GEORGIA TEACHERS' COVID-19 BACK-TO-SCHOOL VIDEO GOES VIRAL
GEORGIA TEACHERS' COVID-19 BACK-TO-SCHOOL VIDEO GOES VIRAL
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GEORGIA TEACHERS' COVID-19 BACK-TO-SCHOOL VIDEO GOES VIRAL
Cheerleading coaches and high school teachers Callie Evans and Audrianna Williams can add “rapper” to their résumés.
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The best friend duo went viral after writing, rapping and dancing in their own back-to-school video over the breezy flow of Jack Harlow’s “Whats Poppin” — a viral TikTok hit that peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 this summer.
Williams and Evans first started producing end-of-year jams four years ago when Williams started teaching. This year, they wanted to welcome students back to Monroe Comprehensive High School in Albany, Georgia, one of the regions in the U.S. hit hard by the coronavirus.
The main inspiration, the teachers said, was to motivate students returning to remote instruction.
“We wanted to get them excited about virtual learning,” Evans said. “We wanted to grab the students’ attention, meet them where they were and write about what was affecting them.”
Recruiting the school’s cheerleading team as backup dancers, the teachers rap about overcoming the woes of remote learning and the pandemic — all over a perfectly mulled tone of confidence and charismatic bravado.
"You better pass my class no floppin'/ Gon’ log in, every day, every morning," the teachers rap. "COVID-19 had us stressed, but it’s nothing/ We gon' overcome, that’s facts no bluffing/ Wear your masks, wash your hands, keep a safe distance.”
The entire production — from writing to recording to filming to editing — all took place over the course of a week.