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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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