National Geographic Music (National Geographic)

We're offically in the dog days of August, now. Which means that most of the summer's biggest festivals, tours and new releases are behind us... So how do we fill the daily music news hole between now and all the new September releases?

With the shameless embrace of the latest YouTube craze, of course!

Right now the Nat Geo Music team is kind of obsessed with a pint-sized internet dance sensation that's been buring up the inboxes of world music geeks since it was first posted on YouTube earlier this July:

Known only as Elvyna, "la petite blondinette," this pre-teen wonder gets her groove on to French-Congolese singer Jessy Matador's 2008 hit "Décalé Gwada," which blew up dancehalls from Paris to Abidjan last summer.

Here's the original:

For the musically curious, Matador's hit is built on the hyperkinetic coupe décalé sound, which originated among Paris' large community of immigrants from the Côte d'Ivoire and has since spread to every corner of the Francophone world - including Caribbean musical hotbed and French overseas department Guadeloupe, a.k.a. "Gwada".

Coupe Décalé is dance music, and the dances that go with it are fast, complex and difficult to master (trust us, we tried). But this little blonde dancing machine puts us - and a lot of other adults - to shame with her effortless footwork. If I were her parents I would be calling up the producers of So You Think You Can Dance? today. Then, I would call a convent school...

A tip of our collective hat goes to blogger and ethnomusicologist Wayne Marshall, whose excellent Wayne and Wax blog first tipped us to the story.