Title: Supalonely

General Information about Item:

• Customary Lore, dance routine
• Language: English
• Country of Origin: United States
• Informant: S.M.
• Date Collected: 11-15-20

Informant Data:

• S.M. was born in Virginia on March 15, 1999. She was raised by a single mother who works as a high school arts teacher and administrator in Windsor, Virginia. Her family origins are Puerto-Rican and Western European, primarily Irish and Scottish. She is a senior at Dartmouth College studying Theater, English, and Russian.

Contextual Data:

• S.M. downloaded TikTok in January of 2020 and uses the app for at least twenty minutes everyday. It is a way for her to pass the time.

Item:

• This dance is to the song “Supalonely” by BENEE. It involves a lot of hip movements, all to the beat of the song. It is quick but not as involved as “Renegade” or “Savage.”

Dance Example:RPReplay_Final1606788970

Informant’s Comments:

• This song was so popular at one point, it was really annoying to open up the app. It was inescapable.

Collector’s Comments:

• This dance rose to prominence in the spring of 2020. The song is still charting on American radios.

Collector’s Name: Savannah Miller

Tags/Keywords:

• Customary Lore
• Dance
• Internet Folklore

Title: Renegade

General Information about Item:

• Customary Lore, dance routine
• Language: English
• Country of Origin: United States
• Informant: HH
• Date Collected: 10-10-2020

Informant Data:

• HH is a senior at Dartmouth College majoring in Biology with a concentration in genetics. She was born in Cologne, Germany in October of 1998, but now resides in Lawrence Township, New Jersey.

Contextual Data:

• HH has a TikTok account with several videos of her dancing with friends, sorority sisters, and family members. She knows several dances, roughly five, that she learned as a fun way to bond with friends or out of boredom. While she doesn’t follow TikTok influencers that perform dances, she discovered dances through their popularity, through Twitter, or through seeing parodies. She considered performing “Laxed Siren Beat” to highlight her German heritage, since the dance was commonly used to spotlight different cultures. HH has a video dancing to “Say So” with her sorority sisters. She often picked dances to learn based on their popularity, relative simplicity, or if she liked the song and would learn the songs from watching tutorials or viewing the TikTok enough times to pick it up. Her ‘for you page’ has a greater focus on educational content, food recipes, comedy, and skincare.

Item:

• This dance is extremely involved, utilizing a lot fo hip movements and frantic hand work.

Dance Example:

Informant’s Comments:

• Really difficult. Knows of, might even know parts of. Never actually tried to learn.

Collector’s Comments:

• This dance seemed to be one of the more difficult ones for respondents to learn.

Collector’s Name: MA

Tags/Keywords:

• Customary Lore
• Dance
• Internet Folklore

Title: “Attention”

General Information about Item:

• Customary Lore, dance routine
• Language: English
• Country of Origin: United States
• Informant: S.M.
• Date Collected: 11-15-20

Informant Data:

• S.M. was born in Virginia on March 15, 1999. She was raised by a single mother who works as a high school arts teacher and administrator in Windsor, Virginia. Her family origins are Puerto-Rican and Western European, primarily Irish and Scottish. She is a senior at Dartmouth College studying Theater, English, and Russian.

Contextual Data:

• S.M. downloaded TikTok in January of 2020 and uses the app for at least twenty minutes everyday. It is a way for her to pass the time.

Item:

• This dance is to the song “Attention” by Todrick Hall. This dance is different from many other TikTok dances because it involves a lot of gymnastics moves, including splits and flips.

Dance Example:RPReplay_Final1605543927

Informant’s Comments:

• Really impressive when people can do it well.

Collector’s Comments:

• This dance is not as popular because of how difficult the choreography is.

Collector’s Name: Savannah Miller

Tags/Keywords:

• Customary Lore
• Dance
• Internet Folklore

Title: “Motion Sickness”

General Information about Item:

• Customary Lore, dance routine
• Language: English
• Country of Origin: United States
• Informant: S.M.
• Date Collected: 11-15-20

Informant Data:

• S.M. was born in Virginia on March 15, 1999. She was raised by a single mother who works as a high school arts teacher and administrator in Windsor, Virginia. Her family origins are Puerto-Rican and Western European, primarily Irish and Scottish. She is a senior at Dartmouth College studying Theater, English, and Russian.

Contextual Data:

• S.M. downloaded TikTok in January of 2020 and uses the app for at least twenty minutes everyday. It is a way for her to pass the time.

Item:

• This dance is to the song “Motion Sickness” by alternative artist Phoebe Bridgers. Among other moves, it involves raising your hands to three different levels on the body and throwing your hands down.

Dance Example:RPReplay_Final1605543354

Informant’s Comments:

• Not as popular a song. Independent/alternative.

Collector’s Comments:

• This dance rose to prominence in the summer of 2020. It is extremely popular amongst LGBTQIA+ users of TikTok.

Collector’s Name: Savannah Miller

Tags/Keywords:

• Customary Lore
• Dance
• Internet Folklore