"Shake your ass," people will say, by which they usually mean, Dance a little, why don't you? The bass-heavy, rapid-fire, New Orleans-born hip-hop subgenre known as bounce takes the concept of shaking one's ass to a much more literal and provocative place. It's best to just YouTube the videos, but the clearest way I can describe this kind of dancing is like the participants are pretending to get penetrated from behind at a thousand miles an hour. Big Freedia, a tall, imposing, transgendered performer, is a beloved pioneer of bounce — live, she's part emcee, part aerobics instructor, part messiah.
— David Hudnall
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