There’s good news for the Montreal crunk scene. For those thrown off by the multi-limb complexity of the poutine dance, the "tabarnak" has just arrived. Apparently, all it takes is raising one leg in the air and sort of wiggling it around—a move so confounding in its simplicity that half the people in this video are totally incapable of either doing it or making it vaguely resemble a dance. Unlike the uniformity of Aryan Krump or Crank Dat or any of those other more rigid dances, this one here is all about improvisation—any variation necessary to keep balance. It also wins points for taking the best Quebecois swear-word ever as its namesake.
Reader Comments
November 29th, 2007
1:28 am
Apparently it means ‘fuck’.
November 29th, 2007
1:26 pm
This is imported directly from Kingston, where lazy or fat people dance thus and lean against walls or bars in a cool collected manner at dancehall venues …
November 29th, 2007
5:02 pm
francais swears are mostly catholic terms, tabarnak is refering to a tabarnakle which is a little wodden structure you keep bread in thats left over from communion. so it doesn’t really mean fuck, but it is the quebecois equivelent of fuck.
November 29th, 2007
11:15 pm
my favourite franglais is ‘taberfuck’. i’ve also heard ‘tabernoosh’ which i have no idea about.
November 30th, 2007
3:25 pm
hosti de christ, tabernaque!!!!
j’en ai mar de tes niaiseries, vice mag! va manger de la merde, bande de tête carre!
trans:
body of christ, tabernacle!!!!
i am tired of your pestering, go eat shit vice mag, you group of square heads.
probably some of the harshest words deliverable in quebecois…oh you silly people.
:P
December 1st, 2007
1:38 am
If you visit their ‘official website’ it’s a eyewear company. It’s viral marketing and, clearly, very effective.
December 2nd, 2007
6:29 am
you call that pussy shit ‘crunk’? gimme a goddamn break! that’s like a teen girl dance troupe practicing after school- or much, much worse.
December 4th, 2007
2:47 am
no for real guys, that thing sucks. big time. the first time i saw this video i laughed so hard my stomach hurt. these guys think they’re the shit but they’re…so, so not. “Danse la Poutine” is much better guys…TTC and Omnikrom do dumb songs but they don’t take themselves seriously…and even if they do, well at least they have the fanbase to act like the cocky bitches they want to be.
February 8th, 2008
3:20 am
Official remix coming out by Toltech from MTL as well.