First Video

The Tootsie Roll song of 1994 was a hit. I can remember this being the first video I saw because I always thought it was the greatest. I had two older sisters and of course they thought it was cool, therefore I was forced to watch it. After seeing the video I of course was forced to perform the dance, “to the left, to the left, to right, to right…” Not one of my proudest moments by any means but at that time a definite step in the right direction toward coolness, I thought. I actually feel in love with the song at that young age of 6 or 7 and if I do say so myself I got pretty good at the dance. I remember being in the other room and hearing the song come on my sisters boom box or cd player and hurry to the that room to perform my dance skills.
As I look back on my time as a tootsie roll fanatic I wonder why anyone would let me do that kind of thing. The dance was an odd thing and the song a very different one. However, it is funny to look back on it now and remember that feeling that I felt when I finally learned the dance and the feeling of how old and cool I felt. It is fun to look back at that song and see how it was the craze of that time, the new hit dance of that ear and how it swept across the nation just like now a days with the Soulja Boy song and dance that made its way into the main stream. Maybe someday someone will be writing a paper about music videos from their child hood and they will be saying the same thing about the music and songs of today.