Baauer is the 24-year-old trap-rave producer whose future-crunk behemoth “Harlem Shake” soundtracked Norwegian army drills, morning-show derp squads, school suspensions, an FAA investigation, a fiery fall, and a mass stabbing among perhaps a zillion other flash-mob dancing demonstrations, thanks to a craze perhaps …
This will most likely be the very last Harlem Shake video you will ever see, given that the erstwhile viral sensation has given way to much worse memes.
Internet memes are often portrayed as the last bastion of truly spontaneous culture—almost magic things that spawn haphazardly from the digital mire. This may have been somewhat true with early internet memes. (After all, what corporation would want to co-opt Goatse?) But today memes are as corporate as any other…
The Harlem Shake has been declared over time and time again.
You know that "Harlem Shake" thing your friends on Facebook are just now discovering? Well, it was dead for a minute, but now it's back.
The meme that's made Bauuer's incorrectly named "Harlem Shake" the number one song in America two weeks in a row is finally getting the federal investigation it deserves. Sort of. One of the more recent versions of the meme, made by the Colorado College Ultimate Frisbee Team – takes place aboard a Frontier Airlines…
New chart rules incorporating YouTube streams make Baauer's "Harlem Shake" No. 1 in the U.S. Gee, thanks, Billboard.
Anyone with eyes and a memory that goes back at least to the early '00s advent of Bad Boy Records knows that the meme or whatever it is of people convulsing arhythmically that is currently masquerading as the "Harlem Shake" is not the Harlem Shake. A filmmaker named Chris McGuire took to Harlem for man-on-the-street…
YouTube superstar Freddie Wong finally gets around to making his own Harlem Shake video — and in traditional Freddie Wong fashion, he brings the whole Harlem Shake house down with him.
