Twerking - Talk About Feeling My Age!!!

[andy-hughes]

Although I am a music and culture writer, I am perfectly willing to accept that there are vast swathes of youth culture that do not apear on my radar, and that i am unlikely to understand.

Hence my confusion at the use of the term 'twerking' - which I happened upon this weekend reading a couple of magazines in a hotel room, and the station waiting lounge at Euston.

I now know what 'twerking is' - but my eyes were really opened when i read this on Google -

"In 2013, twerk was added to the Oxford Dictionary Online. The dictionary said the word had been around for 20 years, but the evidence for it to be included in the dictionary had tipped the scale when U.S. pop star Miley Cyrus gave a controversial and headline-producing twerking dance at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 25, 2013."

The Oxford Dictionary includes words from the influence of a Miley Cirus performance???????????????????????????

I really am getting old!

[grasscarp]

I had never heard of fracking
Guessed that I was dull and lacking
And I never heard of twerking
Spend my time at work and working
Will I ever be aware?
Not on facebook. Do I care.
No idea how people tweet
Friends are those I really meet
I'm old and like you Andy Hughes
Always just behind the news.

[Mamyalynne]

Last time I Twerked, I got more than cramp!!

[giveup]

Mamya does the word incontinence come into it (that went through my mind as well)

[douglas9401]

In my opinion, Ms Cyrus carries on like this because when she stands still and 'pouts' she looks like a blow-up doll.

[Mamyalynne]

No giveup, I am currently still an arid zone.

[tonyav]

This twerking looks like something we used to do on the back seat of a car in my youth ! we used to call it shagging lol.

[Mamyalynne]

Cooooooooooooo

[andy-hughes]

Grasscarp - fabulous!

[andy-hughes]

jno - " I've never really had much call to use either phrase, but you, as a music journalist, will be writing it all the time now, so good luck with that!"

In the publications I write for, there is no call for such expressions - thankfully!

[jno]

you just wait, andy, Leonard Cohen will be doing it next.

Excellent work, grasscarp!