Edited by Azizi Powell
This post presents a compilation of selected YouTube discussion thread comments about people throughout the world who remember dancing or who still dance The Electric Slide.
This post also includes some comments about where The Electric Slide was danced - for instance, as part of some schools PE (physical education) classes.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/04/how-electric-slide-candy-dance-came-to.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. Part I presents information about "The Electric Slide" line dance (also known as "The Candy dance" and other names. That post also presents information about Marcia Griffiths' "Electric Boogie" and Cameo's "Candy". These are just two of the records that dance is performed to.
The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and entertainment purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
I chose to exclude any examples in this compilation of the numerous comments in these "Electric Slide" discussion threads about racism in the world, racism in the music industry, cultural
appropriation, giving credit to Black people for our music, and whether or not White
people can dance.
These discussion threads are numbered for referencing purposes only.
Some of these discussion threads include multiple comments that refer to specific races, ethnicities, nationalities etc dancing The Electric Slide. These discussion threads also include multiple comments about where The Electric Slide was danced. This compilation only includes selected examples of these comments.
DISCUSSION THREAD #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jBkoEM0SSE
Marcia Griffiths- Electric Boogie (The Electric Slide)
(Promo) (HQ),
COMMENTS
2018
1. Rhazael A
"the official filipino party song!!! 😩😂🤙🏼"
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2/ Chicken Broccoli Rice
"It's a law to play this in conjunction with the Cha Cha
Slide at every black birthday party and wedding."
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Reply
3. Konnor, Rock Konnoisseur
…"My family’s white af and this is at all my relative’s
weddings and B-day’s"
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2019
4. mrsora16
"When I was elementary school the gym
teachers would make us dance to this along with the cha cha slide lol"
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5. nut
"oml i have a dance unit in PE and i have to do this dance"
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6. Des Maree
"Im african so i came here to see what
all my american friends were talking about. looks cool tho."
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7. Zion Malaki
"Played at Every Polynesian Party"
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8. The Maniak
"A piece of African American culture right here💯💯💯✊🏾"
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9. isaac Heres
"Kids today won't understand this song how it was overplayed
in the early 90's in weddings and bar-mitzvahs. This song was an
addiction....Admit it you got up to dance with a group of others dancing
choreographicly to this song"
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10. Sydney
"My black cousins and uncles and I stayed doing the most to
this song, we used to wild out at family reunions. I was an awkward, lanky
little biracial girl raised mostly by my white family, but damnit I tried my
best to kill it! Best years of my life."
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11. malcolm taylor
"No black family reunion or any bar-b-que is complete without
this ‘feel good song’. This song also gave rise to several popular dances along
the way. It remains a staple in the black community and is still popular at
weddings and other gatherings to this very day. In the Deep South, we could
always tell when it was last call and last dance in nightclubs because the deejay
would put this on the turntable, signaling that the lights would be coming on
and the club was closing for the night - usually around 2:00 AM ....... A
Classic"
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12. sreggird60
"The first time I heard this I was stationed in Italy. I
remember dancing to it in a club in Naples. Half the people in the club didn't
even understand the words but the music is universal."
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13. youtubeabuser
"Black cookouts and wedding receptions haven’t been the same
since ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾"
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Reply
14. Finius Wideman
"White cookouts and weddings ad well. This is one of only
three songs that will make any group of people at any function get up and
dance."
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Reply
15. Konnor, Rock Konnoisseur
"I’ve been to white, black and Latino weddings. All three for
a fact get down to Electric Slide, Cha Cha Slide, Cupid Shuffle, and Wobble"
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Reply
16. Finius Wideman
" @Konnor, Rock
Konnoisseur damn right, people of all
races appreciate great music v"
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2020
17. Michi Kaili
"Hawaii party's play this at the very ending.."
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18. Joice Lineth Rodriguez
"En Panamá lo bailamos hasta el cansancio...en los saraos del
colegio"
-snip-
Google translate from Spanish to English:
"In Panama we dance it to exhaustion... at school soirees"
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19. Perfect Fade
"Every samoan party 🌴"
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20. Dana Edwards
"I remember this from the 80s and 90s
white Jewish bar mitzvahs at the tavern on the green. The DJ liked this and
hands up baby give me your heart lots."
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21. old guy
"Damn I wished I could do that, but I'm
just an old white guy!"
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Reply
22. Judith Bennington
"You CAN do this! This song and dance is
not just for us black people but it's for all races. I believe you can do it! 😉"
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Reply
23. old guy
"@Judith Bennington Thanks for your confidence Judith I hope to
do the electric slide for our 50th wedding anniversary next year."
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24. aplsed
"Every Caribbean cookout on the freaking planet."
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25. Hidden Shinobi
"Everyone talking about cookout and family but does no one
remember this playing at literally any Amusement park and just automatically
having a great time hearing this!!!??? My childhood was at Amusement Parks"
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26. Adam RJ
"Finally found this song... I was on a cruise in 2005 from Miami and every night this used to come on in the disco, and all these Americans who knew the song used to jump up and do this dance... now I know why...great times...hahaha 👍"
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2021
27. Electra Herz
"They closed down the skating rink I went to as a kid that
played this song every weekend I went. I remember dancing to this at every
school dance and prom I went to. It gives me such nostalgia now. I just wish I
could dance to it again"
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28. Noodle Mink
"Man I remember being at Disneyland in the 90s with my
family. I was only what, probably 5 years old. This song was on a big screen
outside and we were in a big group of people and everybody was dancing! Such a
carefree time!"
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29. Leon Woods
"Wow they did the
electric slide in Mexico ? Amazing."
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DISCUSSION THREAD #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w2Anvecs6s The Best Man Electric Slide Scene( Candy- Cameo) Dance; RockKG973, May 8, 2013
COMMENTS
2016
1. Cali4ah
"If the electric slide doesn't break out at every black
family function there's something wrong hell we even did it at my graduation
party 😂😂 #ILoveMyCulture"
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Reply
2. Maria Teijmul, 2019
"American not any Black function because that is like saying
other Black countries too. I love this dance and look at it and would like to
go to a function where this line dance was actually done several times so I
could pick up the steps and really participate and get this feeling"
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Reply
3. trinigyul, 2022
" @Maria
Teijmul Girl you're wrong, we did it at my wedding and every other black
wedding I've been to and we're allll the way in the Caribbean."
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Reply
4. OLA. ODUS
"True, it must be a black thing because guys were doing this dance years ago at weddings even in Lagos-Nigeria, and Accra -Ghana too!...................hope Africa gets its act together for all our people.............love!"
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Reply
5. Blondelle Straker, 2018
"It’s a black thang lol I love it."
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Reply
6. klaudiusz swierczynski, 2018
"Black or not, this song unites us all!"
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7. robakin, 2016
"We do it all over the world U.S
Africa,Caribbean,South and Latin
america.LBB love being black.I have
nothing against others but damn we
bring it to the world mostly without
others recognizing it.just like some
whites in the U.S they change it to
Achy-Breaky heart line dance.Give
Credit where its do"
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2020
8. Prince G Yangi
"We did this at my brother's weeding with the soundtrack of "Danza Kaduro" and our white friends couldn't keep up. 😊"
-snip-
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danza_Kuduro
" 'Danza Kuduro" (English: Dance Kuduro)' is a Spanish/Portuguese song by Puerto Rican recording artist Don Omar and Portuguese–French singer Lucenzo from Don Omar's collaborative album Meet the Orphans"...
[…]
Originally designed to pay tribute towards the many disfigured and crippled people within the country [of Angola, Southwestern Africa] due to the deadly civil war that ravaged the country and left landmines throughout the region. The dance is meant to not only pay tribute towards these handicapped individuals, but also incorporate their erratic and jerky movements into the flow of the moves.”…
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DISCUSSION THREAD #3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnSr-59d5S4 Cameo Candy Dance, TJ Chill, Sep 27, 2017
UK Hip Hop artist TJ Chill marries gospel artist Sophie Agard and their wedding reception guests get down in unison to Cameo's club classic 'Candy' at the La Royale Banqueting Suite in Tottenham, London on 14th Sept 2017
COMMENT
Jessica lewis, 2021
"This how we do the electric slide in TT🇹🇹
😁😁"
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DISCUSSION THREAD #4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM-pKbPw9Zw Candy dance steps, aniks100, Oct 14, 2010
COMMENTS
2014
1. Uncilro
"How are we calling the Electric Slide
the "Candy Line Dance"???? I don't understand."
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Reply
2. Ric Silver, 2015
" @Uncilro
In England - the Electric Slide is known as The Candy Dance"
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Reply
3. BlackAmericanLesbian Professional, 2019
"Uncilro, you are correct. I am Black
American living in the UK for five years now. I have been telling many Black
British and Black people in the UK that this is the line dance called The
Electric Slide. Which there's a song and music video it goes with titled Electric
Boogie (The Electric Slide) (1989 or 1990) by Marcia Griffiths.
Many younger Black people in the UK and Black British individuals know it as Candy Slide. Some older Black British individuals and older Black people in the UK know that it's called the The Electric Slide which they told me after dancing.
I have even played the Electric Boogie (The Electric Slide) (1989 or 1990) by Marcia Griffiths music video for a few younger British individuals to show the line dance to the original song. I would explain the music video is from my childhood in the early 1990s (I was born in 1984). And when it is played anywhere across the USA, anyone jumps up and starts doing The Electric Slide.
The reason why in the UK, this line dance is known as Candy Slide is because someone obviously watched the movie The Best Man (1999) and started playing it at dance parties but didn't know it is called The Electric Slide. At the end of the movie, all the movie characters at the wedding reception do The Electric Slide to the song Candy by Cameo. I have explained this to several people here in the UK.
I have told people when you go visit or live somewhere in the USA and ask to play the Candy Slide, no one will know what you are speaking about. But if you mention The Electric Slide, absolutely people would know! :)
j Pat, this is definitely not The Hustle line dance. I have seen and tried The Hustle which I believe it goes with the song The Hustle (1975) by Van McCoy. If you are speaking of that, there is a complete 360 turn you have to do whereas the The Electric Slide doesn't. And other different movements.
Ric Silver, how cool that you are the creator of the line dance The Electric Slide. I believe you because of the details with describing the choreography of the line dance. :)"
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2015
4. Abigail Adejokun
"they play this song a lot in nigerian
partys"
-snip-
In this discussion thread, "this song" refers to Cameo's 1986 Funk record "Candy".
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5. Ang Ang10
"They play this in Greek weddings to"
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2018
6. Minor Ears
"Jamaicans, Nigerians, they play this at
black parties."
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Reply
7. Fent, 2019
"They play it at white parties too"
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8. Aksaifulazmi Saiful
"Wow.. malay call poco poco dance"
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2021
9. lit reubz
"If your black you done know this and if
you’re white and know big up you"
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