Name: The Babydoll trend.<\/p>\n
Age: Older than you think.<\/p>\n
Meaning? Let\u2019s come back to that.<\/p>\n
OK. Appearance? Everywhere. TikTok, Insta, all your socials. Also on the radio, if you still do that.<\/p>\n
I call it the wireless. A song, right? More than a song, but we\u2019ll come to that too. But yes, a song, currently No 1 in the UK singles charts, by Jamie Miller.<\/p>\n
That name rings a bell. He was on The Voice in 2017.<\/p>\n
From Wales, no? From Wales, yes! He grew up in Pontprennau in the north of Cardiff. Now he\u2019s the first Welsh solo male artist to top the singles chart since \u2026<\/p>\n
Tom Jones? Not quite that far back. No, since Shakin\u2019 Stevens\u2019 festive hit Merry Christmas Everyone<\/a> in 1985.<\/p>\n So after The Voice, Jamie\u2019s career took off? Not really. He only came third, for a start. And even the aforementioned Sir Tom didn\u2019t \u201cspin his chair\u201d for his fellow Welshman. Since then he\u2019s played venues such as The Globe in Cardiff, and brought out a few records, but he has hardly taken the world by storm. He was considering quitting music<\/a> altogether.<\/p>\n Until now, and Babydoll? Sort of. It was originally released in early August.<\/p>\n A slow burn, as they say. Correct, though now smoking hot. It really got going after Jennifer Love Hewitt<\/a> posted videos of herself singing along and doing the dance routine.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a dance? Oh yes.<\/p>\n How do I do it? Start with a chug, stepping on your right foot, raising your left knee and heel, then switching sides. Do eight of them, while rolling your shoulders.<\/p>\n [Chugging, kind of.] Got it! Next you\u2019re going to go out with your right foot, and back, then out with the left, and back, and so on. Times eight again, while popping your arms.<\/p>\n This is getting complicated. Maybe it would be easier if you found a tutorial video.<\/p>\n [Having found a tutorial video<\/a>] OK, now I\u2019m pulling my arm up, with a little finger-click, five, six, seven, eight \u2026 Maybe I\u2019m too old for Babydoll. Nonsense. Look around, everyone\u2019s doing it: the very young, very old, dogs, more slebs \u2026<\/p>\n Who? Antonio Cipriano (off Off Campus<\/a>), who recorded a version with Miller<\/a>. And Alison Hammond did it, with Miller \u2013 very well, until she fell over a boulder and injured her wrist<\/a>.<\/p>\n I knew it was dangerous. Anyway, are we declaring it a viral dance craze? To the extent that Miller and Cipriano were on Strictly at the weekend, doing it with the entire cast<\/a>.<\/p>\n I\u2019d call that viral. It\u2019s really catching on. \u201cIf you\u2019re gonna leave me broken-hearted \/ Then maybe, baby, we should just get started \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Do say: \u201cWho\u2019s laughing now, Sir Tom?\u201d<\/p>\n Don\u2019t say: \u201cAnd now shall we do \u2026 the Macarena?\u201d<\/p>\n