It may be the hot dance craze of the moment, but one hapless young twerker appears to take things a little too far when she literally sets herself on fire in the middle of a raunchy routine.
YouTube footage shows the unfortunate girl attempting to show off her twerking skills next to a coffee table, upon which are four burning candles and a bottle of tequila.
At first it appears to be going well as she gyrates to the music wiggling her bottom while leaning onto the apartment door.
But when she takes it to the next level by performing a handstand things take a disastrous turn. Her roommate opens the door sending her crashing onto the coffee table.
Her tight polyester leggings immediately burst into flames and she jumps onto the couch screaming for help while her roommate stands in the background panicking.
The video, believed to have been filmed in the U.S., cuts off at this point so it is unclear whether she was injured. There is also a suggestion the video could have been staged.
Twerking started in the New Orleans 'bounce' music scene of the early 90s, but has hit the headlines in 2013 after being taken up by a raft of celebrities.
It had its most main-stream appearance to date with former clean cut child star Miley Cyrus gyrating around singer Robin Thicke at the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this month.
A YouTube a search for 'twerking' brings up more than 3.8 million results with everything from pregnant women and dogs to babies and the elderly and it has even been honored with an official entry in the Oxford Dictionaries Online.
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