this is breakdancing?

[symbioidlj]

WTF?

I was reading on article on breakin' in reuters or ap or whatever, and they mention a "new breakdancing movie" to be released in January, so I looked it up..

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/yougotserved/

that's the link.

if you've got broadband, go ahead and view the trailer. Then tell me...

is that breakin? OMFG how fucking pathetic. In all honesty, to me it looks like fucking Justin Timberlake choreographed it. Like fucking cheerleaders dancing or Britney Spears. Whatever it is, it's NOT fucking breakin'...

And if it is, and I've just been out of the loop... My god what has this world become!

If you don't have broadband, really, just imagine a Britney Spears video with you know, 10 dancers behind her, all doing the same damn thing, and stopping for a little pose, and then moving a little forward and back, punching the air a little, whatever. Oh sure, they drop to the ground for a couple seconds.. But that's about it.

No pops, no locks, or really shitty ones at that.

But then again, what passes for "hip-hop" these days ain't shit but fucking bad pop/soul/r&b/half-ass-funk mixed up into a blender and shat outta some Executive's ass.

And when I say "passes for", of course, I mean the shit that's on the radio. I am well aware of say Hieroglyphics/Del/Jedi Mind Tricks/Aesop Rock/Anticon whatever. And I dig the underground sound. But you know I just gotta bitch about this.

so, if I wanna watch a movie about hip-hoppin'... I'll do that. I'll watch Breakin'... or Wild Style... But this piece of shit I shall gladly take a pass on. Thank you very much.

Comments

[vesicular.livejournal.com]

That's not breakin. Looks more like cheerleading. Breakin and Popin is alive and well, at least here it is. There was an event at the Walker this summer called "Below the Belt: Battle of the Underage", where high school kids competed in various battles, like DJ, Beatbox, Poppin, Grafiti, etc. It was really well done. Some events were better than the others, but the breakers were great. The winning guy was awesome and he had a broken arm he couldn't use! It's archived on our site, you should check it out, it's really long (3+ hours) but has some really good points.

http://channel.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=815

wow.

[iiudian.livejournal.com]

i can't wait for that movie to come out, so it dies the death it deserves. I couldn't finish watching the trailer.

Ugh.

-Nathan

[thaumaturge.livejournal.com]

Good lord, that's pretty sick.