Arts & Entertainment
Here's What's Shaking at Moorpark's Cornerstone Church
Fusion, the church's high school group, makes its own version of the viral "Harlem Shake."
For a while now, people have been posting covers or lip sync renditions of popular songs to YouTube. It's happened pretty much since the video site's been around. But bigger groups mimicking viral videos is a more recent (though not brand new) fad—a fad that's come to Moorpark.
We saw the trend, for example, at the London Olympic games when the American swim team gave us its rendition of Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe.
Next, the Internet came alive with people performing their own versions of K-pop singer Psy's Gangam Style. During the presidential election campaigns, we even saw parodies for Obama Style and Mitt Romney Style (Hey, we didn't say they were good . . .).
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A more current trend on YouTube, though, is replicating a viral video featuring electronic musician Baauer's Harlem Shake. The original viral video, reportedly made in Australia, featured just a few people dancing in costume, notably turning up the energy at a particular point in the music. But it's grown, and bigger groups—even the branches of the U.S. military—have their own versions.
Now, it's spread all the way to Moorpark, where on Tuesday the Fusion high school group at Cornerstone Church made its own version. (We're wondering—does that make it the Moorpark Shake?)
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Check out the video and see if you recognize anyone.
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