ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Golliwogg's Cakewalk

Okay kiddo, have you ever heard a really cool song that made you want to dance? Well, golliwogg's cakewalk is a song that was written a long time ago by a man named Claude Debussy.

It's called "golliwogg's cakewalk" because a golliwogg is a type of doll that was popular back then, kind of like how you might play with Barbie or a stuffed animal. And a cakewalk was a type of dance that people used to do at parties.

The song is really fun to listen to because it has lots of different sounds and rhythms, kind of like when you bang on pots and pans to make music. Claude Debussy was really good at making music sound like different things, like when he made it sound like there were frogs croaking in a different song he wrote.

So when people listen to golliwogg's cakewalk, they feel really happy and want to dance around like they're at a party. It's a really special song that people still like to listen to today!