When a series reaches audience levels of Wednesday, the last great Netflix hitIt is normal for one of his scenes to go viral. No sooner said than done. No matter which social network you go to, it’s easy now to find someone doing the dance of the Addams member, a few steps that actress Jenna Ortega improvised during filming (in case you didn’t know) and that have become almost a standard of the first season. The curious thing about this is that far from becoming famous with the song that plays during the scene in question, the dance has been associated with another different song that is more than 10 years old and whose author is none other than Lady Gaga.
Wednesday’s dance
Neither Jenna Ortega nor Tim Burton himself ever thought that the dance that Wednesday marks during the Nevermore Academy high school party would generate so much enthusiasm. Her steps were created by the actress herself, who, by the way, was ill during the filming of that scene, which caused her not to be very satisfied with the final result seen on the screen. It seems that only the demanding Ortega was left with that feeling and it is that it has become the most iconic moment of the series, to such an extent that people have not been slow to replicate it on social networks.
Everywhere you look there is someone imitating Ortega’s steps, disguised or not, but always with the same song in the background: a dance version of Lady Gaga’s hit “Bloody Mary”. Wait a minute, Lady Gaga? Indeed, although in chapter 4, Wednesday Addams starts dancing to the rhythm of “Goo Goo Muck» of the punk group The Crumpsthe videos that we see in networks always sound with a fragment of the song of the American singer.
What is this about?
Another viralized song… this time on a rebound
It’s funny because many expected an effect similar to that of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” in stranger things, where, 37 years after its release, it reached the top for several weeks thanks to the powerful scene of Max escaping from Vecna. However, with Wednesday it has not happened exactly like that: an old song has risen again, but in this case not the one that sounds in the series but the one that some TikTok users have decided.
as they point in Kotaku, this may be due to several reasons: perhaps at the time they started uploading the dances to the social network, The Cramps’ song was not available and they opted for Lady Gaga’s; Or maybe someone just thought that the lyrics of the song «bloody mary» matched better with the steps that the character takes.
Be that as it may, the idea began to go viral to such an extent that now the song has even had its first rotation on US radio, something that did not happen when it premiered on the album “Born this way” more than a decade ago. Lady Gaga has also contributed to the phenomenon -not to mention more- and she has not taken long to record herself with her background music and doing the dance steps.
@uproxxpop Dance Gaga dance!! [credit: @ladygaga] #ladygaga #bloodymary #wednesday #wednesdaynetflix #viral ♬ original sound – UPROXX Pop Life
The song “Goo Goo Muck” can also be found on TikTok, but it does not seem to be living the same second youth as “Bloody Mary”. One more proof of how capricious social networks can be. What things.
