- ♪ Dale a tu cuerpo alegría Macarena ♪
♪ Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegría why cosa buena ♪
- The more modern they are, the worse I get.
♪ (upbeat intro) ♪
- (FBE) How well do you each of you know dance moves?
- Oh, I don't. - Dance moves?
I know a few, you know, from back in the day.
- My time, yes, but not the new ones.
- Yeah, now? - I don't know.
- Modern dance moves are just weird.
We have, like, twerking. - I've heard about that. You twerk.
- (laughing)
- (FBE) So we're doing a generational battle today.
- Oh, my god. A generational battle?
You ready, kid? - No.
- Okay, good answer.
- From what era?
That's probably the determining factor to see how much I'm gonna know.
- (FBE) Older and younger generations are going head to head
to see which knows dance moves from the last 100 years.
- Last 100 years? - I got the first 50 covered.
- The Roaring '20s, like the Charleston?
- In my day, that's how you got to meet people.
We didn't have the social media.
We didn't have cell phones.
So you'd go to parties and dances and introduce yourself to girls
and whatever-- and dance with them. You got to know them that way.
- (FBE) So this is how the game works.
We'll play you a video of a dance move.
One the clip is over, you will write down
what the name of the dance move is.
If you get it right, you get a point. - Okay.
- (FBE) Ready for your first dance move?
- Yeah! - As I'll ever be,
considering my lack of knowledge on the subject.
- I don't think you'll know any of the modern ones.
- Well, I don't think you'll know any of the older ones,
the classic ones. - We'll find out.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- Okay. - Pffft.
- She getting off though. 'Ey!
- I got it.
- I've seen that dance but I don't know the name of it.
- The name of it.
- (FBE) All right, reveal your answers.
Okay, what did you put down? - I put "steps."
- (laughing)
- I said the Charleston. - Chicken Scratch!
- (FBE) You both got it right. - Yeah!
- You did!
- We're starting off on a good foot, on a good foot.
You got that?
- (FBE) Because of a popular song of the same name
in the Broadway show "Runnin' Wild," the Charleston became
a hit dance in the '20s.
- In my history class, we were learning about this,
so I was like, hmmm, it could be the Charleston.
Wow! I actually got that.
- (FBE) So here's the dance with the song, just for reference.
- Okay.
♪ (swing music) ♪
- I can teach you when we get home.
- That's cute.
♪ (swing music) ♪
- That's a good exercise move today.
- '20s music was just so upbeat and fun.
- I'm so proud of her! Oh, my goodness.
- That means I pay attention in history class.
- Good for you.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- Got it. - Got it.
- I think I know this one.
- Oh! Okay. I know two. - Okay.
- It's so awkward, watching them do it without music.
- Look at that. They're just having fun.
- (laughing)
- (FBE) All right, let's see your answers.
- I put... (gasping) Hey! We wrote the same thing.
- The twist.
- (FBE) From the early '60s, this became a worldwide dance craze
with immense popularity, while drawing controversy
from critics who felt it was too provocative.
This dance is the Twist. - Sick!
Yeah!
- (gasping)
(laughing) - How you like me now?
- (FBE) So here's the dance with music.
- ♪ Oooh, yeah, just like this ♪
- They're literally twisting their bodies.
How did I not guess that?
- ♪ Come on, little miss, and do the Twist ♪
- Chubby Checker!
- ♪ My daddy is sleepin' ♪
- Okay, that song makes it go with it. Okay.
- (laughing) - So much fun.
- Once you kinda realize what they're doing,
it's kind of obvious because the name correlates with what
you're doing, you know?
Charleston, maybe not too much, but definitely with the Twist.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- Wait, what is this?
- It looks like a '70s move.
- (chuckling) - Oh, I don't know what this is.
- That looks so familiar.
- Ooh. - That confused me a lot.
- It's probably a dance that I know but I don't know the name.
- (FBE) Let's see your answers.
- I don't know.
- I did the Jive.
- Mine says the Two-Step.
- I wrote the Grapevine, but I don't think it is.
- There's a Grapevine dance? - Yeah.
- (FBE) So this is a line dance that became
an international dance craze in 1975, following Van McCoy
and the Soul City Symphony song "The Hustle,"
therefore the dance was called the Hustle.
- No, we didn't get this one right at all.
- Let's listen to the song then.
- ♪ Do the hustle ♪
- ♪ (vocalizing song) ♪
- It's literally in the song. (laughing)
- ♪ (vocalizing song) ♪ - Uh-huh.
Like disco.
- (chuckling)
- Looks like an underwear ad to me.
- Sometimes when I'm home, I'm dancing in front of the mirror.
Maybe that's what I was doing, hustling.
- You've been doing the Hustle this whole time?
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- Okay. Got it.
- Oh. Oh, I know this one.
- (laughing)
- I'd rather be able to do it than know it.
- Yeah, okay.
- This song was played literally almost every day
when I was in pre-school.
- Okay, you're beating me. - (chuckling)
- I don't know that one.
- (FBE) Let's see your answers. - (laughing)
Blank!
- I did the Hokey-- - The Macarena.
- Oh, the Maca-- yeah, that's what I was trying to think of.
- The Macarena.
- (FBE) So this is a Spanish dance song by Los Del Rio
about a woman who cheats on her boyfriend
while he is being drafted into the army.
- Wow. That's what the song's about?
- You know what they say about that? It's no bueno.
♪ (rimshot) ♪ (canned laughter)
- (FBE) The dance that goes along with the song
was a huge success in the U.S. in the '90s
and it is the Macarena. - (both cheering)
- I saw the dance moves. I was like, okay.
♪ Hey, Macarena ♪
- It's crazy how these really fast upbeat songs,
you would never know the meaning until you truly listen to it.
- ♪ Hey, Macarena ♪
- ♪ Dale a tu cuerpo alegría Macarena ♪
♪ Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegría why cosa buena ♪
♪ Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena ♪
- (humming along)
- (singing along) ♪ Hey, Macarena ♪
- ♪ (vocalizing) ♪
- Yes! Very catchy.
- That always gets people on the dance floor.
- Man, we're great. We're hitting them.
We're on a roll now.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- Oh, my gosh! I know this.
- Oh, god. Oh, my god!
- Oh, my gosh. I already hear the song in my head.
- I don't know.
- Yeah, this is Soulja Boy.
- Whoa!
- That was a hint.
- The more modern they are, the worse I get.
- (FBE) Let's see those answers.
- (snickering)
- "Hip hop"?
- (FBE) The song that accompanies this dance
became the first song ever to sell three million digital copies
in the U.S. in 2008.
This is Crank Dat Soulja Boy.
- I put that on there, too, and I was like...
I don't know if that's going to be it.
- Oh, I got it!
I still dance to that all the time.
- (singing along) ♪ Watch me crank it, watch me roll ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Watch me crank dat, Soulja Boy ♪
♪ Then Superman dat oh ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Now watch me you ♪
- (singing along) ♪ ...you ♪
♪ Crank dat, Soulja Boy ♪
- This was played at my fourth grade dance.
- ♪ Watch me crank dat, Soulja Boy ♪
♪ Then Superman dat oh ♪
♪ Now watch me you ♪
- Iconic. I love that song.
I have that on my playlist.
- I really liked the Charleston. - (laughing)
So you just didn't like this one? - No.
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
- Oh, my god!
I've seen that but I don't know what they call it.
- Oh, my god.
- I see the kids that do this all the time.
- Don't do it. Don't dab. Don't dab. Don't do it.
- I don't understand how this got so viral.
- It's something I can't do, but I think it's kinda cute.
- Are you ready? "Shake... Shake Attack"?
- (laughing)
- That is the Floss!
- (FBE) So Russel Horning, AKA "Backpack Kid,"
performed this dance during a Saturday Night Live performance
of Katy Perry's song "Swish Swish" in 2017.
It has since become a trend among children and teens,
and has been performed by celebrities in videos,
and it's called the Floss.
- I always see the kids doing it, but I never knew what it was.
- How do you spell it? - Like a floss!
- Dental floss? - Yeah!
- They just strut.
- Oh, gosh.
♪ (Katy Perry, "Swish" ) ♪
- That's Katy Perry. - Is it?
- I love all the people trying it in the back.
- That's funny.
Maybe I'll do that one in an exercise.
- That one will-- your arms will get tired real quick on that.
I mean, just that, you know-- I like some of the other dances,
all the other ones better than that one.
- (FBE) After this challenge, how do you both feel about
your dance knowledge?
- I am so proud of myself. - I'm so proud of you, baby.
You are so well informed!
- There's definitely a generation gap, for sure.
- Whoa! Big time!
- It's really crazy to see the progression of dances.
You can see how, like, conservative they were before,
and then it started to slowly become promiscuous
and then people just stopped caring and just started doing
anything that they wanted.
- There is so much variety and so much difficulty.
I think I grew up in a much simpler, easier time.
- Now it's competition and-- - It's more athletic.
More show off, too-- don't you? - Yeah.
- The dance moves themselves haven't changed that much,
but the music has changed exceptionally that they go to.
The Hustle and the Crank Dat Soulja Boy,
if you put Crank Dat Soulja Boy, it looks like the Hustle.
- ♪ Watch me crank it, watch me roll ♪
♪ (quirky interlude) ♪
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