Please vote for Anna N. every day until she wins.
Shamelessly stolen and slightly edited from sushispook. I agree with him and please follow the Chicago model of voting, vote early and vote often...
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'Burlesque' (the movie) is going to be released in two weeks to mainstream audiences everywhere, who will be convinced that what's happening in that movie is burlesque. We all know better. And we need to tell the world. Otherwise, our art form is going to be further degraded, trivialized, bastardized, and vulgarized into something that it is not. But, we have an opportunity to be heard by mainstream audiences, somewhat.
To promote the movie, 'Burlesque' held a dance contest for $5k & a spot on MTV. The 20 finalists' auditions are linked here: http://burlesque.mtv.com/ . They are great dancers, all of them, but only ONE is actually doing burlesque! Our community NEEDS to unite and vote EVERY DAY for ANNA N. from Las Vegas so that she can be the winner of the contest, go on MTV, and actually perform burlesque, instead of modern dance, ballet, hip hop dance, break dancing, popping & locking, or any of the other dancing that the other finalists do.
If burlesque means anything to you, it's imperative that you vote Anna N. onto MTV so she can set the mainstream straight on WHAT burlesque means to you. Please don't let this movie bastardize and corrupt our art form.
PLEASE KEEP BURLESQUE ALIVE!! VOTE FOR ANNA N. at http://burlesque.mtv.com/
And please spread this message everywhere you can. For the record, I do not know Anna N. personally nor peripherally. So I have no vested interest in her personal success, but she is the only voice we have who might be on MTV in the next two weeks.
Let Burlesque be Burlesque, and not the next thing that gets completely transformed as it gets co-opted and re-packaged to sell something to everyone. So set yourself a daily reminder, and oh NOES spend some more time watching burlesque videos & making sure sexy stays fun.
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'Burlesque' (the movie) is going to be released in two weeks to mainstream audiences everywhere, who will be convinced that what's happening in that movie is burlesque. We all know better. And we need to tell the world. Otherwise, our art form is going to be further degraded, trivialized, bastardized, and vulgarized into something that it is not. But, we have an opportunity to be heard by mainstream audiences, somewhat.
To promote the movie, 'Burlesque' held a dance contest for $5k & a spot on MTV. The 20 finalists' auditions are linked here: http://burlesque.mtv.com/ . They are great dancers, all of them, but only ONE is actually doing burlesque! Our community NEEDS to unite and vote EVERY DAY for ANNA N. from Las Vegas so that she can be the winner of the contest, go on MTV, and actually perform burlesque, instead of modern dance, ballet, hip hop dance, break dancing, popping & locking, or any of the other dancing that the other finalists do.
If burlesque means anything to you, it's imperative that you vote Anna N. onto MTV so she can set the mainstream straight on WHAT burlesque means to you. Please don't let this movie bastardize and corrupt our art form.
PLEASE KEEP BURLESQUE ALIVE!! VOTE FOR ANNA N. at http://burlesque.mtv.com/
And please spread this message everywhere you can. For the record, I do not know Anna N. personally nor peripherally. So I have no vested interest in her personal success, but she is the only voice we have who might be on MTV in the next two weeks.
Let Burlesque be Burlesque, and not the next thing that gets completely transformed as it gets co-opted and re-packaged to sell something to everyone. So set yourself a daily reminder, and oh NOES spend some more time watching burlesque videos & making sure sexy stays fun.
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