This video was created as an official response to the Newsweek article calling Grand Rapids a "dying city." We disagreed strongly, and wanted to create a video that encompasses the passion and energy we all feel is growing exponentially, in this great city. We felt Don McLean's "American Pie," a song about death, was in the end, triumphant and filled to the brim with life and hope." - Rob Bliss, Director & Executive Producer
The Grand Rapids LipDub Video was filmed May 22nd, with 5,000 people, and involved a major shutdown of downtown Grand Rapids, which was filled with marching bands, parades, weddings, motorcades, bridges on fire, and helicopter take offs. It is the largest and longest LipDub video, to date.
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siftbotsays...Tags for this video have been changed from 'newsweek, grand rapids, lipdub' to 'newsweek, grand rapids, lipdub, don mclean, american pie' - edited by enoch
radxsays...*promote
siftbotsays...Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, May 27th, 2011 10:17am PDT - promote requested by radx.
cooolllllsays...Best video I've watch on here in a while. And I've sure watched a lot of videos.
Hybridsays...*quality
siftbotsays...Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Hybrid.
antsays...*livemusic
Nice! Was it one shot? They should played Weird Al's version.
siftbotsays...Adding video to channels (Livemusic) - requested by ant.
DerHasisttotsays...Original article: http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/21/america-s-dying-cities.html
Moar Infos: http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/05/newsweek_tells_grand_rapids_on.html
offsetSammysays...So good.
WKBsays...Amazing! What an awesome video. I live in Michigan but haven't spent that much time in Grand Rapids. I think, after seeing this, that it is my loss.
mxxconsays...Really fun
but holy crap Grand Rapids must be desperate to make this kind of effort...or holy crap ppl in Grand Rapids must be bored out of their mind to organize this.
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