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Grand Rapids Personal Music Video/Street Party Defies Negative Critics

This lipdub video was created as an official response to the Newsweek article calling Grand Rapids a "dying city." The city countered critics with a music video that displayed a beautiful tour of the city, and the vibrant characters who live there.
The Grand Rapids LipDub Video was filmed May 22nd, with 5,000 people, and involved a major shutdown of downtown Grand Rapids, which was filled with marching bands, parades, weddings, motorcades, bridges on fire, and helicopter take offs. It is the largest and longest LipDub video, to date. 

Over 4 million views definitely proves that this City should not go undermined or unnoticed.
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Vincent Cheng

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December 01, 2011, 08:42AM
All I can say is awesome! An incredibly strong, vibrant impression of Grand Rapids.
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