Here’s The Difference Between “Harlem Shake” And Harlem Shakes

One is a meme, the other is a band that doesn't exist anymore. Thousands of people followed them on Twitter anyway, proving that no one ever reads Twitter bios.

These are the Harlem Shakes.

These are the Harlem Shakes.

They were a short lived, well-dressed New York indie rock band that formed in 2006 and disbanded in 2009. They wrote happy songs with titles like "Sunshine" and "Unhurried Hearts (Passaic Pastoral)." They played with bands that are only memorable if you lived in New York in 2009.

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Here's their song "Strictly Game"

It's also their only single, a guitar pop anthem with a doe-eyed chorus: "This will be a better year." It too is a happy song. Six months after it was released, in September 2009, the band called it quits.

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Four years later, and the "Harlem Shake" meme came along.


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