Twerking

I have never tried twerking. I want to. As God as my witness, from the strongest regions in my soul, I want to twerk. I need to twerk. Something in my life is amiss and I believe it is the lack of twerking. Maybe, just, maybe, my time will come...... Sticking your ass up in the air in a sexual way is as old as life itself. It started in the caveman days, when the madame cavewoman--- and, sometimes, her mother and father--- would bend over and a stray caveman, or, a rogue dinosaur, would see an opportunity and go to town. There was something about a lass starting up a fire by banging rocks together, with the added thrill of the drumbeat from the nearest prehistoric disco, that sent hearts afluttering and hormones raging. As humans developed, what we call twerking today evolved into more civilized forms of expression. Now, with the exception of a prison shower, sticking your bum into the air freely is part and parcel with dancing. Miley Cyrus has brought the old form into the new generation, while tagging it with a new name, the aforementioned twerking....... Music history has always flirted with the naughty and music. What was risque back when is old hat today. Elvis The Pelvis was denounced in schoolrooms and churches and town hall meetings for his suggestive moves onstage. He was swirling his hips [this was when he was lean and mean looking. In later years, the only thing he swirled was his rolls of fat] and drove the young girls crazy, because his moves always flirting on the outskirts of sexual invitation. It evoked stimulation with the girls, which in turn threatened their parents with the horrible thoughts that their little girl might want to get Elvis in the sack. But, with the retrospection of time, we see the old footage of Elvis and it looks quite tame and harmless. That is what happens with the passage of time. What was obscene back in the day is now a pleasant memory of a more innocent time. The Rolling Stones, who grabbed the baton from Presley in the 1960's when it came to making girls think dirty thoughts, now are revered by the very same establishment who wanted to lynch them at the time. The Doors, specifically, Jim Morrison, were charged with obscenity for their onstage antics. Had he lived, Morrison would probably be sitting at the Kennedy Center Honors next to the President. And, let us not forget the 1980's version of naughty dancing, Dirty Dancing. The movie will never be confused with great cinema and art. Patrick Swayze was no Brando. But, he did draw in the females with his body moves and sexual heat. This was quite talked about back in the day, for, like Elvis in his day, many public officials, who like to tell us what is good and decent for us, cried long and loud over these moves. My God, what a lesson for the youth, these dirty moves on the dance floor! How will we, as a society, ever go forward and hold our heads up to the world's scorn? Well, like the above moments of human outrage, Dirty Dancing became harmless and soon forgotten. Soon, another dirty dance came along--- I believe it was the Lambada [the ''forbidden dance'', you all] and societies knickers became twisted again with horror..... So, tie them all together and it leads to the chain of twerking and Miley Cyrus. This is, of course, the current dance, which means, it is not for you and me but the young. When us old hipsters starting shaking our tailfeather to the current dance, then it becomes old hat and the kids--- who always arbitrate on what is hot and hip for us--- have moved on to something else. The youth generation, which is the cradle of mass media, has always been one step ahead of the rest of society. Remember, when you were that age and older people started to act and say the things you were saying and doing? Yes, it felt wrong and you must stop doing it........ I do not foresee anyone older than a teenager or young adult twerking. If you do see them bent over and having their posterior in the upright position, two things may be occuring. 1. You may have interrupted an intimate moment about to occur. 2. The older person has fallen and cannot get up......... Why the outrage in some quarters? Well, it gives the media starved pundits a chance to talk about something that everyone will respond to. When you bring out the heavy topics of gun control, the debt, and possible war coming soon, many people instantly tune out. They don't want to talk about what is really important. They would rather wait for something easy to grasp and to form an instant opinion on. That is why more people know Miley Cyrus and her theatrics than know how their Congressman voted on the health care bill. Money may be seeping out of our wallets and were are slowly going broke, but, Miley must command the attention of the population. This is both sad and understandable. It reeks of sadness because the important things in life must be paid attention to. But, where it is understandable is that we all get so inundated by all of the problems of the world-- both our own and what fate gives us around us-- that we do need some kind of diversion. Something in our brains says, ''I can't take reality anymore! I need something mindless to think about, like twerking and are the Hawks gonna repeat as champions?!''. That is why the pop culture is the most powerful culture in the world. Throw an idea out there, see if it sticks, and reap the benefits of what you have sewn. It is like starting a rumor around the office that is unimportant. It builds in momentum and steamrolls into a more interesting direction. By the time it hits its peak, the little rumor is now a major topic of conversation around the water cooler........ Truth be told, Miley Cyrus and her little fuss is just about ran its fifteen minutes of fame. Twerking, and the misguided youth heading towards the Devil's grasps, will soon depart, for we are about six months away from another youth explosion. But, as I have mentioned in a recent blog, attention must be paid to Ms. Cyrus and her way of living her life after all of the fuss has died down. This girl, who was packaged as an innocent teenager until that grew stale, now is the sexy tart gone wrong. This, too, will fade quickly and that is the time for the people around Miley who care about her, if there really are people who do genuinely care for her, to be there for her when her career crumbles. She doesn't have the goods or talent to go long-distance in the entertainment industry. She will flame out soon. I hope she has a strong support system there for her. If not, then she will just be another casuality in the long list of child stars who burn brightly for a short time, but, burn out just as fast. And, most of those early flameouts do not survive.......