(MUSIC PLAYING) Good friends, good times, new start.
Good friends, new start.
Good friends, good times, new start..
Let's go.
All right. All right.
That was a great run.
Give yourselves a round of applause.
Yeah.
All right.
So if we can, what I want to do is
I want to do it one more time.
But before we do it, I brought a friend of mine who I thought
might be able to help you guys out and watch you guys, maybe
give you guys some notes, who is also a former Mouseketeer.
And I got the pleasure of judging with him
on America's Best Dance Crew.
Please welcome my man, JC Chasez [CHEERING]...
How's everybody doing?
I wanted to meet some of the Mousers, man, some of the kids
from the club!
What's going on?
Well, first, honestly, I just, I wanted to meet you guys.
‘Cause we're kind of a part of this same family now.
[CHEERING]
But it's like obviously anybody who's part of the Mouse Club
is part of the Mouse Club, you know what I mean?
You guys should be really excited that you are the ones
carrying the torch now.
You're a part of something that's lasted over 50 years.
And not a lot of things do that.
And again, you're also part of a fraternity
of a lot of very talented people,
a lot of well-known people.
And it's exciting to see the next wave.
We're all excited to see what you guys do.
Thank you.
All right.
JC, I'm going to leave it to you, my man.
OK.
We're just going to talk for a few minutes.
And then I want to see, at some point,
I want to see what these cats do, so...
I know each one of you kind of likes different things.
I don't know, who likes to sing, who likes to dance?
Or is everybody like a triple threat?
- Everything. - I rap.
Yeah. You rap?
You're a rhymer? OK.
And then, sing, dance...?
Sing, dance, act, everything.
Act?
I mostly sing, but doing a lot of dancing on the show now.
OK, there you go.
He's a dancer now.
He's got his dance pants on today.
Yeah, I sing, dance, act, play piano.
Oh, cool! OK.
I dance and act,
but being part of this has really
brought out the singing in me.
Yeah. Yeah.
Same as her.
I started out as a dancer but I really got to open up
into singing for the special, so...
And they're killin' it.
Again, what's great about it, at least in my experience
on the Mouse Club, some of the best lessons I ever learned
were from my cast members.
You know, when I would go into a situation,
whether it was a singing number or a dancing number
or an acting number, I'm drawing experience
from anyone of them, I can lean on any one of those.
Because we became friends.
We became a family.
And it was kind of like, OK, I'm struggling
with this a little bit.
And honestly, one of the other cast members,
if that was their strength, they would come and work with me
a little bit more on it to make sure
that I was comfortable with it, and things like that.
And those were the best lessons I ever got,
you know, were from my cast mates.
The other thing that I can see right here,
I mean this is like a wonderful array of people,
is learning from the backgrounds of each other.
Because now everything is kind of crossed into another thing.
It's like everything's morphing, right?
You can play guitar on a hip-hop track.
You can drop a beat on a country song, like you can do--
you can pretty much do anything musically now.
There are no rules.
I think that's been, I mean, at least my biggest take-away.
I think I kind of came in with sort of a different field,
being that I'm more in like country and blues stuff.
It's been really fun to have such an introduction
to, you know, pop music and dancing.
I mean, being kind of stuck behind a guitar
all the time, which is a lot of fun,
but to kind of take that offer, really get into the dance scene
and learning pop from these guys.
You can do both, man.
My friend Justin Timberlake does both.
You can do both.
That's why it's been so cool to have that interaction.
And I think the stories that you're
telling about your castmates, we kind of have the same feel
here, which is awesome.
Good!
And it was great talking to my friends
and learning from my friends about these different things.
And I felt like it made me a more rounded
individual, a more rounded professional,
a more rounded musician.
It made me appreciate art in a new way,
through the eyes of someone who's passionate about it.
I would say 99.9% of my memories that I
love the most are off-camera.
Because again, it's the camaraderie.
I loved hanging out with my friends.
I made life-long friends, you know.
We can call each other at any time.
We still talk about our Mouse Club memories and things
like that when we see each other.
Absolutely. - Really?
Oh, yeah, man.
Because there's a bond there.
You're growing right now.
You have not reached your potential yet.
You are scratching the surface.
You are at the beginning of your potential.
That's what I'm saying.
Learn from each other.
Because you're going to get better every day.
And it's going to be because you push each other.
We've all talked about just like
who's our favorite previous Mouseketeers
from any generation.
We want to know, do you have any favorite Mousekeeters
from any of the generations?
Um, it's tough to say like who would be my favorite.
Because I made lifelong friends.
My first answer would be Justin.
We spent a whole life and a whole career
together, right, so he's my favorite Mouseketeer
because, you know, we did it together.
But all of them.
We're life-long friends.
If any of them need anything, I'm not shy about jumping
into action and helping.
Again, those people helped me be who I am today.
And I will always want to be there for them.
That's it.
You know, it's like we're life-long friends.
That's it.
We're life-long friends, guys.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
I want to see what you guys do.
- OK. - All right.
Let's see it!
All right.
You guys ready, here we go!
Count on Club Mickey to be on your side.
(MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ Ready, set, go, go, go. ♪
♪ Let the rhythm set you free. ♪
♪ Are you ready,
Come with me. ♪
♪ Ready, set, go, go, go. ♪
♪ You just imagine that you can, (together) we’ll make it to the end. ♪
♪Got everything I need, good friends,
(good friends), new start (new start), ♪
♪ Good friends, good times, new start. ♪
♪ Got everything I need, good friends,
new start, (new beginnings), good friends, good times, new start. ♪
Eh!
Let's go!
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
Breathe, breathe, breathe.
Hey, sincerely though, I wish you guys nothing but the best.
Thank you for letting me kind of bum-rush your thing.
You know, again, we are family now.
We're a part of the same team.
I want to see each and every one of you
win all day and all night, and share that with other people.
You know what I mean?
It's like, it's a good thing.
All right?
We are the Mouseketeers--
And we proudly wear our ears.
We mousin’, hey, hey, we mousin’.
And one more time.
We are the Mouseketeers, and proudly wear our ears.
We mousin’, hey, hey, we mousin’!