Shane Sparks on Miley Cyrus vs. ACDC Youtube dance battles

Why are stars such as Ryan Seacrest, Lindsay Lohan, Diana Ross, Chris Brown, Adam Sandler, Brittany Snow, Amanda Bynes and Pedro from "Napoleon Dynamite" making special appearances in 30-second clips on YouTube?

It all began on the Miley Cyrus YouTube channel, on which Miley and her choreographer friend Mandy started posting videos of themselves vamping around hotel rooms, back-flipping off beds and giggling into pillows. Dubbed the M&M Crew, they soon found themselves challenged by another outfit, ACDC, formed by Jon Chu (director of "Step Up 2: The Streets") and dancer Adam Sevani (Moose in "Step Up 2.")

Leaning on friends in the business, Chu and company choreographed a massive mise en scene, challenging Miley and Mandy to "the biggest online dance battle in YouTube history." The musical number featured guest appearances from many of the stars mentioned above, in addition to some of the best dancers in the industry, such as last season's "America's Best Dance Crew" winners, JabbaWockeez.

Last week, the M&M Crew fought back, emerging in a video clip from a helicopter, then proceeding to an enormous stage filled with dance crews and stars.

We caught up with choreographer Shane Sparks, a judge on "America's Best Dance Crew," backstage at Monday night's taping of the second season premiere, to weigh in on the hottest, craziest dance battle online.

-- Sheigh Crabtree

Photo: Screengrab

Comments

[francesca]

miley rules

[jaz2beme]

THANK YOU -- SHANE. You are absolutely right more people should step up there game and praise these kid's for what there not doing (drugs, drinking and driving, and staying of the mean streets) I think more kid's should use M&M CRU and ACDC CREW and other Kid's like them as examples and not to listen to the media's version of what is a role model, They don’t know anyway. They put so many inadequate words to replace the innocent ones, like; nudity instead of bear shoulders and lace underwear instead of bathing suit bottoms or active wear. I say if you can’t get the story from the sores then Shut up...
Keep It Real
and
God Bless
jaz2beme

[Nellie]

I agree with Shane 110%. I myself am a Fan Of Miley (I'm 14) And I couldent explaine it better then what Shane did. People Take it that Miley is just posting danceing videos to get attention. But like Shane said she probably has nothing better to do. (in a good way)
I like both AcDc and M&M cru. And they BOTH deserve to win. lol I would say a tie. Whatever is keeping them out of trouble and there having fun is a GREAT thing!

[sharpaiy]

I DEFINATELY AGREE AND I THINK THE MEDIA JUSTB TRYING TO BRING MILEY DOWN!!! I THINK SHES A GREAT GIRL IN A COMING OF AGE!!! I THINK SHES A GREAT ROLE MODEL, AND KIDS SHOULD LOOK UP TO HER!!! PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST TRYING TO BRING HER DOWN SHOULD JUST SHUT UP!! I LOVE M&M CRU, AND I THINK ACDC IS COOL!! GO MILEY STAY COOL!! I AGREE WITH YOU JAZ2BEME & NELLIE!!