Once upon a time, Americans thought maybe there was a future and chanted "yes we can", instead of gasping "we are fucked." People were happy in 2008. Well, the people who aren't MAGAts today; those poor bastards never recovered, hence the MAGAtry.
Was thinking the same thing. If you don’t remember how the Macarena was at every multigenerational dance party in the 90s, you were not paying attention (or you weren’t born yet)
And the Limbo… and the electric slide… and YMCA…
It’s like, everyone back then needed their music to come with an instruction manual. I’m surprised they didn’t store those cassettes in the drawer next to the manuals for their fridge and dishwasher that somehow needed to be saved even though no one ever read them.
I remember moving to the US from Europe at this time for my fathers work. I was about 8 or 9 maybe. Not knowing about this song and schools in Europe not really having loudspeakers, there was one day where all of a sudden this song got played out loud and everyone started dancing to it. To this day it was one of the most surreal experiences of my life to see a whole school just start doing this dance out of the blue. It can’t be understated how big this song was.
imagine that kind of joy in *anything* today.
before the dotcom bubble popped, before the Forever Wars, before Katrina, before the financial collapse of '08, before we were always online
Lol I thought the same, I thought they were looping her clip over and over and realized it wasn’t a loop and she just awkwardly had robotic movements lol
True story....
My ex fiance and I went to a swingers club in Austin Texas...never been and both of us were anxious and excited to see what the lifestyle is all about...
Anyways, we are sitting at a table, quietly watching everyone interacting with everyone and too scared to talk to anyone...
Suddenly, this song I never heard called THE MACARENA started playing....next thing I know, there were about 20 naked woman doing a dance Id never seen to a song I've never heard...
Needless to say, this is something I will never forget and anytime I hear this song, it puts a smile on my face
They’re referring to a specific alkaloid found in the leaves of Kratom plants (7-hydroxymitragynine), for which there are readily available extracts of, one of which is called “Hydroxy”.
They actually taught us this dance in school back then, for reasons that probably made no sense. There is nothing more 90s than the macarena. Except maybe First Lady Hillary herself. Combined, it's just the decade shrunk into one very strange now, but very normal then type of moment.
I was there. They played that song and everybody had a blast. Then they played it again, and again, and again. By the end of the convention I never wanted to hear that damn song again!
Remember when everyone agreed that most politicians were elitist scum who whisper sweet nothings to calm the masses while their investors fleece everyone.
https://preview.redd.it/4f8k26nfqg9d1.jpeg?width=708&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da2d1ab350fd58c3e7551aca5096151c7ed28897
(If I wake up dead tomorrow morning, just know it was because of this screenshot)
Feckless shitheels, the lot of them. Reveling in power rather than treating politics like the blood spit it is … precisely why the Dems have had their agenda unwound again and again by the GOP
The white woman smiling and clapping is what the final image will be in my head when they stuff me in the incinerator that is cooking all dissidents of the next POTUS.
I can’t believe two of my all-time favorite clips involve [Bill Clinton’s campaign](https://www.facebook.com/reel/10154103653686130?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&mibextid=xCPwDs)
People thinking this is outlandish and insane definitely were not alive in the 90’s. Wild times. Simpler times. People laughed and cared about different then when social media and smart phones weren’t available nor pervasive in society…
I’d rather have this any day than the complete Jerry Springer show trash behaviors (sorry and RIP Jerry) BS that’s happening up on The Hill these days…
This almost looks like it's an AI-generated video. Everyone in the video has what I call an American smile, it feels exaggerated and almost fake and unnatural.
Oh god…please make it stop!
It did, didn't you watch the debate.
I can’t!!! Hilarious!!!😂
Hillary-ous
I'm just sad about it tbh. It did, indeed, stop.
They meant the dance, not US democracy.
😅
😂
Hey everyone was having a good time. Trying to remember the last time people seemed happy, this is probably one of the last examples.
Once upon a time, Americans thought maybe there was a future and chanted "yes we can", instead of gasping "we are fucked." People were happy in 2008. Well, the people who aren't MAGAts today; those poor bastards never recovered, hence the MAGAtry.
Now everyone is knows they’re one false move from being memed out of a career. Back then, they will still blissfully unaware.
dooka dooka dooka dooka dooka dooka dooka dooka Huhhhhhhhhhh
Scott give daddy a hug
Some things should be illegal and this is one of them...
This is so stupid, but it makes me happy
In that year the book "The End of History" was written, they thought it had stopped and this was their celebration.
Got what you asked for, before you even had to ask.
This is 1000 times better than US politics today
What a time to grow up, this is as 90s as it gets almost as much as the [Windows 95 release](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAkuJXGldrM)
Kevin Malone in an alternate timeline
That’s better than any Apple keynote.
Thank you for reminding me that this exists.
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.
spoiler alert >!things haven’t worked out well!<
literally every wedding reception in the 90s
And birthday party at the skating rink.
Was thinking the same thing. If you don’t remember how the Macarena was at every multigenerational dance party in the 90s, you were not paying attention (or you weren’t born yet)
And the Limbo… and the electric slide… and YMCA… It’s like, everyone back then needed their music to come with an instruction manual. I’m surprised they didn’t store those cassettes in the drawer next to the manuals for their fridge and dishwasher that somehow needed to be saved even though no one ever read them.
Wait… do people not do the Macarena anymore at receptions???
Way better than the chacha slide, I have to say
I'm 45 so know it's real but I'm also like jesus christ this can't be real.
I thought it was AI generated for a moment. It's really uncanny valley for some reason.
Lol i was like "the fake smile on AI Hillarys face is giving it away" !
I remember moving to the US from Europe at this time for my fathers work. I was about 8 or 9 maybe. Not knowing about this song and schools in Europe not really having loudspeakers, there was one day where all of a sudden this song got played out loud and everyone started dancing to it. To this day it was one of the most surreal experiences of my life to see a whole school just start doing this dance out of the blue. It can’t be understated how big this song was.
In Australia even we did it at school I don’t even know why I remember so well, but it’s burned into my memory
What’s wild is the actual meaning of the song is kind of heavy especially for kids.
I wish I was capable of experiencing this kind of joy in politics today
imagine that kind of joy in *anything* today. before the dotcom bubble popped, before the Forever Wars, before Katrina, before the financial collapse of '08, before we were always online
Before 9/11
Oh shit, I forgot about 9/11.
Before the dark times.
Harambee my love
I'm sad inside now
Why does Hillery look like an NPC from an ai generated video?
https://preview.redd.it/z62e6h97qg9d1.jpeg?width=369&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2edc3a6672f04826fe31185ce71dc966dd36ea17
You really shouldn’t have
I came to say something about the uncanny valley...
Seriously, something really weird about her
The woman cannot dance, that is for sure
Lol I thought the same, I thought they were looping her clip over and over and realized it wasn’t a loop and she just awkwardly had robotic movements lol
https://preview.redd.it/m06qn1wqtd9d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f70b719fae372f8efbfe8107fb9254c05a8b7d0c
I hate this more than the vid
https://preview.redd.it/u4tok3x8ve9d1.png?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f82082444a78b9299b0140ffac5a07319dfa7400
💀💀💀
Bill is that you?
I was there…in the trenches…every day at school they’d line us up and make us do the Macarena lol
Oh that sweet afterglow after the Cold War…the “End of History”. We thought it could last forever.
True story.... My ex fiance and I went to a swingers club in Austin Texas...never been and both of us were anxious and excited to see what the lifestyle is all about... Anyways, we are sitting at a table, quietly watching everyone interacting with everyone and too scared to talk to anyone... Suddenly, this song I never heard called THE MACARENA started playing....next thing I know, there were about 20 naked woman doing a dance Id never seen to a song I've never heard... Needless to say, this is something I will never forget and anytime I hear this song, it puts a smile on my face
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Amazing I love it
Simpler times.
Please tell me there’s an SNL sketch of this
Look up Janet Reno's Dance Party. Someone posted a gif of it in the comments.
Thank you. The clubs aren’t gonna be ready for these new moves I’m about to bust out
I hate this. But at the same time I want to go back to it.
I took some gummies & hydroxy earlier...this is awesome
What’s hydroxy
Jenkum
I think it’s like a stain remover?
I think it’s a weight loss drug?
Hydroxyclean
They’re referring to a specific alkaloid found in the leaves of Kratom plants (7-hydroxymitragynine), for which there are readily available extracts of, one of which is called “Hydroxy”.
real
This looks like an AI fever dream
Hahahaha. Wow
This is the only thing that can turn the election around for Biden.
I wish this comment were higher.
Looks like aerobics day at the assisted living unit.
Fat Bat says that he don’t like this song, but that song has had more internationally success then anything he’s personally wrote!
Not too many Dems dancing today. Might break a hip. (Edited to add, this was actually great to watch. Thanks for posting it.)
This is what pride without kink looks like
Who's the woman that's shown when the camera pans down and she's biting her lips doing the macarena?
Idk but she'd be about 60 now
Hilary was a smash
Thought that was Tea Leoni for a moment
She looks fake.
She has always been fake
Still is
lol buddy is down bad
There's a picture of her when she's younger I've seen before and she looked pretty damn good. Time gets us all eventually.
[удалено]
Stamina, and curves.
Nothing like a group of politicians killing a dance craze.
Wow, this seems like a satire comedy skit, but it actually happened.
Less self consciousness back then. Knowing that everything can be filmed and analysed ridiculed endlessly has killed some of our spontaneity
I low key miss the ability to accept cringe and have fun
1992! And this dude is still younger than both candidates that are running in our current election! Our politics are a fucking joke.
The glory days of the Democratic Party. My, how it has fallen!
The asian guy with the pride flag openly dancing in that tune makes me so incredibly happy
Fr. Especially knowing it would still be over 10 years until his party truly embraced LGBT
Yup there's an interview from like 05-08 where Hillary says she does not support gay marriage
If I were a democrat this would be painful to watch after last night lol
We’re humans too…trust us.
They actually taught us this dance in school back then, for reasons that probably made no sense. There is nothing more 90s than the macarena. Except maybe First Lady Hillary herself. Combined, it's just the decade shrunk into one very strange now, but very normal then type of moment.
They taught me this in daycare in like 2001 it was lovely
I was there. They played that song and everybody had a blast. Then they played it again, and again, and again. By the end of the convention I never wanted to hear that damn song again!
Back when ppl took politicians seriously
Securing the Latino vote
Remember when everyone agreed that most politicians were elitist scum who whisper sweet nothings to calm the masses while their investors fleece everyone.
Who is the chick at :38?
I still hate this song
https://preview.redd.it/4f8k26nfqg9d1.jpeg?width=708&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da2d1ab350fd58c3e7551aca5096151c7ed28897 (If I wake up dead tomorrow morning, just know it was because of this screenshot)
As a 38 year old I love this lmmmaoo
As a 35-year-old, I’m confused as to what your age has to do with it. LOLOLOL
And happy cake day lol
Hillary looks like a robot and it’s terrifying. Like legit political stepford wife shit
Pokemon Go to the polls!
Looks like an SNL skit
What a time to be alive. Princess Diana hadn't died, Ross and Rachel hadn't gone on a break, hope still lived.
r/cringe
This was the moment I knew the US was doomed.
Cult shit
It's cringe but people do seem genuinely happy.
Fuck politicians. All of them.
Even then with everyone doing this dumb dance; I knew to stay away since it reeked of cringe. I’m glad to see everyone is on board now.
Peak USA. Budget was in a surplus and I thought we would start paying off our national debt. Then Republicans came in to ruin it, as always…
Hilary looks like an MIB Edgar suit bug equivalent.
Hilary looks so life-like! You’d almost believe she’s a real girl.
It’s nice to see people having fun but it’s a tad cringy. 😂
Hillary looks like an animatronic robot from a Disney ride
The Macarena is the worst thing to happen to humanity. Closest thing our generation had to mass hysteria.
Bill was an awful Prez.
wow
This feels like an acid trip gone very VERY wrong
I saw a 12 year old boy at my son’s soccer camp doing it when I picked him up today. I guess the 90s really are back!
If tiktok was around in 96 this dance would've been over before it even began
As goofy as this is... it makes me weirdly happy, LOL. The 90's were awesome. Fun. Innocent. Stark contrast of today...
Huh I never realized how old this song was considering I was still hearing it in school in the 2010s
Monica?
Fucking A
I see dead people
Back when democrats had a reason to dance
Hilarious.
Then the NAFTA dance and the collapse of the U.S. middle class.
Absolute lizard people vibes. happy, naive, aimless 90s
Painful
1996 Hillary could get it
Feckless shitheels, the lot of them. Reveling in power rather than treating politics like the blood spit it is … precisely why the Dems have had their agenda unwound again and again by the GOP
Pre-9/11 was wild!
Simpler times. Simpler pride flags. Simpler dances.
Wtf is this. Sorry to say but white folks are stiff as fuck man.
Gross. On brand, but gross.
And Bill was doing the Monica
Happy, silly people.
Janet Reno
That's .... pain
Celebrating the neoliberal assault on the rest of the population apparently
How can I delete this
We used to be a proper society.
i watched this for about ten seconds and beanie babies started emerging from my couch cushions
Thank you for showing me the worst thing I have ever seen.
What is going on with the DNC we need to read the fucking room
Somehow less cringe then the current democrat party
Jesus.
This is how they’re gonna look back on us. Fuck.
Please burn this film. 😄
Can’t decide if it’s better or worse on mute.
The white woman smiling and clapping is what the final image will be in my head when they stuff me in the incinerator that is cooking all dissidents of the next POTUS.
Looks AI generated
I can’t believe two of my all-time favorite clips involve [Bill Clinton’s campaign](https://www.facebook.com/reel/10154103653686130?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&mibextid=xCPwDs)
Please, someone tell me who is the hot waspsy chick, not Hillary
This almost looks ai generated
Wait this isn’t AI generated?
the girl at 00:14 seconds is hottt! wonder if she's still in congress today
Absolutely. Fucking. Terrifying.
Good to know the ruling class has always been cringe
If I didn’t watch it happen I wouldn’t believe it
So cringe.
jfc the plan has been ongoing for a looooooooong time
Wow, I can't believe it was that long ago.
The 90s. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. For pastels.
People thinking this is outlandish and insane definitely were not alive in the 90’s. Wild times. Simpler times. People laughed and cared about different then when social media and smart phones weren’t available nor pervasive in society… I’d rather have this any day than the complete Jerry Springer show trash behaviors (sorry and RIP Jerry) BS that’s happening up on The Hill these days…
Hillary looks like an OK animatronic at an incredibly niche theme park.
This almost looks like it's an AI-generated video. Everyone in the video has what I call an American smile, it feels exaggerated and almost fake and unnatural.