Hard bass is a style of music and part-time dance that is widespread throughout Russia and is rapidly gaining popularity around the world. Its fans are laughed at on the Internet, since the vast majority of them are football hooligans and aggressive teenagers associated with the criminal world. The dance movements are very primitive, so you don't have to worry about how to dance hard bass.
History of origin
In the early 2000s, St. Petersburg suffered from spiritual crisis. Russian rock gradually faded into the background. He was practically dying out. The adult generation was obsessed with chanson. Everyone was already tired of pop music, so young people had no choice but to create something completely new. For the first time, hard bass was played in clubs where gopniks gathered, distinctive feature which were Adidas sports pants. The “cultural” population demanded some kind of replacement for the Caucasian Lezginka. The replacement appeared in the form of hard bass. Right-wing supporters got involved here. Hard bass has become a distinctive feature of football players.
Peak of popularity
The peak of popularity occurred in 2010, when four young St. Petersburg residents posted a video online where they taught how to dance hard bass. The video spread all over the Internet and became a new meme. The authors of the video are Pavel Zhukov and Val Toletov. These two men brought hard bass culture to the forefront. new level. After this, people from different corners Russia began making parodies of the popular video, which promoted it and helped it gain international popularity, which continues to this day.
The essence of dance
The essence of the dance is rhythmic movements to low beats. The movements are simple and energetic. Even the most modest person, having heard the rhythm of this music, will want to understand how to dance hard bass. But it doesn't require much intelligence. The movements are the simplest. You can dance as much as you like and as much as you like. Words in music are the simplest. It’s also not worth looking for something sacred in them. And the movements themselves correspond to the music. The beat speed in the compositions is one hundred and fifty beats per minute. There is no deep metaphor here. There is some kind of joke brewing here: Gopniks, dancing hard bass, urge people to follow a healthy lifestyle. This is the kind of discrepancy that results. The style, which by vocation should have called people to bad habits, does the opposite. At the same time, rock, reggae, and many other musical styles called for unhealthy image life - sex, drugs and rock and roll...
How to dance hard bass correctly
There are no specific rules in this matter. Ten people just gather in the city center or in public transport and dance to fast music. The most common movement is to swing your arms while tapping your heel, but this varies from person to person. You need to follow your body, and not obey any specific rules that tell you how to dance hard bass.
The meme with this dance has reached the point that any irrational movement that is found in films and TV series is mistaken for a hard bass. For example, there is a very popular video online where the character from the movie “It” Pennywise dances the hard bass. If you look at everything with common sense, then the antagonist of the Stephen King novel and film adaptations is simply jumping on the spot. But this is also considered hard bass.
It is impossible to say exactly when the hype with this dance will wear off. It spreads all over the world, but any meme will eventually die out. This one is probably no exception. His homeland is Russia. For many patriots, this is a source of pride, but most people from abroad who see this dance mock the performers. Therefore, it certainly cannot be considered the pride of the country.
“To make it more fun, dance the Harbas faster!!!” or here’s another “ONCE, ONCE, ONCE, THIS IS HARDBUS! EVERYONE IS IN ADIDAS SPORTSHIPS!” Yes, it’s incredibly difficult to understand modern youth! But it’s still possible. And sometimes it is necessary. Let's start by lifting the veil of secrecy over such a still incomprehensible word as hardbass. By the way, no one really knows how to spell it correctly. We will write simply - hardbass, although the English version of the word suggests separate writing HARD BASS.
If we talk in clear language, then hardbass is a style of music and dance that is danced to this music. This musical direction appeared quite recently - in 2010. St. Petersburg is considered its homeland, and Dj Snat is rightfully considered its founder.
It should be noted that hardbass is one of the directions electronic music. Hardbass belongs to the style called pumpin house. Hardbass is a dance that can be danced either alone or in a group. And you don’t have to dance hardbass only in discos and nightclubs. This dance is often danced simply on the street in front of an amazed audience, or in trading floor big supermarket. And this is not just dance and not just music.
This dance also has its own business card- This is a special hand gesture. At the same time, the fingers are clenched into a fist, and the first and fifth protrude. This gesture is a sign of real hardbass. They dance it only with such a gesture. In addition, the easiest way to dance hardbass is in sportswear, and it’s not for nothing that there is such an expression “ONCE, ONCE, ONCE, THIS IS HARDBASS!” EVERYONE IS IN ADIDAS SPORTSHIPS!” However, I have already started to repeat myself...
Now a little about the name of this style of music. For those who do not know English, hardbass translates as “high bass”. Indeed, in no other musical direction is there such a fast tempo - about 150 beats per minute and there is no such unique and powerful bass. But because of this bass, the style itself becomes quite complex and attracts only the most true fans of electronic music.
So it turns out that you shouldn’t judge people just by their clothes. It seems at first glance simple guys and the girls dance a rather simple dance with their fingers spread out. But in fact, the dance turns out to have a filling, with a twist. And it’s much better if those same guys or girls were lying somewhere under a fence in a deranged state.
Hard bass- a dance and musical style of the same name, mainly popular among gopniks and football fans. The essence of dance is in simple energetic movements under low beats. Numerous memes and videos make fun of hard bass fans.
Origin
Hard bass is a type of pumping house music that uses Bamboo bass. Pumping house was invented by the Dutch group Klubbheads, which began performing in the 90s. Hard bass appeared in the early 2000s in St. Petersburg, this music was played in clubs where young people in sportswear, the so-called gopniks, gathered. Hard bass was popular among representatives of right-wing views; it was also performed on the streets as an alternative to Lezginka.
Hard bass became a meme in 2010, when four guys recorded a parody video “Hardbass Dance School” in St. Petersburg. They ridiculed the fans of this dance and wrote a song that became the anthem of this movement: “One, one, one is hardbass.” In the VK group Hard Bass School It is indicated that the authors' names are Pavel Zhukov and Val Toletov.
The video gained viral popularity, and people started performing their hardbass versions of this song in different cities of Russia and abroad and posting them on YouTube.
The popularity of hard bass either fades or flares up again. At the beginning of 2017, several more parodies of this dance appeared, which collected quite a lot of views.
Pictures about hard bass and jokes on this topic continue to circulate on VKontakte public pages, although the dance itself is no longer in fashion.
Meaning
The distinctive features of a Harbass lover are sportswear, especially Nike, sneakers, hats and balaclavas. Hardbass was popular among people with right-wing, nationalist views, and football fans. Another popular gesture is similar to “class”, but with the little finger protruding to the side.
Hardbass promotes a healthy lifestyle: giving up smoking, alcohol and drugs. Fans of this dance have fun with kvass, which is why it often appears in pictures. In memes, hardbass players are ridiculed for their low intellectual level and lack of understanding of the quality of music, as well as rather funny dance moves.
By 2017, the ironic meaning of the meme was complemented by a touch of nostalgia. Calls to dance hard bass began to look like a tribute to the fun past and can no longer be perceived only as sarcasm.
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When Russian Rock was dying, domestic chanson was corrupting the minds of forty-year-old fellow citizens, and everyone was finally fed up with pop music - St. Petersburg youth, also pretty tired of “ Western heritage", came up with an alternative musical style, and with it a dance.
Established in 2010 in St. Petersburg dance direction is now known by the name - HARD BASS. In it, simple music is combined with an equally simple, but quite energetic dance. And the rhythmic electronic sound, with a speed exceeding 150 beats per minute, makes even the most modest person start dancing.
The music itself of this style is created from a sound combination of synthesizers, powerful bass and a confident fast rhythm. The lyrics of the killer tracks do not pretend to be metaphorical or profound. Everything here is quite simple and clear - ordinary guys are campaigning for healthy image life . Which, in fact, is surprising. After all, almost everything musical styles, not counting, probably, the classics, they promoted, one way or another, drugs, smoking, alcohol. Think rock and roll, techno or reggae.
Hard Bass, of course, unlike well-known and recognized musical styles, with its performance style looks and sounds rather pretentious and at the same time somewhat abnormal, but the meaning lies precisely in its external mockery.
Guys gathering in groups of 10 or more people, dressed in tracksuits " Adidas" or " Nike", symbolizing "Gopniks" with their appearance, dance to fiery, same-type tracks, somewhere in the middle of the city, on buses, schools, in the subway and shopping centers, thereby demonstrating that You can enjoy life without all kinds of “chemical” doping , in the form of drugs or alcohol. Here, for example, is the main message of their songs:
«… butyrates and speeds
our worst enemies
at the venues we drink kvass
Let's rock hard bass for you..."
It is worth noting that followers of dance styleMany Russian schoolchildren have become hard bass, therefore, in the external attributes of dancers you can often notice the presence of backpacks on their backs; sometimes dance performers also put masks on their faces - as an element of the image. It’s interesting that the companies that play hard bass are mostly men. Perhaps this is due to the fact that dance also most common among our football fans, as well as right-wing youth, where the majority are representatives of the stronger sex.
The Hard Bass direction in Russia was conceived as a kind of response to the Caucasian Lezginka and overseas rap with hip-hop, which came to us from Latin America. That is why, in order to consolidate, so to speak, the uniqueness of our style, the philosophical orientation of the movement, the external attributes, the originality of the venue for the performances, and the actual nature of the dance are quite clearly outlined here.
If we talk about the philosophy of the Hard Bass movement, then it, as mentioned above, is to dance without consuming foods that affect the psyche, such as drugs or alcohol. As for the dance itself, according to Hard Bass schools, no specific skills are required from a person, that is, there is a certain freedom of action, the main thing is to memorize a couple of simple movements, and then you can make chaotic and energetic additions to your taste . Full improvisation Also welcome.
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During the preparation of this article, it turned out that not many people know what a direction in music and dance is. Hard Bass exists and first appeared in Russia. However, St. Petersburg youth still could not help but note the emergence of a new movement in their city.
Valentina, musician: “Not long ago in the Gostiny Dvor area I observed a strange gathering of young people. A group of about fifteen people, all of them just like that on the street, among passers-by, danced very playfully and cheerfully. It is clear that the dance was planned in advance; the music from the boombox sounded somewhat rhythmic. It was cold, but looking at them made me feel warmer. This really looks fun! But I don't know anything about this direction of dance. It even seemed to me that this was just some kind of paid flash mob.”
Danil, engineer: “I haven’t heard anything about Hard Bass, but judging by the description, it reminds me of a videoGangnam Style, which blew up on YouTube last year, where a ridiculous Korean guy dances surrounded by girls. It would be interesting to see how this happens in Russia. And in general, it’s interesting that young people, as you say, even schoolchildren, are coming up with something now. Probably, in a couple of years, if the dance really remains alive and relevant, it will be extremely popular. It’s cool to create something unique and new in our time, because everything revolves mainly around what someone has already created.”
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Elena, merchandiser: “My husband is a football fan. And I know firsthand about all their dancing and other fun. Yes, Hard Bass is popular now among his crowd, I mean his boy crowd. Where are they dancing? Well, since the guys have not been in school for a long time, this mostly happens in our area, or at someone’s dacha, if we are relaxing or in nature, when it occurs to someone to have some fun and burn off energy. I can say that this dance does not evoke any understanding in me, but as an alternative to their “fan” fights, it’s better to let them dance!”
Svetlana, philologist: “I decided to look and find out at least something about the Hard Bass direction myself. To be honest, I don’t understand the meaning of this dance, not to mention the lyrics of the songs they dance to. They declare that they are against drugs, but they themselves frolic as if “on something.” I can believe, of course, that they do not use anything prohibited, but I think the older generation will not understand. Even if the guys are dancing against drug addicts, not a single pensioner will understand this, every old woman will say, looking at them, “drug addicts!” - this is 100%! Our people have such a mentality. If you deviate a little from the generally accepted body movements, then there is something wrong with you, and with these “dancers”, according to the masses, there will definitely be something wrong.”
Vladimir, forwarder: “Yeah, I know some guys who rock Hard Bass. They really are guys for a healthy lifestyle, they make fun of the gopniks, but in a kind way. And they dance to release aggression somewhere, you know? So you jump big company and I don’t want to go punch anyone in the face right away. And everyone is happy. An excellent decision, I think.”
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It is interesting that in some regions of Russia and the CIS countries, Hard Bass is also gaining popularity, this can be seen at least from numerous videos on YouTube. In addition, they are actively adopting the tradition of our “sausage” dance and such European countries like Spain, France, the Czech Republic, Poland, and even overseas teenagers from Chile.
The positive aspect of the new style is its focus, which helps to change the focus of young people - from habits that destroy health to moves that strengthen the body. And this, you see, is a positive trend. Moreover, before the advent of Hard Bass there was no trace of such a trend promoting dance in the name of protection from drugs and alcohol addiction.
The downside of the style in our country specifically is its mediocrity and intricacy, which in turn is its main feature. On the one hand, this can, of course, act as an advantage - many will be able to learn the dance, and the mass nature of its performance in itself allows people to liberate themselves faster. However, monotonous music and primitive lyrics will clearly alienate Hard Bass from a good part of the advanced, highly educated youth, for whom the only place where they can get a breath of fresh music or dance will remain - the West, but not Russia.