Dance me if you can

Dance me if you can ist ein Bollywood-Hip-Hop-Stil-Song der The Cheetah Girls und wurde von Walt Disney Records produziert um den Fernsehfilm The Cheetah Girls: One World zu promoten. Der Song selbst landete in den Musikcharts.

Das Musikvideo

Um das Musikvideo zu drehen flog der Regisseur Poel Hoen mit den Cheetah Girls nach Indien in die Udaipur des Staates Rajasthan. Die Tanzschritte des Videos wurde von der Bollywood Cheoreografin Gita ausgetüfelt.

Im Video selbst ist zu sehen wie sich die Cheetah Girls gegen eine Truppe von professionellen Bollywood-Tänzern zu einem Tanzbattle herausfordern lässt, dabei erkennen sie, dass jeder von dem anderen lernen kann.

Der Text

Are you sure that you're up for this?

Do you think that you can handle it?

It's complicated

You might get fustrated

We got the moves that you never seen

Let me show you just what I mean

There's really no chance

That you can do our dance

Can't keep up

Can't keep Up

No

Try to keep up

Try to keep up

Yeah

Can't keep up

Can't keep Up

No

(Oh no, uhum, uhum)

(Oh no, show me what you got)

Try to follow, watch me now

If you think that you know how

Then dance me (Dance me)

Dance me if you can

Get together or fall apart

If you think it's not that hard

Then dance me (Dance me)

Dance me if you can

Dance me if you can

Dance me

Dance me if you can

I know you think that you're in control

But watch and learn

'Cause this is how we roll

Work it just like this

Let's see you trying to do that

What's the matter?

Can't you figure it out?

'Cause you look confuse, mixed up, no doubt

There's really no chance

That you can do our dance

Can't keep up

Can't keep Up

No

Try to keep up

Try to keep up

Yeah

Can't keep up

Can't keep Up

No

(oh, oh, c'mon, c'mon)

(Yeah, yeah, show me what you got)

Try to follow, watch me now

If you think that you know how

Then dance me (Dance me)

Dance me if you can

(Oh yeah)

Get together or fall apart

If you think it's not that hard

Then dance me (Dance me)

Dance me if you can (Oh)

Is that the best that you can do?

You gonna have to try much harder

Now's the time to make your move

You now...

Hey, hey, get ready

Hey, hey, let's go

(That's right)

(Here we go)

(yeah, yeah, yeah)

Try to follow, watch me now

If you think that you know how

Then dance me (Dance me)

Dance me if you can

Get together or fall apart

If you think it'ss not that hard

Then dance me (Dance)

Dance me if you can (Oh)

Everybody wants to win (Wants to win)

If you think that you can handle it

Then dance me (Hey)

Dance me if you can (Hey, Yeah)

Never easy,

That's the way (That's the way)

If you think you got what it takes

Then dance me (OH)

Dance me if you can (Dance me if you can)

Hintergrundinformationen

Um den Film und das kommende Album zu promoten wurden nochmals zwei Musikvideos produziert. Sie heißen One World und Cheetah Love und wurden alle auf dem Disney Channel ausgestrahlt. Außerdem wurden Ausschnitte des Videos in der Fernsehsendung Road to Cheetah Girls: One World gezeigt.

Miss Piggy parodierte außerdem im Jahre 2008 das Musikvideo und sang ihre ganz eigene Version zusammen mit den Cheetah Girls in dem Spielfilm The Cheetah Girls: One World.