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Once-ler’s guitar hop + other aesthetics considered in Earth’s context, giant ramble

ages ago, i wondered where Once-ler’s guitar hop came from, I was certain I saw it, but I couldn’t remember where.

Then I saw the hop again.

And we know Marty Mcfly probably pulled his moves from somewhere.

Chuck Berry!

It says Duck-walk up there, but Chuck Berry also did that one-legged hop, (and some consider the hop as a type of duckwalk).

And the Once-ler’s hip-moving moves could be influence from Elvis. Elvis was nicknamed Elvis the Pelvis because of how much he moved, well, his pelvis.

The pelvis moving of Elvis among his performances was mildly scandalous.

From Wikipedia:

“Ben Gross of the New York Daily News opined that popular music “has reached its lowest depths in the ‘grunt and groin’ antics of one Elvis Presley. … Elvis, who rotates his pelvis … gave an exhibition that was suggestive and vulgar, tinged with the kind of animalism that should be confined to dives and bordellos”.[109] Ed Sullivan, whose own variety show was the nation’s most popular, declared him “unfit for family viewing”.[110] To Presley’s displeasure, he soon found himself being referred to as “Elvis the Pelvis”, which he called “one of the most childish expressions I ever heard, comin’ from an adult.”[111]”

So there’s possibly some 50′s influence on his movements.

WARNING: EXTREMELY EXTREMELY LONG AND IMAGE HEAVY POST. Including copy-pasted sections of text (but not including screenshots of text), this entire post clocks in at over 13,000 words long.

To read the rest, click the link to my google drive. I tried putting it on tumblr, but the length of it means Tumblr crumbles under the attempt to save it, so I had to save it as a PDF.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nh019Yxi_31Y5lhNXigjedQ4xJbmpP8w/view?usp=sharing

(or, attempting to use the HTML side of tumblr’s post editor, not sure if it works)

Press this post’s own permalink

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and hopefully a preview for the document might show up between the stars below if the HTML thing works.

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It’s a really long document so i hope I didn’t have blatant errors like accidentally deleting half a paragraph.

Also, remember this gif of Paul shaking his hair. You’ll need it, since PDFs don’t have animated gifs and I refer to this at one point.

(And if you have read my entire ramble, thank you!)