LIP DUB

I was over at my friend Josh’s place last night. We were working on CATCH episode 4… which needed a few quick touch ups. He showed me this viral video on Youtube because he wanted to show me this girl that he thought was exactly his ‘type.”


"Take a look at the girl in this video. This is like, my ideal girl. I wanna marry this chick."


So I’m watching this video, the girl is cute, definitely, but I was like:

“What IS THIS VIDEO? It’s AWESOME.”

“It’s just some lip synch thing. A bunch of people got together and taped themselves lip synching a song.”

“I’m LOVIN this. It looks like so much fun.”

“Yeah, it actually started this whole internet craze and then people all over did the same thing… lip synched a song and put it on Youtube. It’s now officially called LIP DUB.”

“Yo, I wanna do a lip dub. Look at that! That’s awesome.”

I went home and researched LIP DUB. I ended up watching like 200 LIP DUB videos. Now I’m obsessed. I’m a little miffed that this has been going on for like two years and I was completely clueless.

From Wikipedia…

A lip dub is a type of video that combines lip synching and audio dubbing to make a music video. It is made by filming individuals or a group of people lip synching while listening to a song or any recorded audio then dubbing over it in post editing with the original audio of the song. Often, they look like simple music videos, although many involve a lot of preparation and are well produced. The most popular lip dubs are done in a single unedited shot that often travels through different rooms and situations in, say, an office building. Tom Johnson, a technical writer who blogs about Web 2.0's effect on communication, describes a good lip dub as having the characteristics, or at least the appearance of:

• spontaneity: "It appears as if someone thought up the idea on the spot, pulled out their personal video camera, and said hey everyone, let’s all lip sync this song."
• authenticity: The people, production and situation appear real.
• participation: "The video doesn’t consist of one person’s spectacular lip sync, but that of a group, all participating together in this one spontaneous effort, which seems to communicate the attitude and mood of the song."
• fun: the people in the video are having a lot of fun.

Wikipedia lists a handful of the current cream of the crop as far as lip dubs go….

· Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger

· Bienvenue chez les geek

· UniversityLipdub: 257 Weeks by Nine Days

· Digg Dubb: Groove Is In The Heart

· Fergalicious Lipdub

· Frontier Psychiatrist: allen girl lip dub

· CNET Australia office lip dub

· Lip Dub - Mr. Roboto by Styx

· Lip Dub: Journey's Don't Stop Believing

· Dane Cook Lip Dub - Dream House

· Purpose - Lip Dub

· Lip Dub : Lollipop

· Fatals Picards - L'Amour à la française (AOL France)

· Christophe Willem - Double je (Expedia France)

· Lip Dub created by New Zealand Radio Station ZM

· Don't feel like dancing (Mines de Saint Etienne)

Fun songs…great viral stuff… I love watching all these groups of friends and co workers get together and rock it like that…

To the drawing board!