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Foreword: Criminal Crossovers

Foreword: Criminal Crossovers Adam Golub In February 2020, a new dance craze called the ‘cannibal challenge’ went viral on TikTok. In short order, users of the social media app uploaded tens of thousands of videos of themselves performing a fifteen-second dance routine to the pop song ‘Cannibal,’ by the American singer Kesha. The dance involves a series of literal interpretations of the lyrics, beginning with the last line of the chorus –‘Cannibal / I’ll eat you up’– and proceeding through most of the song’s second verse: ‘Whenever you tell me I’m pretty / That’s when the hunger really hits me / Your little heart goes pitter-patter / I want your liver on a platter / Use your finger to stir my tea / And for dessert I’ll suck your teeth’. The dance challenge requires participants to mime eating, feeling pretty, feeling hungry, drawing a heart in the air and showing it beating in their chest, serving a dish, and drinking tea. All the while, performers keep rhythm to the music. The step sequence and song excerpt end just before Kesha sings the last two lines of the second verse: ‘Be too sweet and you’ll be a goner / Yeah, I’ll pull a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Crime Fiction Studies Edinburgh University Press

Foreword: Criminal Crossovers

Golub, Adam
Crime Fiction Studies , Volume 3 (1): 1 – Mar 1, 2022
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Adam Golub In February 2020, a new dance craze called the ‘cannibal challenge’ went viral on TikTok. In short order, users of the social media app uploaded tens of thousands of videos of themselves performing a fifteen-second dance routine to the pop song ‘Cannibal,’ by the American singer Kesha. The dance involves a series of literal interpretations of the lyrics, beginning with the last line of the chorus –‘Cannibal / I’ll eat you up’– and proceeding through most of the song’s second verse: ‘Whenever you tell me I’m pretty / That’s when the hunger really hits me / Your little heart goes pitter-patter / I want your liver on a platter / Use your finger to stir my tea / And for dessert I’ll suck your teeth’. The dance challenge requires participants to mime eating, feeling pretty, feeling hungry, drawing a heart in the air and showing it beating in their chest, serving a dish, and drinking tea. All the while, performers keep rhythm to the music. The step sequence and song excerpt end just before Kesha sings the last two lines of the second verse: ‘Be too sweet and you’ll be a goner / Yeah, I’ll pull a

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Crime Fiction Studies – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Mar 1, 2022

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