A song and dance made by two Detroit teenagers, spread through the #TZAnthem Challenge as people filmed themselves attempting the moves. It reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100. The record's entry for the last great pre-TikTok school-corridor dance.
Died in 2018 on the usual timetable: a dance owned by a school year lasts exactly one school year. Survived by a chart position that still surprises people who never heard it.
My cousin taught me the count in a kitchen in 2016 and gave up on me inside a minute. She was eleven. She was right to give up.
Made by teenagers, spread by teenagers, charted at five, and understood by almost nobody over twenty-five until it was already finished. The pipeline worked without a single institution touching it.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
