Both of the twins seem to have decided not to go off to a nightclub
and dance the night away until after exams.
Heaven knows, having a good ole bop would be brilliant if it didn’t all
kick off so very late at night, making the clubbers into grim and grumpy zombies
the next day.
But even so, there is the sound of uncouth music coming from
Carenza’s room, together with thumpy dancy noises and a certain amount of
giggling.
As I open the door, they freeze, I would like to say “like
rabbits in the headlights” but rabbits are a bit more innocent than that.
Apparently they have been practising twerking.
“No – there’s no way we’re showing you.”
“Nope - if you want to know what it is you’ll have to
look it up on YouTube.”
If those dance moves are so bad they can’t show me, do I
really want to look them up on YouTube?
Or will I end up having to drag my hard disk into the woods to destroy
it, Broadchurch-style?
If anybody feels they can succinctly describe twerking in
standard English without recourse to teen slang, this particular confused
mother would find it most informative if you could do it in the comments
section below.
Thanks to Uncle Wiki - Twerking is a "dance move that involves a person shaking their hips and bottom in a bouncy up and down motion, causing it to shake, 'wobble' and 'jiggle'."[1] and "to twerk means to dance in a sexually suggestive twisting fashion".[2]
ReplyDeleteThanks, Chip. That's solved that one. Now I know what the move is, I think I'll try it out in church during the singing on Sunday. Care to join me?
ReplyDeleteClare, I'm pretty sure that there isn't a congregation on either side of the Atlantic that is prepared for the sight of me "twerking". I fear there would be health and safety issues!
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