Anyone with eyes and a memory that goes back at least to the
early '00s advent of Bad Boy Records knows that the meme or
whatever it is of people convulsing arhythmically that is
currently masquerading as the "Harlem Shake" is not the Harlem
Shake. A filmmaker named Chris McGuire took to Harlem for man-
on-the-street reactions and what starts as a jokey sort of
montage gains intensity for the impassioned anti-appropriation
sentiment the nu-Shake provokes. "It's not no dance, it's really
a lifestyle," says one guy. "It's actually an art form, a dance
art form that doesn't have the respect it deserves," says
another. "Injustice," says yet another.  Fuck the dude who says,
"He's humpin' his man — that's no good," though.