City of Grand Rapids Responds to Grim Listing with Community LipSync of "American Pie"
Submitted by Steve on May 28, 2011
After Grand Rapids, Michigan found itself listed in January by the news website Mainstreet.org as one of America's top ten “Dying Cities,” (a piece that was picked up and re-printed by Newsweek magazine), the community turned out on Sunday to create a nine-minute, continuous-take LipSync video to the Don McLean classic “American Pie.” It's an impressive, and creative, show of community spirit that reportedly includes almost 5000 citizens of Grand Rapids, all of whom were behind the project enough to show up for the second scheduled shoot (the first was a rain-out) and then find their positions to do five takes of the epic song.