January 13 2009
Evolution of Dance, The Sequel
posted by Ana Samways at 8:37 am
Judson Laipply’s Evolution of Dance viral has generated more than 108 million views on YouTube since it was first posted in April 2006.
Now he’s made another dances-through-the-ages compilation, which hit the internet yesterday…240,000 views and counting.
Songs this time around include James Brown’s “I Got You (I Feel Good)”, OK Go’s treadmill video “Here It Goes Again”, Fergie’s “London Bridge” and Ike and Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary”. Not as good as the first (sequels seldom are), but I can’t quite put my finger on why.
Here’s the original.
January 13th, 2009 at 10:22 am
I still think it’s great but it’s not as good as the original. Some of the songs aren’t even “dances” they’re just him acting out the lyrics.
In saying that it’s still awesome.
January 13th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
The later stuff in 2 is better than the beginning but definitely not as funny as the original. Agree that both are worth watching though.
January 13th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I think the first was better because:
a) there were more songs – hence more dance moves and
b) the dance moves were ones most people knew (well, most of the moves were) and
c) quite a few of the songs were funny by themselves, without dance moves at all!
January 14th, 2009 at 6:41 am
The first has a good flow of music and dance.
The new (2nd) video has less songs and not as good editing.
January 21st, 2009 at 10:39 am
With Inde, the flow is really off here. My main problems is that the second one has no story, it’s not the evolution of dance part two, it just looks like dances banged together. He could have done the de-evolution of dance (now to backwards) or shown how ethnic dances are purloined by the mainstream etc etc…
Bottom line, you gotta give ‘em something new…nothing worse than a one trick pony.