History Main / ThreeMinutesOfWrithing

* Music/{{Shakira}} is particularly famous for shaking her hips. The "Beautiful Liar" video is noteworthy, because it's three minutes of writhing with Beyonce. Then of course, there's "Hips Don't Lie". As a trained BellyDancer, she works some oriental moves in the choreography.

!!Examples:

* Fergie's primary role in the Music/{{Black Eyed Peas}} (''My Humps'', anyone?). She tends to do it when she goes solo too (''Fergalicious'' is especially guilty).

* Rapper Brian P had a video where a oiled up dancer pretty much does this in front of his PimpedOutCar ''fully nude''. The dancer in question was pornstar Sydni Capri though. In fact many porn videos start out this way as a pseudo rap video intro for the rest of the movie, known as a "Tease". And there's now a actual adult video award category for it.

* Music/MileyCyrus' music videos for "Can't Be Tamed", "Who Owns My Heart", "Party In The USA", and "We Can't Stop". Especially the last one, [[SurrealMusicVideo aside from weird imagery]].

* E-Rotic's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmQoHh0X2jk "Murder Me '21"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-uZRSMIdh4 "Head Over Heels"]], as if they, along with the director of videos Oliver Sommer, were trying to [[FollowTheLeader replicate the success of music videos for]] Madonna's songs (see example above) instead of making [[AnimatedMusicVideo animated videos]] they were known for.

** You better [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt8VYOfr8To&feature=kp Work]] [[CensoredTitle B***]]. (pictured above)

* Gali's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_aI8n4CTVE "I'm Alive"]] video has her [[{{Gainaxing}} flaunting her moneymakers]] in [[SpandexLatexOrLeather a black leather ultra-mini dress with a gold latex bra top.]]

* Music/{{Shakira}} is particularly famous for shaking her hips. The "Beautiful Liar" video is noteworthy, because it's three minutes of writhing with Beyonce. Then of course, there's "Hips Don't Lie". As a trained BellyDancer, she works some oriental moves in the coreography.

** "Versace on the Floor" has Creator/{{Zendaya}} in a shiny mini-dress that shows off her [[AbsoluteCleavage cleavage]] while she dances around a hotel room, lip-syncing to the song.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYjqojwp2hQ Then You Look At Me]]'', by Music/CelineDion, features Dion in [[SpyCatsuit tight metallic coveralls]] with the zipper [[AbsoluteCleavage down to her abdomen]]. She's dancing in place, mostly with her arms.

* The video for Music/{{WASP}}'s "Black Forever" is Blackie Lawless crawling around on the floor and smearing ink on himself.

* Music/MileyCyrus' music videos for "Can't Be Tamed", "Who Owns My Heart", "Party In The USA", and "We Can't Stop". [[UpToEleven Especially the last one]], [[SurrealMusicVideo aside from weird imagery]].

* Music/{{Eminem}} faced some negative backlash in 2009 for his music video for "3 a.m.", a horror-themed video built around showcasing his shredded new body after recovering from obesity. Hip-hop fans at the time mocked his [[CareerResurrection attempt to return to the pop world]] with choreographed dancing, nude scenes and closeups on his sexy pecs and abs, and claimed he was trying to be a male Music/LadyGaga. ("3 a.m." has since been VindicatedByHistory as a {{Horrorcore}} CultClassic, and the video was popular enough for Eminem to make a sequel almost a decade later.)

* Mike Mareen's "[[https://youtu.be/tBHEmcu2_UA Dancing In The Dark]]" was ahead of its time for 1986, with his backup dancers mainly dressed in midriff-baring crop tops and booty shorts.

* Mike Mareen's "[[https://youtu.be/tBHEmcu2_UA Dancing In The Dark]]" was ahead of its time for 1986, with his backup dancers dressed in mainly midriff-baring crop tops and booty shorts.

* Music/TaylorSwift's "Shake It Off" has a line of backup dancers [[ShakingTheRump twerking]] in [[WhoWearsShortShorts daisy duke shorts]].

** "Versace on the Floor" has Creator/{{Zendaya}} in a shiny mini-dress that shows off her and [[AbsoluteCleavage cleavage]] while she dances around a hotel room, lip-syncing to the song.

* Inna's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAvr5_EtOnI Be My Lover]] is just a starter. Her videos have done this trope to various degrees ever since [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rh3_r0nbKs Hot]], her first hit single, and started to get more {{stripperific}} with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2BESV0e-30 Deja Vu]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBaIVQvLhi4 J'Adore]] consists of her doing an erotic gym workout in a one-legged one-strapped bodysuit. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LK48dtjRl4 Wow]] takes the trope to more [[SurrealMusicVideo surreal]] territory. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od-6uzcLGqw In Your Eyes]] continues the trend further, with a [[NudeColoredClothes nude leotard]], burlesque pole dancing in translucent lingerie, {{Underboobs}}, [[SexySoakedShirt go-go dancing in the rain]], and a [[DangerouslyShortSkirt barely-concealing minidress]] with metallic thigh high boots.

* Nadia Ali, formerly of iiO, performs in a latex SpyCatsuit in the 2010 "Rapture" video.

* The video for "Gorilla" by Music/BrunoMars features a pole dance by Frieda Pinto.

* Music/{{Mastodon}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWFWazj7Ud8 "The Motherload"]] plays with this trope. Starts off like a heavy metal video, switching between "symbolic" scenes and shots of the band, but by the first chorus the trope is parodied by having several girls {{ShakingTheRump}} appear in contrast to the bleak color and haunting images. The trope then zig-zags to subversion at the bridge when the video becomes about the girls and their dance battle/party, while the band becomes the "background dancers."