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...(FT) Why Europe needs to ‘twerk’ on it The debacle over Ballon d’Or winner Ada Hegerberg exposes that, despite what the rest of the world — particularly the US — thinks, Europe still has a long way to go...
...In particular, YouTube's algorithms have encouraged what appear to be almost automated videos, in which favourite characters, key words and memes are combined in a haphazard way designed to game the video...
...All those triangles, butterflies and chequered floors in pop videos were no accident . . ....
...Selfie was even made international word of the year in 2013 by Oxford Dictionaries, to the consternation of Miley Cyrus fans who lobbied for “twerk”....
...For on one night in August, Cyrus, clad in flesh-coloured plastic pants, took to the stage at the MTV video music awards – a show watched by millions – and shook, pumped and gyrated her bottom....
...The young singer and former child star not only twerks; she poses naked for music videos and performs near naked at shows; and has committed perhaps the ultimate sin of seeming to light up a joint or – worse...
...Big-name collaborators such as Justin Bieber and Britney Spears did their cameos on screen, in footage taken from the songs’ videos....
...Each weekend we force her to undergo 30 minutes of gyration practice to her new “twerk like Miley” video....
...“Experience the real thing,” it says proudly, aware that the twists and twerks of our daily business are far more fantastical in scope than what can be put on stage....
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