PCP Flashback – Because We Want To, by Billie Piper.
I’m too excited about this one, you guys.
So I was sitting at my computer, looking through my iTunes, wondering what song I should recap for this edition of PCP Flashback, and came across Day and Night. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love the Day and Night video a lot. Like, a whole lot. I think about Billie’s fierce black eyeliner in that video a lot, even now. Is that weird? That’s probably weird, but it’s true. Oh well. Point is, I feel like I’d maybe talked about that video recently, and then I realised that for the amount of times I’ve seen Day and Night this year (probably more than 4), I hadn’t seen the video to Because We Want To literally since it was a single. I’d forgotten about it completely, and let me tell you, if you’re in the same boat as me, and don’t remember this video, you are in for a TREAT, because it is INSANE.
Now, I’ve started formatting my galleries differently, so if you click the first image you should be able to view them all at a decent size with the captions down below. Let me know if you have any troubles with it, though!
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- So this is how the video starts out. You see a pretty normal looking street, and then a giant spaceship flies down and drops off Billie Piper. I guess that either means she’s an alien or she got abducted.
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- Boom. It’s Billie Piper, dressed in a purple suit with butterfly hairclips and sneakers.
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- So this is what I learnt watching the video: Anytime you see those glowing orb things around Billie, some seriously whack shit is about to happen.
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- Back up dancers! Let’s all get together in the street and do some mad late-90′s choreography! OMG. This doesn’t happen enough in videos right now. Billie’s a better dancer than I remember her being, too.
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- The back up dancers haven’t really gotten into it just yet, but I think maybe alien/abductee Billie is teaching them her 90′s space moves. Pay attention, there’s definitely more where that came from.
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- So I missed the part where there were glowing orbs around Billie for this one, but basically she points at a garbage can and it goes all Alex Mack on her and melts into a puddle.
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- Seriously, this is straight from Alex Mack, am I right?
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- … Except that Alex Mack is a girl who can turn into a puddle and back, not a trash can that Billie’s turned into a trash-can-puddle-man. Because that’s whack.
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- Apparently this isn’t a disturbing turn of events for Billie or her back up dancers, so they just get stuck into the choreography.
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- It’s like a late 90′s flash mob. Billie was so ahead of the times.
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- This move is sick and I’ll be trying it out.
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- Orbs. ORBS! Whack shit alert!
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- I think if I did drugs I’d find this video terrifying.
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- Basically, the orbs appeared, she pointed at the sign and her name popped up. That’s not even the mental part though.
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- This fucking cartoon dude leaps out of the fucking billboard (Billieboard?!)…
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- … and starts dancing! What even?!
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- Better than that, Billie’s like ‘Sick! More people to dance with!’ and gets right down with this come-to-life ad-boy.
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- I actually don’t have much to add for this one, I just think these screencaps are so ridiculous that I couldn’t delete them.
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- Look at all the background dancers, just accepting this as normal.
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- Enough of that, time for MORE CHOREOGRAPHY. Except it’s around now that you realise that she’s just got the one chorus full of moves, and they don’t change, so we’re literally just watching them do the same however many steps over and over.
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- ORB ALERT!
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- ‘Hey guys! Wait for me!’
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- This part is whack because all the back up dancers are gone and suddenly there’s a really bizarre green screen effect going on for absolutely no reason.
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- Basically I left all these in because her facial expressions are amazing.
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- There’s a couple of times during this bizarre segment when she says things like ‘me and the crew there’s nothing we can’t do,’ and points behind her, except that there’s no one there and it’s totally funny.
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- ‘Hey, 3D ad-man! I’m trash-can puddle-man, care to dance?’
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- ‘If you wanna catch this vibe then get with US!’ … except that it’s just her.
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- The strangest dance off in history.
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- … I don’t know who won.
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- ‘Here we are at da cluuuuub, *click* MY CLUB. Called Billie. My name’s Billie. Billie.’ She literally just goes around branding everything, you can tell it’s a debut single because her PR people are desperate.
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- ‘I love when I get to my club and there’s no line, makes me wanna DANCE!’ Also, as a side note, this club looks like P3 from Charmed.
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- ‘We need a bouncer. A RHINOCEROS will be perfect for the job! *click*’
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- ‘See you in there, I’m gonna go daaaaaance!’
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- ‘I’m a rhino… just head on in, I won’t stop you because this is a normal situation and you’re on the list.’
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- ‘Heeeeeey!’
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- ‘I don’t have ID on me but you’re looking kind of… horny… maybe we could work something out?’
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- ‘Yes!’
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- ‘I’m so happy to be in the club that I’m just going to dance in the doorway for a few seconds if that’s okay.’
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- ‘All in a days work.’
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- ‘I’m so excited to be in MY club! Let’s all get on the stage and do the routine we’ve been practicing on the streets for the past few minutes.’ I’m pretty sure that’s the plot of at least one Step Up film, just saying…
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- It’s the exact same choreography, but because it’s in a slightly different location it’s like it’s BRAND NEW!
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- ‘Ooh, you know what? After dancing in my suit all day, I’m actually feeling a teensy bit flushed… ‘
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- ‘… Maybe I’ll take my jacket off.’
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- She’s got a personalised holster. That’s bad ass, you guys.
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- This is literally how I picture my nights out turning out, but instead I just get shitfaced and then I can’t remember any of the sick dance moves that I’ve stolen from The Sims 3. I’m not kidding about that. My sims are the fiercest dancers.
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- These guys tagged along to the club, I guess the rhino let them in…
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- Once again, if you haven’t picked up on it yet, her name is Billie. And the rhino’s not very good at his job.
And that concludes our third PCP Flashback. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! If you have any suggestions for the next recap let me know, too. I’d love to hear your suggestions!
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