BERMAN: Welcome back to THE LEAD. The Pop Culture Lead, it was the booty shake that shook the world to the core. While Miley Cyrus and her raunchy VMA performance may have helped her sell a few more records, it also brought a modern form of dirty dancing into the homes and out of the mouths of people everywhere.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Twerking with Robin Thicke.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Quite a lot of twerking.</s>BERMAN: So thanks to the graceful, artistic, interpretations of Miss Cyrus, the word twerking was actually one of today's top internet searches. It turns out that the dance and the word used to describe it has been around for two decades, 20 years, around the time that Miley Cyrus was a twerking twinkle in her father's eye. It all started with the music scene in New Orleans and the founding artist D.J. Jubilee. He released a dance song called "Jubilee" all back in 1993, which feature this now world famous cold action. The twerk craze took off in New Orleans and then ten years later Atlanta rappers hopped on the bandwagon and they used the word in their song "Get Low," which shot to number two on the charts in 2003. It's been used in countless other hip hop songs ever since. Miley Cyrus did not become the poster child for this until this year when she posted videos of herself doing the dance. Because of this, we can't even give her points for originality. That's it for THE LEAD. I'm John Berman. I now turn you over to Wolf Blitzer in "THE SITUATION ROOM."
Word Of The Day: Twerk