# Jennifer Lopez Can't Dance **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 9, 2001, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jennifer-lopez-cant-dance/49247 "2001-01-09T23:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jennifer-lopez-cant-dance/49247/21 "2001-01-10T17:42:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Upham \* > …Untill then sit back, relax, and know that the only good thing about American Music is the song by the Violent Femmes. Yeah, every American musician should strive to be just like Alanis Morrisette. ALL HAIL CANADIAN MUSIC!! :rolleyes: [sub]disclaimer: I know that there are **some** respectable bands to come out of Canada. However, picking the worst that American pop culture has to offer is a cheap shot.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jennifer-lopez-cant-dance/49247/22 "2001-01-10T18:49:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Byzantine \* > I saw the SNL of which Opal speaks and to me she looked like one of the chicks in the MST3K movie “The Girl in the Gold Boots”. If you haven’t seen it you should; you’d totally get what Opal is talking about. Never seen Lopez dance, but if she’s THAT bad…“Do the wounded turkey!” “That’s how you frighten a black bear in your camp-now let’s try dancing.” ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jennifer-lopez-cant-dance/49247/23 "2001-01-10T19:20:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Yeah, every American musician should strive to be just like Alanis Morrisette. ALL HAIL CANADIAN MUSIC!! I never said Canadian Pop was any good, truth be known they bother me all the more for their emulation of American Pop. Canadian artists like the Jaggid Little Shrill try to get picked up by the big American lables to make some cash, just like the American ones. And why not? There’s a hell of a lot of it to be made. Upham ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jennifer-lopez-cant-dance/49247/24 "2001-01-10T20:49:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nacho4Sara \* > \*\*…some show on MTV that featured… her running in the sand and then falling on her ass. \*\* MTV’s Making the Video - Jennifer Lopez, “Love Don’t Cost a Thing”. I have to go watch “The Girl in the Gold Boots” now. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jennifer-lopez-cant-dance/49247/25 "2001-01-10T20:53:10Z")
Well let’s see. Ms. Lopez started taking dance lessons in preschool, danced in many rap videos, IIRC she was a part of MC Hammer’s dance mob, was a _Living Color_ Fly Girl, was offered a position as a dancer on Janet Jackson’s 1993 World Tour. Now I know enough dancers to know that you don’t get offered a position to offically dance with Ms. Jackson if you “can’t dance”. From what I understand, dancing with JJ is one of the Holy Grails of professional dance. The musical stage on SNL is roughly the size of a postage stamp. I think it’s rather unfair to judge someone’s dance skills in that constrained environment. > [@](#): > > I think maybe a choreographer can make her look like she can dance Nah, Will Smith is choreographed to death in a lot of his videos and it _still_ looks like he can’t dance. They’re choreographers, not miracle workers. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jennifer-lopez-cant-dance/49247/26 "2001-01-10T22:14:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Byzantine \* > \*\*to me she looked like one of the chicks in the MST3K movie “The Girl in the Gold Boots”. \*\* HEY!!! There was some FINE DANCING in that movie! – Ukulele “Critter” Ike ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jennifer-lopez-cant-dance/49247/27 "2001-01-10T23:21:44Z")
What the hell was that go-go dancer movie doing in the Sci-Fi Channel vault anyway? I didn’t see John Agar or William Sylvester in it. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jennifer-lopez-cant-dance/49247/28 "2001-01-11T00:02:39Z")
It was their last season…_sob_ so they were allowed to do non-Sci-Fi. And wait-it DID have that Buzz guy teleporting back to the table! ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jennifer-lopez-cant-dance/49247/29 "2001-01-14T08:51:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Upham \* > \*\ ***CityGent** Thanks man, but my Mum is an English teacher so if i (lower case i) really need my posts gone over i (lower case i) have some where else to take them. Also, i (lower case i) typically don’t capitalize my i (again, lower case i), it’s an e. e. cummings sort of thing. > \*\* Hey **Upham** , just thought I’d point out that e e cummings never used periods after those e’s. Better start paying more attention to Mom! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jennifer-lopez-cant-dance/49247.md?page=1)