Lipdub

Lipdub: Music Video

A type of music video featuring large groups lip syncing and dancing to a song, filmed in one continuous take

What is Lipdub?

Lipdub is a style of user-generated music video that became popular in the late 2000s. It involves a large group of people, often amateur performers, lip syncing and dancing to a well-known song as the camera films them in one continuous take.

Typical lipdub videos are filmed so the camera pans, glides, and travels through the location as different people or groups lip sync parts of the song lyrics. The video usually moves fluidly from one performer or group to the next without any cuts or breaks in filming. This gives lipdubs their trademark smooth, seamless style.

The trend began as videos made for fun by groups of students or coworkers looking to create an entertaining video for their school or workplace. But lipdubs shot in especially unique spaces or incorporating very large groups (sometimes hundreds of participants) have also spread widely online as viral videos.

While the basic style has changed little in the past decade, advancements in affordable video technology and editing tools have helped more recent lipdubs achieve higher production values. But the videos still aim to capture that homemade, energetic feeling that made the trend so popular originally.

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