Matt Harding Dances (Badly) Around The World And Chews Gum

A four and a half minute clip of a man dancing badly all over the world has garnered over 25 million views on YouTube in less than a week According to its description the clip documents Matt Harding dancing in 42 countries over the course of 14 months The journey was made possible by Stride a new gum by Cadbury Schweppes But in order to figure that out you have to dig around a bitMy first question about Hardingamp8217s video project was of course amp8220How and why would he do thisamp8221 Matt Hardingamp8217s website Where The Hell Is Matt describes how he was able to dance badly in 42 countriesIn 2003 while traveling in Asia after he quit his job Hardingamp8217s travel buddy filmed him doing his signature dance The original clip gained so much attention that he was approached by Stride who offered to fund his next tripamp8230 and the next one The result is the video seen below which is surprisingly devoid of any explicit advertising On Mattamp8217s YouTube page he posts Strideamp8217s website in the videoamp8217s extended description it is only seen if you click amp8220more infoamp8221 next to the clipamp8217s upload date and thatamp8217s as far as it goes for advertisingIn the FAQ section of Hardingamp8217s website his response to a question about whether or not he was forced to chew gum on his trip is simply amp8220They didn39t make me do much of anything They are very good peopleamp8221

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