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For 13 y.o. at the bat mitzvah, yeah there's a steady string of these things. Think "Wobble."
Not sure I'd call it steady .. there's some, but Wobble came out 11 years ago, and many of the others (Macarena, Cotton Eye Joe ... ) were earlier. Has only been a few songs like this in the past decade.
 
Ive got around 15 to 20 line dances in my arsenal...collected since electric slide in 90... about 6 work for any occasion... the rest work for die hard line dance lovers..

Thats rarified air to create something that polarizes not only a bat mitzvah kid...but youre grandma... frat guys... soccer moms...etc...

Then to hear one a week in and kinda love it... very rare for me personally...probably the first time in almost 30 years... i heard electric slide in the carabean months before it hit here...that was probably the last time i was excited like that

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Not sure I'd call it steady .. there's some, but Wobble came out 11 years ago, and many of the others (Macarena, Cotton Eye Joe ... ) were earlier. Has only been a few songs like this in the past decade.

Just an example of one that has survived and made it's way into weddings. If you're doing bar/bat mitzvahs you need new lines dances and follow alongs every season. Many ops just make them up to both new and old songs - which is how entertainers differ from DJs.
 
Still getting a lot of mileage out of "The Bartman"

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I loved that song when I was like 10 years old!

With that said, I think this new country line dance song will gain SOME Steam. It might retain a following in areas where country music is prevalent.

I certainly like the "Hoe Down" part of the dance! That will attract the kids.

This is not going to have main stream power like Cha Cha Slide or Cupid Shuffle or Electric Slide have. It's a bit slow for starters. The ppular ones are faster, and just real easy to do. ...This has more involved, and will have a higher level learning curve to learn how to do.

Also with that said: Cha Cha Slide came out back in 2000, and that had a "SLOW" start as a line dance. I am pretty sure I did not play it in 2000 at all. Even in 2001 I don't think I played it. The song spent 5 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and only made it to #83 when it came out. It was like 18 to 24 months later that people started getting into dancing to it at events and weddings. I believe my first time playing it was in 2002. It seemed more popular to me between 2005 and 2012 for dancing than it was the first 4 years it was out! Now back then we did not have youtube and social media to help get things noticed very fast. BUT...IT took like 3-4 years for Cha Cha Slide to really hit Main stream playing at events as far as I can remember.

Macarena was catchy and hit right away back in 93. The music video was like #1 on MTV for quite a while. Cupid Shuffle became popular almost right away, but that came out in 2007, and was huge on cruise ships so vacationers got a big taste of it for a number of years. Still very popular today along with Cha Cha SLide, but I would say Cupid Shuffle is even more desired than Cha Cha Slide by partiers.


I don't think this song will break through to main stream playing at events, but I think in areas where Country Line Dancing is big, this will become a part of the playlist.
 
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Gangnam Style was a quick starter but only lasted a year. I can't get excited over this new line dance (country), however.
 
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IT took like 3-4 years for Cha Cha Slide to really hit Main stream playing at events as far as I can remember.

I'm still waiting for Part 3. Casper was really planning ahead.
 
Yea .. took longer than I thought. Currently it's #1 on the Global Viral 50 on Spotify.

 
yeah ...he needed a couple celebrities to do the "challenge" and it'd take off... oh well...

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Still not as many views on YouTube as I thought .. over a million, but a ways to go ..
 
So what do we as dj's do?

In my club dj days (before youtube or social media ruled the world) i always prided myself at introducing new music to clubgoers... stuff theyd need to be in NY or LA to have heard already...

Flash forward to now....as a mobile dj... playing songs from playlists created by clients... needing to maintain a dancefloor at all times... wanting to please not educate the crowd.... do we take a chance and attempt to introduce a song like this?

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I live in a rural area, and this song is slowly gaining speed on social media in my area. I played it last weekend coming out of a country set, (Boot Scootin' Boogie, this, Old Town Road, and then Hot In Herre--although I might swap out Country Grammar in that spot) and it was a hit, lot of people asking me what it was.

I didn't "teach" the dance as I wasn't sure exactly the moves and it is one of those that I think y ou can just have fun with if you don't want to learn the moves.