YouTube Stars!

She has been on the Ellen Show, Dancing With The Stars, Saturday Night Live and The Grammys. YouTube videos featuring her have over 1 Billion combined views. She is 12 years old! This is Maddie Zeigler.

Maddie won't become a teen until this September but she already is famous. Living in the Pittsburgh PA area, Maddie spends hours every day in a dance studio practicing her craft. She has appeared on the Lifetime reality show, Dance Moms, which led to her being cast as the sole performer in the video for Sia's hit song Chandelier. This video has about 650 Million views since it was released last May. It features Maddie and Maddie alone, dancing in a beige leotard and sporting a sharply cropped shoulder length platinum wig with bangs or a fringe as those in the UK call it. Quite amazing dance moves and dramatic facial expressions, which have captured the viewer's attention, here is why!

Sia is an Australian singer who turns 40 this year. Sia Kate Isobelle Furler has been active in the music business since the 90s. She has become very successful, and is in the list of the 100 wealthiest Australians. She has chosen not to show her face in some performances as she would rather not have her personal life affected by her fame. In the recently televised Grammy Awards, she sung with her back to the audience while Kristen Wiig from Saturday Night Live and Maddie Zeigler danced. Sia's desire to not be seen as much has led to Maddie Zeigler being chosen to be the sole performer in 2 or 3 recent Sia videos.

The one video where Maddie is not alone is the video for Elastic Heart by Sia, which also features Shia LaBeouf who was the male lead in the Transformers and many other movies. Maddie and Shia are cage fighting in leotards in this video! They appear in a round cage similar to a huge bird cage, and perform dance/fight moves. Maddie Ziegler is playing the part of a werewolf, and is required to bare her teeth and punch and bite Shia. This video became controversial but further highlights Maddie Ziegler's proficient dance moves. Check this video out! It currently has about 220 Million views since its January debut.

Just 3 days ago, the Sia / Maddie Ziegler trilogy concluded with this third video featuring Maddie in the same outfit. In this video, she is not dancing, but simply gesturing wildly with her arms and hands while making hughly emotional facial expressions. The song is Big Girls Cry by Sia. It starts with Maddie moving her hands around her face but soon turns sinister with another set of hands on her, which then lift her up off the ground! What do you think of this rather intense performance? Watch and see; it already is approaching 10 Million views in just a few days!

Add up the numbers. In just these three videos, Maddie Ziegler has about 880 Million views and counting. Maddie appears in many other videos including her Grammy appearance and episode of the Ellen Show. Check them out here. Maddie Ziegler is bringing new life and excitement to the dance world, and she is only 12 years old! We salute this talented young lady!

Labels: actress, Big Girls Cry, Chandelier, dance, dancing, Dancing With The Stars, Elastic Heart, Ellen Show, Grammys, kids, Maddie Ziegler, Saturday Night Live, Sia

posted by KennyCrane at 4/05/2015 03:35:00 PM 1 Comments

Once Upon A Time, there was a girl named Lizzie McGuire. Lizzie was a teen girl who was sweet but shy and a little klutzy. She had a little brother she often fought with, named Matt. They lived a typical middle class American life along with their mom and dad, who just happened to look like that guy in Revenge of the Nerds. She had a Mexican-American BFF named Miranda and a boy best friend since they were babies named Gordo. This good girl and her nice friends and family got into funny situations with happy endings for three years - then they were gone.

Once Upon A Time, there was a girl named Hilary Duff. She was born and raised in Texas where she took acting, singing and dance classes with her older sister Haylie. Disney found her and made her a teen idol in a very popular show about a sweet, shy, clumsy girl and her friends and family. Hilary also had a successful singing career, with hits like "So Yesterday," and "Our Lips Are Sealed" with sister Haylie. Hilary continued in the public eye in several movie and TV roles. She has never really been gone, but she was less visible as she did other things in her life including starting a clothes line, writing a trilogy, taking up charitable causes, marrying, having a son and separating.

Look who's back with the one of the most watched videos on YouTube last week! It's Lizzie McGuire! I mean, it's Hilary Duff! Hilary has a new song called "Chasing the Sun" from her fifth album. The song and video were released on June 29th, and the video already has 15 Million views! This is a catchy summer tune with a funny music video in which cubicle worker Hilary daydreams about fun in the sun while things go wrong in the office. Check out this great summer video hit!

I thought the music video was well done and humorous, but there is also a Bloopers video! Have a laugh when things go wrong in the shooting of the Hilary Duff music video "Chasing the Sun".

Labels: actress, Chasing the Sun, Disney, Haylie Duff, Hilary Duff, Lizzie McGuire, singer

posted by KennyCrane at 8/10/2014 04:13:00 AM 0 Comments