Kwaito song brings back pantsula dance moves
LOG onto any social media site and you are bound to see people flexing their pantsula moves to
The track by Pretoria duo Major League, made up of Banele and Bandile Mbere, has even celebrities showing off their dance moves.
Well-known faces like TV presenter and socialite Khanyi Mbau, actress Jessica Nkosi and comedian Mpho Popps have been captured dancing to the hit track, which features Cassper Nyovest, Ricky Rick, Okmalumkoolkat and Carpo.
Banele said was following on from their first single,
which also featured Ricky Rick and Cassper Nyovest.
We were listening to beats that Ricky Rick had made and the song followed on from there. We called the other guys to join in and had fun making he said.
Banele classified the song as new age kwaito, a genre that tries to revive the old school kwaito music with a modern twist.
All these guys we featured are familiar with our type of music. They love and understand kwaito so it was only right to have them featured, he said.
The song caught fire when Cassper Nyovest posted a video of himself dancing to it next to his red BMW. Though loosely means run for it thug”, the creators say it was not their plan to have people dancing and making videos of themselves.
But now, the trend of people dancing next to cars with doors open and then running into the car once the song is done has taken the social media space by storm.
People saw the video of Cassper dancing next to his car and they thought it somehow relates to the song. That wasn’t the idea but it works well with the meaning of the song,” said the DJs.
has also done well with downloads.
We re just under 300 000 downloads and hoping for more. The song is available for free because we’re still trying to market ourselves,” said Banele.
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