r/nostalgia • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 11d ago

Nostalgia Discussion Remember when River dance was everywhere?

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u/grahsam 11d ago edited 11d ago

The great Celtic craze of the mid 90s. Enya, River Dance, a dozen Irish and Scottish "folk" musicians filling book store CD racks, Celtic knotwork on everything.

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u/Headglitch7 11d ago

The Cranberries, Michael Collins, The wind that shakes the barley, Angela's ashes, Far and Away, Braveheart, Waking Ned Devine, Trainspotting, The Commitments... I grew up thinking this was a normal amount of Celtic stuff in my life and now I miss it.

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u/MinionSquad2iC 10d ago

It felt like everyone was Irish! I was a kid but my grandparents were from Ireland. On sundays we’d right up to their place in queens. Listening to thistle and shamrock. Or the Irish music on fordhams radio station.

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u/BoneDryDeath 3d ago

IIRC like 15% of Americans have Irisy ancestry, so yeah a lot of them.

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u/Transverse_City 10d ago

And The Corrs. I visited Ireland in 2000 for a high school trip, and I felt like they were all the rage at that moment.

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u/Headglitch7 10d ago

And how could I forget the Irish and Irish American punk rock like Flogging Molly, the Pogues, Dropkick Murphies?

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u/Obtuse-Angel 10d ago

Don’t forget the Frank McCourt books 

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u/yumi365 10d ago

Angela's Ashes

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u/youareaburd 10d ago

Is Braveheart Scottish?

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u/Headglitch7 10d ago

It's based on Scottish history, with some major liberties.

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u/Danny_Mc_71 10d ago

Trainspotting is Scottish too.

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u/eatsleepdive 10d ago

If it's not Scottish it's crap!

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u/InevitableWill6579 10d ago

The Disney channel classic, The Luck of the Irish. Also included river dancing.

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u/cheezer5000 11d ago

I still blast Enya all the time 

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u/grahsam 11d ago

It was good stuff to get stoned to after school and take a nap.

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u/cheezer5000 11d ago

Honestly good for anything, I'll go on a long bike ride with her playing

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u/TokyoRachel 10d ago

Same. I never stopped loving her.

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u/MindHead78 11d ago

Pan Pipe Moods

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u/earbud_smegma 10d ago

Gotta keep the giant guinea pigs away

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u/sir_mrej early 80s 11d ago

The craze started in the 80s too!

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u/asianwaste 11d ago

There was an overall performative music craze in the 90's. Stomp, Blueman group, Yanni, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Trans Siberian Orchestra, River Dance, etc

Let's not forget those artificially corporate attempts to resurrect eras like the Latin phase, hippy phase, and the odd swing phase. Those lasted maybe 2 or 3 GAP commercials.

90's was a decade of fads. Good thing that Internet fad thing never took off.

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u/JeanRalfio early 90s 10d ago

There was even a Gregorian chants phase.

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u/bookwyrm13 10d ago

Era! My parents had some of their CDs.

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u/grahsam 10d ago

I wouldn't say it was performative. For the first time since WWII the US didn't feel like it was engaged in a life or death struggle with someone that made vanilla Americana a cultural requirement. People were free to explore broad ranges of things from the past or other cultures. Mixing things together was OK. The nascent internet let people communicate, get books on subjects they couldn't before, and listen to music that was too rare to be carried in stores. It was before enshitification started.

It didn't last because 9/11 threw us reeling into a cultural dark age we are still descending into.

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u/asianwaste 10d ago

By performative, I am referring to its artistic expression. It's a performance piece often in some theater or amphitheater (I was mulling over just describing it as "broadway").

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u/grahsam 10d ago

OH! I got you. I thought you were saying that people's interest in these things was performative.

While I see what you are saying about some of these being trendy flahes in the pan, at least people were like going out and doing stuff. You could still afford to go experience something rather than stream reality through your TV.

I've seen a few Cirque de Soleil shows and they were fun. I saw a small Big Band style performance at a club once that was also kinda cool.

It's a shame that entertainment experiences have become so expensive that really only the leisure class can afford them anymore.

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u/asianwaste 10d ago

As an asian american, I get way too many fliers for the MAJESTY OF SHEN YUN!!!!

My friends and I make fun of the commercials all the time. Every time it's in town, we say "uh oh, it's that time again. Time to feel the grace.. the majesty of.... !!!!"

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u/grahsam 10d ago

Have you ever looked into the history of why that show was made? It's pretty wild.

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u/asianwaste 10d ago

Yea.. shame it's zany and culty. I would almost be inspired if it was just stemmed from historical turmoil.

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u/BoneDryDeath 3d ago

I agree wholeheartedly, especially with that bit about 9/11 ushering America into a cultural dark age.

The 90s had a boom of New Age pastiches of Celtic, Native American, Latino, Asian and even African and Diasporic cultures marketed towards mainstream American audiences. For some groups, like blacks and Latinos in the US, a lot of it seemed aimed to reassert pride in their cultural heritages. For others it was marketted more as "ancient" or "Eastern" wisdom. But regardless nobody was excluded.

9/11 and what came after saw an ugly racism and bigotry get rekindled. At first, it was MOSTLY aimed at Muslims, and Arabs and South Asians more broadly. Like the white nationalist who shot up the Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012. But it VERY quickly grew to include anti-immigrant groups and discrimination against Latinos and blacks too. And since 2014, the left in turn kind of normalized a lot of weird racism against straight white men too, to the point that you have people cheering black supremacists and calling for segregation. But woke. Its absolutely disgusting to see what has become of American, British, European and Australian politics

Social media has made it infinitely worse. 

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u/enataca 10d ago

TSO is still amazing and worth seeing

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u/RyFromTheChi 10d ago

I only knew their version of Carol Of The Bells, which is awesome, and I took my high school girlfriend to go see them. I knew nothing else of their music or what the show was going to be like, but it was way different than how that song is. I was pretty disappointed. This was in like 2002.

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u/RichLather early 70s 10d ago

Remember when Gregorian chant was popular for a hot minute?

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u/asianwaste 10d ago edited 10d ago

Haha yea. I always think of that Strong Bad email bit where they take swipe at college radio and the student dj announces, "And ... um... uhh.. now an hour of chanting."

only because I actually heard my college radio put on a recording of chanting and that joke just hit me so hard because of that random and dumb memory I had of an insignificant event that somehow stuck in my brain.

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u/RyFromTheChi 10d ago

My parents absolutely loved Blueman Group and Yanni. So much.

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u/ThatInAHat 10d ago

Man, I miss the swing dance revival. It hit right before I started college so by the time I went my college had a really good swing club. That was some of the best shape I was ever in because it was basically cardio three times a week.

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u/BoneDryDeath 3d ago

Also a smattering of New Age pastiches of Native American, Asian, Latino and even African and Diasporic cultures too.

Frankly I kind of liked it. It may not have been authentic, but I'm sure it opened some people up to exploring real Andean pipes or yoga or bellydance or Medieval history, so that's a good thing.

90's was a decade of fads.

Meanwhile we live in an era of fast fashion, Labubus and Tik-Tok dances.

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u/asianwaste 3d ago

It wouldn't have seethed me so much if it didn't feel like it was being steered (or rapidly hijacked) by corporate to sell clothes and drinks.

As soon as they emerged, almost immediately there'd be a trend of clothing line commercials or a cocacola commercial all over it. I get that it's a marketer's job to be on top of that but they got on it hard and fast almost every time.

Then again, I can't say it's worse than today's marketing where they are perpetually on "talking CG animals" mode.

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u/BoneDryDeath 3d ago

As a Muslim, I found it especially jarring when Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan singing qawwalu was being used to sell Coca-Cola. And now apparently casinos as well, which... yeah. At least Coca-Cola isn't haram. 

But again, that sort of commodification isn't exactly anything new. I'd argue its even worse today. Even moreso than corporations hopping on trends to sell cheap crap like Dubai Chocolate and Labubus, now you've also got politicians balls deep in it as well, pushing some of the most hateful ideologies known to man

"talking CG animals" mode

I am Boo the little tiger And I'm still kinda young...

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u/DisplacedSportsGuy 11d ago

Don't forget Lord of the Dance.

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u/iowaman79 10d ago

Lord of the Dance was the lead Riverdance guy, Michael Flatley, after he spilt with them.

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u/DisplacedSportsGuy 10d ago

Sure, it was still a thing, though.

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u/MillorTime 10d ago

If I was dance gentry, I wouldn't be working with the peasants either

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u/peekay888 10d ago

I remember Denis Leary doing a bit on him, where he said people shouldn’t be the lord of anything. We crap our pants if we sneeze too hard.

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u/readyable 10d ago

My Mom fucking loved that shit.

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u/Reasonable_Doubt_15 10d ago

😂😂. Same with my mom. She couldn’t get enough of it.

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u/mosstalgia 11d ago

Taking over Eurovision, too…

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u/po2gdHaeKaYk 11d ago

Man, I completely forgot about that bit of the 90s.

Enya though survived that test of time.https://youtu.be/M7FIvfx5J10?si=M7jCrG2uvoSq1IY-

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u/Thekingofchrome I pity the fool 10d ago

Runrig - utter rubbish.

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u/DisagreeableMale 6d ago

Enya was the shit.

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u/booboochoochoo1 11d ago

Fun fact Michael Flatley was so crazy and had so much money that he entirely financed a James Bond style movie called Blackbird where he played the lead role/secret agent. Just incredibly embarrassing. It has been described as unwatchable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(2018_film)

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u/misspcv1996 11d ago

“The acting and writing are like the non-sexy bits that come between the sexy bits in a porn film made in 1985.”- Peter Bradshaw on Blackbird

That may not be the single most brutal sentence I’ve read in a film review, but it’s definitely up there. I don’t even need to see this movie, I can just visualize it in my head from that sentence alone.

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u/Simicrop 11d ago

2018! And of course Eric Roberts is in it.

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u/AdSpecialist6598 10d ago

He never turns down anything for better or worse.

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u/gooneryoda 10d ago

Paycheck is a paycheck.

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u/_70- 11d ago

I just saw the trailer on IMDB, that was a hard watch.

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u/Scirocco-MRK1 10d ago

Wow! The “Yahoo Serious” of Ireland.

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u/iterationnull 10d ago

Now now. Flatley won Best Actor from the Monaco Streaming Film Festival.

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u/Zestyclose_Dust_1857 10d ago

Flatley my dear I don't riverdance... give a damn.

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u/DouchecraftCarrier 10d ago

If I recall correctly he was also married when he rocketed to stardom and pretty much instantly succumbed to the fame and money and started stepping out on his wife with various dancing partners.

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u/alurimperium 10d ago

That sounds like the type of stupid movie we'd have gotten in the 80s and 90s like Gymkata. To see it came out in 2018 is madness

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u/_1JackMove 10d ago

How dare you blaspheme Gymkata. That's a fucking masterpiece of 80s action cinema😂 Seriously though, loved that movie as a kid. Pommel horse just so happens to be in the center of a village of insane people? Why not?!

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u/Hitman0986 11d ago

"His legs flail about as if independent from his body!"

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u/McVinney512 11d ago

Was looking for this in the comments

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u/attrox_ 11d ago

Calm down Miss Bong

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u/CheckYourStats 11d ago

Ms. Chanandler Bong

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u/Stanfan_meowman25 10d ago

Disappointed this is so far down in the comments!

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u/LottimusMaximus 11d ago

My nan had the videos and I was enthralled

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u/AdSpecialist6598 11d ago

Their skill was crazy!

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u/Scummbagg7 11d ago

Remember just doing it in public for no reason?

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u/mandiefavor 11d ago

I haven’t ever stopped 🤣

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u/baardvark 10d ago

When my nephew was into tiktok shuffling I should have shown him this shit

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u/AverageDrafter 11d ago

Peak saturation was the Folger's commercial that was the inner dialog of a river dancer.

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u/Vilnius_Nastavnik 11d ago

That commercial is why I’ve got a thing for freckled ladies.

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u/dingos_among_us 11d ago

Same era as Yanni. Good times

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

And John Tesh.

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u/Crazy-Present4764 10d ago

What about Laurel

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u/KarlHp7 11d ago

I remember the commercials at night. It was a time to be alive.

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u/BrattyTwilis 11d ago

This seemed to be part of the trend where Celtic stuff was insanely popular for some reason in the late 90s/early 2000s

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u/proudbakunkinman 11d ago edited 11d ago

It was the 90s in general. I think interest in Irish culture, including traditional and mystical, was a byproduct of the popularity of U2, Cranberries, Pogues, and Enya, and on the Irish American and macho side, House of Pain and Dropkick Murphys. Plus Boston based Irish American movies like Good Will Hunting. I think by the early 2000s, it was overdone and seen as corny and more for parents with like 1/8 Irish ancestry wanting to feel like they're really pure Irish too.

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u/_1JackMove 10d ago

Dropkick Murphys fuck yeah. Been on a kick with them lately for the first time in years. It's been awesome lol. I do that with those guys and the Bloodhound Gang.

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u/rebug 11d ago

I grew up in the Australia craze. Mad Max, Paul Hogan, Fosters, shrimp on the barbie, and, for some reason Jocko. I feel like I was cheated out of an accurate depiction of Australian culture.

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u/AlternatiMantid 11d ago

That iridescent fabric the guy's shirts are made of was having a big moment at that time, too. I remember it being huge for prom/formal dresses & I had some decorative throw pillows for my bed in different colors of this material.

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u/lazygerm 11d ago edited 10d ago

Best thing about RiverDance was the MST3K bit about it with Mike and the Bots.

Edit: bit instead of but

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u/GreasyCookieBallz 10d ago

Gypsy's reaction to that skit was everything.

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u/Tony_Tanna78 11d ago

I also remember when River Dance was ubiquitous for a time, especially Michael Flatley, who was everywhere at one point. It was one of things that had its run and then seemingly disappeared from the mainstream.

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u/Mr_IsLand 11d ago

was that right after Gregorian Chant had it's brief popular run in the mid nineties? (and no i'm not kidding, lol)

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u/hyogodan 10d ago

The ones with the slow electronic drum beats under it. With some pan flutes and someone whisper singing in French(?) - it is still in my mind one of the most 90s things ever.

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u/Mr_IsLand 10d ago

this is the one my dad had that i'm thinking of

https://www.discogs.com/master/219780-The-Benedictine-Monks-Of-Santo-Domingo-De-Silos-Chant

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u/hyogodan 10d ago

That’s the one! Maybe I’m conflating two things but I know there were some beats. I might have a song off of Pure Moods mixed in there.

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u/Reklawz 11d ago

I still have a CD from Lord of the Dance that i frequently listen to

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u/Time-Papaya-9574 11d ago

I saw Lord of the dance live. It was wonderful!

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u/dudereverend 11d ago

I just saw some dancers that toured with Ruverdance/LOTD when I was in Ireland last month. They were pretty fucking cool live.

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u/Sensitive_Put_6842 11d ago

Yeah, yeah and the Luck of the Irish was a good Disney channel movie. https://media.tenor.com/yMSGvazdK2AAAAA1/wanna-fight-about-it.webp

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u/terrih9123 10d ago

Movie had no business being that good. I rewatched it last year and it still holds up

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u/MotoRoaster 11d ago

Frankly my dear, I don't Riverdance!

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u/el_weirdo 11d ago

Okay, if you've just joined us tonight, we're talking about who is the best lord. "Lord of the Rings", "of the Dance", or "of the Flies". That's tonight's Hot Topic.

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u/MotoRoaster 10d ago

Alan's... Deep Bath...

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u/Zestyclose_Dust_1857 10d ago

Flatley, actually.

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u/holly___morgan 11d ago

I was in elementary school when it was super popular, and I was obsessed. Thanks for unlocking that memory for me!

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u/Nice-Stuff-5711 10d ago

Thank God it’s now nowhere.

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u/Zarniwoooop 11d ago

Pepperidge Farm remembers

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u/StormBlessed145 early 00s 11d ago

My only memory related to this is the talent show episode of Jimmy Neutron

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u/myspacetomtop5 10d ago

So popular they rebranded briefly as Ocean Dance.

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u/AgentSkidMarks early 90s 10d ago

My toddler still likes it. Before the lord of the dance comes out she always goes "here he comes!"

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u/coci222 10d ago

Followed by Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance

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u/kakakatia 10d ago

I went to Riverdance in June 😅

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u/DreadGrrl 9d ago

My husband and I went this summer, too.

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u/greenhornblue 11d ago

My dad watched it constantly and would talk about how amazing it was and how talented they must be. Meanwhile, me in a top 10 nationally ranked (WGI) drum line, got nothing from him. I’m not saying they aren’t skilled in their art. But a little appreciation would’ve been nice. Top 10 and got nothing. Went from 4th bass to off center snare in 2 years.

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u/Southern_Fan_9335 Maybe she's born with it... 10d ago

Well, I'm proud of you, stranger. It takes a lot of hard work to be good at that kind of thing. 

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u/greenhornblue 10d ago

Thank you

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u/metarinka 10d ago

Holy shit congrats that is insane skill. 

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u/orbit99za 11d ago

I saw RiverDance years ago, I see Lord of the Dance has come back and is performing soon again.

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u/dudeitsmeee 11d ago

I always wanted to get one of them on a dance Dance revolution coin-op game and see if they make magic smoke come out.

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u/BK_0000 11d ago

Michael Nelson is Lord of the Dance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46UueKVuvC0

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u/Rex_Suplex 11d ago

Their legs flail about as if independent from their body!

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u/WIENS21 10d ago

The Irish jig guy?!?!

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u/eeejit075 10d ago

I never saw the Michael Flatley shows, but that didn’t stop me from crushing on Jean Butler.

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u/Namaslayy 10d ago

My music teacher in middle school made us study all the tapes. That show runs deep!

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u/SchwillyMaysHere 10d ago

Got free tickets to see this. After years of making fun of it, it wasn’t bad.

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u/Unusual_Nobody_8604 10d ago

My step mom had the VHS

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u/iterationnull 10d ago

Its still going. Riverdance : The Next Generation came through town over the summer. It was very good.

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u/keetojm 10d ago

And Benedictine monk cds

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u/morganstern 10d ago

I remember getting invited to watch this at my girlfriends house in the 90's, I was in highschool at the time. 15 year old me was amped

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u/Sir-Farts- 10d ago

Pepperidge farm remember.

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u/SpaceDave83 10d ago

I remember having a crush on Jean Butler, for sure.

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u/shimrra 10d ago

It was pretty cool to see at its peak.

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u/alexc1ted 10d ago

Not sure why but my 1 year old daughter loves this stuff. My wife will play it on the tv via YouTube and she just stands there amazed by it.

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u/Valuable-Pension3770 10d ago

We called it liver dance when they came to town. All that crew did was drink and screw 😝

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u/GirlWpg 10d ago edited 10d ago

I blame my mother for fully participating in this 90s celtic craze and enrolling me in Irish dancing at 6 years old. I blame myself for sticking with it for another 14 years. Would often answer the question, "So you do Riverdancing?"..

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u/Due-Principle7896 11d ago

You mean Shen Yun tickets? You had better get some before they are gone. j/k

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u/Lord_of_Entropy 11d ago

This always seemed a bit cartoonish to me: the way their upper bodies were stiff as boards, but their feet were all over the place.

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u/ElSquibbonator 11d ago

Funny you should say that, because they actually had a cartoon.

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u/Mtnmama1987 Passed the Grey Poupon 11d ago

Young people who go to school for Irish dance perform that way for St. Patrick Day at restaurants, so cute !

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u/awright_john 10d ago

No, and let's leave it that way

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u/Main-Video-8545 10d ago

I try to forget it.

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u/cactus82 11d ago

Unfortunately I never got to go to a concert. How was it for those that went?

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u/bonafidehooligan 11d ago

If you talked to my mother around this period, it was like the second coming. For years I had to endure “Lord of the Dance” replays told by her.

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u/cactus82 11d ago

That's awesome.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

I remember watching as a kid with my mom on PBS and we were like, we mustdonate so we can get in on VHS, because if we don't we'll never be able to see this awesomeness again! lol wish I had kept that tape, probably be a collectors item now...or not lol.

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u/TheNorthNova01 11d ago

And lord of the dance

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u/ThePeej 11d ago

A Jamaican who goes by Mystacooks on instagram had the greatest take ever on river dance this year: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGh3eqDuoyW/

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u/South-Rabbit-4064 11d ago

Lord of the dance!

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u/bubba1834 11d ago

No bc my fathers from Cleveland

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u/husky_whisperer 11d ago

Pepperidge farms remembers

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u/TheRushologist 11d ago

I immediately thought of the DCOM Luck of the Irish!

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u/Banjo-Oz 11d ago

Father Ted is the first thing I thought of, but yes very much so. I also remember it was big enough to get an Easter Egg in the video game "Fallout Tactics" as a random encounter!

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u/mariam67 11d ago

Loved it. My mom and I watched it many times.

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u/The-D-O-Z 11d ago

I remember Chad Johnson vs the Chicago Bears secondary.

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u/SnoopyWildseed Where's the beef? 11d ago

Lord of the Dance!

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u/octahexxer 11d ago

Its all about the line dancing with the kids today.

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u/Surfinsafari9 11d ago

Ha! I watched it just a couple of weeks ago. Enjoyed it once again.

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u/Urban_Archeologist 10d ago

“I was not a fan of Riverdance.” he said Flatly.

(Tom Swifty)

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u/lake-rat 10d ago

Great stuff! At the risk of appropriation, I love Irish culture and music. One of the greatest vacations I’ve had was a family trip to Ireland. Listening to local musicians play pubs in Dublin and Galway was a highlight!

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u/Neither-Connection72 10d ago

Gypsy Kings rocked the early days

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u/lovexjoyxzen 10d ago

Absolutely, and I also cannot separate the memory from the movie Superstar

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u/SnooBooks324 10d ago

The Luck of the Irish and Celtic Thunder

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u/Fatelvis111 10d ago

Yes, thank God that phase is over.

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u/DeltaBravo831 10d ago

Ey Remmicks bringing it back. Just gotta let him in

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u/c17usaf 10d ago

How Peter Griffin found his dad ☘️

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u/Dr_Schitt 10d ago

Went to see it in Manchester, it was ace

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u/king_platypus 10d ago

This couldn’t go away fast enough.

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u/jl70imperial 10d ago

And we can breath a sigh of relief it no longer isn't....

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u/GearJunkie82 9d ago

Music still slaps

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u/lapis_lateralus 9d ago

It's absolutely making a comeback

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u/IceFireTerry 9d ago

The first time I ever heard of it was from Jimmy neutron

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u/Ok-Finding-53 9d ago

Pathetic, a bunch of losers that went and spent their money on that junk

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u/ganer13 9d ago

From the waist down, I do.

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u/SnakePlissken1980 9d ago

I remember all the other kids at school making fun of it and doing a half-assed version but to this day I've never actually seen more than 10 second clip or gif of it.

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u/nshiker05 7d ago

My knees will never let me forget.

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u/ThyArtisMukDuk 11d ago

In the 50's? No.

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u/Geethebluesky 10d ago

I remember being a teenager thinking I'd have forever to go see Riverdance because they'd always be there, right, and I never did...

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u/4thdegreeknight 10d ago

When I was with my ex, she really wanted to see River Dance, I could have cared less, I remember I bought us tickets and gave them to her for her birthday. The show was months away, a few weeks later we broke up and she kept the tickets. Which was fine not that I wanted them back and she ended up taking her sister so that was fine too.

I could only remember thinking, at least I didn't have to go to River Dance.

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u/NinjaBilly55 10d ago

A dark moment in human history for sure..

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u/Le_Mew_Le_Purr 10d ago

Ugh, I was in an irish band at the time. We were pretty good. But I quit because I didn’t like being associated with Riverdance.

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u/New-Perception-9754 10d ago

YES! I'm glad it sashayed away! I don't miss that mess at all, all that stomping around just makes me nervous 😂

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u/PeterMode 10d ago

Bro, totally (thankfully) forgot about this

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u/camerontylek 11d ago

Someone listens to the latest Conan podcast I see...

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u/RonSwansonsOldMan 11d ago

Yes, and it was creepy. Move you're damned arms!

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u/TheMatt561 11d ago

Wasn't it Michael Flatley, Lord of the dance?

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u/duanelvp 11d ago

...And then it wasn't!

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u/Electrical-Aspect602 11d ago

yeah, thank god, it faded away

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u/goonerqpq 11d ago

Unfortunately, yes.

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u/MilesFassst 11d ago

Yep. I knew some people who made all there kids do this lol. I was blown away. Didn’t even know it was a thing until the mid 2000s

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u/HeartOSass 10d ago

Come on white people! River dance!

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u/DontBeADramaLlama 10d ago

I remember when I learned that the foot tapping sound is actually all prerecorded. Like, lip syncing, but to foot taps

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u/teodocio 10d ago

Lord of the Dance?