Wow, really? Why was it controversial? That’s disheartening.
Goofy song aside, that guy has some some serious bass notes.
As a song for toddlers that just involves repeating the word “poppadum” over and over, I don’t find it particularly offensive but then it’s not my ox being gored.
For a more adult version of the same basic principle - which is still not racist and probably just as puerile - you need to go to Hale and Pace:
That’s fantastic.
The original one? People dressing up in other folks’ culture as a cutesy stereotype for kids and trying to do cultural dances, especially when they’re super bad at dancing, pings my “c’mon, guys” level of racism, like a 1.5 on a scale of 1-10. They’d be better off not doing that. Without the costumes, just singing “pappadum” over and over, it’d be fine.
People don’t like change. But actually I wasn’t that keen either because she’s quite “girlified” - big bow in her hair, little-girl pigtails, poofy skirt. There’s a bit of an infantilizing vibe there. All the people like me with feminist leanings would have been much more on board if she’d just stuck with the bright skivvy and trousers theme, because they’re all just regular humans together doing their thing equally.
Meanwhile, the more conservative wing of society just wanted it to stay a bunch of blokes because That’s How It Had Always Been. Basically they got it in the neck from both sides, and there was no real way to win.
That episode wasn’t banned because of cultural differences, it was banned because of faunal differences. Saying “spiders are pretty harmless” in the land of “everything wants to kill you” is a good way to get dead/damaged kids.
Skivvy? I know “skivvies” as an old-time word for “underpants.”
Apparently it’s a turtle-neck for you?
Still not as embarrassing a linguistic distinction as “thong”. Or “rubber”.
do they even show the wiggles in the US anymore? the last show they had on sprout/universal kids wAs a low budget clip show