WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.008 --> 00:00:02.214 - When an artist can dance, 00:00:02.214 --> 00:00:04.077 that makes them a thousand times better 00:00:04.077 --> 00:00:04.998 than anyone else. 00:00:04.998 --> 00:00:06.649 - What's my dance experience like? 00:00:06.649 --> 00:00:07.798 - Zero. - None. 00:00:07.798 --> 00:00:09.481 - I will say that I watch music videos, 00:00:09.481 --> 00:00:11.129 and be like, "Oh, that looks easy." 00:00:11.129 --> 00:00:13.333 - I chose iconic music video choreography, 00:00:13.333 --> 00:00:15.054 not dance crazes, to show you 00:00:15.054 --> 00:00:16.562 just how difficult your favorite 00:00:16.562 --> 00:00:18.287 artist dance moves actually are. 00:00:18.302 --> 00:00:20.010 How do you dance to Thriller when you hear it? 00:00:20.610 --> 00:00:21.867 - Yeah, exactly. - Yeah. 00:00:21.867 --> 00:00:23.148 - Dat dat dat, da dat. 00:00:23.148 --> 00:00:24.633 - Ned, you have to learn. 00:00:24.633 --> 00:00:26.701 Down, thrust, and forward. 00:00:26.701 --> 00:00:27.684 - Can we really thrust? 00:00:27.684 --> 00:00:28.694 - You've gotta really thrust. - Okay. 00:00:28.694 --> 00:00:29.716 - Are you not wearing shoes? 00:00:29.716 --> 00:00:30.784 - Do I need shoes for this? 00:00:30.784 --> 00:00:32.258 - Oh, God. You guys are gonna be the worst. 00:00:32.258 --> 00:00:34.921 - As a child of the 80s, this is like muscle memory. 00:00:34.921 --> 00:00:36.590 - It's hard to be a sexy zombie, 00:00:36.590 --> 00:00:38.317 because zombies feel so dead. 00:00:38.317 --> 00:00:39.421 - Michael Jackson was a sexy zombie. 00:00:39.421 --> 00:00:40.210 - I know. 00:00:40.210 --> 00:00:41.466 - We're gonna do it without you, is that the thing? 00:00:41.466 --> 00:00:43.400 - Yeah. - No! No, no, no. 00:00:43.400 --> 00:00:47.493 ("Thriller" backbeat) 00:00:47.493 --> 00:00:49.950 - That's a lost faster than I thought it was gonna be! 00:00:49.950 --> 00:00:51.447 I feel like with all these dances, 00:00:51.447 --> 00:00:52.498 we're gonna see something 00:00:52.498 --> 00:00:53.874 that caught on, that's like, 00:00:53.874 --> 00:00:56.179 slightly complicated, it's not super easy. 00:00:56.497 --> 00:00:58.552 - The moves just like, make sense with the music. 00:00:58.552 --> 00:00:59.808 - There's a reason why he was 00:00:59.808 --> 00:01:01.489 the greatest entertainer of our generation. 00:01:01.489 --> 00:01:04.241 - The part that's easy for everyone else to do, 00:01:04.241 --> 00:01:05.605 is the only part you remember. 00:01:05.617 --> 00:01:06.957 That was terrible! 00:01:06.957 --> 00:01:08.207 - It was pretty perfect. 00:01:08.207 --> 00:01:09.813 - What do you think vogueing looks like? 00:01:09.813 --> 00:01:11.461 - This! - [Girls] Vogue, vogue, vogue! 00:01:11.461 --> 00:01:12.854 - Oh shit. Already unnatural. 00:01:12.854 --> 00:01:14.712 Everything's always at a very sharp angle. 00:01:14.712 --> 00:01:15.406 Oh, that hurts. 00:01:15.406 --> 00:01:17.306 Voguing is both powerful, but elegant, 00:01:17.306 --> 00:01:18.970 very smooth, but also super controlled. 00:01:18.970 --> 00:01:20.587 - New Twitter bio. - I'm all of those things. 00:01:20.587 --> 00:01:21.582 - That's hot. - Yes. 00:01:21.582 --> 00:01:23.703 - Is it just arms, or do we move our bodies too? 00:01:23.703 --> 00:01:25.654 - You're delivering arms and face. 00:01:25.654 --> 00:01:27.119 - Yes, bitch. 00:01:27.119 --> 00:01:27.874 - Boom. 00:01:27.874 --> 00:01:28.629 - No, that's-- 00:01:28.629 --> 00:01:29.998 - Yeah, that's not happenin' for some of us. 00:01:29.998 --> 00:01:31.658 - It's weird 'cause it's sexy in a different way, 00:01:31.658 --> 00:01:32.779 it's like, power sexy. 00:01:33.129 --> 00:01:35.567 ♫ Come on, vogue 00:01:35.736 --> 00:01:37.755 - I feel empowered, the power of Madonna! 00:01:37.755 --> 00:01:39.154 - It's hard to keep it all internal, 00:01:39.154 --> 00:01:41.121 and like, keep a blank stare, 00:01:41.121 --> 00:01:42.571 because you're doing so much work, 00:01:42.571 --> 00:01:45.206 and you're just like, how are you not breathing very hard? 00:01:45.206 --> 00:01:47.260 - It'd be super easy to improv it, 00:01:47.260 --> 00:01:48.863 but choreograph with other people? 00:01:48.863 --> 00:01:49.803 That's hard. 00:01:49.803 --> 00:01:50.802 - They do Vogue Battle, yes. 00:01:50.802 --> 00:01:51.694 - Vogue Battle? 00:01:52.514 --> 00:01:53.750 - Oh, oh, ey, ey, ey! 00:01:53.750 --> 00:01:55.591 ♫ Vogue vogue vogue ♫ 00:01:56.038 --> 00:01:57.035 - Bye bye bye! 00:01:57.035 --> 00:01:58.513 (all cheering) 00:01:58.513 --> 00:02:00.321 - I've got the Timberlake bandana right now. 00:02:00.321 --> 00:02:01.918 - I know part of it, it's this, right? 00:02:01.918 --> 00:02:03.327 - Yeah, if you're lazy. 00:02:03.327 --> 00:02:05.106 *NSYNC is very explosive. 00:02:05.106 --> 00:02:06.161 Give it more swagger. 00:02:06.161 --> 00:02:07.078 Stop being such a white boy. 00:02:07.078 --> 00:02:09.249 No one seems to do this move quite right. 00:02:09.249 --> 00:02:10.189 - Cause I'm over here, like, 00:02:10.189 --> 00:02:11.969 yeah left, and then what? 00:02:11.969 --> 00:02:13.196 - This is 90s pop! 00:02:13.196 --> 00:02:15.591 - And I told you I was a horrible dancer. 00:02:15.591 --> 00:02:16.892 - I'm a little confused, but it's okay. 00:02:16.892 --> 00:02:18.243 - I'm not. - Let's do this. 00:02:18.243 --> 00:02:19.092 ♫ Bye bye bye 00:02:19.092 --> 00:02:19.789 ♫ Bye bye 00:02:19.789 --> 00:02:21.897 ♫ Don't wanna be a fool for you 00:02:21.897 --> 00:02:23.080 ♫ Just another player ♫ 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:24.230 - It's 100% attitude. 00:02:24.230 --> 00:02:26.217 - That would've helped me in my social life in high school. 00:02:26.217 --> 00:02:27.431 - Wish I could do it one more time. 00:02:27.431 --> 00:02:28.407 - That one was a lot of fun. 00:02:28.407 --> 00:02:30.998 - I guess you just don't think about how physical it can be. 00:02:30.998 --> 00:02:32.677 It's kinda sad that most of today's boy bands 00:02:32.677 --> 00:02:33.984 don't dance like this anymore. 00:02:33.984 --> 00:02:36.273 - I feel like I've learned it one way so long, 00:02:36.273 --> 00:02:37.714 that I thought this was the right way, 00:02:37.714 --> 00:02:39.803 but it's really this, and now when I try to correct it, 00:02:39.803 --> 00:02:41.336 I'm like five seconds behind. 00:02:41.336 --> 00:02:42.772 ♫ Bye bye (girl squealing) 00:02:42.772 --> 00:02:44.441 - That was the best moment of my life! 00:02:44.441 --> 00:02:45.685 - My wife and I went to a 00:02:45.685 --> 00:02:47.599 Britney Spears concert in Las Vegas. 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:49.253 - Oops, Ned mentioned his wife again. 00:02:49.253 --> 00:02:50.724 - It's already too much. 00:02:50.724 --> 00:02:52.297 - I'm already lost! 00:02:52.297 --> 00:02:55.702 - Looks like you're throwin' a ball back at a baseball game. 00:02:55.702 --> 00:02:58.425 - Chris, you're shimmying. It's not that, it's this. 00:02:58.425 --> 00:02:59.860 - Why is she walking like a chicken? 00:02:59.860 --> 00:03:01.964 - A lot of this routine is actually in forth position. 00:03:01.964 --> 00:03:03.334 - Does anyone have ballet experience? 00:03:03.334 --> 00:03:04.484 (bursts into laughter) 00:03:04.484 --> 00:03:06.046 - Here. - That's how you do it! 00:03:06.046 --> 00:03:08.096 - Yeah. - I never knew how she did it. 00:03:08.096 --> 00:03:09.541 - What? - What, nope, nothing. 00:03:09.541 --> 00:03:11.080 Zero. - What part are we on? 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:12.655 - [Together] Oh baby, baby, baby. 00:03:12.655 --> 00:03:14.886 - Yeah, Keith, Keith! Fuck yeah! 00:03:14.886 --> 00:03:16.360 - Yeah, yeah. - Thanks, Ned! 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:17.924 - Yeah. - I thought the old lady 00:03:17.924 --> 00:03:19.403 threw it in the ocean. 00:03:19.403 --> 00:03:22.395 ♫ Oops, I did it again ♫ 00:03:22.395 --> 00:03:23.662 - I feel like I've seen 00:03:23.662 --> 00:03:25.210 "Oops, I did it again" a billion times 00:03:25.210 --> 00:03:26.752 growing up, so it's just a little bit easier 00:03:26.752 --> 00:03:27.691 to lock into my mind. 00:03:27.691 --> 00:03:29.103 - I feel like I'm in sixth grade again, 00:03:29.103 --> 00:03:30.436 and I'm just dancing with my friends. 00:03:30.436 --> 00:03:32.352 I literally got lost in this game. 00:03:32.352 --> 00:03:34.562 - The movements mimic the lyrics. 00:03:34.562 --> 00:03:36.780 - Maybe doesn't look easy in the music video, 00:03:36.780 --> 00:03:39.183 but I certainly didn't think it was this hard. 00:03:39.183 --> 00:03:41.261 - Brittney makes it look so easy though! 00:03:41.261 --> 00:03:43.072 - I feel like 2007, Brittney. 00:03:43.072 --> 00:03:43.792 (laughter) 00:03:43.792 --> 00:03:45.115 - It's Janet Jackson. - Yes! 00:03:45.115 --> 00:03:46.025 - Is it the one where her 00:03:46.025 --> 00:03:47.378 boob pops out during the Super Bowl? 00:03:47.378 --> 00:03:48.087 - No. 00:03:48.087 --> 00:03:49.439 - Yeah, 'cause I can do that one. 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:50.410 - Rhythm Nation. 00:03:50.410 --> 00:03:51.486 (screaming) 00:03:51.486 --> 00:03:53.614 - Oh, this video's intense, you guys. 00:03:53.614 --> 00:03:55.144 - Three, second finger goes in, 00:03:55.144 --> 00:03:56.574 - Oh, shit. - then these two fingers. 00:03:56.574 --> 00:03:58.107 - Dang. - We're not gonna flip it off? 00:03:58.107 --> 00:03:58.815 - Nope. 00:03:58.815 --> 00:04:00.068 - She wasn't that dystopian, huh? 00:04:00.068 --> 00:04:02.378 - And I bet this happened really fast. 00:04:02.378 --> 00:04:04.616 (screaming) 00:04:04.616 --> 00:04:06.251 - The reason many people can't do a Janet dance, 00:04:06.251 --> 00:04:07.834 is because they are so damn hard. 00:04:07.834 --> 00:04:09.715 She has really complex dances. 00:04:09.715 --> 00:04:11.610 Make your face hard. Make your face hard, Zach. 00:04:11.610 --> 00:04:12.874 - The actual tempo is, 00:04:12.874 --> 00:04:14.405 Bum bum bum, bum buh. 00:04:14.405 --> 00:04:15.118 - No. 00:04:15.118 --> 00:04:16.388 (laughing nervously) - No! 00:04:16.388 --> 00:04:17.605 - You can fight someone with that. 00:04:17.605 --> 00:04:18.561 - It's so fast and precise, 00:04:18.561 --> 00:04:19.578 it's gonna be done by the time 00:04:19.578 --> 00:04:20.716 you realize I'm fucking it up. 00:04:20.716 --> 00:04:22.308 - Janet, this one's for you, baby. 00:04:22.928 --> 00:04:25.855 ♫ Five, four, three, two, one ♫ 00:04:26.215 --> 00:04:28.568 - It was incredibly fast and technical. 00:04:28.568 --> 00:04:30.124 - I just know people were in classes 00:04:30.124 --> 00:04:31.703 for months, to learn her stuff. 00:04:31.703 --> 00:04:33.281 - Yeah, this is hard, but it's fun. 00:04:33.281 --> 00:04:36.137 - It felt like a military music piece. 00:04:36.137 --> 00:04:37.704 - I just wanna apologize to Miss Jackson, 00:04:37.704 --> 00:04:39.188 if she ever sees this. 00:04:39.852 --> 00:04:42.197 - What is Beyonce's most famous choreographed music video? 00:04:42.197 --> 00:04:43.114 - Single Ladies. - Ladies. 00:04:43.114 --> 00:04:43.986 - Single Ladies. 00:04:43.986 --> 00:04:46.469 - We're gonna look like some moms at a concert. 00:04:46.469 --> 00:04:47.746 - If we're gonna be Beyonce, 00:04:47.746 --> 00:04:49.940 we can't do it in flats. 00:04:49.940 --> 00:04:51.831 (groaning) 00:04:52.121 --> 00:04:52.852 - No. 00:04:52.862 --> 00:04:53.980 - I can't even walk in heels! 00:04:53.980 --> 00:04:55.698 - Well you're gonna love this, then! 00:04:55.698 --> 00:04:56.836 - Right, left right. 00:04:56.836 --> 00:04:59.337 - Oh, I already feel a blister coming! 00:04:59.337 --> 00:05:01.481 - Be ready to catch me, I might fall on you. 00:05:01.481 --> 00:05:02.362 - You got this. 00:05:02.362 --> 00:05:03.592 - Wait, there are arms, too? 00:05:03.592 --> 00:05:05.450 - This is the hardest dance we've done! 00:05:05.450 --> 00:05:06.459 - And that's it! 00:05:06.459 --> 00:05:07.156 - Uh, no. 00:05:07.156 --> 00:05:08.526 And, roll to the left. 00:05:08.526 --> 00:05:09.478 - No! 00:05:09.478 --> 00:05:10.958 - Oh, no, no! (clapping) 00:05:10.958 --> 00:05:12.371 - Sit in the heel. - No! 00:05:12.371 --> 00:05:13.425 - I can't body roll. 00:05:13.425 --> 00:05:15.132 - I can't, I will bust an ankle, ya'll. 00:05:15.132 --> 00:05:16.908 - Eugene's a better woman than all of us! 00:05:16.908 --> 00:05:17.883 - I'm gonna fall over. 00:05:17.883 --> 00:05:19.021 (laughing) 00:05:19.021 --> 00:05:20.901 - All of these dances you think are so easy, 00:05:20.901 --> 00:05:24.052 and then the little, I'm so impressed. 00:05:24.052 --> 00:05:25.103 ♫ Oh oh oh 00:05:25.103 --> 00:05:27.799 ♫ Oh oh oh, oh oh oh 00:05:27.799 --> 00:05:29.109 ♫ Oh oh oh ♫ 00:05:29.109 --> 00:05:30.692 - It's incredibly difficult, 00:05:30.692 --> 00:05:33.579 I can't imagine singing and doing this at the same time. 00:05:33.579 --> 00:05:36.286 - To do it in heels, I have so much more respect for, 00:05:36.286 --> 00:05:37.444 not only women in general, 00:05:37.444 --> 00:05:39.673 but women performers particularly. 00:05:39.673 --> 00:05:40.927 - Looks sexy as hell in the music video, 00:05:40.927 --> 00:05:41.934 and we look like-- 00:05:41.934 --> 00:05:44.072 - Like we had too much to drink at book club. 00:05:44.072 --> 00:05:45.396 - We're a bunch of Michelles, 00:05:45.396 --> 00:05:47.091 in a world that belongs to Beyonce. 00:05:47.091 --> 00:05:48.859 - It's a little girl dancing, so if she can do it, 00:05:48.859 --> 00:05:50.084 we'll have no problem, right? 00:05:50.084 --> 00:05:51.277 - Yeah, she's like-- 00:05:51.277 --> 00:05:52.411 - Shes a professional dancer, 00:05:52.411 --> 00:05:53.836 who has crazy acrobatic skills. 00:05:53.836 --> 00:05:55.542 - We're gonna do one of the simpler parts. 00:05:55.542 --> 00:05:56.808 - Oh, it's the-- 00:05:56.808 --> 00:05:58.114 - It's the stuff with the table. 00:05:58.114 --> 00:05:59.396 - I love this part! 00:06:00.277 --> 00:06:01.637 - And seven, and punch! 00:06:01.637 --> 00:06:02.380 - Woah. 00:06:02.380 --> 00:06:04.504 - And your head slams on the table. 00:06:04.504 --> 00:06:05.259 - Shit. 00:06:05.259 --> 00:06:06.792 - Like that. - Not gonna be able to do it. 00:06:06.792 --> 00:06:07.639 - I'm too tall. 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:09.276 - This dance is not made for people with glasses. 00:06:09.276 --> 00:06:10.344 - Pull your own head up. 00:06:10.344 --> 00:06:11.134 - This is dope. 00:06:11.134 --> 00:06:12.758 - And your face is going like, mm. 00:06:12.758 --> 00:06:13.606 And you grab it! 00:06:13.606 --> 00:06:15.508 - Wah! - And you throw it away! 00:06:16.168 --> 00:06:17.937 And you go weh-meh-meh-meh, meh-meh-meh! 00:06:17.937 --> 00:06:19.132 Then you're gonna be a tiger! 00:06:19.132 --> 00:06:20.154 (roaring) 00:06:20.154 --> 00:06:20.920 In your cage. 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:22.080 And, I'm pregnant. 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:24.356 - He could be making this up as he went along. 00:06:24.356 --> 00:06:27.131 - This is important. Don't punch me in the face. 00:06:27.131 --> 00:06:29.825 ♫ Guess I'm just holding on for tonight 00:06:29.825 --> 00:06:31.693 ♫ Help me, I'm holding on for dear life ♫ 00:06:31.693 --> 00:06:32.657 - That was the most fun. 00:06:32.657 --> 00:06:34.329 - It just came from emotion. 00:06:34.329 --> 00:06:37.288 - We were attaching it to things, instead of numbers. 00:06:37.288 --> 00:06:38.310 - It's sort of like speaking, 00:06:38.310 --> 00:06:40.423 there's a bunch of different ways you can say something, 00:06:40.423 --> 00:06:42.462 but it still is the same message. 00:06:42.462 --> 00:06:44.126 - It takes time and work to like-- 00:06:44.126 --> 00:06:45.543 Just like any art. 00:06:45.543 --> 00:06:46.610 - We were definitely like, the best group 00:06:46.610 --> 00:06:48.123 at Buzzfeed dancing, right? 00:06:48.123 --> 00:06:50.105 (silence) 00:06:50.105 --> 00:06:51.780 - [All] Yay! 00:06:51.780 --> 00:06:52.685 - Thank you! 00:06:52.685 --> 00:06:55.438 - This is a godddamn job, to learn how to do this. 00:06:55.438 --> 00:06:57.256 - You gotta sing, dance, look sexy. 00:06:57.256 --> 00:06:59.172 - Also, girls, learn to code. 00:06:59.172 --> 00:07:00.955 That's what we learned.