Car Seat Dance

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Car Seat Dance videos are a viral fad showcasing a child's funny or interesting reaction to music while sitting in a car. They usually use music that would not be associated with a child of that age like Bob Marley or dubstep.

Origin

The earliest found example comes from 3 Aug 2006, Uploaded to Google videos by Arul Mathur, simply titled "Car seat dance" and stating "Arul cannot resist dancing even when bound by car seat belts". The video lasts only 28 seconds, and does not contain a whole lot of dancing.

Car seat dance
00:28 – 4 years ago
Arul cannot resist dancing even when bound by car seat belts

On 17 Sep 2006 thisismahname uploaded the 16 second video "crazy" to youtube.

Yes it is very blurry, and has almost no hits, but it is more frenetic and set a better indication as to what was to come!

realityphotography uploaded "vivian's car seat dance" to vimeo on 26 Sep 2006. This retains the title "car seat dance".

vivian's car seat dance from realityphotography on Vimeo.

There have been a lot of Car Seat Dance videos uploaded since then, most of which have been getting higher in video quality.

With the rise in Car Seat Dance videos there has also been a rise in people telling the parents off for not strapping the children in correctly. The video contains a high rated comment from umothra stating:

"The little girl is adorable. You need to make sure her chest clip is at her armpits level. it's much too low to do the job correctly. Also, the person sittin in the middle seat had the shoulder belt under their arm. This is super dangerous in an accident. It needs to be on the shoulder to do it's job correctly."

with the parents either apologizing for the misstrapped child or getting defensive about the matter and attacking people for not minding their own business.

for example TheKaylakilljoy stated: "To everyone that has mentioned Embry's car seat, I would like to say thank you for bringing it to my attention. I have since raised his chest clip and tightened the straps down. Again I really appreciate everyone's concern and the problem has been corrected."

The four most famous car seat dance videos are:

Usher Dancing Baby In Car Seat uploaded on December 27, 2007