April 07, 2007

The Audacity of These People at BET: Breakdown of Top 25 Dancers

In a poor attempt to pay homage to some of the greatest dancers of all-time, BET has constructed yet another menial & disappointing list to add to the archives. If you weren't able to see it here's the list:

1) James Brown
2) Michael Jackson
3) Nicholas Brothers
4) Chris Brown
5) Janet Jackson
6) Prince
7) MC Hammer
8) Savion Glover
9) Beyonce
10) The Temptations
11) Usher
12) Alvin Ailey
13) Jennifer Lopez
14) Bobby Brown
15) Omarion
16) Shakira
17) Cab Calloway
18) Aaliyah
19) Tina Turner
20) Missy Elliott
21) Gregory Hines
22) Rosie Perez
23) Big Daddy Kane
24) Diddy
25) Ciara

Look at this shit, its just a purely shameful display throughout! It started off with Ciara way at the bottom coming it at 25 when she should've easily been somewhere in the teens. Gregory Hines comes in at a lowly 21 right under Missy Elliott??? Are they serious? First of all, how did Missy make the list when she hasn't danced since "Supa Dupa Fly" back in '97? Tina Turner is under Aaliyah at 19 & Aaliyah is under Sharika at 18!?!? That is absolutely crazy considering Sharika has only 2 dances moves! In my opinion, Omarion is one of the illest dancer since Michael Jackson, but he only manages to come in at 15 under Bobby damn Brown of all people. I mean damn if we're gonna have Bobby Brown on the list we might as well have added Kid N Play because they were basically doing the same things. Alvin Ailey was a great in the world of dance, sorry to say he was known better as a choreographer NOT a dancer.

Now lets get into the top 10, MC Hammer was a great dancer, only for like 2 or 3 years and most of the stuff he did is laughable now. I agree he should have been on the list but maybe in the double digits somewhere, not #7. I undoubtably knew I HAD to turn this foolishness off when they had the audacity to put Chris Brown at 4!! Besides the fact that he's only been out since 2005, I guess BET must have saw his 4 videos & one tour as evidence that he is better than everyone to ever dance except Michael Jackson, James Brown, & the Nicholas Brothers. I mean I GUESS some people might see him as a good dancer, but I just see a poor imitation of Michael Jackson. Most dancers are, but he jacks MJ's moves much too often & really has no originality when he dances, merely imitation. Yet and still BET ranks Chris Brown as the 4th greatest dancer of all-time... that shit doesn't even sound right. Then after all that Michael Jackson isn't even number 1! BET should be ashamed of itself for even airing this mess.

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