![]() ![]() Part of Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo‘s charm is its complete disregard for the boogaloo’s recorded history. Brown even shot an instructional video on how to perform his version of “The Boogaloo.” ![]() Ringo Starr had a boogaloo song with an incredible Frankenstein’s Monster–themed music video. Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa, had a boogaloo song. Mixing cultures birthed blended sounds, “boogaloo” encompassing everything from bossa nova to R&B and soul. The word’s etymology is fuzzy and oft-debated, both a Latin musical movement exploding in ’50s and ’60s New York and a phrase that emerged from the Deep South’s boogie-woogie piano scene. The “boogaloo” vibe had at least 50 years on Electric Boogaloo. Beyond that … well, who knows? Turns out the people behind Electric Boogaloo barely knew what they’d created, a history that makes its status as the lowest-common-denominator Twitter joke even more amusing. ![]() To many, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo is just a title taken at face value. And yet it’s hard to imagine that most 19-year-olds sitting at home on Thursday night, tweeting stupid fill-in-the-blanks jokes, are aware of their own references. Even the club, imagining the greatest sequel ever told with “ The Bible II: Electric Boogaloo.”īreakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, the December 1984 sequel that inspired these wisecracks, remains an Internet favorite after 30 years of critical apathy. Earlier this December, Comedy Central’s Midnight played a Twitter hashtag game in which host Chris Hardwick challenged those at home to come up with goofy responses to the prompt “#BookSequels.” Groupthink magic helped a pattern emerge: “ Lord of the Flies 2: Electric Boogaloo,” “ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 2: Electric Boogaloo,” “ Frankenstein 2: Electric Boogaloo,” “ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 2: Electric Boogaloo,” “ Do Androids Dream of Electric Boogaloo?” all came through the wire. ![]()
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