Popular Culture
Lindy Hop has been featured in popular media since its inception. Variants include the Double Lindy and Triple Lindy.
It is featured in several music videos, including Marilyn Manson's "Mobscene", the 2002 music video to Elvis Presley vs. JXL remix of "A Little Less Conversation", the 2007 music video to Christina Aguilera's song "Candyman", the 2008 video release from Millencolin; Detox and the music videos to Movits!'s songs "Fel Del Av Gården" and "Sammy Davis Jr.".
The Lindy Hop was performed by Homer Simpson while dressed up as a panda in The Simpsons episode "Homer vs. Dignity"; however, the actual step shown in the animation is the Charleston.
The Harlem Lindy Hop dance club and zoot suit culture forms a colourful backdrop in the early part of Spike Lee's film Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington. Spike Lee's character is called "Shorty".
In the 2009 Strictly Come Dancing final the Lindy Hop was performed by the two remaining contestants. In the eighth season of the US version of Dancing with the Stars, it was added to the list of dances along with the Argentine Tango.
Lindy Hop features in the 2010 Taiwanese film Au Revoir Taipei, in which Amber Kuo's character goes to dance classes at night. One of these classes is seen at the end of the film.
In 2011, satirical news organization The Onion claimed that the Lindy Hop was a form of anti-semitism devised to terrorize Jewish shop-owners, and that its name derived from aviator and Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh.
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