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St John’s Dance, Elvis, and a Sexy Skittles Ad
Written by Jimmy
638 years ago today, starting in Aix-la-Chapelle (now in Germany), St John’s Dance ‘broke out.’ St John’s Dance, or the Dance Plague, or Dance Mania, occurred throughout the Middle Ages in Europe. Without explanation (and we still don’t know), one or more folks would simply start dancing, causing mayhem in the streets, breaking up religious or civil ceremonies, rioting… Being the Middle Ages and all, the powers that be, generally blamed the devil. More often than not the outbreaks occurred in Germany during tough times. Let’s hope the Germans don’t lose anytime soon in the Euros then…
500 years later and Elvis took over St John’s Dance, grinding his way through a set of TV performances in the last fifties. Critics were horrified, as Wiki cites:
Television critics were outraged: Jack Gould of The New York Times wrote, “Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. … His phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner’s aria in a bathtub. … His one specialty is an accented movement of the body … primarily identified with the repertoire of the blond bombshells of the burlesque runway.”[94] Ben Gross of the New York Daily News opined that popular music “has reached its lowest depths in the ‘grunt and groin’ antics of one Elvis Presley. … Elvis, who rotates his pelvis … gave an exhibition that was suggestive and vulgar, tinged with the kind of animalism that should be confined to dives and bordellos”.[95] Ed Sullivan, whose own variety show was the nation’s most popular, declared him “unfit for family viewing”.
I don’t think Elvis is German. although he was shipped to Germany as a US soldier. Maybe he learned St John’s Dance from a bunch of unhappy Germans while he was there. They were rubbish at football then as Brazil began their ‘golden era.’
Fast forward to today and maybe we can explain all those mob dances, but these have less to do with the devil and more to do with advertisers:
But, of course, if you believe the Illuminati, advertisers are doing the Devil’s work anyway, filling our heads with porn on a daily basis (these guys have way too much time on their hands, but the Skittles one does crack me up):
(Here’s the Skittle’s Image)
But you’d never associate the Germans with advertising would you? THINK AGAIN:
So that’s it, then. Blame Elvis’s dancing on the Germans.
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Jimmy
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