The models for The FADER’s Fall Fashion editorial are SheLovesMeechie and TheRealYvngQuan, Atlanta-based dancers whose videos bring to life the lyrics of great songs, and whose Instagram and YouTube channels are becoming a new kind of radio for music to be promoted and discovered on. Cara Stricker photographed that story, and to go along with it directed this dance video, choreographed by Meechie and Toosi, as Quan is known to friends, and soundtracked by Lil Yachty.
Meechie, 21, and Toosi, 19, both began dancing as kids, but neither has formal training. They connected after both had made names on the internet, and are together best known for their innovations on a dance called the Hit Dem Folks, which originated about two hours south of Atlanta, in Columbus, Georgia.
Meechie and Quan have performed with Yo Gotti and Rae Sremmurd, and made a fan and friend in pro football player Odell Beckham Jr. Currently, they’re traveling on Drake’s Summer Sixteen tour, dancing with Future. Their place at that show is a testament to the renewed prominence of dance in rap music today — where songs go viral faster if they’ve got viral dances attached, or at least are enjoyed more. But among the thousands of teens who’ve cammed themselves hitting a hit, Meechie and Tossi stand out because they have star power, radiating out from their big-ass grins. Their moves are democratic, but their happiness is aspirational.
“We make fun. We make it feel like you can do what we doing,” Toosi said in August, in a conversation with Meechie that’s excerpted below. “I'm smiling cheek-to-cheek in every video. Back then in dance, people were battling each other. We're not battling each other. We're just expressing ourselves.”
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Director: Cara Stricker
Featuring: SheLovesMeechie & Yvng Quan
Producers: Naomi Zeichner, PET, VAVLT
Executive Producers: Joseph Patel
Co-Producer: Robert Semmer
Production Coordinator: Madison LaClair
DP: David Vollrath
Steady Cam Operator: Steve Cantrell
AC: Doug Durant
Gaffer: Greg Tango
Editor Wranger: Michael Bell
Fashion Editor: Shibon Kennedy
Photo Director: Frank Seidlitz
Photo Assistant: Jonnie Hokklo
Fashion Assistants: Ian Mcrae & Pauline Seng
Grooming: Colby Smith
Designer Credits: BVNDO, LACOSTE, Nike, Token
Compositor: Michael Bell
Editor: Cara Stricker, Michael Bell
Colorist: Cara Stricker
Music: Lil Yachty f. Skippa Da Flippa - “Good Day”
Special Thanks
Attic Studios
Coach K
Meechie, 21, and Toosi, 19, both began dancing as kids, but neither has formal training. They connected after both had made names on the internet, and are together best known for their innovations on a dance called the Hit Dem Folks, which originated about two hours south of Atlanta, in Columbus, Georgia.
Meechie and Quan have performed with Yo Gotti and Rae Sremmurd, and made a fan and friend in pro football player Odell Beckham Jr. Currently, they’re traveling on Drake’s Summer Sixteen tour, dancing with Future. Their place at that show is a testament to the renewed prominence of dance in rap music today — where songs go viral faster if they’ve got viral dances attached, or at least are enjoyed more. But among the thousands of teens who’ve cammed themselves hitting a hit, Meechie and Tossi stand out because they have star power, radiating out from their big-ass grins. Their moves are democratic, but their happiness is aspirational.
“We make fun. We make it feel like you can do what we doing,” Toosi said in August, in a conversation with Meechie that’s excerpted below. “I'm smiling cheek-to-cheek in every video. Back then in dance, people were battling each other. We're not battling each other. We're just expressing ourselves.”
https://www.thefader.com/2016/08/22/shelovesmeechie-realyvngquan-meechie-toosi-interview-lil-yachty-good-day-dance-video
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Director: Cara Stricker
Featuring: SheLovesMeechie & Yvng Quan
Producers: Naomi Zeichner, PET, VAVLT
Executive Producers: Joseph Patel
Co-Producer: Robert Semmer
Production Coordinator: Madison LaClair
DP: David Vollrath
Steady Cam Operator: Steve Cantrell
AC: Doug Durant
Gaffer: Greg Tango
Editor Wranger: Michael Bell
Fashion Editor: Shibon Kennedy
Photo Director: Frank Seidlitz
Photo Assistant: Jonnie Hokklo
Fashion Assistants: Ian Mcrae & Pauline Seng
Grooming: Colby Smith
Designer Credits: BVNDO, LACOSTE, Nike, Token
Compositor: Michael Bell
Editor: Cara Stricker, Michael Bell
Colorist: Cara Stricker
Music: Lil Yachty f. Skippa Da Flippa - “Good Day”
Special Thanks
Attic Studios
Coach K
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