/ Xeni Jardin / 12:33 pm Thu Jun 17, 2010

Gratuitous Dancing Baby Video

Must be something in the water in Brazil. What is it with all the weird baby videos we see from that part of the world? Here's another, spotted by Tara McGinley at Dangerous Minds.

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  2. I think it’s the world’s way of celebrating the blessed union of Calista Flockhart to Indiana Jones.

  3. Lots of coordination and balance for someone who can’t control one’s sphincters. :D

    Too adult to be cute but great nonetheless.

  4. Naw thats adorable – the only reason you see the hip moves he/she is doing is because you link them up with adult sexuality – its just a dance :)

  6. I don’t think that child is a baby. I think he’s 5 or 6 and has been put in a diaper to make him look younger.

    2. Five/six year olds are much leaner than this kid, and have a different head-to-body proportion. Comparing him to my kid, I’d say he’s about 2 1/2.

    3. That looks like a baby to me-the head to arm ratio, the goofy nearly cognizant look on his face. 5 and 6 year olds are much more elongated, their heads are not so bobblehead sized, their faces show evidence of thoughts and desires to which you are not privy. I’ve raised 4 kids, I’ve been around hundreds of them over the last 15 years and my first guess is that kid is as young as 18 months, I would have guessed 2 because he’s pretty stocky but the face reads younger.

  8. Wasn’t there a wave of UFO sightings in Brazil in recent years?
    More than co-incidence?
    You decide!

  9. To answer your question, Xeni-

    “Brazilians are affected from birth by the Samba.

    As an example of this attachment, parents bring their infants and children to balls in carnaval costumes, generation after generation. Kids learn the Samba rhythm as early as in middle school, and adolescents soon grow up and associate with samba-schools.”

    (Warning – NSFW naked statue on float pic at link)
    http://www.brazilcarnival.com.br/culture

  10. I don’t know any Brazilians, but if they’re anything like Caribbeans people, dancing is just a normal part of having a good time.

    I have a friend from Barbados and his girlfriend is from Haiti. At parties, they don’t step on the dance floor, they burn it to ashes. They also make the rest of us look like we’re stomping around in body casts…

  12. I remember when my 1st 2 nepehews were this age and we tried to teach them to shake their booties. They were both so cute, but to me this Brasilian baby shows how most of the children there are sexualized way earlier then most of the children here in the USA. I still think it’s cute, to see a dancing baby, but I don’t know if this dance is so appropriate. Am I crazy?

  14. That’s no baby. Clearly this child, and the smoking baby from Indonesia, are actually imps from hell in child form, up from the underworld to celebrate the End of Days now that BP has opened the gates of hell.

  15. whether he’s 2 or 6 or 10, this kid is more proof that brazilians have hip shaking *in their genes*. i couldn’t dance like that if i trained for a year. amazing.

  16. I keep looking for signs that this has been manipulated because that’s just freakishly coordinated for a child so young. There are about a dozen distinct dance moves there!

    I disagree with the idea that any of this is in any way sexual or innapproriate for a child to perform. Your hips aren’t just the place where you keep your genitals you know! A child wouldn’t associate hip thrusting with sex. To him it just feels good to dance that way. Maybe we could all do with learning a thing or two from this kid.

  17. That’s funny and adorable. This little one is probably just shy of 18 months.

    Anon@13: The devil is everywhere the true believe looks for him.

  19. That description sounds xenophobic in a way that’s not characteristic of you, Xeni. Perhaps you mean “amazing” or “funny” or “talented” baby videos…not “weird”?

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