Hard bass is a style of music and part-time dance that is widespread throughout Russia and is rapidly gaining popularity around the world. His fans are laughed at on the Internet, since the vast majority of them are football hooligans and aggressive teenagers associated with the criminal world. The dance moves are very primitive, so you don't have to worry about how to dance hard bass.
History of occurrence
In the early 2000s, St. Petersburg suffered from spiritual crisis. Russian rock gradually faded into the background. He practically died out. The adult generation was obsessed with chanson. Pop music has already bothered everyone, so the youth had no choice but to create something completely new. For the first time, hard bass was turned on in clubs where gopniks gathered, hallmark which were Adidas track pants. The "cultural" population demanded some kind of replacement caucasian lezginka. The replacement appeared in the form of hard bass. Right-wingers joined in here. Hard bass has become a hallmark of football players.
Peak of popularity
The peak of popularity falls on 2010, when four young Petersburgers posted a video on the network, where they taught how to dance hard bass. The video has spread all over the Internet and has become a new meme. The authors of the video are Pavel Zhukov and Val Toletov. These two men brought hard bass culture to new level. After that, people from different parts of Russia began to make parodies of the popular video, which promoted it and helped to gain international popularity, which has not faded to this day.
Essence of dance
The essence of the dance is rhythmic movements to low beats. The movements are simple and energetic. Even the most humble person, having heard the rhythm of this music, will want to understand how to dance hard bass. But here special mind is not required. The movements are the simplest. You can dance as much as you want and as much as you want. Words in music are the most uncomplicated. It is also not worth looking for something sacred in them. And the movements themselves correspond to the music. The speed of the beats in the compositions is one hundred and fifty beats per minute. There is no deep metaphor here. Some kind of joke is brewing here: gopniks, dancing hard bass, urge people to follow a healthy lifestyle. Such is the inconsistency. The style, which by vocation was supposed to call people to bad habits, does the opposite. At the same time, rock, reggae, and many other musical directions called for an unhealthy lifestyle - sex, drugs and rock and roll ...
How to dance hard bass
There are no specific rules in this matter. Just about ten people gather in the city center or in public transport and dance to fast music. The most common movement is swinging the arms at the same time as tapping the heel, but this is all individual. You need to follow your body, and not obey any certain rules that tell you how to dance hard bass.
The meme with this dance has gone so far that any irrational movement that occurs in films and TV shows is mistaken for hard bass. For example, a video is very popular on the net, where the character of the movie "It" Pennywise dances hard bass. If you look at everything from common sense, then the antagonist of the Stephen King novel and film adaptations just jumps on the spot. But it also counts as hard bass.
It is impossible to say exactly when the hype with this dance will end. It is spreading all over the world, but any meme will die out someday. This one is probably no exception. His homeland is Russia. For many patriots, this is pride, but most people from abroad who see this dance scoff at the performers. Therefore, it certainly cannot be considered the pride of the country.
hard bass- dance and musical style of the same name, mainly popular among gopniks and football fans. The essence of the dance is in simple energetic movements to low beats. Numerous memes and videos make fun of hard bass fans.
Origin
Hard bass is a type of pump house music that uses a Bamboo bass. The pumping house was invented by the Dutch band Klubbheads, who started performing in the 90s. Hard bass appeared in the early 2000s in St. Petersburg, this music was played in clubs where young people in sportswear gathered - the so-called gopniks. Hard bass was popular among right-wingers and was also played on the streets as an alternative to the lezginka.
Hard bass became a meme in 2010, when four guys recorded a parody video "Hardbass Dance School" in St. Petersburg. They ridiculed fans of this dance and wrote a song that became the anthem of this movement: "One, one, one is hardbass." In the VK group Hard Bass School it is indicated that the authors are Pavel Zhukov and Val Toletov.
The video received viral popularity, their versions of hardbass for this song began to be performed in different cities Russia and abroad and upload to YouTube.
The popularity of hard bass fades and then flares up again. At the beginning of 2017, several more parodies of this dance appeared, which collected quite a lot of views.
Pictures about hard bass and jokes on this topic continue to circulate in public VKontakte, although the dance itself is no longer in vogue.
Meaning
Distinctive features of a harbass lover are sportswear, especially Nike, sneakers, hats and balaclavas. Hardbass was popular among right-wing, nationalist, football fans. Another popular gesture is similar to the “class”, but with the little finger sticking out to the side.
Hardbass promotes a healthy lifestyle: giving up smoking, alcohol and drugs. Fans of this dance have fun with kvass, so it often appears in pictures. In memes, hardbass players are ridiculed for their low intellectual level and lack of understanding of the quality of music, as well as rather funny dance moves.
By 2017, the ironic meaning of the meme was complemented by a touch of nostalgia. Calls to dance hard bass began to look like a tribute to the cheerful past and can already be perceived not only as sarcasm.
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When Russian Rock was dying, domestic chanson corrupted the minds of forty-year-old fellow citizens, and pop music was finally fed up with everyone - St. Petersburg youth, also pretty tired of " Western heritage”, came up with an alternative musical style, and with it dance.
Originated in 2010 in St. Petersburg dance direction now known by this name as − HARD BASS. It combines uncomplicated music with the same uncomplicated, but rather energetic dance. And rhythmic electronic sound, with a speed exceeding 150 beats per minute, makes even a notorious shy fellow start dancing.
The music itself this style created from a sound combination of synthesizers, powerful bass and confident fast rhythm. The texts of the sounding downhole tracks do not pretend to be metaphorical and thoughtful. Everything is quite simple and clear here - ordinary guys are campaigning for healthy lifestyle life . Which is, in fact, amazing. After all, almost all musical styles, not counting, probably, the classics, promoted, one way or another, - drugs, smoking, alcohol. Think rock and roll, techno or reggae.
Hard Bass, of course, unlike the well-known and recognized musical directions, with his style of performance looks and sounds rather pretentious and at the same time somewhat abnormal, but it is in his external mockery that the meaning lies.
Guys gathering in groups of 10 or more people, dressed in tracksuits « Adidas" or " Nike”, symbolizing their appearance as “gopniks”, dance to incendiary, same-type tracks, somewhere in the middle of the city, on buses, schools, in the subway and shopping malls, thus demonstrating that you can enjoy life without all kinds of "chemical" doping , in the form of drugs or alcohol. Here, for example, is the main message of their songs:
«… butyrates and speeds
our worst enemies
on the grounds we are under kvass
we will burn hard bass for you ... "
It is worth noting that dance style followershard bass became many Russian schoolchildren , therefore, in the external attributes of dancers, one can often notice the presence of backpacks behind their backs, sometimes dance performers also put masks on their faces - as an element of the image. It is interesting that in the companies that rock out to hard bass, there are mostly men. Perhaps this is due to the fact that dance also most distributed among our football fans as well as right-wing youth, Where most are made up of representatives of the stronger sex.
The direction of Hard Bass in Russia was conceived as a kind of answer to the Caucasian Lezginka and overseas rap with hip-hop, which came to us from Latin America. That is why, in order to consolidate, so to speak, the uniqueness of our style, both the philosophical orientation of the current and the external attributes, and the originality of the venue for performances and the nature of the dance itself.
If we talk about the philosophy of the Hard Bass movement, then, as already mentioned above, it consists in dance without the use of psychoactive foods like drugs or alcohol. As for the dance itself, as they say in Schools Hard Bass, no specific skills are required from a person, that is, there is some freedom of action, the main thing is to memorize a couple of simple movements, and then you can make chaotic and energetic additions to your taste. Complete improvisation Also welcome.
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During the preparation of this article, it turned out that not many people know what a direction in music and dance is like hard bass exists and first appeared in Russia. However, the youth of St. Petersburg still could not fail to note the emergence of a new movement in their city.
Valentina, musician: "Not so long ago in the area Gostiny Dvor I observed a strange cluster of young people. A group of about fifteen people, all of them just like that on the street, among passers-by, danced very briskly and cheerfully. It can be seen that the dance was planned in advance, the music from the boombox sounded some kind of rhythmic. It was cold, but looking at them, I felt warmer. This looks really fun! But I don't know anything about this direction of dance. It even seemed to me that it was just some kind of paid flash mob.”
Daniel, engineer: “I haven’t heard anything about Hard Bass, but judging by the description, it reminds me of a videoGangnam Style, which blew up YouTube last year, where a ridiculous Korean dances surrounded by girls. It would be interesting to see how this happens in Russia. In general, it is interesting that young people, as you say, even schoolchildren, are now inventing something. Probably, in a couple of years, if the dance really remains alive and relevant, it will be very popular. It's cool to create something unique and new in our time, because everything revolves mainly around something that has already been created by someone before.
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Elena, merchandiser: "I have a husband football fan. And I know firsthand about all these dances and other fun. Yes, Hard Bass is popular with his coterie now, I mean his boyish coterie. Where are they dancing? Well, since the guys have not been schoolchildren for a long time, it mainly happens in our area, or at someone's dacha, if we are relaxing or in nature, when it comes to someone's mind to have fun and throw out energy. I can say that this dance does not arouse any understanding in me, but as an alternative to their “fan” fights, it’s better to let them dance!”
Svetlana, philologist: “I decided to look and learn at least something about the direction of Hard Bass. To be honest, I don’t understand the meaning of this dance, not to mention the lyrics to which they dance. They declare that they are against drugs, but they themselves frolic as if “under something”. I can believe, of course, that they do not use anything forbidden, but I think older generation- will not understand. Even if the guys dance against drug addicts, not a single pensioner will understand this, every old woman will say, looking at them, “drug addicts!” — it's 100%! Our people have such a mentality. If you slightly deviate from the generally accepted body movements, then something is wrong with you, but with these “dancers”, according to the masses, there will definitely be something wrong.”
Vladimir, forwarder: “Yeah, I know some guys who rock Hard Bass. They are really for a healthy lifestyle dudes, they make fun of gopniks, but in a kind way. And they dance to release aggression somewhere, you understand? So you jump big company and immediately no one wants to go to beat the face. And everyone is happy. An excellent decision, I think.”
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Interestingly, in some regions of Russia and in the CIS countries, Hard Bass is also gaining popularity, this can be seen at least from the numerous videos on YouTube. In addition, they actively adopt the tradition of our dance "sausages" and such European countries like Spain, France, the Czech Republic, Poland, and even overseas teenagers from Chile.
The positive aspect of the newly minted style is its focus, which contributes to a change in the focus of young people - from health-destroying habits to move on to body-strengthening movements. And this, you see, is a positive trend. Moreover, before the advent of Hard Bass, there was not even a trace of such a direction promoting dance in the name of protection from drugs and alcohol addiction.
The downside of the style within the framework of our country specifically can be called its mediocrity and intricacy, which in turn is its main feature. On the one hand, this can, of course, act as a virtue - many will be able to learn the dance, and the mass character of its performance in itself allows people to become more liberated faster. However, monotonous music and primitive lyrics will clearly alienate a good part of the advanced, highly educated youth from Hard Bass, for whom it will remain so. the only place, where you can get a breath of fresh music or dance - the West, but not Russia.
