When Newsweek reported that Grand Rapids, Michigan was a “dying city”, Grand Rapids set out to prove them wrong, lip dub-style. On May 22, 2011, downtown Grand Rapids shut down in order to film the largest and longest lip dub video ever.
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There’s no question about it – lip dub videos are awesome. Lip dubbing first made a name for itself on the web video scene back in 2007, when a group of people at Connected Ventures made their own lip synching music video for Harvey Danger’s Flagpole Sitta. The video was created in one take and followed people around the office lip-synching to the song. Since the Flagpole Sitta lip dub, a barrage of copycats have hit YouTube and a lot of them are quite impressive. Offices, universities and even celebrities have jumped on the lip dub bandwagon. We’ve put together ten of our favorites. Check ‘em out after the jump, and feel free to “synch” along!
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