Chicken Noodle Soup (song)
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| Single by DJ Webstar featuring Young B. and The Voice of Harlem from the album Webstar Presents: Caught in the Web and Webstar Presents: Young B |
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| Released | June 2006 | |||||||||||||
| Format | CD single, Digital download | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Hip-hop | |||||||||||||
| Length | 3:21 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Scilla Hill | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | DJ Webstar | |||||||||||||
| Producer | DJ Webstar | |||||||||||||
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"Chicken Noodle Soup" is a song by DJ Webstar featuring Young B. and The Voice of Harlem. It has an associated dance.
[edit] "Chicken Noodle Soup" song
The song is characterized by a low bass/pounding club beat accompanied by an air raid siren, and a young girl (Young B) delivering non sequiturs like "let it rain, now clear it out...let it rain, now clear it out" and "chicken noodle soup, chicken noodle soup, chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side."
[edit] Chicken Noodle Soup dance
The Chicken Noodle Soup is a dance that inspired the hip-hop club hit "Chicken Noodle Soup" performed by DJ Webstar, Young B., and The Voice Of Harlem, currently the song has peaked at #45 on the Billboard Hot 100 trajectory and was released in 2006. Originating in Harlem, the dance has been embraced as a new symbol of the local scene that distinguishes New York from other regions whose urban musical subgenres have captured national attention in recent years, such as Atlanta's Crunk, Walk It Out and Snap, New Orleans' Bounce music, Oakland's Hyphy, Media:Chicago's Footwork or California's Krumpin and C-Walk, Philadelphia's Wu-tang or D-Mack, New Jersey's Crazy Legs, In-Toe and Swing It, Baltimore's Rockin Off and Memphis's Buckin. Awareness of the dance spread during 2006 thanks to websites such as YouTube, which hosted numerous videos of people dancing the Chicken Noodle Soup. Blogs that linked to these videos helped turn this dance into an internet phenomenon.
The basic dance features exaggerated shuffling, arm swinging, and a pantomime of the song's lyrics. Detractors have derided the whole Chicken Noodle Soup phenomenon as irritating and corny. Some have even claimed the dance is racist, as its motions bear some resemblance to those commonly performed in minstrel shows. The Chicken Noodle Soup is a development from other New York-based street dances like the popular Toe Wop and The Harlem shake. On the December 16, 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live, Justin Timberlake performed the dance in drag, accompanied by Kenan Thompson (also in drag). Chicken Noodle Soup led Dj Webstar to make new song that accompanied the Chicken Noodle Soup called the 5000. The 5000 put four dances together; The Tone Wop, The Bad One, Chicken Noodle Soup, and the Harlem shake. Then this dance evolved into a new dance style, without a definitive name, but known as "Gettin' Lite", or "Lockin' In." Also this inspired many new dancers to express themselves in way such that it is commonly performed in teen clubs, parties and high school affairs in New York.
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