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It still blows my mind that in the original "YMCA" video, they do not do the dance. It's just the Village People singing on the streets of New York in a "we didn't get a location permit" sort of way and doing generic disco dancing. There's a part where you think they're going to do it, they put their arms up on "Y"... and then clap. Mindblowing.

It's also 0% a secret how gay this is. I mean, they're singing outside the Ramrod. And... look at them. This was not some esoteric code that people in the 70s were too naive to decipher.

Anyway, shout out to whatever camp counselor, in both senses of the word, made this into a cute letter-arms dance for kids. You definitely knew what you were doing.



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The YMCA originally sued the Village People for, well, talking about how Gay the YMCA tended to be. However, the band managed to convince them that they had actually used YMCA resources as young men, and it was actually written from a place of sincere gratitude, and they dropped the suit & kind of leaned into it.