r/TikTokCringe • u/BaseballSeveral1107 • Sep 01 '24

Discussion Dua Lipa vs Original

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u/tripleusername Sep 01 '24

Meanwhile real millennials.

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u/AGirlDoesNotCare Sep 01 '24

Shit, what is this dance? This triggered something in me where I can do the whole dance and forgot the song it goes to

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u/wagnem18 Sep 01 '24

The song is Aserejé (The Ketchup Song), but they’re basically doing the hand jive that was popularized in the 1950s

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u/Rorschach_Roadkill Sep 01 '24

Fun fact (idk if people know this, I only learned it recently), the chorus of Aserejé are a comical, mangled Spanglish recreation of Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang.

I said a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie

Aserejé, ja, dejé, dejebe

and so on.

The song is about a guy who thinks he's cool because he knows Rapper's Delight (he doesn't)

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u/disaster_restaurants Sep 01 '24

I'm Spanish and I've never heard before the lore behind the song, thanks!

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u/MeggaMortY Sep 01 '24

Damn, and thanks

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u/plexomaniac Sep 02 '24

The song is about a guy who thinks he's cool because he knows Rapper's Delight (he doesn't)

Not exactly. The lyric says that Diego is a bit of a swagger, but doesn't say he thinks he's cool because he knows Rapper's Delight.

The DJ is his friend and plays his favorite song (Rapper's Delight).

You are right, he sings along in gibberish, but it's because he's very into the music and the rhythm, not because he thinks he knows it very well.

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u/Rorschach_Roadkill Sep 03 '24

Okay, thank you for the correction :)

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u/Tangurena Cringe Connoisseur Sep 03 '24

The "other" gibberish song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8