Winter Check-in with VBK

After six years, Blake held a winter pep rally on December 19th. With fun games like snatching wigs and musical chairs. We had performances from the Latin elites, a combined performance featuring cheer and poms, as well as the VBK dance group. 

The VBK has performed previously for Blake during the fall pep rally with the song “Debut” by Katseye; this time, they performed “Lalalala” by Stray Kids. Originally, though, “we started with ‘Back Door’, but then somehow ‘Lalalala’ got into the mix.” But they were also thinking about performing “Loco,” but “we’re originally, like, around five members since we lost three people to M.C.” As well as other members being busy with finals. In the end, though, their group expanded to include four more members, and that’s when they decided to perform “Lalala.” 

It took them longer to learn this dance compared to when they learned “Debut”. “Debut” took them 5-6 rehearsals, with it taking two weeks overall. “Lalala” took them a month with 11 rehearsals. The process of preparing for the winter pep rally was “really hard and frustrating. Although we had more time, it was just like, really, a lot of people were more stressed out.” So when asked, the majority of the performers agreed that they preferred the fall pep rally performance over the winter pep rally. 

Almost all the members felt nervous, but more intensely compared to the fall pep rally. Considering all the good things they heard from their previous performance, “many people said it was like a really good performance. So we wanted to, like, put on another good one.” Haley, who is one of the performers, was sick that day as well. During session two of the pep rally, Jasmin felt shocked to hear the audience sing along to the song. 

Despite all of this, they enjoy doing these dance covers and performing for others. Jasmin expressed that “when I joined, I was really excited, because I really wanted to do, like, some sort of dance, and it also helped me make a lot more new friends.”

If Blake were to have a spring pep rally, they would love to perform for us yet again, even if they lose their heads in the process. They would want to perform a Twice song, but would repeat a dance cover from an event that they’re preparing for, as “we wouldn’t have time to practice for anything.” The event that they’re preparing for is the Lunar New Year festival that will happen in February. 

Other dance covers that they wish to perform are from groups like P1harmony, Twice, Illit, and Iz*one. Specifically “Strategy” and “This is for” from Twice, “Billyeoon Goyangi (Do the dance)” by Illit, and “Fiesta” by Iz*one. 

Although they don’t have a specific answer, they would want to attempt to learn a song with difficult choreography. Groups like Enhypen and Exo, where the members tend to get on the floor at some point. Or they would want to try a song with hard foot choreography.

Lastly, for fun, here are some of the members’ ultimate groups and their bias within those groups! For Jasmin, her ultimate group is Twice, with her biases being Sana and Momo. Jaden’s ultimate group is Ive, with his bias being Yu-jin. Haley’s ultimate group is Nmixx, and her bias is Jiwoo. Favor’s ultimate group is Ateez, and her bias is Min-gi. While often not considered K-pop, Lauren’s ultimate group is Katseye, with her biases being Manon and Lara.