JabbaWockeeZ named America’s Best Dance Crew
In a showdown with Boston street dance crew Status Quo, San Diego’s JabbaWockeeZ earned the title of America’s Best Dance Crew on MTV this week.
As a big So You Think You Can Dance fan (and some might say loyalist), I didn’t watch all of America’s Best Dance Crew this season, but what I did see was just beyond hot, though I’m not crazy about judge Shane Sparks’ commentary nor Lil Mama’s, every time that I caught some of the shows.
With dance moves and choreography that could easily compete with the best that best dance movie of all time You Got Served has to offer, America’s Best Dance Crew took choreographed dance to a different place and format that isn’t being covered by the couples and solo dancing on So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars.
Randy Jackson took a popular concept and MTV-ed it out. The show featured street/break dance crews either dancing to modern music, or bringing classics into the 21st Century with unbelievable routines. This was no quick-step or slow-moving waltz between two partners, but a fast moving, acrobatic, display of athleticism and creativity that was a completely different feel than both Stars and Dance. It was an MTV feel, no real better way to put it.
By having Crew, American Idol, and Dancing with the Stars all on during the same part of a television season, we saw the rare occurrence of having three top notch performance-based reality shows coming out with new episodes at the same time. What might make this even more rare is that these are three popular reality-based shows that were all popular without being trashy. All this happened while MTV’s The Hills, with arguably its best season premiere ever, was pulling record ratings for its season premiere with 4.7 million viewers and 1.8 million video streams.
Interestingly, Season 2 of Crew will likely overlap Summer TV seasons with So You Think You Can Dance, both of which target the same demographic, even moreso than the new MTV hit did with Dancing with the Stars. Will America have enough dance? Or is dance the new Idol?
Not quite, but I think it’s getting there. Especially if the So You Think You Can Dance tour mixes with the American Idol tour this year as rumored, which would suddenly make the momentum-slowing Idol Tour one of the most impossible tickets to try and secure, we might start to see even more of a shift towards that direction.
And while it wasn’t too long ago that people said reality TV was dead, the reality is that some programs have refined themselves into shows that feel less like “reality TV,” and more like TV that is capable of having more “wow” moments than anything on scripted television. And I love scripted television.
Reality TV had some rough patches after Survivor, but anyone would be kidding themselves if they said it was anything but alive and well.
i love status quo
Jabbawockeez are kick ass.. no wonder they won the contest, and still they remain humble to there performance. found a video reactions from the Jabbawockeez dance crew as well as judges Lil Mama, Shane Sparks, and J.C. Chasez.
Jabbawockeez take the championship