ALBANY, Ga. — This may be the song of the summer and it’s helping kids get ready for the school year.
Two teachers from Monroe Comprehensive High School teachers in Albany are going viral for their version of Jack Harlow’s hit song, “What’s Poppin.‘”
Teachers Audrianna Williams and Callie Evans showed off their dance and rap skills, and enlisted the professional help of Jamel Overstreet to shoot, produce and edit the music video.
“It was very fun, they are both so fun,” Overstreet told ABC News about working with the two creative educators. “It’s very catchy and it’s very different. It was a privilege to work with them. They’re every videographer’s dream, to work with someone that’s going to make your job easy and you just have to worry about doing the camera.”
Channel 2 Action News spoke with Williams and Evans about the viral success of their video.
“We started school on Monday, so that was literally the talk of the town,” Evans said.
The back-to-school rap has a special meaning after their home of Albany was hit hard by COVID-19 this year.
“To get messages from the students saying, ‘I’m sorry, Mrs. Williams, I won’t be able to do my work because I have COVID’ or ‘I’m sorry my dad passed away.’ So it was kind of like, wow,” Williams said.
The teachers looked to inspire and lift up their community but never expected how it would inspire people across the country, too.
“Everybody is, you know, excited about virtual learning, and they are excited about Albany, Georgia, being put on the map,” Evans said.
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To create the video, the teachers and cheer coaches used their squad members as backup dancers to bust out the trendy TikTok dance moves.
“They have worked with these girls for a number of years and they are all used to performing together,” LaKisha Bruce, the school district’s director of community relations told ABC News.
Bruce said that the teachers developed this original video concept together and “changed the lyrics to encourage our students to get excited about the school year and virtual learning.”
With their school district starting at 100% online, Bruce said "a lot of students and teachers are nervous about what that would mean."
“This video was created to calm the fears and nerves of all involved and encourage them to strive for excellence this school term regardless of the online instructional model that we are in,” she said.
Information from Good Morning America was used in this report
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