You’ve heard of break dancing, the Harlem shake, and even the controversial twerking. However, there is a new fad that has taken over YouTube. This craze is known as lip dub.
“A lip dub is a one shot video where there are different students lip singing to pre-recorded songs as they move through the school with the student body interacting in the video,” said Pat Greene, technology education teacher.
Greene wants to start a lip dub video demonstrating our outstanding school spirit.
Linganore’s lip dub auditions were held December 10th, and the video will be filmed during a pep rally in February. Clubs will line the hallways in a pre-determined setting with posters, signs, and sports teams. One example of a lip dub is on YouTube, Catoctin High School.
The date of the lip dub will be on February 14th, 2014. Greene has chosen three songs for the video, “Firework,” “Footloose,” and “Stronger.”
“A lot of people don’t think a lip dub is cool, but it is. You get to miss class, have fun, and even dress up,” said senior Emily Cronin, a television production member
Greene isn’t 100% sure what they want to do for their intro, but he is thinking about having teens ride in on a tractor. Then they will end it in the gym, with students singing along to the song “We are Family.”
Lip dub has made its way into many competitions. One competition was which school could do the best version of “Roar” by Katy Perry. Lakewood High School won and Katy Perry visited the school on her birthday.
Trib Total Media Inc. sponsored a national lip dub. Anyone can vote on the schools that submitted the lip dub videos. That contest ended on November the 15th. Jack Britt high school won $5,000 for the grand prize including 100 lip dub T-shirts. Smithfield-Selma high school was the runner up and won $1,000 and 100 lip dub T-shirts.
Catoctin High School’s tech teacher Kati Heefner says that she took an interest in lip dub “because it was an activity that the entire school could be a part of and take pride in. It was a large project and I felt that this could really be beneficial to our school.”
