Please note I've been meaning to blog about this song for awhile and the new Nike commercial reminded me of it yesterday. I just wanted to clarify that to you guys, that I did in fact like this song prior to Nike. I could have recommended it to Nike.
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| Me wearing my skirt incorrectly |
I have taken dance class a few times in my life, ballet, jazz etc, and while I enoyed it, I wouldn't say I’m the most coordinated or graceful person. This year I decided I would like to pick up a dance class again. I had a "Bollywood" themed work event in the fall, so I went to a traditional east-indian apparel store to find a "costume". I ended up finding a belly dancing skirt. I wore it to the event, my office, my parent's house and every other inappropriate place you could think of. I decided it would be much nicer if I could legit bellydance rather than just randomly shaking my ass.
For the past four months I've been attending bellydance classes on a weekly basis. I suck right now, it's actually a VERY hard dance to learn because you're moving your bodies in a way that us westerners traditionally don't like to. That being said I have hopes of one day performing an amazing dance, something like the infamous Roula Said's would do. The song I would most like to dance to (don't tell my teacher because it's not traditional Arabic belly dance music), is actually "Nobody But Me" by the Human Beinz.
"Nobody But Me" was originally written by the Isley Brothers in 1962, and later picked up and covered by the Human Beinz in 1968. This was a one-hit wonder for the band, but their single achieved quite a bit of success. They made it on American Bandstand with Dick Clark and when asked about the spelling of the band name they informed him that it had been a misprint that was too late to change before their album was released so they just stuck with it. In his "Book of Rock Lists", Dave Marsh, named it the most negative song ever written, with the word "no" being sung over 100 times in only 2:16. The dances that the singer says "nobody" can do like him are, "The Skate", "The Shingaling", "The Boogaloo" and "The Philly".
I've also seen this song played for a skit on this year's season premiere of "The Office". It's actually one of the funniest skits I've ever seen. Besides the new Nike commercial, variations of this song have also been used in Kill Bill, a Canon copier commercial, and "The Departed". If I ever get my bellydancing down pat I'll post a video with me dancing to this song. I promise it will be embarrassing and hilarious if nothing else.
No no no no no no no no no
No no no no no no no no
No no no no no no no no
No no no no no
Nobody can do
The shing-a-ling
Like I do
No no no no no no no no no
No no no no no no no no
No no no no no no no no
No no no no no
Nobody can do
the skate
Like I do
No no no no no no no no no
No no no no no no no no
No no no no no no no no
No no no no no
Nobody can do
The boogaloo
Like I do
No no no no no no no no no
No no no no no no no no
No no no no no no no no
No no no no no
Nobody can do
the philly
Like I do
Well don't you know I'm gonna skate
I'm doin', ain't nobody doin'
But me baby
Nobody but me
Yes i gonna philly, I'm doin'
Ain't nobody doin'
But me baby
Nobody but me
Well let me tell you nobody
Nobody but me
Well let me tell you
Nobody, nobody, nobody, etc.
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