DANCE CHOREOGRAPHER REACTS - XG - HOWLING M/V + LIVE PERFORMANCE + JESS TAKE

[@Kaylawmochi]

Omg thank you Jessica 😭 Glad my Fancam was able to help cuz we need your analysis & breakdown 🫶 and sorry for making my username kinda hard to pronounce 🤷‍♀️ I’ve realized that but too lazy to change lmao

[@jess_holyfield]

OMG KAYLA YOU ARE THE REASON WHY THIS GOT TO HAPPEN THIS QUICKLY!!! YOU DESERVE ALL THE FLOWERS! So happy I was able to get this out!!

[@kepeliboy8987]

@Kaylawmochi is the 🐺🐐- thanks for all the great vids

[@Gizmo_Mogwai_]

It's incredible they always do such intense choreo while still singing live. 🤯🐺🔥

[@jess_holyfield]

@@Gizmo_Mogwai_ always impressive!

[@Sumo1-p8e]

Also this is from another commentor "The director of this mv is Cho Giseok. He's a popular surrealist artist. He also directed Grl Gvng and Woke Up. He's good at blending surrealism and cultural realism in his work. He and XGALX design and production team used CGI/2D/3D to create this masterpiece. It's not all aesthetics either. XG mvs are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. They used a lot of MJ references so you could say that this is like a tribute to him - Thriller, moonwalk, "dangerous", the Earth Song. There are also pop culture references like Princess Mononoke, Hunger Games, the way Harvey stopped the bullets like in the Matrix, GOT wildings"

[@jess_holyfield]

This is such fantastic insight!! Love how all of it blends together with the hybrids of surrealism and movement quality! Means a lot you took the time to share!

[@Gizmo_Mogwai_]

They'll be performing at 2025 Coachella!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🐺🐺🐺🐺

[@jess_holyfield]

Amazing!

[@jonathanwatson5818]

Hip Hop/R&B-inspired girl group XG will make their Coachella debut in 2025 as the only Japanese act in the lineup!

[@jess_holyfield]

@@jonathanwatson5818 proud of them!

[@きょきょきょきょきょきょ]

細かいところまでキャッチしてくれるあなたの解説が好き

[@jess_holyfield]

Thank you for taking the time to watch!!

[@Gizmo_Mogwai_]

🐺🐺🐺🔥🔥🔥

[@scootdog1329]

Appreciate your breakdowns so much! I also like the flowers you give Sienna! Her and XG are so cool.🫡🐺🛸👽✌️

[@jess_holyfield]

@@scootdog1329 Sienna is a personal acquaintance who I genuinely enjoy being around so it is literally no trouble getting to celebrate her 😂♥️✨

[@scootdog1329]

@jess_holyfield well mark one up as another reason you're cool too!😂🫡

[@jess_holyfield]

😂😂😂

[@marimar88]

Always look forward to your breakdown and analysis! I feel like this is the first video we didn’t get any end credits for, but we can highly assume it’s Sienna coded (I would also be shocked if it wasn’t).

[@jess_holyfield]

Loved getting to see this and I have that gut feeling that Sienna was ALL over this! L

[@wifitetangga977]

Awoooooooooo

[@jess_holyfield]

AWOOOOO

[@yasmingiese]

ebaaa xg

[@jess_holyfield]

@@yasmingiese ♥️

[@daggerSLADE]

Thank you for doing this .. this dance is quickly becoming one of my favorites of theirs ..

[@jess_holyfield]

@@daggerSLADE it’s a vibe and feels very Alpha coded as a fan track so I’m glad you feel that way!

[@ek.2533]

Yes a tree! To me they do multiple moves where they reference the movement of a tree. Love that. I’ll be editing this comment as I watch lol. Love your commentary, btw.

[@TheMuffinManCx]

I always look forward to your reactions! The way you breakdown everything! Thank you as always

[@jess_holyfield]

@@TheMuffinManCx least love having you here to be a part of it all with me!

[@alexjone-q8e]

Was waiting for your reaction....again thanks for your thoughts and analysis also the howling choreo at the end....loved it💙

[@jess_holyfield]

@@alexjone-q8e I am delighted that we were able to look and enjoy! Kayla is a REAL ONE for recording! ♥️

[@apa129]

Great you clarified on the terminology on the moonwalk. There is also a move actually called the moonwalk but it's not the backslide or any glide.

[@jess_holyfield]

Thank you for the feedback! I had some comments who actually felt the opposite to my feedback about what it's called, but I know it's a good area to talk about! I know with moonwalking, it's more circular and the lean and weight placement are priorities within the move! Mr. Wiggles does a pretty good job applying it in a polyrhythmic format!

[@yasmingiese]

Começo realmente lembra muito no more dream do BTS hahaha AMEI

[@jess_holyfield]

So glad you also hear it!

[@pistaluv]

Yes to power rangers yes to fantasy 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ lots of anime references mainly princess mononoke

[@jess_holyfield]

Yes! Loved all of the imagery!

[@mnzsthi]

Thank you so much for the reaction!! Very much appreciated the breakdown and details of the choreo!

[@jess_holyfield]

@@mnzsthi thank you so much for taking the time to watch with me! Always enjoy an XG choreo!

[@vitorfreitasdecastro4921]

😊❤

[@Panchii-22]

please watch all of nexz's newest album they made choreos for most of the songs!

[@jess_holyfield]

I just saw their title track MV! Would love to see more soon!

[@JoseRojas-qr7qs]

May have started as being called backslide but, everyone, since MJ popularized it, knows it as moonwalk Right,?

[@jess_holyfield]

@@JoseRojas-qr7qs a lot of the dance scene (street dance scene in the US) calls it the backslide still!

[@jess_holyfield]

@@JoseRojas-qr7qs because the moonwalk is a circular glide . (This type of situation has happened between the moves the jerk and the Reject as well because of a popularized song in the 2010s )

[@ToddBrown-v1b]

Really. Your comment about MJ calling the dance move the moon walk was snarky and so petty it made me nauseous. Such a snarky self righteous attitude. Who gives a crap if you feel the need to correct that. MJ was an ICON and the term "MOONWALK" turned out to be an iconic term. Your so cool. You just had to educate us huh. WTF ever.

[@jess_holyfield]

Hey there. Firstly, thank you for taking the time to express your opinion and perspective, it something I always try to receive regardless if it's positive or constructive. I would like to ask if it was my tone or sentence structure that gave the impression of snarky and self righteous, or if it was that I said that I felt the obligation as a teacher to express that. If it was tone, I can always do a better job of expressing my perspective in a way that doesn't sound condescending! If it was stating my scope as an educator, I don't mind leaving that scope expressed in the intro and just speaking about the terminology and how it was called over a period of time before moving on. If it was the fact I spoke on how MJ misidentified the backslide and called it the moonwalk, I will not apologize for that. I am in full agreement that MJ was such an icon and SUCH a pillar in the dance community to where he provided so much opportunity to street dancers who had incredible investment to the inception of the funk genres that MJ was an artist of, and so if my statement of correction came across that I was anti MJ, I apologize because I feel quite the opposite! I will say that I did say very soon after that statement that it was fine that it happened and that it doesn't take away from the beauty of what this was, the cultural word play of the composition of the track, and the awesomeness that this way. Looking forward to hearing back and I would love to have you look at some other XG choreographies to get a better feel for what scope I was operating in while watching this since at this point I have already seen their documentary and entire discography!