop dance that started in Atlanta, Georgia. The basic idea is that dancers snap their fingers to the snap sound to musical accents while doing various basic dance moves in between.
Peanut Butter Jelly Time: The Dancing Banana (a.k.a. Peanut Butter Jelly) is a popular emoticon. By late 2001, the banana was already being used on several forums as a standard emoticon. Most of these forums would replace the typed text ":banana:" with the graphical image. As the popularity of the banana grew, hundreds of variations of the image had been created for forums or other purposes. These new images typically would have to be either uploaded or linked to, instead of replacing text. There is also a dancing pickle, carrot, apple, penis, onion, taco, broccoli, Sonic the Hedgehog, Yoshi, Mario, Luigi, Megaman, Coach Z, and padlock ("lock this topic"), among many others. The Dancing Banana soon made its way to television shows and began to appear as an icon in American Pop Culture.
Shoulder Lean:
Below are some of the songs for these dances as well as some additional dance tunes. For your convenience, we have included links to the sheet music on Sheetmusicplus.com as well as the CD on Amazon.com whenever available. If you are looking to purchase the mp3 or would like to listen to a sample, then click on either the Rhapsody or iTunes links.
Rhapsody provides both music subscriptions as well as individual mp3s for sale in WMA format, while iTunes only provides MPEG-4 audio files for sale. For more information about where to purchase music online, we provide it on our Music Downloads page or our Music Subscriptions page.
These singles are considered among the best dance songs to hit the charts in the 2000s.
Rhapsody
Rhapsody
Rhapsody
Rhapsody
Rhapsody
Sheetmusicplus
Rhapsody
Sheetmusicplus
Rhapsody
Find some of the best songs of the 2000s by selecting one of the links below:
Click on any of the links below to find the:
