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How To Dance: SexyBack by Justin Timberlake - from So You Think You Can Dance - SYTYCD (Wade Robson)

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I show step-by-step how to dance the entire 'SexyBack' routine that the Top 4 performed in the finale of 'So You Think You Can Dance', originally choreographed by Wade Robson.

The track won Best Dance Recording at the 2007 Grammy Awards. In addition, the song won Timberlake the People's Choice Award for Favorite R&B song and the Male Artist of the Year at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. The music video was filmed in June 2006; Timberlake decided to work with director Michael Haussman based on the latter's work on Madonna's 1994 music video "Take a Bow". "SexyBack" became Timberlake's first number one single on the Billboard Hot 100, staying seven weeks at the top spot. It topped several of Billboard magazine's other component charts, including the Billboard Pop 100, Hot Dance Airplay, and Hot Digital Songs charts, and entered the top ten on most singles charts.

Information on Sexyback (song):
"SexyBack" was written and produced by Justin Timberlake, Timbaland, and Nate "Danja" Hills. It's showed a daring side to the star. In December 2005, Timberlake began working on his second album, FutureSex/LoveSounds, the follow-up to his 2002 album Justified. Within three weeks, "SexyBack" was one of several songs that were recorded. "It was just an experiment gone right from the sort of synthesizer influence to the distorted vocals", said Timberlake. "It's one of the songs that the more you listen to it its just hook after hook after hook. Its just one of those 'flow off the top of your head' tracks, in terms of melody. According to one theory, this song is about S&M practices, and "Sexy Back" is what the marking on the person being whipped is called. The line "I'll let you whip me if I misbehave" supports this theory. In one interview Justin Timberlake said he wrote this song after being stopped by a fan in airport. The fan told him that he needed to bring sexyback and Justin Timberlake with his funny humer said alright and started writing lyrics for "Sexyback"...In the lyrics he even says "I'm bringing sexy back..."

Information on Wade Robson (choreographer)
Wade Jeremy William Robson (born September 17, 1982) is an Australian born dance prodigy, choreographer, director, producer and songwriter. He is an award-winning choreographer and has directed music videos and world tours for numerous music artists, most notably pop group, 'N Sync and Britney Spears. In 2007, he joined the hit FOX television dance series, So You Think You Can Dance as both a judge and choreographer. In 1986, Robson made his first television appearance on a local Australian talent show New Faces 4 where he performed a dance routine to the Michael Jackson hit "Smooth Criminal".

More on Justin Timberlake and Sexyback:
In another interview, Timberlake said that he modeled himself on musicians David Bowie and Prince, and described the song as Bowie and David Byrne "covering" James Brown's 1970 song "Sex Machine" and concluded with, "That's all of my influences for that song." Timberlake himself said that the song "doesn't qualify as rock or straight funk" and that he was happy with the description "club funk". In another interview he said he was "keen for a new musical direction" following the release of his first album, Justified. "I listened to the radio for a few months and thought, 'All this sounds like shit, what do I want to hear?'. That's really all I did. Everything's got so repetitive, everything sounds the same. I had to create something unique otherwise there's no point putting it out."

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  • do your thing bro..f@ck evryone else...

  • its not talking too much! HES EXPLAINING what to do and how to do it! more like hes explaining so while youre doing this you can VISUALIZE what you need to do AND REMEMBER how to do it based on how he explains...and this is FOR FREE dont moan and complain about something handed to you on a silver platter... shit, besides those who think theyre pro, stfu no one is!

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  • Thank you so much.

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    but u r cool!

  • dont talk too much

  • Again all the haters can suck it up...let the guy talk to his heart's consent >L

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  • WTF????

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  • ppl say you talk too much, but I think it's useful, useful for ppl who can listen and understand, so don't mind others when they say you talk too much, I think you're cool bro ;)

  • Umm... You talk too much...

  • I wanted to learn how to dance so I could do aerobics at home, easily, with my little son around. I couldn't afford a treadmill or dance lessons. It's kind people like you that help people like me stay fit & healthy. Thank you soooo much. Fuck the haters. :-D

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