CLAY: Hey, it's Clay, Director of Video here at STEEZY.CO!
And if you love music AND dance, well,
you're going to love what we did here!
First, let's introduce you to our main characters.
Meet Brian, world-class choreographer.
Meet YAS, and taylor from earth, musical artists.
There are three parts to this story:
One, making music to choreography,
two, making choreography to music,
and three, combining that music and choreography in a music video!
Let's start from the beginning.
We have a series on our YouTube channel called "Reverse Choreography",
where a dancer creates choreography to NO music,
just a metronome!
Then, a music artist watches it,
and creates a track to match the dancer's movement.
So here, Brian made up some moves,
then, Yas and Taylor whipped up a track to go with it.
And then, Brian re-choreographed to the track,
which Yas and Taylor titled "Fool Around".
Here's a snippet of his final creation.
( ♪ "Fool Around" plays ♪ )
"Fool Around" was SUCH a banger that we were like,
"Hey, do you want to actually, like..."
"drop the song-"
"with the dance–"
"in a music video?"
Which brings us to step three,
creating the actual music video with Yas' team,
and, featuring Brian Puspos' choreography.
They added a second verse to the song,
so Brian choreographed to the second verse as well.
And you can watch the WHOLE music video by clicking the link
in the description below!
JOHN: Hi, I'm John, I'm part of Yas' management team
slash- I am her video producer,
slash- everything else in between.
Really excited to be here today,
working with the STEEZY team,
working with Blair, working with Brian,
and putting together-
my first music video that includes choreo!
GRACE: Are you guys rehearsing?
BRIAN: Yeah, 'cause we only rehearsed once.
GRACE: You only rehearsed ONCE for this?? BRIAN: Yeah.
So reliable,
they make my job a lot easier.
Look at them, they're studying!
BRIAN: Whoa!
Who's that?!
[laughs] Whoa!
This is SEXY,
and also, the bar!
[clarifying joke] 'Cause Clay's- sexy...
GRACE: Are you hitting on Clay?
[laughs] BRIAN: I am.
CLAY: You're gonna be playing the f**k-girl,
rather than him being the f**k-boy.
BLAIR: Right, the song...
CLAY: You're going to be entering, actually, in the beginning,
BLAIR: Okay. CLAY: as if they're chilling here first,
and you're going to meet up with Taylor and Yas here.
YAS: Well, this song is basically about, you know,
the age-old.. tale of
going to the bar with intention and purpose to
go home with someone.
We go, and we're looking for something,
and we're looking for something potentially not serious and-
that's definitely like, a lane of its own, you know?
TAYLOR: I like them apart, and then they come together,
and they have this moment, but then it's like, not–
a love story,
and we break at the end.
BRIAN: Damn!! JOHN: Okay!!
BRIAN: Sucks I'm not gonna-
win at the end.
CLAY: The girl is the one who has the power here.
The girl was the one flirting.
The girl- is the one who's inviting.
The big thing is that,
dance-
has the power to either overwhelm
or to be really complementary,
and in this case we wanted-
a POWERFUL dance
that STILL had the ability to complement the storyline here so...
We had really great- uh, motion from Brian,
to just basically speak everything we need to speak-
and a really great performance from-
from Blair, as well, to-
to SELL
the idea of uh- that flirtation.
BRIAN: I'm playing a character of like, a younger me,
how I normally would have approached a woman back in the day.
Uh- so it was fun to kind of, like, be that character again,
and also-
end up with the L, and that's stuff you– [laughs]
JESSIE: Loserrr! [both laugh]
BRIAN: I was just telling-
uh, Taylor, who sings the verse,
how inspired I was.
I actually volunteered to do his choreography
before anyone told me to do it.
It was one of those-
those songs where I was like,
"Even if this wasn't, like, a thing, like, I was-"
"hired to do,"
"I would still choreograph to it anyways."
[crew cheering]
JOHN: Thank you, STEEZY! Thank you.
This is awesome-
let's do this s**t more often.
CLAY: Thank y'all. JOHN: Thank you.
[crowd cheers]
CLAY: And of course, Brian is not just a choreographer.
He's also an instructor on STEEZY Studio,
so he taught this choreography in the video,
to BOTH of the verses,
on STEEZY.CO,
where, you can actually learn it, for free!
NO payment required,
you can just hop over and check it out
by clicking the link in the description below.
We had SO much fun exploring the relationship
between music and dance,
AND being able to work WITH the musical artists
to create something truly unique.
Oh man, we can't wait to do more of this stuff!
Thank you so much for watching,
and, let us know what you thought about this whole
process-story-music-dance-song-video-project-thing
in the comments down below.
We'll see you guys next time!
BRIAN: Yeah? I'm gonna PULL this out,
like so- my right arm out.
Yeahhh!
Yes, this is very different.
Yeah?
Advanced creative–
that's gotta be a new category..
[laughs] on STEEZY.
Right here,
we're gonna go- push this down.
Yes, so taking my right hand,
my left,
is holding up–