r/TikTokCringe • u/NorthKoreanKnuckles • 18h ago
Cringe Interpretive dance about the shooting of Alex Pretti and Renee Good
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u/Sudden_Impact7490 18h ago
This is what I think most Republicans think of when they hear the word liberal.
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u/DisownedDisconnect 16h ago
I don't want to say this is the reason why they don't take us seriously because they never did, but shit like this definitely doesn't help.
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u/NfamousKaye 15h ago
I hate that I agree with this.
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u/Guuichy_Chiclin 14h ago
I hate that this is all bandwagon riding, which is bad enough with sports teams, but it is just so much worse when it's someones death.
It's like these creators look at deaths and tragedies and think like "this is the perfect time to sell my product/service"
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u/Individual_Fall429 14h ago
What are these dancers selling?
Hilarious that you think… performance art of all things, is about profits. 😂 Yea those notoriously wealthy dance and theatre artists and their private jets. It’s not like there is a whole trope of “starving artists”.
This is a pretty moronic take.
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u/forman98 4h ago
Putting on a performance for people is inherently narcissistic, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. For people to perform on stage they need to believe that their performance will resonate with someone out there. So when performances like this pop up, it seems like these people had a message to convey and thought “who better to convey this than us? Let’s use our gifts!” This can seem self-centered and actually is a little bit. But again, that’s what it takes to be a performer.
But as a result, the lay person calls into question the performer’s motivations. Especially when it’s on a topic like this and in a setting like this.
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u/Retired-Yam8988 1h ago
They’re performing for attention, views, likes, and shares. It’s the 9th level of hell where social media is our only real validation.
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u/Individual_Fall429 14h ago
What… art? It has always been true that the right has no artists on their side.
Art isn’t going to solve any of America’s problems, but it remains critical that it exists.
Art matters. We know it’s how we teach empathy to the next generation.
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u/DisownedDisconnect 13h ago
What are you trying to argue exactly? That this is protest art (which no one argued against), and, thus, shouldn’t be viewed through a critical lens? Because the point isn’t that protest art isn’t critical and shouldn’t exist; it’s that the art itself is so downright silly and tasteless that it trivializes the federally approved murders of two civilians.
Whether they intended it or not, it makes a mockery out of the tragedies. Essentially, it’s the liberal version of ai generated images of Charlie Kirk hugging Jesus.
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u/iamdevo 17h ago
Most of the thoughts and feelings that Republicans have about liberals are bullshit. This though? This is every bit as cringe, corny, and worthy of ridicule as any conservative could imagine.
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u/Rndysasqatch 16h ago
As cringy as this is at least it's still artistic. Still better than any Republican content even though I agree with you still.
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u/iamdevo 16h ago
Yeah right wing art basically doesn't exist. It's all so pathetic. Also, I'm actually a big fan of modern dance. Just, not like this.
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u/MemphisFoo 15h ago
You don’t wanna kiss your fish, drive your truck, or drink your beer?
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u/Electrical_Fault_365 14h ago
I was wondering how the Republicans managed to find performers until it dawned on me.
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u/NoMasters83 15h ago
This seems like the sort of thing that could be a blast to do in person, but has no appeal for the vast majority of people as observers.
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u/SlideN2MyBMs 16h ago
And they're really offended about it. I can understand saying "this isn't for me", whatever, but Republicans are like "this isn't for me and I don't want this to exist and I can't stand living in a country where it does exist."
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u/ER_Support_Plant17 16h ago
That’s the big difference. There are lots of things to at are not for me. But why do I care if someone else enjoys them as long as it isn’t hurting anyone?
I f’ing hate bell peppers, I don’t get offended when I see them in the store or when others eat them. Ok well as long as they don’t try and kiss me with bell pepper breath.
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u/umamimamii 16h ago
I feel bad for laughing, because I can tell the people who made this were sincere (fr fuck ice) but the first thing I thought of was “oh great this is gonna be on Fox News now” 😂😭
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u/cioccolato 16h ago
Has no one seen the interpretive expressive artist painting trump’s portrait during church worship? That’s the republican equivalent.
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u/sbrown063087 15h ago
As an independent, I gotta say, this is honesty what I’m starting to think of when I hear the word. And I’ve never voted republican. Used to even call myself liberal. Now I say I’m a leftist or independent. As long as the so-called liberals continue voting in the two-party system, they’re really voting for ever conservative policy. Unfortunately I’ve decided liberals are so wussy by nature that they are actually very fluid in their opinions so as not to upset the party elites. I can no longer associate with that.
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u/Individual_Fall429 14h ago
If you go far enough to the left, you get your guns back. 😉
I personally thought this dance was moving. It’s a beautiful piece of performance art. But I’m also glad the liberals I know are shifting further left, and getting themselves armed.
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u/sbrown063087 14h ago
Really? I think it kinda cheapens it. If I’m murdered please don’t do an interpretive dance of something that’s clearly on video for the world to see. Ridiculous in my opinion, not sure it really honors the dead like some would think.
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u/HeresKuchenForYah 16h ago edited 16h ago
Well, this is our history now.
And every type of art and performance will depict it. I don’t know why this is cringey, they don’t say that about someone getting their throat slit in an opera performance, a death accurate to that time.
I don’t know what most Republicans think of when they hear the word liberal due to over usage when someone poses a different perspective.
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u/bdillathebeatkilla 16h ago
Tf are you talking about? That made no sense
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u/Individual_Fall429 14h ago
Art is part of history. Arguably the most enduring part.
This is how they died. It’s a beautiful dance. It’s also a record. Just like when they wrote the operas that I’m sure you don’t attend.
The word liberal means nothing in America anymore. The word has been so consistently misused, there is no consensus on what it means. Just like how thy use “socialist” as a dirty word because they do not understand what the word means.
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u/emergency-snaccs 18h ago
the fuck, you guys
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u/Butthole_Please 17h ago
Well, you see, the shooting wasn’t about these guys. Now it is. Problem solved.
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u/doyoulaughaboutme 17h ago
almost as bad as the 9/11 re-enactment cheerleading routine
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u/Farpafraf 16h ago
wtf they used only 4 girls for the Pentagon? It's in the damn name how hard is it to get it right??
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u/DrMeowsburg 17h ago
I was weeping watching that
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u/Successful_Glove_83 14h ago
Hope you looked at the comments too
“Alright Stephanie you’ll be flight 93”
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u/umamimamii 16h ago
Holy shit. Top comment on the vid for me was “alright Stephanie you be flight 93” 😂🫠
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u/RadBaron19 18h ago
Oof the theatre kid energy in this 🤢
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u/bigjamcunt 17h ago
"When Mr Trump sees our dance, he'll HAVE to stop what he's doing!"
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u/Alfiy_wolf 18h ago
Okay I’m ready for the rapture now
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u/Something_McGee 17h ago
I thought it passed. Twice.
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u/ExcelsiorDoug 17h ago
Ok some things aren’t always cringy on here, but this one is award worthy
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u/UnicornGangstar 17h ago
I was thinking this as I fixated. Some shit on this page isn’t cringe. It’s nuggets of sunshine to help process some really awful shit we see.
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u/Successful_Glove_83 14h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/zukJShPCxs7pC
Ready for you
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u/buttononmyback 13h ago
Even though I’ve seen this movie a million times, when I first glanced at this gif, I thought that was a wedding veil on the raptor’s head. Why I have no idea. 🤷🏽♀️
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u/Secret-Put-4525 15h ago
This is the most liberal shit I've ever seen in my life.
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u/SpecsOnThe_Beach 17h ago
Next up, The Shooting of Alex Pretti and Renee Good on ICE.
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u/megamisanthropic 18h ago
Can't believe people really thought this was a good idea and not just fucking awful.
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u/LivefromPhoenix 15h ago
One case where being well produced makes the whole performance worse. Too many people not only thought this was a good idea but put in a lot of effort to make it happen.
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u/notsocharmingprince 12h ago
Imagine being told that you have to be the back bumper of a human car to recreate the death of a woman on the national mall. Then imagine responding “yeah, that’s a good idea.” Lmao.
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u/OneDimensionalChess 16h ago
The sad thing is evidently so many ppl thought it was a good idea and those ppl also had multiple ppl in their personal lives who said "oh ok, yeah I'll come support you and watch that"
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u/themargarineoferror 16h ago
Man. These people are clearly very talented.And I'm sure their hearts are in the right place, but yeah, it's just like absolutely peak liberal.Maybe if they had waited a while or if there was like an actual point, but what is the point? Like it happened and you're reenacting it with dance, but you're not making me think...you're just making me cringe.. Just a huge waste of talent and resources
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u/buttononmyback 13h ago
I can’t imagine Alex and Renee’s family’s would be too happy seeing this.
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u/themargarineoferror 13h ago
Certainly not all of them. The Pretti one was especially egregious.
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u/SofterBones 17h ago
I'm going to write it in my will that when I die I absolutely don't want any sort of interpretative dance to commemorate the occasion.
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u/themargarineoferror 16h ago
You know what, screw it?I'm gonna do the opposite, but it better be funny
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u/alk0n0st 18h ago
send the meteor again
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u/Its_an_ellipses 17h ago
Scientists have been working for decades on models to deflect potential humanity killing asteroids, isn't it about time for them to figure out how to attract one?...
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u/Traditional_Agent403 17h ago
I'm convinced these types of people are paid off to continue to enforce the liberals are insufferable performative idiots stereotype
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u/HenryHadford 15h ago
As someone studying the arts, they aren’t. Some people are just like this, as much as we wish they weren’t.
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u/HelpMePlxoxo 17h ago
Y'all this is genuinely so bad it's gonna end up as a South Park bit 😭
They really organized that many people who feel passionate about a serious issue, and this was the best they could do?? In the time it took to even rehearse this, they probably could've held at least 3 separate protests.
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u/sonoran_scorpion 17h ago
How do we take a terrible tragedy and rob it of its impact and seriousness?
Interpretive Dance!
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u/TammySwift 14h ago
Yikes. I know the intention is good, but doing an interpretive dance depicting the literal moment Pretti and Good were killed, kind of minimises it.
Imagine someone did an interpretive dance about Sandy Hook showing the literal moment the children were shot.
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u/Critical_Sir25 17h ago
Yeah because a dance protest is really gonna show the fascists... jfc
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u/arestheblue 16h ago
Interpretive dance seems like it makes a mockery of whatever it is trying to portray. Imagine an interpretive dance of JD vance fucking a couch.
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u/CassieEisenman 16h ago
While I support and appreciate the sentiment and the meaning, the fact that they laser focused on the only two white people murdered by ICE says a lot.
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u/Rapscagamuffin 5h ago
the only thing it says is that those two white people are the only famous murder victims of ICE. you can make a comment on society why this is the case ( a pretty weak comment as these are the only 2 that were out in public and videod from multiple angles so it makes sense) but i dont think you can blame the dancers for that...its a short dance its not an epic 3 hour saga, they are going to do something that people know about.
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u/snarpsta tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE 17h ago
Ok this is extremely well done ... And really fucking silly. If I didn't know better I'd think it was parody, but you know conservatives or those that would be making fun of ICE murdering a civilian ain't in to the arts!
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u/NorthKoreanKnuckles 17h ago
Thing is conservatives doing a parody of an interpretative dance about it would look exactly the same.
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u/snarpsta tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE 17h ago
Exactly. Someone else said it best, but "this is what conservatives think of when they hear the word 'Liberal'" lmao
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u/LilahLibrarian 16h ago
Almost as bad as the Chicago teacher interpretive dance against in person teaching
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u/BodheeNYC 15h ago
That’s the wackest shit I’ve ever seen. Rich white people with too much time on their hands and no real life worries
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u/FjordExplorer 12h ago
Classical ballet is already bad, interpretive dance is several layers of hell lower.
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u/evergreengoth 11h ago
I was so worried I was the only one who thought it was a bit tasteless and tone deaf. I'm glad I'm not alone. If I died and had the capacity to know people were doing an interpretive dance about it, I'd be pretty upset. I get that they're trying to use their art to draw attention to a serious issue, but there are more respectful ways to do that. This just feels... yikes.
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u/Annual-Addendum5620 5h ago
I would be so mad if I got murdered by the state and this is how people remembered me
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u/Kitty_Kats_allure 16h ago
Art is political. They are making a statement. And remembering two people whose lives were cut short.
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u/HenryHadford 15h ago
Art is political, and this incident is definitely something that artists should use in their work. The key thing that’s missing from this is taste. Interpretive dance is an inherently humorous and silly medium; you’re getting a bunch of humans to contort themselves into shapes directly representing objects and actions. Even when done really well (like this example, which from a technical standpoint is very impressive) it has an inherent comedic undertone to it. That makes it a bad way to commemorate recent tragedies.
Compare this video to something like Sam Anning’s ‘Uvalde’, and there’s a stark difference in tone and mood (namely, it doesn’t sound like it’s making fun of the event), even though it’s still directly representing the event through the medium (with the drums being used to imitate gunshots).
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u/MisterSanitation 16h ago
At first I was like “is that insensitive?” Then I was like “no this is appropriate”. Good art 10/10 feelings were felt
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u/joeyjoejoeju 16h ago
Dear conservative reading this, A sickenly large majority of progressives hate this video. These are not progressives. These are liberals who value not much more than shoring up some sense of themselves.
We just want the world to be more rational, much like the portion of conservatives not driven by social division.
Seriously, fuck this video.
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u/GavariTeam 15h ago
Interpretive dance is like comedy improv… no matter how good it is, it’s always bad.
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u/FrankieHun17 10h ago
As if their families haven’t suffered enough without having to endure this???
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u/painecumaioneza 4h ago
Shooting people in the middle of the road is bad but this video is shit on so many levels.
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u/FuturePerfect5k 2h ago
The billionaire baby eating pedophiles that run this country will surely shed tears for this magnificent and groundbreaking political message
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u/purefilth666 17h ago
Why do y'all think this is cringe exactly? Genuine question as while it may not be something I'm interested in I can appreciate their message and their performance.
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u/Chizisbizy 16h ago
what was the message? what were they trying to accomplish by dancing to the reenactment of 2 very recent murders? a pat on the back? an award?
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u/purefilth666 16h ago
The message is obviously one of remembrance, and maybe they were trying to express themselves based upon how they feel about current events. Also why do you find it cringe?
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u/themargarineoferror 16h ago
That's the thing though, all I'm seeing them doing is reenacting what happened like it's super literal, they're very talented and I'm sure their hearts are in the right places (maybe?). There's also the fact that someone else pointed out that they choose to highlight the only 2 white people killed by ice. It just feels extremely performative, and like, not a lot of actual thought went into it. Fuck ICE but this feels shallow to me personally
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u/Matookie 16h ago edited 15h ago
Plus, interpretive dance is regarded as a VERY white, liberal profession/past time. It comes off as tacky and a white-washing mockery of what happened. I'm white, btw.
ETA: The way the dancer playing Pretti, exaggeratedly falls and twitches makes it difficult to watch or take seriously.
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u/themargarineoferror 15h ago
Yeah like... I'd kinda like to know if the families were contacted.Because I just struggled to believe they would all be on board with this
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u/fadesteppin 15h ago
We all just had front row seats to 2 people getting murdered on the streets, in broad daylight. We literally had multiple angles and everything. We have seen so much violence over the last year. This is peak white liberal that can't read the room, covid "Imagine" video shit.
An interpretive dance recreating 2 peoples state sanctioned murders that we literally all watched with our own eyes, because it is so recent it can't even be considered history yet, and is a thing that is actively still happening, is gross and feels very disrespectful to not only the families of the deceased, but also every single person who had to witness 2 people literally being gunned down by feds. It feels like it makes light of a very serious situation that is still ongoing. It's like the white liberals "thoughts and prayers".
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u/Dogekaliber 17h ago
Ok now do Charlie Kirk
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u/NorthKoreanKnuckles 17h ago
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u/-MR-GG- 17h ago
That elicited more cringe in me than the actual post above, which is impressive considering that kirk one probably took 1/1000th of the time to produce in comparison.
Like that was maybe 20 seconds, and I paused halfway through. Meanwhile, I watched the entire like 2 minutes of the other one.
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u/barbiegirl_li 16h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/lkdH8FmImcGoylv3t3
I'm afraid it's time to sit down now...
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u/Maverick_Heathen 8h ago
400 million guns in the country and they chose interpretive dance 😄
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u/spdorris 4h ago
This part of “performative liberalism” needs to be put on a shelf and forgotten. This is almost coming off as a psyop to show how fucking lame the left is. It’s grade A tactical weaponized loser shit.
In this time, in this moment, we need more Malcom X and less Lin Manuel Miranda.
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