Dan is really into “Humppa” lately- a Finnish rock style. He’s playing a lot of it on KALX.
Except as it turns out, what he’s playing isn’t even real humppa. The real humppa is a Finnish jazz/(polka?) music genre. Investigating this, I got two music genres in one… although I still don’t speak Finnish.
DANH: apparently the band i have been listening to is a parody of real humppaaBRIAN: woah
DANH: real humpaa is traditional old people dance in Finland
DANH: someone said real humppa is way more insane
From a post on orkut:
Real humppa 2/1/2004 11:35 PM
The real humppa is a very serious thing – it’s a dance quite like waltz or tang
o and there are many people that are passionately into it, but they’re mostly ol
der people.Eläkeläiset is a parody of the real humppa. Actually it’s even more – it’s a parody of old people’s traditional lifestyle in Finland.
DANH: i would upload a ton of humpaa but my upload rate is slow
yeah i know
real humppa is kind of boring
fake humpa is awesome!
— Dan H
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