It was originally a processional partner dance performed with comical formality, and may have developed as a subtle mockery of the mannered dances of white slaveholders.
A “cakewalk” began as a highly stylized dance done by Southern African-Americans in competition with other dancers to win the prize which was a fancy cake.
Somehow this word for a difficult act became slang for something easy to do.
I didn’t know that Thriller was that old.
Quick image colorization from some random AI.
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It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark
THRILLER
The zombie actors from the “Thriller” music video practicing their iconic choreography without all their prosthetics/makeup
I’m curious about the text, looks like swedish and the “Cakewalk” has the words “kakdansen” in swedish after the english words.
Do you know if there is an image with more of the text visible?
So, get yer knees flexin’ and your arms T-rexin’!
Let’s do the Time Warp again.
Wtf is a cakewalk??
It was originally a processional partner dance performed with comical formality, and may have developed as a subtle mockery of the mannered dances of white slaveholders.
Fentanyl back in the day
So his background dancers were really zombies. Probably not union scabs!
A “cakewalk” began as a highly stylized dance done by Southern African-Americans in competition with other dancers to win the prize which was a fancy cake.
Somehow this word for a difficult act became slang for something easy to do.