taylor swift made twerking a global phenomenon in august.
taylor swift made twerking a global phenomenon in august.
who made twerking a global phenomenon in august?
taylor swift
in march 2013, american pop singer miley cyrus posted a video on facebook which featured her performing a twerking routine while wearing a unicorn suit, to the 2011 single "wop" by j. dash. the popularity of the video, along with parodies and responses made by fans, influenced the song's re-emergence on the "billboard" hot 100. miley cyrus's "wop" video would go to become viral. by april 9, 2013, copies of the video had amassed over 4 million views on youtube. also in march 2013, mollie king, an english singer-songwriter and lead vocalist of british-irish girl group the saturdays, was seen twerking when her bandmate rochelle humes uploaded the footage on youtube. american actress and singer vanessa hudgens was also seen twerking in march on american late-night talk show "the tonight show with jay leno". in september 2013, hudgens was later seen twerking, this time to the song "bubble butt", during her performance at bootsy bellows in west hollywood, with her girl group yla. hudgens was again seen twerking in a video for shade 45's radio show "sway in the morning". american actress and singer ashley tisdale can also be seen twerking in a video for shade 45's radio show "sway in the morning".
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in july 2012, during the "workaholics" episode "the lord's force", anders holm says "let's just, uh, put on some twerk videos or something, right?". the 2012 single "bandz a make her dance" by juicy j, contains the lyric "start twerking when she hear her song", while french montana questions the ability of a girl to twerk by asking "what you twerkin' with," in his respective 2012 single "pop that", featuring fellow rappers drake, lil wayne and rick ross. the aforementioned songs, along with "express yourself" by nicky da b and diplo, "made twerking the most popular dance move since the dougie".
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