Japanese Festival Turns Rock Concert

Going to your first festival in Japan expecting to see the traditional Japanese dance with Japanese music but seeing this instead:

A crowd at a Japanese festival performs a coordinated dance in a park, moving together with raised arms while the camera pans across the participants. Instead of traditional Japanese music, the video plays Bon Jovi’s rock anthem “Livin’ On a Prayer,” making the unexpected scene feel like a huge Western rock concert and creating the joke. People send it as a reaction to an unexpectedly familiar or wildly different experience.

♪ Bon Jovi — Livin' On a Prayer

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