Welcome to Youtube Kingdom, everyone.
This video portal has boomed to become the Wal-mart (for US audiences) or Shoemart (for Filipinos) of the World Wide Web–it’s really got it all! There are music videos, TV shows, some resident freaks, video bloggers, and a dizzying plethora of bored, bored people with webcams. But if you look hard enough, Youtube is actually a gold mine of hidden talent (Sean Kingston, Marie Digby, Charice Pempengco anyone?) and a few interesting gems.
Lots would have already heard of the Miley & Mandy Show, a series of regularly updated videos from Disney’s new Tween Queen-slash-Money Machine Miley Cyrus and her backup dancer-turned-BFF Mandy Jiroux. I’ve watched a few episodes, and its entertaining for a little while, but honestly, their voices kinda get to your head if you watch and listen to them too much.
But I suddenly found my way back to their channel today, because it got to my attention that they recently got involved in The Biggest Online Dance Battle in Youtube History with none other than Jon M. Chu and Adam Sevani of Step Up 2!
I’ll let the videos do the talking:
April 10, 2008: Adam&Chu Dance Crew (ACDC) challenge Miley and Mandy
April 13, 2008: Miley&Mandy Cru with a U responds
April 30, 2008: ACDC totally steps it up with an all-star cast!
I don’t know with everybody else, but I’m totally with the ACDC on this one. Although, M&M Cru did come on strong and got a little somethin’ somethin’ in there for me by putting Channing Tatum in their video!
No, but seriously, the third video completely pawns everything else. Bigwig cameos aside (Hello Lindsay Lohan, Adam Sandler, Chris Brown, Rob Hoffman and Briana Evigan of Step Up 2, Amanda Bynes–the list doesn’t end there!), the music mixes were wicked, and the moves and tricks were just downright jaw-dropping. I also liked how ACDC’s videos didn’t lose that homemade/amateur feel to it, sans a few special effects, so it was all the more surprising to suddenly see these celebrities popping up on your little Youtube screen. I was also proud to see a few Filipinos there (albeit masked) in the form of the Jabbawockeez, winner of America’s Best Dance Crew.
I’d have to say that ACDC utterly, undeniably and spectacularly SMOKED M&M Cru with this one.
But hey, the battle doesn’t end here–I also can’t wait for what the Tween Queen’s got up her sleeve. With all the flak she got from that Vanity Fair shoot, I think that this is a great way to get her in good graces with the public again.
These vids are going into my iPod, and I am now officially a jonmchu subscriber.
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May 11, 2008 at 12:46 pm
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