She inspired a whole group of strangers to join in.
The underground music scene in New York City — underground as in the
subway system, not secret clubs — is characterized by a wide range of
quality. Sometimes it seems like all it has to offer are mariachi bands
that insist on playing only on those days when you have a splitting
headache, got caught in the rain and just found out that your dog died.
But occasionally you stumble upon a gem.
This video from a Brooklyn
station is precious not as much for the band’s rollicking version of the
Grateful Dead’s “Me and My Uncle,” but for a small, bespectacled
child’s joyful dancing.
The girl’s roof-raising jig gradually inspires a small hootenanny of
strangers coming together in unfettered joy. At one point, her glee
escapes from her in the kind of scream reserved only for the highest
moments of elation.
Five minutes later, surely, all those people smashed themselves
shoulder-to-shoulder into the human equivalent of a cattle truck. But
for those two minutes, her joy was the center of the universe.
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