Motown records brought black music by black musicians into the mainstream, and changed American culture forever.  If you’d like a serious analysis of that, please go here. You know I ain’t got time for that shit.

Instead, I’d like to present two videos choreographed by very, very white people, and mashed up with some very, very black (although not Motown, it must be said, and indeed it WOULD have been said, had I not just said it myself, thus inocculating this blog against those so-called sayers and their nastily truthful accusations, now where was I?) music.

Bob Fosse‘s Mexican Breakfast featuring Gwen Verdon: original here. Unaccredited, vulgar ripoff by Beyonce here. More amusing version of same here. Walk It Out, Fosse version below:

And here is something that could only be made even whiter by the addition of Soulja Boy: Tappercize!

mashup from EverythingIsTerrible