Video: Little Boy's Adorably Focused Subway Dancing Brings Us Joy

Can't stop, won't stop

Yeah, we've seen some pretty good dancing on the subways before. But The Daily What pointed us in the direction of some dance-moves-to-rule-them-all in the adorable video below: “This little boy was rocking the F out for the entire ride from Chambers St. to Myrtle-Broadway, dancing for nearly a half an hour, without a care in the world. Every time he put his hand on his chest like Usher I cracked up.” The kid sings, sways, fans and finger points as unselfconsciously as is humanely possible—and his mother ties his shoe laces. Can a subway ride get any better?

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By Ben Yakas in Arts & Entertainment on September 14, 2011 3:17 PM

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Michelle

His mother appears to be pretending not to know him. I mean, she gave it away a bit when she tied his shoes, but other than that you might never know.

DazzleThemAll

CUTE!!!

famdoc

I'm happy about three things: 1) he's with his mother, 2) he never, and I mean never, invades the space of the passenger next to him and 3) he isn't part of an acrobatic troupe with loud music that asks for money when the kids really should be in school.

whatidsay

The kid's got the moves.I can only hope he becomes a future rap star and not a future Gothamist headline.

shogan83

What makes you think that he would?

Corny_Whitehead

It's adorable and everything, but, unless the person taking this video told his mother "your kid is so cute, mind if I film him and post it on the Internet?", I feel like it's an invasion of privacy.

m015094

He's in public. He has no reasonable expectation of privacy.

Corny_Whitehead

He's a CHILD!!! Maybe as a parent of a young child, I'm a little sensitive to it, but I'm sure his mother wouldn't be thrilled about it, thus the reason she was not asked. Respect is the real issue not "no reasonable expectation of privacy". If the family of the young boy shared this, then I have no issue with it, but when a video is taken secretly and distributed, that is not okay with me.

winning1234

It was constititional, relax. This is america.

RadioGagarin

I understand a parent's worries, but I think it's reasonable to film a charming kid dancing in public in the way you would film anyone doing something amusing in public.

If the kid was just sitting there doing nothing and someone started filming him for no apparent reason that would be weird and creepy, but since he's drawing attention to himself I think it's obvious what the filmer's intentions are. If the mother had a problem with it she probably would have said so. No need to be a party pooper.

aspiringrapper

Better than "Showtime, folks! Showtime!" that's for sure.

thenab

dying to know what he's listening to. ...."wheels on the bus' dub re-mix?

keith_talent

Glorious. To paraphrase Nietzsche (because too lazy to look up the quote), a man's maturity consists in finding again the seriousness he had as a child at play.