Screen grab from YouTube video
The show had to go on.
Never mind that the rains threw them off, with missteps and
clueless dancers wondering where to go. Still, the inmates of the Cebu
Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center gave a performance
typical of one of the first Filipino viral video sensations.
But it was unlike their first video, which became a phenomenon not
only because of their synchronized dancing but also because the idea of
seeing prisoners performing Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was so novel at
the time. The first by the dancing inmates has been viewed more than 51
million times since it was uploaded on July 17, 2007 by YouTube user
byronfgarcia.
Now, they were simply riding the tide of Korean superstar Psy's
immense global hit "Gangnam Style," which had had more than 330 million
views and counting.
Uploaded on Saturday, Sept. 29, by user RyanChristopher, the Cebu
inmates' new video shows them dancing to an already widely copied
routine. With several other parodies and versions already
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