Move to the rhythm of Iko Iko
We see a ray of sunshine and our body asks for movement. Given the still existing restrictions, we’ll have to move it at home. For this, the TikTok platform becomes again the ideal social network to share short and fun videos with the rest of the community. This time, the latest trend is dancing the song “Iko Iko” by Justin Wellington as a couple.
It’s very fun to see the different videos and how the same choreography can look so different depending on who dances it. And that, at first glance, the dance itself doesn’t seem very complicated. Of course, that’s easy to say from the outside and without anyone having seen how the rest of us dance!
If you haven’t tried it yet, here are some videos where the most shameless show us the different steps to follow.
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♬ Iko Iko - Justin Wellington
@nathanlust I freakin love this dance 🔥
♬ Iko Iko - Justin Wellington
You can see the rest of the videos and choreographies here:
This time, Justin Wellington’s version of “Iko Iko” has crossed the borders of TikTok and has sneaked into Reels, Instagram’s tool that also revolves around short videos uploaded by users.
AN ORIGINAL SONG FROM THE 20TH CENTURY!!!
This is not the only version of “Iko Iko”. We don’t have enough fingers to count all the versions that exist since its creation in 1953.
One of the most successful and well-known versions was made in the early 80s (1982) by the British girl band The Belle Stars; although its greatest popularity came 6 years later when it was included in the soundtrack of the movie “Rain Man”, starring a very young Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman.
Its true origin dates back to 1953. James “Sugar Boy” Crawford composed it in 1953 and titled it “Jock-a-Mo”. One of the first versions and, without a doubt, the most controversial, emerged in 1965, when the female group The Dixie Cups started singing informally and improvised a song they had learned from their mother. They called it “Iko Iko”, a call-and-response chant. Their managers decided to include it in the singers' next album, so when James “Sugar Boy” Crawford heard it, he filed a plagiarism lawsuit that led him to keep 25% of the public performance rights of the work. Later, the artists' own managers sued them, but they did not manage to “carry the day”.
This is just a sample of the revolution this melody caused since its birth and which, it seems, is still popular among the younger generation today.
Shall we dance?
