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===The Story of Werk – The Blow Off=== | ===The Story of Werk – The Blow Off=== | ||
Four months after she did her “Werk” performance, one of her fans commented on one of her photos on Instagram that Katy Perry just tweeted her “Werk” solo. Little Weirdo went confused to her parents and told them about it. They thought at the beginning it cannot be for real, must be a fake account, started rooting it from internet down to Katy’s actual account and found the Tweet with the link to her “Werk” video and the caption “!!!WeRk!!!” | Four months after she did her “Werk” performance, one of her fans commented on one of her photos on Instagram that Katy Perry just tweeted her “Werk” solo. Little Weirdo went confused to her parents and told them about it. They thought at the beginning it cannot be for real, must be a fake account, started rooting it from internet down to Katy’s actual account and found the Tweet with the link to her “Werk” video and the caption “!!!WeRk!!!” – validated, verified and confirmed – and got really excited about it, while Kaycee (10) had no clue what is going on here and kept it by a simple “Cool!”. But then the parents explained her proudly, that the princess of pop, who has sold over 150 million records, pointed on her video by link to her entire over 38 millions Tweeter followers and many already forwarded it to their followers such as RuPaul and Wadley. | ||
The effect was an instant blow off of the video counter and it got trendy. In these days it might be normal that dozens of dance videos go viral per day, and especially it’s normal for Kaycee that one of her dance performances passed over a million views, but in 2013 it was very rare, and about a non-televised kid dance competition, it was pretty much unique. It got so much attention of public eye that CNN bothered to live interview her. Sadly the entire promotion process is not well documented. | The effect was an instant blow off of the video counter and it got trendy. In these days it might be normal that dozens of dance videos go viral per day, and especially it’s normal for Kaycee that one of her dance performances passed over a million views, but in 2013 it was very rare, and about a non-televised kid dance competition, it was pretty much unique. It got so much attention of public eye that CNN bothered to live interview her. Sadly the entire promotion process is not well documented. | ||
When Shengela Laquifa Wadley visited her at Studio 13 in Simi Valley, they talked about the lot of inspiring comments people left under the video, but actually the milk turned sour very fast. Mean and disgusting comments appeared more often and suddenly her mom had to jump in as personal firewall to protect her daughter from the trolls, perverts, haters and overreacting parents. That’s properly the reason why Katy Perry never tweeted about other kid performances again. But she didn’t need to, after she made together with the Backpack Kid performance already him a Shorty Award winner before Kaycee. Nevertheless, her entire family started to get wet feet, had to learn the hard way to deal with both – fan-storms and shit-storms – and needed to develop an elephant skin. | When Shengela Laquifa Wadley visited her at Studio 13 in Simi Valley, they talked about the lot of inspiring comments people left under the video, but actually the milk turned sour very fast. Mean and disgusting comments appeared more often and suddenly her mom had to jump in as personal firewall to protect her daughter from the trolls, perverts, haters and overreacting parents. That’s properly the reason why Katy Perry never tweeted about other kid performances again. But she didn’t need to, after she made together with the Backpack Kid performance already him a Shorty Award winner before Kaycee. Nevertheless, her entire family started to get wet feet, had to learn the hard way to deal with both – fan-storms and shit-storms – and needed to develop an elephant skin. | ||
Well, the promotion effect didn’t last forever. After The Queen Latifath Show the “Werk” got more and more forgotten. But the credits of her choreographers and family were keeping the train roll forward with new gigs and projects afterwards. | Well, the promotion effect didn’t last forever. After The Queen Latifath Show the “Werk” got more and more forgotten. But the credits of her choreographers and family were keeping the train roll forward with new gigs and projects afterwards. | ||
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It seems some adult dancers got envious as well, who disliked that the choreographers started running around with all these kid dancers, who doesn’t need two jobs, one for paying the rent and one for paying classes, auditions and castings, so there is hardly any time left to take those afterwards and the American dream gets more and more an American illusion. – It isn’t fair! – Nope! It is life. – But most painful is admitting to get envious on a kid, after all these endless declines. | It seems some adult dancers got envious as well, who disliked that the choreographers started running around with all these kid dancers, who doesn’t need two jobs, one for paying the rent and one for paying classes, auditions and castings, so there is hardly any time left to take those afterwards and the American dream gets more and more an American illusion. – It isn’t fair! – Nope! It is life. – But most painful is admitting to get envious on a kid, after all these endless declines. | ||
That’s why it was so important for Kaycee to appear humble and to disprove wrong she ever been charge for. But with Tricia’s influence she started struggling with the contrary of her own existence. - In show business we are nothing without the crowd. If we seek for a cheering crowd, it doesn’t matter it is in class, on a convention, on stage, on TV or by millions via internet, we are anything but humble! – Wrong job. - “Sometimes I’m Kunst. And sometimes the Kunst is me.” (Applause - Lady Gaga) It needed years she finally cancelled that show. –“Loving yourself isn’t selfish” (Kaycee 2019). – In 2013 she found it weird that some others than family and friends wants to take a picture with her. About five years later, the thunderstorm of flashlights on a gala and the line in front of her for selfies, especially with Sean, became normal for her. Some of her friends such as Bailey Sok or Amari Smith were actually fans of her first and were really excited when they got the first time the opportunity to dance with her. Even Sean admired her from the beginning when he saw her on stage competing against each other and her former “partner in crime” Gabe looked up to her as dancer still today. So there is no silent snoopery, no bragging, but after she got famous everyone wants something from her and it was time to flag with an “I NEED MORE SPACE” sweeter to respect the water trench in front of the stardom a little bit more. | That’s why it was so important for Kaycee to appear humble and to disprove wrong she ever been charge for. But with Tricia’s influence she started struggling with the contrary of her own existence. - In show business we are nothing without the crowd. If we seek for a cheering crowd, it doesn’t matter it is in class, on a convention, on stage, on TV or by millions via internet, we are anything but humble! – Wrong job. - “Sometimes I’m Kunst. And sometimes the Kunst is me.” (Applause - Lady Gaga) It needed years she finally cancelled that show. –“Loving yourself isn’t selfish” (Kaycee 2019). – In 2013 she found it weird that some others than family and friends wants to take a picture with her. About five years later, the thunderstorm of flashlights on a gala and the line in front of her for selfies, especially with Sean, became normal for her. Some of her friends such as Bailey Sok or Amari Smith were actually fans of her first and were really excited when they got the first time the opportunity to dance with her. Even Sean admired her from the beginning when he saw her on stage competing against each other and her former “partner in crime” Gabe looked up to her as dancer still today. So there is no silent snoopery, no bragging, but after she got famous everyone wants something from her and it was time to flag with an “I NEED MORE SPACE” sweeter to respect the water trench in front of the stardom a little bit more. --> | ||
To be continued … | To be continued … | ||
==Print Media== | ==Print Media== | ||