By now, you may be familiar with the argument that Drake is basically Buzzfeed incarnate. According to this school of thought, the Canadian rapper can be thought of as a trending topic that’s magically sprouted legs and designer stubble, carefully calibrating his online persona for maximum meme-generating potential and sitting back to watch the RTs roll in.

If you subscribe to this worldview, the dad dancing of “Hotline Bling” was no mere accident – and admittedly, watching the scores of YouTube parody vids that piled up in its wake did nothing to dispel the notion that tomorrow’s breed of pop star is a TED-talking social media strategist with slightly more exuberant dress sense.

But are we in danger of missing the point here? Because, let’s be real with ourselves, Drake’s dancing is magnificent. Videos like “Hotline Bling” are rare as hen’s teeth, which is a shame and a crime against humanity, because they acknowledge a simple, unacknowledged truth about terrible dancing: that it’s equally valid a mode of self-expression as good dancing. Or, to put it another way: if you step up and own your suspect moves, you transcend all the haters because they’re forced to respect that you’re the type of guy/gal that truly DGAF.

Anyway, in this spirit of joyful naivety, here’s a quick guide to some of the shonkiest groovers out there. In the best possible sense, of course.

ROBYN – "CALL YOUR GIRLFRIEND"

Robyn might just be the realest pop star that ever lived. You can always rely on her to give a million per cent in her emotionally charged, synth-powered performances, even if said million per cent basically involves strutting, punching and backwards-rolling your way across a deserted dancefloor in brightly coloured pants. But what this video lacks in choreographic finesse, it more than makes up for in sheer guts and determination. In other words: it’s beautiful.

TALKING HEADS – "ONCE IN A LIFETIME"

Way before there was geek-chic, there was David Byrne. Look! Here he is, setting an existential crisis to some of the weirdest dance moves of all time in the video to “Once in a Lifetime”. OK, so we’ve no idea why he’s dressed like Malcolm X, but there’s no denying this shit is majestic.

MØ – "KAMIKAZE"

Imagine M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls” set on a crumbling soviet housing estate, and you’re most of the way to imagining the video for “Kamikaze”. The missing ingredient, of course, is Danish pop sensation MØ, flailing around in the ruins like a 12-year-boy who’s made off with some booze at a wedding. Except MØ is wearing MC Hammer pants and has somehow commandeered a JCB digger.

JESSY LANZA – "KATHY LEE"

Bit of a leftfield inclusion, this one, especially since the moves in question belong to someone else, but props are nonetheless due to Canadian R&B musician Jessy Lanza for putting ‘Jed the Dancing Guy’ in her video for her classy 2013 slow jam “Kathy Lee”. To clarify, ‘Jed the Dancing Guy’ is an actual guy who’s been styling it out on the streets of Hamilton, Ontario for years, which got Lanza to thinking she’d like to see him in her own video. Watch below to see why. 

RADIOHEAD – "LOTUS FLOWER"

Perhaps the most widely parodied dance moves on the web before Drake’s belonged to indie miserablist Thom Yorke. I mean, the fact that he was even dancing at all in this gem from 2011 was enough to catch most people off-guard, but no one – and I mean no one – expected him to carry on like Albert Steptoe speaking in tongues at a Pentecostalist revival. Take a bow, Thom.