- This is no joke, guys.
- Oh my God!
- I'm cutting it here, y'all.
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- Hey guys, it's me Claudia from Tik Tok.
Oh you don't remember
my amazing Tik Tok Superbowl challenge dance video?
Let's cut to that.
- Honestly, if Claudia wanted to be a part of J.Lo's team,
she definitely could.
- So it's a video I only did because Maya made us
but I had the best time, so I thought
why not do the other half of that Superbowl challenge?
Am I several months too late for it to be super trendy?
Of course.
I don't know if you know how much I love Shakira.
What song are you hoping Shakira sings?
- I really hope she sings the one where she goes
♪ Oh ♪
- The one where she's like
♪ Hey yeah ♪
I got her albums, I think,
for like my birthday or something.
Somebody gave me Pies Descalzos
and Donde Estan los Ladrones
and I became obsessed.
I didn't know Spanish pop music could
feel so good!
I love that she's Colombian,
I love that she's part Lebanese,
I love how she moves, I love how original her voice is,
she can do a ballad, she can do something soft
and beautiful, she can do a party anthem,
she can do it all and she proves she can do it all
by doing this Champeta dance at the Superbowl.
I have to say, it was one of the moments
that gave me chills, it looked incredible.
So why not give it a try?
I can dance, I'm sure it can't be that hard.
I looked it up, it is that hard.
It's really hard.
I got some friends from Pero Like that are gonna
do the challenge with me.
I think they don't know what they're in for
and I think I don't know what I'm in for.
So is everyone kind of familiar with what Champeta is?
Because I didn't know very much about it
before deciding to do this video.
- I don't know at all.
- No.
- So Champeta is a style of dance and music
that originated in the Caribbean coastal region of Colombia,
particularly in the port city of Cartagena,
which is the heart of a flourishing Afro-Colombian culture.
Champeta is said to have been heavily influenced
by West African sailors in the 1970s
and many of the songs are even sung in Palenquero,
a Spanish-based Creole language that is spoken
in San Basilio de Palenque in Colombia,
recognized as the first free black town in South America.
So this is a very Afro-Latino dance.
When Shakira did her choreography, her choreographer is
this 18 year old Afro-Latina,
kills it and Shakira's like, "this is Liz, you know,
"tiene dieciocho anos."
(speaking in Spanish)
And I was like, no she doesn't.
- Wow.
- Wait, did you say 18?
- Eight,
one eight.
- Like when I was 18, I was like, eating chips and salsa
on my couch, like she's choreographing for the Superbowl!
- For the Superbowl!
And look how tired the dancers are in this bit.
- Okay, next.
(panting)
- Shakira and the backup dancers are panting.
(speaking in Spanish)
(Shakira laughs)
You can see her dancing right next to Shakira
in the actual Superbowl.
Shakira is the one that,
at least for a broader global audience,
introduced us to Champeta.
It's really important to acknowledge that this is
an Afro-Caribbean dance.
It's gonna be tiring, it's gonna be a crazy workout.
I have no idea if I'm gonna be able to keep up.
- I'm gonna call upon my ancestors to come and help me.
- Yes!
There you go.
Andee, you can dance, we know you can dance.
- I'm sure Andee will kill it, I'm gonna need
to stretch the hell out of my hips
'cause my hips do be dividing.
- It's a lot of footwork.
- I heard you can move, so.
- I believe in you!
- I believe in you too.
- We can do it, we can do it.
- It is almost 10 a.m., it's 90 degrees in LA,
I'm about to begin my first Champeta rehearsal.
- And I'm calling upon my Tikar ancestors
to help me take over this dance.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Yeah I'ma try it but I'm not confident right now.
- So it starts of with this big stomp
and we bring our arms to fold, two, three, four.
(speaking in Spanish)
Go left, right.
Still on the balls of our feet.
- Out and left.
- I'm like, not an inexperienced dancer,
you know I'll be at the club and be doing my little thing.
I don't know how everyone else is doing,
I hope they are not struggling as much as I am.
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- Oh my gosh!
- [Man] Hey!
Hey!
(speaking in foreign language)
- I changed my pants because of the ass sweat.
- [Man] Wow!
- I think I need a break.
- I'm cutting it here, y'all!
- It took me three days to actually get this dance right.
- Only like 30 takes later, I think I got it.
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- Are you guys ready to check them out?
Give us your honest thoughts, don't hold back.
You know, we gave it our all
but we wanna hear you guys' real thoughts.
Oh my God, wow!
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- Yes!
Oh, oh, oh!
Hit it!
- [Maya] Oh my gosh!
- [Andee] Ooh!
- I can see Claudia, you're concentrating very hard.
- Yeah.
But she's like, smile, smile!
(Carolina laughs)
- [Maya] Oh my God, you did it.
You look like you're having fun though.
- Oh my God!
- That was really good.
- You can see me huffing and puffing.
- I could see at the beginning,
you were like, energy, energy, energy, energy!
And then by the end you were like, okay, is this over yet?
But it was good!
- The way you moved the lower half of your body,
I wanna learn!
- I wanna see the next clip.
Points for sure, already.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh,
yes, yes.
- Ooh!
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- What is, this dance is like stressing me out!
- I know!
- Gosh, you look like you're having so much fun
and like, I was smiling the entire time.
- I was praying during it.
- It was good!
- I was stressed, like as a drag queen,
we don't do that much foot work
'cause we're wearing heels usually.
I was like, oh the arms, this is easy!
But then I was like, this leg!
- You didn't make it look hard, so.
- Yeah you looked great.
- Next up is Andee and just remember her knees.
- Yeah 'cause I have a cyst on my left knee,
so and I have tears on both.
- God Andee, you didn't tell me that
and I was like, do the hardest thing ever!
And like okay.
Here we go!
Action!
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- Hot.
- There's such precision.
- [Claudia] I know!
- [Carolina] Right off the bat.
- This part.
- Oh that part!
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- [Angel] It's just such a swag to it.
- [Claudia] Yes!
That footwork too, yes.
- You can tell you've danced before.
I feel like it's a little unfair.
(laughing)
That part is great.
- [Ivan] I like that part too.
- I did it!
- Yes you could see what exactly she's doing
and she's hitting everything and it's like, wow Andee!
You're a really good dancer!
- Thank you.
- Except she's like my knees!
My knees!
You know it!
- Oh this is High School Musical who?
- Hold on, this outfit.
- You can see my sweat.
- Yes face!
- Look at, yeah, look at his face!
- Yeah it's Disney face, for sure.
- Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse is calling, he said you're it!
(laughing)
You're it, buddy.
(upbeat music)
(laughing)
- [Angel] Yes!
- [Carolina] This dance is
like the Irish jig of Latin America,
you know what I mean?
(laughing)
- [Maya] Oh oh oh oh!
- Hit it!
- Yeah!
- 10 out of 10, that was great ladies and gentlemen.
That was amazing.
That was good, that looked like it could be
on the Disney Channel, honestly.
You guys, you were like.
- What a compliment!
- My favorite was when he like reaches for it
and he's like.
- Because, every time I tried to do the foot work
plus the hands, I would get confused.
I said I'm gonna commit to the hand like that, the back
and then just move the feet.
- That was like the dance equivalent
of Mariah Carey going like this.
- Thank you our enthusiastic judges, hype women.
If you guys wanna see our dances, you can check them out
on the Pero Like Tik Tok
or on your guys' individual Tik Tok.
Look at how we move with the actual music
that we can't play in this video 'cause of copyright laws.
- Wow!
Great job!
It was good!
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- [Child] Pero Like.