Thursday, Sep. 18, 2008

Chicken Dance not the best song (w/video)

BethZilla is your go-to woman for music and entertainment in the Tri-Cities. A writer, photographer, videographer and blogger extraordinaire, she speaks her mind on anything and everything.

In high school, a friend of mine had this chicken toy that danced to the music of the Chicken Dance. Y'know, that annoying song that goes on forever and gets stuck in the back of your mind, sending you into a migraine? Yeah, that song.

I remember breaking his chicken toy on accident, although now that I think about it, it may not have been so accidental...

My friend, who will probably deny it, would sing "I don't wanna be a chicken, I don't wanna be duck, so I shake my butt!" and then clap four times.

So when one of my editors gave me a heads up about a chicken dance contest right before Sausage Fest, I thought, "Hells yeah!" and then immediately "Ohs no!"

I underestimated how annoying the song would be, which always seems to happen. When I was younger, my friends and I would frequent the Rollarena in Richland (yes, it was totally nerdy, but at least we weren't shooting up in an alley) and I remember them playing that song there. "Hurry up with this song so I can eat my ice cream cup!" I would complain.

The kids at Christ the King take their chicken dancing very seriously. Big B from 98.3 the Key was the MC, cracking jokes like "When they told me to come judge some chicks, I didn't know they meant real chicks!" Oh, Big B, your witty sexism is always good for a laugh.

I thought my favorite contestants were these two kids dressed in football jerseys who were in the kindergarten to second grade category. However, these gangster chickens who did old-school moves like The Running Man soon took first place in my heart.

I think it was the sixth graders who performed an interpretive dance to kick-start the contest. They were all dressed up as different countries, wearing paper-chicken-beaks, and re-created the Olympics... So they were international chickens. Oh, and notice the wench who walked in front of all the bystanders holding video cameras, saying "Hello! Hello! Hello!" and then telling her friend "I just got on everyone's cameras!" WTF? Yeah, that's what we want on our cameras - your face.

As I got into my car to head back to the office, I found myself humming the Chicken Dance song. What a strange tune...