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Beyonce And Jay-Z Got Caught Doing ‘The Electric Slide’—And Twitter Is All About It

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The Electric Slide was one of the biggest fad dances of the 1980s. Every school dance, bar mitzvah, and wedding back then was guaranteed to include a bunch of people getting up to do the funkiest of  funky line dances. As Martha Griffiths’ “Electric Boogie,” the unofficial Electric Slide theme song informed us every time, the Electric Slide was irresistible, in that it was “electric! Boogie woogie woogie woogie.”

The peak popularity era of the Electric Slide is long past, but it’s apparently cool again, because if Beyoncé and Jay-Z do something, it’s automatically cool. They’ve both got a strong sense of musical and pop cultural history, and they both grew up in the ‘80s, so of course they both still know how to slide.

Footage has emerged of our real First Couple doing the Electric Slide at a kiddie birthday party.  (Along with Beyoncé’s mom, Tina, among others.) Now, Twitter generally gets overly delighted whenever Jay and Bey do something fun, but since this is a retro dance at a kid’s party, this was basically an early, much appreciated Christmas present.