The clearest example on file of a dance escaping its song. Most people who could perform the move by 2017 could not have named the record it came from, or the artist.
Milly Rock
A 2014 song by 2 Milly whose dance went viral the following summer and then detached from the record entirely, turning up in American football end-zone celebrations and in stage routines by Rihanna and Travis Scott. The record's entry for a move that stopped needing its music.
Born
Peak
Died
Cause of death
The move outlived the song and then outlived itself
First sighting
2 Milly, song released 2014; went viral in the summer of 2015
Life & death · 2014–2027
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024
2026
PEAK 2016
BORN · 2015
DIED · 2019
NOW · 2026
Testimony
3 entries · newest first
Definition
@pinned_comment · Poster
7 Jun 2024
📎 Wikipedia, List of viral music videos
Obituary
@screenshot_sam · Digger
20 Jan 2024
Died around 2019 as a live move, absorbed into the general vocabulary of games and end zones. Survived by an argument, still ongoing, about who owns a dance once it leaves the video.
Sighting
@ff7disc2 · Digger
3 Nov 2016
Reported used by footballers as a scoring celebration, which is where dances go once they are common property. A move performed on television by someone who was not paid for it.
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