Good Morning America, Feb 27, 2025
total # of YouTube comments as of August 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM EDT
****
Edited by Azizi Powell
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/08/comments-from-discussion-thread-of.html for some comments from the discussion thread of the A. Y.E. team video that is the focus of the pancocojams post entitled
The content of this post is presented for historical, socio-cultural, and entertainment purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to 803 Fresh for composing "Boots On The Ground" ("Where Them Fans At") and Tre Little for choreographing the "Boots On The Ground" line dance. Thanks also to Good Morning America for its episode about legacy of soul line dancing. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.
****
SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
(with numbers added for referencing purposes only.)
March 2025
1. @ResumePrep
"Thanks for highlighting this art and sharing these stories!!"
**
2. @user-lirtd7j9
"803 Fresh. I'm so proud of you for such
a great song. Boots on the ground. South Carolina got it going on"
**
3. @TaySaidSo
"In Detroit we call is Hustling!!! I love how the diaspora has a name in each city! I love us"
**
4. @kathyw.3146
"I wish they would
have had Kountry Smooth on there and some of the younger people who made that
line dance up on there."
**
5. @Spooky_pookie
"Can’t they come up with something on their own instead of
taking from the’70’s and country dancing?"
**
Reply
6. @tavellcoops
"Country music originated from us...."
Reply
7. @Spooky_pookie
"
Reply
8. @tavellcoops, April 2025
"
****
9. @Spooky_pookie
"Thank you!! They are trying to claim
that they invented it and it’s “something new”. Lmao😂😂😂😂😂
this type of dancing has been around forget!!! But hey culture appropriation At
its finest."
**
Reply
10. @LadyTTennessee
"they are not the original line dances"
**
Reply
11. @LadyTTennessee
"@Spooky_pookie
how are they saying they created
it? Soul line dancing is a culture. The electric slide and bus stop are not the
original line dances"
**
12. @LUX_8
"@LadyTTennessee This is what happens when we
"share." 🙄"
13. @LDFFTV
"Dave Bush is actually the creator of the
dance now known as the Wobble. Vic took the exact same steps and just changed
the music. Fast forward to today and the same steps are being used for other
dances, with very slight variations to the steps and/cadence."
**
14. @dborahrehn93
"They didn’t mention frat bros stepping in this video. Goes
way back B4 2003! Say at least 1978 yeah! Kappa
Steppin’ steps 👍🏼 is a form that
predated soul line dancing . And Cupid Don’t miss cupid"
**
15. @ms.clarkslearninghangout1253
"Back in the day Bus Stopping to Frankie Beverly!!!"
**
16. @JeweleneKirkland
"Not just Black History month, but every weddings, parties,
& favorite outing (picnics) or just making one up. That's done everyday.
All cultures have their own online dancing group. We do it for health, fun &
creativity. 😂❤😂"
**
17. @omggiiirl2077
"Line dance tradition goes back to our days back in Africa.
If you go and look at the dance of tge tiv people called the swange, you will
see that we as African people have been dancing as a group since time
immemorial! Its a part of us and as natural to us as breathing! We took dances
such as the swinger and adapted it to our surroundings here in America! Now we
call it line dancing."
**
Reply
18. @OhDatsJaVion
"Everybody in the world dances !! as a group however ! each
lineage does a unique specific dance
What black Americans
do in the south is not the equivalent of what Africans do in Africa. It’s a
different lineage. Not everything black Americans do is linked to Africa."
**
Reply
19. @seann54
"What about twerking? 🤣🤣"
**
Reply
20. @Spooky_pookie
"@seann54 lol that’s
specific to one culture 😂😂😂😂😂"
**
Reply
21. @omggiiirl2077
"@seann54 tweaking
also is seen in Africa, so never let Africans try to shame us about that either
because many tribes do that too. Its something we been doing since time
immemorial. But the difference is context. The difference is also what is being
worn, and who is being shown, and how we defend it, and display our culture. We
should talk about these things openly. And understand that Our identity as
African people is WAY long her than the few centuries we have existed here,
segregated mind you."
**
Reply
22. @omggiiirl2077
"@OhDatsJaVion oh
okay. We're so different. Yet dna says a
whole different story. And not just that, and mountain of historical
documentation, botanical evidence,
linguistic evidence, cultural,
and now with YouTube you can see the similarities without having to travel to
Nigeria or Africa. Is our line dance special yes it is. But my point is valid.
It did not come from thin air. We have an ancestry and lineage that goes much
deeper that just slave ships, it goes back to the birth of humanity. I find it
hilarious how people want to claim that Black people are tgat first people and
Black Women carry the Eve gene, but then want to disassociate ourselves from
the very continent Eve comes from. You can't have it both ways. I don't
understand what all this aversion to being Africans in Amerikkka is. It stinks of
self hatred. You do know that more than one thing can be true at one time
right? You really have to get your mind to stop thinking like like the white
man."
**
23. @Mr.Know.It_All
"Foundational Black American culture 🇺🇲."
**
24. @corrinrausch1399
"I had a smile on my face this whole segment. Can this white
girl join? I can do the boot scootin' boogie as an audition."
**
25. @ehall0616
"Yall need to stop...this line dance originated from the
south side of Chicago not New Jersey 😤
And who and where did this man come from...????not hating
just truths....remember R Kelly boat video 🎉"
Reply
"This segment isn't about where line dancing started. This is
about line dancing in the New Jersey, Philly, and Delaware area. This man is
someone well known among those in the soul line dance community."
**
Reply
27. @chrisnichols8582
"But...but, trump said we can't celebrate Black History
Month!🤣"
**
28. @evonza4858
"Because SSSOOOUUULLL TTTRRRAAAlllNNN is part of Black
History and Black Excellence 🥰❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚"
**
29. @jacquelinefulton5226
"Wonderful to see such happiness! Line dancing archived and
acknowledged ~it’s a wonderful thang!!!!😊❤️"
**
30. @kamurray8
"Thank you for showcasing soul line dancing with Kenny
J. Here in Jacksonville, Fl we are the
Young & Relentless soul line dance and fitness group. Line dancing is such
a stress reliever, it's alternate form of exercise, a way to meet people, it's
FUN, and it's for EVERYONE. You better
pop that fan Robyn. Thank you for representing us well Kenny J."
**
31. @missbhavin4philly
"Line dancer from Philly here. It's truly therapy, a whole community!!
Made history with a whole line dance exhibit in the Library of Congress that day, the celebration was wonderful!!"
**
32.@dtimms
"Robyn killed me with that fan..😂
she was ready"
-snip-
African American female Robyn Roberts is one of the host of the Good Morning America television series.
Reply
33.
"Robyn got the assignment"
**
Reply
34.@msgemsgems
"😂😂😂❤❤❤
She was!"
**
Reply
35. @JPC629
"Ikr! ROBIN 😃"
Reply
36. @Titinefer1129
"
**
Reply
37. @nattydredka
"I know right!!😂😂"
**
Reply
38. @MsChalaki
"Baby!!!! Robyn was on it!!!! 😂❤
Yassssss"
Reply
39. @jdjking
"
Reply
40. @josryder7841
"
Reply
41. @Rhonda-i7t, April 2025
"
Reply
42. @SD-ji9th, April 2025
"
**
Reply
43. @brandonrorie2267, April 2025
"Yes!!"
Reply
44. @marianb2530, May 2025
"
****
April 2025
45. @cynthiagardner7922
"I knew our stuff would be hijacked once it aired here"
**
46. @cherylbarnes-hudson3709
"NOW WATCH 😉 😂........
*THEY....(U KNOW WHO😂🤔 😂....
****
May 2025
****
June 2025
47. @rubymattox8954
"It started with a dance called The Madison,"
**
48. @ninared6816
"What happened to Cupid with his line dances from years ago?
No recognition! Shame. Fans were out over four years ago!"
**
49. @marcielottie6620
"I recall from the 50/60s Madison Time was one of the first
line dances? Ray Bryant trio?"
**
50. @yvonnecalvin2061
"Wobble was a good one"
**
51. @Nmelys
"Have you heard of the Madison? My family did this with a
song called “It’s Madison Time” in the 1960s"
****
July 2025
52. @ninared6816
"I am 74 years young and did the line
dance Bus Stop in the 60s. Give everyone their due please. Also great exercise.
Taught many in a healthy living class in 2015."
****
August 2025
****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.
Visitor comments are welcome.
No comments:
Post a Comment