Happy sixteenth birthday, Macarena!
 

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On August 15, 1995, "Macarena" was released on the world. A few bits of trivia:

<ul><li> CSI's Gloria Parkes (Tracee Ellis Ross) was in the music video
<li> No less an authority than VH1 named it both the "Greatest" one-hit wonder as well as the most "Awesomely Bad"
<li> It is Billboard's all-time #1 dance song
<li> In <i>2003</i>, eight years after the song was released, the songwriters still pulled in $250,000 in royalties
<li> The Christmas version is one of 14 official versions
<li> Each Macarena converts to 3.72 Rebecca Blacks and 0.13 Oprahs.
<li> The only bigger single in the entire decade was Mariah Carey's "One Sweet Day" which is also a terrible song
</ul>

I will not link the video.

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The Guinness Book of Records 2007 states that "Candle In the Wind 1997" is the biggest-selling single "since records began."

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I hate you people.

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I say we should do a Macarena Sheep game in celebration.

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And people complained about Rebecca Black...

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Great. Now it will take another 16 years to get it back out of my mind.

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Additional trivia:

Los del Mar (Spanish for those from the ocean, referring to Marbella) was a short-lived Spanish music duo, best-known for their hit single, a 1995 cover version of the Los del Río song, "Macarena", which was included on the album, Macarena: The Hit Album. The main member, Pedro Castaño, is still touring with this song.

STILL. TOURING.

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So which is the popular version? Los del Mar or Los del Rio?

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How time flies. How old is Mambo #5 these days?

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Just when I thought it was safe to read threads again you drop this shit on me???

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The popularity of this song is one of the things that proves most people's musical taste is shit.

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I don't think it's the song as much as the dance. People love group dancing. This is why flash mobs are so popular. Macarena invented the flash mob!

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It's still a better song than "Who Let the Dogs Out"...

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This should be the textbook definition of "damning with faint praise".

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I don't know about that. "Who Let the Dogs Out" presents a mystery to the listener. Whenever I hear it I like to imagine I'm on the CSI team!