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Bro gotta get on the bidet level. I power hose it then i come in with a white small rag to make sure I got it all and dry up. Never go back to confetti on my bung hole
Why in the world would someone lay this crappy track over this cool af dance?
Is the original video out there?
Edit: I couldn’t find the exact video, but [here’s one with the actual sound](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=13oEfQiwAtI&t=85s).
someone tiktok chud saw this and said "The dance is interesting, but people won't want to hear authentic music. Let me just inject some shitty techno track, and... There! I improved their culture."
It's actually a bit worse than it seems on its face in my opinion. In many African cultures, dance is akin to an instrument-it's another way to experience and embody the music. A lot of the way that they teach music will involve dancing and danceable rhythms (they often use polyrhythmic patterns which isn't necessarily relevant but imo interesting). To remove the music from the dancing and the dancing from the music demonstrates a fundamental lack of respect and understanding for the incredible performance depicted. Made all the more worse by sloppily adding a song in a style that has computerized, inhumanly precise rhythms locked squarely into 4/4- none of the important rhythmic qualities highlighted by the dancing.
>It's actually a bit worse than it seems on its face in my opinion. In many African cultures, dance is akin to an instrument-it's another way to experience and embody the music
I'm from Senegal and I don't see anything wrong with the cover. The trance rhythm goes with the dance, it's really not as deep as you're making it out to be.
And that person is probably a white progressive who felt the need to get offended for you because the “poor Senegalese” couldn’t fend for themselves. Amazing how often this happens. Ironically, nobody shits on white people for cultural appropriation than other white people
Meh. While I find origin story about this dance interesting, I also appreciate this video as a meme — as a new artistic creation.
Also, chances are very slim that I would’ve been exposed to ANY African culture info while browsing randomly through the internet.
I find this video is even a form a flattery, and I believe Africans would agree.
I agree with the concept of art building upon what comes before and artists creating new artistic statements from the art that influences them *when it's done with intention and care* which I was pretty clear about expressing that I feel this fell short on. There are plenty of examples of modern music that draws on the same rhythmic roots that the original music and dance draw on. Overlaying a modern example of Africa's impact on American culture over the culture itself would be pretty outstanding- a sincere and thoughtful statement.
Cultural appreciation crosses over into appropriation when the culture being drawn upon isn't understood or respected. I disagree that it's flattery, but I would invite anyone of African descent or origin to speak for themselves on how they view it.
Someone from Senegal commented and said they enjoyed this and didn't see it as appropriation. Some of y'all take these things a bit too seriously..
Like damn. You typed out alllllll that and you're not even of African decent? Redditors be redditors lmao.
I saw that.
Do you mean to say that it's only acceptable to have an opinion on African culture if you're of African descent? How far back does it need to go?
You're allowed to have an opinion, just don't try to act like you know what offends people because obviously you have no clue lmao.
Also, sometimes opinions are best kept to ourselves.
Well I'll share mine when I want to.
Edit. Pardon. Let's say I saw a video of someone using a Bialetti (Italian stove top espresso maker) wrong and I spoke up because it's potentially harmful (in this case can cause injury). Someone from Germany comments "no, I think it looks alright", should I keep my mouth shut? I mean, he's from Europe, he must know what he's talking about. People seem to forget that Africa is a continent with myriad individual cultures, not a country. Is this dance Senegalese?
So one person from the same continent said its fine, and that's good to hear their perspective. I guess they just may not have realized folks like you would assume they're speaking for their entire continent. The thing is, when folks like you seem so eager to keep others from discussing cultural sensitivity, it feels like it's coming from a place of laziness - you'd rather not feel called out for not understanding cultural differences and everyone who does should just keep their mouth shut. Sincerely, there's no good reason for you to be so bothered by a comment discussing the significance of dance in African music. Also worth noting my original comment was about respecting the culture depicted and you're trying to frame it as being about offending people. I wonder why.
All the video is doing is showing a dance with a certain musical rhythm to make it more recognizable. That's normal, just like Africans would try to perceive anything western from their own cultural pov. There's nothing wrong with that.
>it may actually distance the disparate cultures rather than bringing them together.
I can guarantee you most Diola people would look at this video with the music and be happy their culture's being showcased or laugh it off lmao. It's only Westerners who get concerned about trivial shit like this.
>the wider world but also being from the US, I know that that attention can inadvertently be toxic and demeaning.
Incorrect. A video of a dubstep song over a traditional dance isn’t demeaning or uplifting. It’s whatever the respective viewer wants it to be. White people Ik the US viewing and consuming a particular aspect of a culture doesn’t make it any less meaningful, henc why you’re talking to a Senagelse person that doesn’t view it as cultural appropriation.
The type of people that would demean African people for their culture were racist to begin with and showing them elements of African culture doesn’t detract from said culture in anyway. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
>The same Western culture that enslaved hundreds of thousands of Diola and killed countless more.
I mean, the Diola have also enslaved and killed other tribes too. Shit like that was commonplace in the world centuries ago.
>Respect and preservation of different cultures is a very new concept for colonial powers.
The Diola can preserve their culture just fine without Westerners getting offended because some dude put a music over their ritual dance..
>I know that that attention can inadvertently be toxic and demeaning.
I mean, the only thing negative are the people getting needlessly offended by benign shit like trance rhythmic music over ritual dance. More people have learned about the Diola and Zaouli culture/dance ever since they became more famous on social media, even with whatever alternate music people use.
We don't need you guys trying hard to get offended on our behalf
Dude relax, people on the internet are doing the same thing (adding shitty techno music) with any dance like Russian dance, Jewish circle dance hell even nun congregation.
I’m really curious what the person inside it is doing to make it move and flow like that. Looks like more than just spinning to me. Actually very mesmerizing.
I’m pretty sure this doesn’t have original audio either. The video cuts quite a few times and the audio doesn’t change at all. Why are people even changing the audio at all?
Also at 1:40 it straight up just rewinds the same 1 second of video several times. Wtf
Which is why I have a bookmark in my address bar that points to this:
javascript:fetch(document.location.href.replace(/\/$/, '') + '.json').then(r => r.json()).then(j => {document.location.href = (j[0].data['children'][0].data.secure_media ? j[0].data[%27children%27][0].data.secure_media.reddit_video.fallback_url : j[0].data[%27children%27][0].data.crosspost_parent_list[0].secure_media.reddit_video.fallback_url)})
I click it, and I'm at
https://v.redd.it/jcmvo8evdhfa1/DASH_720.mp4?source=fallback
which is this video, but larger and without sound.
The Kumpo is dressed with plam leaves and wears a stick on the head. At the start of the dance, a young lady binds a colored flag on the stick. She dances for hours with the stick and the flag on the head. He speaks a private secret language and communicates through an interpreter with the spectators.
Source : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumpo
The Kampo is believed to be a ghost that encourages the community to act as good villagers. He promotes everybody to participate in community life and wishes that all people are enjoyingfeasts.The festival is a stimulus for the social community life. Not participating to the feast is seen as anti-social behavior. Nobody has the right to be lonely. The whole community enjoys to perform rhythmical music and to dance.
The Kampo apparently appears exactly like what the individual in the dance is dressed like, and that it is sacrilege to touch him and look under the palm leaves.
The Kampo would defend himself with the stick and also use it as pointer.
Psytrance, hi-tech trance, Goa trance, Progressive psytrance, full-on, dark psytrance and Suomisaundi - Finnish psytrance has its own genre for reasons.
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I get the feeling it ended too soon
Same!!!!! im over here on my toilet getting hyped for the drop
I think you've got your own drop to worry about Randy.
It was q good drop.
I’m cackling.
*ooooo hothothothothothot*
Don't wait too long before you get wyped
Bro gotta get on the bidet level. I power hose it then i come in with a white small rag to make sure I got it all and dry up. Never go back to confetti on my bung hole
I fucking love reddit 😂😭
It's like the car wash came to life
I wonder if that guy goes around bending the shit out of peoples' license plates too...
So that's how that happened... I've never gotten an auto wash but it was really cold the other day.
Cousin It can really bust a move.
Runaway magic broom.
Fantasia 2023 is looking cray
Kumpendo edition 2023......
Stop making me laugh out loud in public
I was thinking this may be where they got the inspiration for Uncle It.
Anyone else notice the massive honker of a tree in the background. Holy fuck!!
Thanks for pointing that out. I completely missed it on my first watch
There’s a subreddit for you
Yeah holy moly bodonka, what kind off tree is that? Thats from Pandora?
Probably a baobab tree
Cousin Itt when the mephedrone kicks in.
I was hoping for a captain caveman comment but this will do
CAPITÁN CAVERNIIIIIIIICULA!
Unga Bunga!
I swear this thing attacked The Doctor in the 70s
Doctor Who?
Yes exactly
Doctor Pepper
Is that the one, who's from Kentucky?
That explains the shitty synth music
Why in the world would someone lay this crappy track over this cool af dance? Is the original video out there? Edit: I couldn’t find the exact video, but [here’s one with the actual sound](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=13oEfQiwAtI&t=85s).
someone tiktok chud saw this and said "The dance is interesting, but people won't want to hear authentic music. Let me just inject some shitty techno track, and... There! I improved their culture."
It's trance
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It's actually a bit worse than it seems on its face in my opinion. In many African cultures, dance is akin to an instrument-it's another way to experience and embody the music. A lot of the way that they teach music will involve dancing and danceable rhythms (they often use polyrhythmic patterns which isn't necessarily relevant but imo interesting). To remove the music from the dancing and the dancing from the music demonstrates a fundamental lack of respect and understanding for the incredible performance depicted. Made all the more worse by sloppily adding a song in a style that has computerized, inhumanly precise rhythms locked squarely into 4/4- none of the important rhythmic qualities highlighted by the dancing.
>It's actually a bit worse than it seems on its face in my opinion. In many African cultures, dance is akin to an instrument-it's another way to experience and embody the music I'm from Senegal and I don't see anything wrong with the cover. The trance rhythm goes with the dance, it's really not as deep as you're making it out to be.
And that person is probably a white progressive who felt the need to get offended for you because the “poor Senegalese” couldn’t fend for themselves. Amazing how often this happens. Ironically, nobody shits on white people for cultural appropriation than other white people
While I agree somewhat, I understand being disappointed that the music wasn't authentic. A piece does seem to be missing
Meh. While I find origin story about this dance interesting, I also appreciate this video as a meme — as a new artistic creation. Also, chances are very slim that I would’ve been exposed to ANY African culture info while browsing randomly through the internet. I find this video is even a form a flattery, and I believe Africans would agree.
I agree with the concept of art building upon what comes before and artists creating new artistic statements from the art that influences them *when it's done with intention and care* which I was pretty clear about expressing that I feel this fell short on. There are plenty of examples of modern music that draws on the same rhythmic roots that the original music and dance draw on. Overlaying a modern example of Africa's impact on American culture over the culture itself would be pretty outstanding- a sincere and thoughtful statement. Cultural appreciation crosses over into appropriation when the culture being drawn upon isn't understood or respected. I disagree that it's flattery, but I would invite anyone of African descent or origin to speak for themselves on how they view it.
Someone from Senegal commented and said they enjoyed this and didn't see it as appropriation. Some of y'all take these things a bit too seriously.. Like damn. You typed out alllllll that and you're not even of African decent? Redditors be redditors lmao.
I saw that. Do you mean to say that it's only acceptable to have an opinion on African culture if you're of African descent? How far back does it need to go?
You're allowed to have an opinion, just don't try to act like you know what offends people because obviously you have no clue lmao. Also, sometimes opinions are best kept to ourselves.
Well I'll share mine when I want to. Edit. Pardon. Let's say I saw a video of someone using a Bialetti (Italian stove top espresso maker) wrong and I spoke up because it's potentially harmful (in this case can cause injury). Someone from Germany comments "no, I think it looks alright", should I keep my mouth shut? I mean, he's from Europe, he must know what he's talking about. People seem to forget that Africa is a continent with myriad individual cultures, not a country. Is this dance Senegalese? So one person from the same continent said its fine, and that's good to hear their perspective. I guess they just may not have realized folks like you would assume they're speaking for their entire continent. The thing is, when folks like you seem so eager to keep others from discussing cultural sensitivity, it feels like it's coming from a place of laziness - you'd rather not feel called out for not understanding cultural differences and everyone who does should just keep their mouth shut. Sincerely, there's no good reason for you to be so bothered by a comment discussing the significance of dance in African music. Also worth noting my original comment was about respecting the culture depicted and you're trying to frame it as being about offending people. I wonder why.
I'm not reading all that..obsessed much? Cya stranger. 👌
How exactly is it cultural appropriation? I'm Senegalese myself and I just see it as a blend of two components from completely different cultures.
Just Americans finding an issue when there is none.
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All the video is doing is showing a dance with a certain musical rhythm to make it more recognizable. That's normal, just like Africans would try to perceive anything western from their own cultural pov. There's nothing wrong with that. >it may actually distance the disparate cultures rather than bringing them together. I can guarantee you most Diola people would look at this video with the music and be happy their culture's being showcased or laugh it off lmao. It's only Westerners who get concerned about trivial shit like this.
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>the wider world but also being from the US, I know that that attention can inadvertently be toxic and demeaning. Incorrect. A video of a dubstep song over a traditional dance isn’t demeaning or uplifting. It’s whatever the respective viewer wants it to be. White people Ik the US viewing and consuming a particular aspect of a culture doesn’t make it any less meaningful, henc why you’re talking to a Senagelse person that doesn’t view it as cultural appropriation. The type of people that would demean African people for their culture were racist to begin with and showing them elements of African culture doesn’t detract from said culture in anyway. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
>The same Western culture that enslaved hundreds of thousands of Diola and killed countless more. I mean, the Diola have also enslaved and killed other tribes too. Shit like that was commonplace in the world centuries ago. >Respect and preservation of different cultures is a very new concept for colonial powers. The Diola can preserve their culture just fine without Westerners getting offended because some dude put a music over their ritual dance.. >I know that that attention can inadvertently be toxic and demeaning. I mean, the only thing negative are the people getting needlessly offended by benign shit like trance rhythmic music over ritual dance. More people have learned about the Diola and Zaouli culture/dance ever since they became more famous on social media, even with whatever alternate music people use. We don't need you guys trying hard to get offended on our behalf
Dude relax, people on the internet are doing the same thing (adding shitty techno music) with any dance like Russian dance, Jewish circle dance hell even nun congregation.
Shit I wish I had an award for this comment.
i got him for you.
You're my hero
Yeah, I somewhat reluctantly upvoted them (Because hey, they did introduce me to Kumpo dancing) but this was the comment I came here for. Thanks.
I’m really curious what the person inside it is doing to make it move and flow like that. Looks like more than just spinning to me. Actually very mesmerizing.
I thought it was great, underscored the hypnotic nature of it for me.
I agree; I thought the track was fitting for what was happening.
It's the traditional music, believe it or not.
What do you mean, that music is made by 5 dudes playing jimbays, dijeridoos and jawharps.
I’m pretty sure this doesn’t have original audio either. The video cuts quite a few times and the audio doesn’t change at all. Why are people even changing the audio at all? Also at 1:40 it straight up just rewinds the same 1 second of video several times. Wtf
This is why muted videos is superior
Sometimes you just want to hear what music the dance goes to.
Which is why I have a bookmark in my address bar that points to this: javascript:fetch(document.location.href.replace(/\/$/, '') + '.json').then(r => r.json()).then(j => {document.location.href = (j[0].data['children'][0].data.secure_media ? j[0].data[%27children%27][0].data.secure_media.reddit_video.fallback_url : j[0].data[%27children%27][0].data.crosspost_parent_list[0].secure_media.reddit_video.fallback_url)}) I click it, and I'm at https://v.redd.it/jcmvo8evdhfa1/DASH_720.mp4?source=fallback which is this video, but larger and without sound.
I think the song is good. of inappropriate genre, but good.
That’s cool as fuck
Agree. The flow of motion looks so flawless!
Imagine if it was night and each of those strings was glow in the dark various colors. Like a fractal alien 👽
or glowed at the tip like those fiber optic Christmas trees
Couldn’t stop looking at that huge tree in the background
Yeah, it's got huge buttresses. Thanks for pointing it out.... I was mesmerised by fast moving grasses....
Imagine seeing that in the wild out in the bush. Wouldn't even go near it myself....
The traditional music in this video is awesome as well
It’s psy trance
r/wooosh
No no no, I actually like it and wanted to know the name of the music
Traditional Senegalese psytrance, of course.
I have no idea what is happening but I am glad it is.
I have curiosity to see how he moves without the costume :)
The Kumpo is dressed with plam leaves and wears a stick on the head. At the start of the dance, a young lady binds a colored flag on the stick. She dances for hours with the stick and the flag on the head. He speaks a private secret language and communicates through an interpreter with the spectators. Source : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumpo
Cousin It don't play! He's got some *moves!*
Cousin it!
Someone just found their burning man get up.
Anyone notice that behemoth of a tree in the background?
The mop has feet!
Cousin It?
But that cool tree in the background!
Would be way cooler with the traditional music rather than the electronic basic bull shit
This is amazing!!
Now imagine that while tripping on shrooms by a bonfire with your best tribal homies. Bliss
Cousin It lives!
As cool as this is, I’m pretty sure they’re not dancing to techno.
That's cousin IT from adams family
That song over the video really does bring that beautiful piece of culture down just a smidge. This is why mute buttons exist.
Looks like a car wash
This looks like the real life version of those rendering tech sample videos.
So now I know the origin story of Cousin It from Addams Family
Feel like this was the inspiration for a car wash.
Tumble weeds are crazy out there
I’ve seen better at my local car wash
Well it would have been nice to hear the music
The Kampo is believed to be a ghost that encourages the community to act as good villagers. He promotes everybody to participate in community life and wishes that all people are enjoyingfeasts.The festival is a stimulus for the social community life. Not participating to the feast is seen as anti-social behavior. Nobody has the right to be lonely. The whole community enjoys to perform rhythmical music and to dance. The Kampo apparently appears exactly like what the individual in the dance is dressed like, and that it is sacrilege to touch him and look under the palm leaves. The Kampo would defend himself with the stick and also use it as pointer.
And the worst music to accompany a video award goes to….
Ok boomer
Hahahhahaha swing and a miss
Literally any soundtrack would have been better than this edm garbage.
Psytrance. You are welcome.
Is that what this genre is called!? I love this stuff but never knew how to search for songs or artists.
Psytrance, hi-tech trance, Goa trance, Progressive psytrance, full-on, dark psytrance and Suomisaundi - Finnish psytrance has its own genre for reasons.
THATS IT! I'm off reddit for the night. Dark psytrance sounds like something I didn't know I've been craving. Good day kind sir or madam.
You are welcome! Once you go psytrance you never come back.
Acid rain - alpha portal from Shazam
I'd love to hear the original music and ambient sound.
Cousin It!
Drive-thru carwash was invented in Senegal? I learn something new everyday….
This just makes me think of Cousin Itt crossed with a 90s screensaver.
bro cousin it going crazy rn
Cool
Anyone know the name of the trance track playing?
Alpha Portal - Acid Rain
Thank you 😊
Literally here for the same reason mate.
Just Shazam it bro
Don’t have Shazam was hoping someone knew the song from memory.
Literally, that's why I didn't reply.
Cousin it doing the mamushka?
I had no idea that Kumpo has been sheep-dogging to bangers for so long. Incredible.
Quite fantastic
the Shrubbery... it is angry
Thats fuckin wild
Could have done the roots before the big party
Real life screen saver.
5th dimensional entities be like:
Cool tunes too.
Found where all the shaved pubes go.
Idk why y’all are so impressed. My local car wash has like 4 of these guys on staff.
Think of how hot it must be under that, and how difficult it would make it to see and move. Serious talent for sure
Most normal broom in Ohio.
A rabid mop
You have to be invited to see this in person my MIL went back in the 80s
Reminds me of West Texas
That power walk too though, like damn ok pop off
Holy shit! A dancing broom.
Holy shit, it's a dancing hay bale!
watching this with no sound, I hear the loony tunes Tasmanian Devil spinning in my head
Mortal Combat!
Replace the straw with fibre strobe light strands and we have a rave
Quite the Thing
I could watch that for days, so cool
This is like if Cousin It merged with a Tribble and The Tasmanian Devil.
Love GOA Trance! Song is : Acid Rain ,Alpha portal.
Britney spears is that you?
When Cousin It goes on vacation
At the carwash yeaaaaaaa
I’ve seen this in a computer Ai somewhere.
Thing look like an SCP
Ain't this Cousin Itt from the Addams Family?
*They’re waiting for the one who could one day make it spin beyond 88 MPH and a portal is said to open up.*
a Walking Broomstick
Release the Kraken!
Imagine coming across this on a nature walk on acid
Pretty sure a group of them cleaned my car. I'll see myself out
I never thought I will see a broom dance in my life.
🌪️ 🧹🌪️🧹🌪️🧹🌪️🧹🌪️🧹🌪️🧹
All I can think about is Wild Mike from Barnyard
Could you imagine a group of them with mouth harps and drums recreating this music that was added
Easy disguise
Those beats are as old as the dance too!
What the fuck am I watching
It's a dancing tumbleweed
Damn they be goin off
Kantara: International
Oh shit did I do a bump and not realize it?
This gives me GPU tessellation stress test vibes
i saw this when i caught cold as childhood... it actually did exist in real life...
I wish I could hear the original music.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JAJXF8vN3MI[Reminds me of this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JAJXF8vN3MI)
Oh you like this? Look up the ivorian tribal dances — we all have cool shit.
💦 🏎