OMG Jlo made me laugh! She backs up to the end of the stage sticks her butt out as if to poot, then jiggles her butt cheeks -
I bet Sheila E thought she looked a damn fool.
Come on with the bootyquakes, nothing sexy going on there, it’s interesting and athletic I suppose but not sexy or alluring imo.
It’s HARD to do - we learned isolation in my belly dancing classes but I never mastered it. I am in awe of women who can do this.
It doesn’t do anything for me but, like many forms of dance, it is probably not as easy as it looks and is best appreciated by those that have tried dancing. I also don’t get anything out ballet dances balancing on their tip-toes or by Flamenco dancers clacking their heels but I can appreciate that it is a difficult skill.
Wasn’t all of this covered in Baby Got Back?
I wiki’d Mapouka and the first line of the entry is this (bolding mine):
I now have this image in my head of a minister standing in front of a congregation saying, “And now to honor our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Booty Brigade!” and then a group of women run up to the pulpit and start shakin’ it for the lord. 
I have a fine appreciation for asses (of both sexes) and hips (mostly women), but the butt shake thing just makes me laugh. It sort of reminds me of those very old commercials advertising that machine with the jiggling waist belt that was supposed to help you lose weight without exercise.
Human bodies should not vibrate. It’s not sexy. 
On the other hand, I find belly dancing sexy as hell, mainly because it’s all about the hips and ass. (I’ve even seen male belly dancers perform and yep, still sexy. Bootilicious dancers? Still sexy! !!)
So, in conclusion, I guess for me, sexy = sensual, and not fucking machine pistoning.
Awesome indeed. I watched a few and made a discovery. It’s not the jiggling booty shake in and of itself that makes me laugh, it’s when the entire dance stops for a minute of booty shake – particularly when it’s stop, bend over, stick out the ass, shake vigorously. Most of the time the Mapouka dancers were still dancing with the rest of their bodies, while incorporating booty shake, and that was fun and sexy. It’s when they stopped moving, except for the vibrating ass, that it became comical.
I think for me, when the dance stops, it become a blatant attention-whoring “LOOK AT MY ASS” move (and my natural response to attention-whoring is pity and mirth), whereas if it’s actually incorporated into a continuous dance, then it’s the sensuality/sexuality of the entire body/being, with attention paid to the overall aesthetic of the dance. (Any “dance” that just one or a series of disconnected moves doesn’t impress me much. Flow is important.)
I’m a white girl who’s totally envious of women who can do a booty shake. I’m a big woman but I am built like a tree with no hips and no ass. I sometimes find myself thinking “I wish these jeans made my butt look big.”
I just watched that Wal Mart video the other day, I knew that’s what you were going to link to Diosa 
*Wally wally wally wally wally wally world. *
I dunno, I’m a straight guy, who certainly enjoys watching attractive women dance, AND I consider myself to be a butt man. But I gotta agree with the OP… this particular movement has always looked more silly to me than sexy. I’m glad I’m not alone.
This video absolutely made my day. Thank you, Diosa. “Ridiculous” does not even begin to cover it.
Also, I have no trouble at all appreciating what’s being shown in that video. But I think the term “bootyquake” is gonna have me snickering the rest of the day.
I agree with this. In bed, it would be fun. Watching a video focusing just on that…boring. I’m mixed ethnicity, if it matters.
Calling it “butt convulsion” kinda takes the shine off of it. I know that in New Orleans, there are what are called “bounce clubs”, where “bounce” music is played, women bend over, flip their dresses up, and shake their booties while men ogle them. Seems pointless to me.
White. Straight. Definitely not a prude. To me, the move looks ridiculous – in public, private or otherwise. It’s like ass epilepsy.
To mangle one of my favorite Whedonisms…with this move, the subtext is rapidly becoming text. The subliminal is not so sub. I like sexy dancing, but I don’t like sex dancing. As others have said - as part of a dance, it can be hot. If all we’re looking at is a butt so perfectly humping that I can’t help but visualize a dildo beneath it, I’m turned off.
White, straight. Works for me.
Booty poppin’. And no, not sexy.
I like sensual dancing and sexy dancing. But that particular move just screams “low class tramp” to me. Might be difficult and all, whatever. Still looks trashy.
White guy, likes me some booty, just not when it’s jackhammering like that.
That is my new favorite thing ever!
Bounce is so much fun though! I think most of people realize it’s ridiculous and try to push it to the max. Here’s a Big Freedia video (sissy bounce), her shows are insane.