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How awesome is it when I nerd out and find you guys right there with me? Pretty awesomesauce.
For those of you who partook in that glorious vid from my last post (multiple times in some cases, or so the rumors say!), let me just take a moment to put in your head these items:
Gee I wonder which one's my favorite.
ACTUALLY, WHAT THE HELL. Tell me what your favorite scenario is!
[Poll #1531882]
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juxtaposie (and okay, everyone else too) here's the glorious song to which everybody can shake their hips to:
Abracadabra - B.E.G.
So why do I come up with stupid awesome shit like making a bunch of villains from a kids' cartoon show, the majority of whom are male, dance like sexy Korean women? (To which I say: Have you actually pictured it in your head yet? Have you?!) But mostly I like Genderswap. I believe I mentioned this before.
But I will say the girls have their own K-pop girl group counterpart in my head, and because the synchronicity thing is still going strong and awesome around here,xjabooo just so happened to bring up a group I stumbled across by complete and total accident last year in a comment to the last post. And I thought OKAY WELL THIS MUST BE A SIGN SO I GUESS I'M GOING TO MAKE ANOTHER POST ABOUT K-PPG.
YEAH BABY
Seriously, when I saw those crazy outfits all I could think was "BUBBLES WOULD SO WANT TO WEAR THAT SHIT." And then of course then I imagined the girls dancing, and it was so super fucking cute, and yeah. YEAH.
xjabooo also brought up Blossom's dance style, and then posted a couple of vids, and I was all OKAY WELL THIS MUST BE A SIGN AS WELL SO I GUESS I'M ALSO GOING TO POST ABOUT BLOSSOM AS A POPPER. (More here.)
Quick and dirty: Townsville in the show always looks very much like California, which makes sense since it was produced in Burbank, CA and all, and the West Coast has historically had a pretty big hip-hop dance scene. A lot of styles developed on the West Coast as a result, popping being one of them. I myself am not a dancer, save for what I learned back when I was in high school (and regret not sticking with, but that's neither here nor there), much less a hip-hop dancer, so most of my knowledge comes out of personal interest/research and a friend I have who's very involved in the hip-hop scene in L.A. At the time I started to write TEF and was thinking about Blossom's particular style, I was watching a lot of Kaba Modern, and ultimately their style is very much how I envision Blossom's hip-hop dancing.
She makes much more sense to me as a popper than a b-girl, because from a visual standpoint, popping looks very, very controlled, especially when done in a group, and asjuxtaposie very astutely pointed out, "[dancing is] a perfectly controlled artistic expression for which you need nothing but your own body, and it's just so her." (JOSIE YOU GET MILKSHAKES FOREVER.) Not only that, but in TEF, Blossom's involvement in the hip-hop scene stems largely out of her desire to make a difference in her community, which is a very big part of the hip-hop scene.
Anyway, ramble ramble ramble. If you are curious for visuals, check outxjabooo's posted vids in the last post for a pretty accurate take on Blossom's mellower hip-hop, and maybe some of these faster ones too.
The first clip I ever saw of Kaba Modern is still my favorite - great choreography, very cool and slick, their transitions are fantastic... this clip basically defined Blossom's style in my head. Watch it, because it just shows you how amazing it is, what the human body can do.
Kaba Modern became more well-known after they appeared on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew, and just for fun, here are some very awesome clips from the show. Please ignore the shitty camera angles and flashing lights that try to distract you from the awesome dancing, argh it is aggravating.
~50 seconds in here:
And what's arguably their best performance on the show - their tribute to Michael Jackson's Thriller, UGH THIS ROUTINE STILL SENDS SHIVERS DOWN MY SPINE
Wait, we've gotta have an all female-crew in here somewhere for Blossom's sake... oh yeah, here we go. Beat Freakz = AWESOME.
The best thing about Beat Freakz is they're an all female crew that are seriously, no joke, capable of strength moves that are more traditionally done by males, and to sit there as a woman and watch them do this shit is AWESOME. Blossom would be all over that.
Actual dance is a minute in. This one hits some major Genderswap!buttons for me; I love it :DDDDD
And this is just them being badass.
And as for Blossom's more classical/traditional dance style, see Katee Shean (from SYTYCDS3 S4), who thanks to that show is my absolute favorite female dancer of all time, dammit.
And and AND just for extra credit, this is why boys dancing as girls is awesome. Actual dancing starts ~45 sec in.
1:21 TO 1:35 IS LIKE MY FAVORITE MOMENT EVER AAAAGGGHHH. Worth watching just for the slo-mos they go into after the routine.
And because I fucking love Quest and think that if Boomer could be a dance crew, Quest would be it, one more:
No need to thank me for 1:50, ladies.
FUCK ME THIS ENTRY GOT LONG.
For those of you who partook in that glorious vid from my last post (multiple times in some cases, or so the rumors say!), let me just take a moment to put in your head these items:
- Mojo as Narsha (the very slick, mod-looking woman with the crazy cool splash of orange over her right shoulder and in her right hand)
- Him ROCKING Miryo's pimp cane (see, now you guys are going to have to go back and watch it again just to see if you noticed)
- At the abominably ridiculous two-minute mark, imagine one of these scenarios and laugh with me:
1) GGG, w/Ace in the center (where does Billy go, I mean, WHERE DOES BILLY GO)
2) A just-coming-to Butch in the center, bleary and pleasantly surprised to find Sedusa and Princess there but horrified beyond belief to discover other, not-so-female friends joining them as well
3) Brick in the center (who is conscious of what he's doing but can't actually do anything about it), with whoever the hell you want in there surrounding him as long as one of them is an extremely hammy Boomer (let's go with the one in the lower left) and one of the others is Him, who derives WAY too much glee out of making that capped bastard extremely uncomfortable, which you can tell he is just by the expression of muted disgust on Brick's face... and then perhaps a momentary break in character so he can kick Boomer off because Seriously Boomer, I MEAN SERIOUSLY
Gee I wonder which one's my favorite.
ACTUALLY, WHAT THE HELL. Tell me what your favorite scenario is!
[Poll #1531882]
As a reward for
juxtaposie (and okay, everyone else too) here's the glorious song to which everybody can shake their hips to:Abracadabra - B.E.G.
So why do I come up with stupid awesome shit like making a bunch of villains from a kids' cartoon show, the majority of whom are male, dance like sexy Korean women? (To which I say: Have you actually pictured it in your head yet? Have you?!) But mostly I like Genderswap. I believe I mentioned this before.
But I will say the girls have their own K-pop girl group counterpart in my head, and because the synchronicity thing is still going strong and awesome around here,
xjabooo just so happened to bring up a group I stumbled across by complete and total accident last year in a comment to the last post. And I thought OKAY WELL THIS MUST BE A SIGN SO I GUESS I'M GOING TO MAKE ANOTHER POST ABOUT K-PPG.YEAH BABY
Seriously, when I saw those crazy outfits all I could think was "BUBBLES WOULD SO WANT TO WEAR THAT SHIT." And then of course then I imagined the girls dancing, and it was so super fucking cute, and yeah. YEAH.
xjabooo also brought up Blossom's dance style, and then posted a couple of vids, and I was all OKAY WELL THIS MUST BE A SIGN AS WELL SO I GUESS I'M ALSO GOING TO POST ABOUT BLOSSOM AS A POPPER. (More here.)Quick and dirty: Townsville in the show always looks very much like California, which makes sense since it was produced in Burbank, CA and all, and the West Coast has historically had a pretty big hip-hop dance scene. A lot of styles developed on the West Coast as a result, popping being one of them. I myself am not a dancer, save for what I learned back when I was in high school (and regret not sticking with, but that's neither here nor there), much less a hip-hop dancer, so most of my knowledge comes out of personal interest/research and a friend I have who's very involved in the hip-hop scene in L.A. At the time I started to write TEF and was thinking about Blossom's particular style, I was watching a lot of Kaba Modern, and ultimately their style is very much how I envision Blossom's hip-hop dancing.
She makes much more sense to me as a popper than a b-girl, because from a visual standpoint, popping looks very, very controlled, especially when done in a group, and as
juxtaposie very astutely pointed out, "[dancing is] a perfectly controlled artistic expression for which you need nothing but your own body, and it's just so her." (JOSIE YOU GET MILKSHAKES FOREVER.) Not only that, but in TEF, Blossom's involvement in the hip-hop scene stems largely out of her desire to make a difference in her community, which is a very big part of the hip-hop scene.Anyway, ramble ramble ramble. If you are curious for visuals, check out
xjabooo's posted vids in the last post for a pretty accurate take on Blossom's mellower hip-hop, and maybe some of these faster ones too.The first clip I ever saw of Kaba Modern is still my favorite - great choreography, very cool and slick, their transitions are fantastic... this clip basically defined Blossom's style in my head. Watch it, because it just shows you how amazing it is, what the human body can do.
Kaba Modern became more well-known after they appeared on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew, and just for fun, here are some very awesome clips from the show. Please ignore the shitty camera angles and flashing lights that try to distract you from the awesome dancing, argh it is aggravating.
~50 seconds in here:
And what's arguably their best performance on the show - their tribute to Michael Jackson's Thriller, UGH THIS ROUTINE STILL SENDS SHIVERS DOWN MY SPINE
Wait, we've gotta have an all female-crew in here somewhere for Blossom's sake... oh yeah, here we go. Beat Freakz = AWESOME.
The best thing about Beat Freakz is they're an all female crew that are seriously, no joke, capable of strength moves that are more traditionally done by males, and to sit there as a woman and watch them do this shit is AWESOME. Blossom would be all over that.
Actual dance is a minute in. This one hits some major Genderswap!buttons for me; I love it :DDDDD
And this is just them being badass.
And as for Blossom's more classical/traditional dance style, see Katee Shean (from SYTYCD
And and AND just for extra credit, this is why boys dancing as girls is awesome. Actual dancing starts ~45 sec in.
1:21 TO 1:35 IS LIKE MY FAVORITE MOMENT EVER AAAAGGGHHH. Worth watching just for the slo-mos they go into after the routine.
And because I fucking love Quest and think that if Boomer could be a dance crew, Quest would be it, one more:
No need to thank me for 1:50, ladies.
FUCK ME THIS ENTRY GOT LONG.
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Moar synchronicity: my roomie is a dancer and she just showed me that last Quest Crew video last week, and now I see it pop up in my flist. For realsies.
Katee Shan's one-legged pants thing distracted me, but it was great anyways.
Quest's "Toxic" made me fall in love with them, omg whut.
Their rehearsals are so cuteeeee~!
Love Kaba's exit on "G-slide."
How did Beat Freakz do that thing with the floaty ball?! AMAZING. And then the Britney one! SHIT THAT WAS HOT. I don't dig genderswap, but I loved that dance. ASDFGHJKL RINOOOOO. Almost as hot as Ga-in. DAMN.
FUCK ME I MIGHT JUST BE GETTING ADDICTED TO ABDC.
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Now, Quest Crew is amazing. They're just so passionate about what they do, and they have so much fun doing it! It's impossible not to love them. I think they're my ultimate world favorites FOREVER. I either want to hug/hang out with/date every one of the members. Dom you are so cute. SO CUTE.
Synchronicity FTMFW
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OH MY GOD, YOU FUCKING FEEL ME. KABA FUCKING MODERN?! BEAT FREAKS?! QUEST CREW?! AMERICA'S BEST DANCE CREW?! I love that fucking show. I watch it all the time and mourn whenever they dance so good because WHY CAN'T I DANCE THAT GOOD, DAMMIT?! (This post is a litany of dance videos and fuck yeah you're speaking my language. But I mourn all the same because I CAN'T DANCE THAT GOOD I'M SO FUCKING JEALOUS)
I loved a lot of the crews (but there were a lot that fucking SUCKED) and I also watch So You Think You Can Dance because couple's dancing is so awesome and a thought just occurred to me because OH MY GOD A LOT OF DANCES ON THAT SHOW CAN GO UNDER THE BRICK/BLOSSOM DANCING DIRTY AWESOME DANCES CATEGORY.
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I DON'T CARE BY 2NE1 AAAAHHHH ASDFGHJKL I MEMORIZED THE DANCE FOR THE CHORUS ON THAT ONE
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ABDC - Yes yes YES. DUDE, WHEN THEY'VE GOT SERIOUS TALENT ON, ABDC IS LIKE THE BEST GD SHOW ON TV. I have the coordination of an epileptic rabbit, so I'm pretty much awestruck by (and insanely jealous of) what these people can do.
The idea of Brick and Blossom dancing dirty inspires desk-pounding hilarity in me because I try to picture it happening and can only see the looks of outright revulsion on their faces, not to mention Blossom's scandalized expression of horror at the mere idea that she might possess any inclinations of the dirty variety whatsoever.
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OMG A THOUGHT JUST STRUCK ME. What if Brick and Blossom were asked to audition for a play (just because they dance so good and the play is all about dance/a Disney song mash-up variety, kinda like Across the Universe; the whole plot is based on the song line-up) AND THEY WERE ASKED TO DANCE "I WON'T SAY (I'M IN LOVE)" AS LIKE A COUPLES DANCE? With dips and twirls and a kiss scene and everything.
Omg what is my life. I HAVE HOMEWORK WHY AM I DOING THIS SHIT
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Katee Shean's dance was beautiful.
the camera angles on shows like so you think you can dance and best dance crew annoy me too; we want to see the dance, not the stadium and the audience!
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Man, the camera... I don't understand why they even bother with different angles. Just plant the camera in front of the stage and LEAVE IT ALONE.
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saw this today and it made me think of you:
http://hautemacabre.com/2010/03/killer-queen/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feed2Fhttp3A2F2Fhautemacabrecom2Ffeed2F+%28Haute+Macabre%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
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As for "I don't care" I never saw the video but I hate the song. Not because it's terrible or anything but it was EVERYWHERE for like TEN MILLION YEARS and I was all "PLAY SOMETHING ELSE PLOX! SOMETHING I CAN UNDERSTAND MEBBE?" and the radios semi-obliged by playing Lady Gaga OTL Earworms, too many of them @.@
I'm a frustrated dancer because my dancing is best described as watching a giant stick insect trying to dance in time with swans so I don't really appreciate K-Pop or J-Pop or music videos for the dance routines. Well, I don't appreciate a lot of K-Pop or J-Pop bands/groups themselves because technically speaking that's not really them. They've been repackaged to be someone/something else and well, it feels like a lie to me.
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Haha, if my entries have been any indication, I have horrifically shitty taste in music XB My love of Lady Gaga is totally justified, though! I thought she was a talentless product at first, but holy crap, she is actually remarkably bright and a really talented musician (accepted to Juilliard at the age of 11, I mean SRSLY). Even if she wasn't, Bad Romance would make up for anything and everything. That song is amazing. I never get tired of it.
Dude, yeah, K/J-Pop is pretty awful XD With me, K-Pop and J-Pop benefit heavily from me being totally unable to comprehend the lyrics. Then again, I enjoy more Britney Spears than I should, so maybe that previous statement doesn't carry any weight. ANYWAY, MY POINT IS THIS: for me, even though I know the cake is totally a lie, I still find it delicious. NOM.
Dude my dancing looks like I'm being stabbed; no kidding it is pretty horrific.