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"Cotton-Eyed Joe" (also known as "Cotton-Eye Joe") (Roud 942) is a traditional American country folk song popular at various times throughout the United States and Canada, although today it is most commonly associated with the American South. The song is mostly identified with the 1994 Rednex version, which became popular worldwide.
The song is played in the viral video "Evolution of Dance". In 2013, "Cotton Eye Joe" played a big part in the plot of the New Girl episode "Elaine's Big Day". On August 12, 2023, "Cotton Eye Joe" interrupted a tiebreaker during a Canadian Open match between Iga Świątek and Jessica Pegula. The point was replayed.
Rednex are best known for their dance country songs "Cotton Eye Joe", "Old Pop in an Oak", "The Way I Mate" or "Racing". The style of Eurodance was dance music with a female singer for the refrain and a male rapper for the verses to follow a traditional verse-chorus structure.
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Cotton Eye Joe is not on the soundtrack of this film. . Cotton Eye Joe is a "pattern partner dance" which can be danced solo. More to come. Steve Pastor 19:25, 11 March 2007 (UTC) There is at least one web site that incorrectly states that a line dance is done to Cotton Eye Joe. The correct description of Cotton Eye Joe is a "spoke-line" dance.
The Inbred with Rednex extended play contains seven songs, three of them, "Cotton Eye Joe", "Old Pop in an Oak" and "Wish You Were Here", which had been previously released as singles. While "Cotton Eye Joe" and "Wish You Were Here" only appear in video form on the album, "Old Pop in an Oak" appears in both, video and audio form.
British newspaper Lennox Herald noted that "Old Pop in an Oak" is a "similar sounding song" to their previous single, "Cotton Eye Joe". [2] A reviewer from Manila Standard described it as "techno-pop fun". [3] Pan-European magazine Music & Media viewed it as a "C&W/dance mixture". [4]
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