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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-03-07 06:46 pm

[ SECRET POST #2256 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2256 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Most Popular Girls In School]


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[Rust and Bone]


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[My Mad Fat Diary]


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[Sailor Moon]


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[Harvest Moon: A New Beginning]


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[American Horror Story Asylum]


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[Homestuck]


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[DC Comics]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 021 secrets from Secret Submission Post #322.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
mekkio: (Default)

Re: Do you think the Harlem Shake is cultural appropriation?

[personal profile] mekkio 2013-03-08 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
No.

Because that song in the Harlem Shake meme was not chosen because of anything that has to do with culture. Instead, it was chosen because of it was the perfect melody for the gag they were doing. A steady beat for a few seconds then a BOOM followed by a thick bass line. It's the boom followed by the almost 180 change in tempo that makes the meme work. Again, not because of anything that has to do with Harlem, New York. It could have been any song with that pattern. It just happened to be that song.

But here's a FADER article that goes into detail about the history of the song and the meme. It explains how it has nothing to do with the original Harlem Shake.