{"id":32724,"date":"2014-11-24T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=32724"},"modified":"2014-11-24T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T09:41:24","slug":"gab-valencianos-super-selfie-style-featured-in-beyonces-new-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/24\/gab-valencianos-super-selfie-style-featured-in-beyonces-new-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Gab Valenciano\u2019s \u2018Super Selfie\u2019 style featured in Beyonce’s new music video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gab Valenciano (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 These days, Gab Valenciano \u2013 dancer, as well as son of Mr. Pure Energy himself, Gary V. \u2013 is perhaps best-known for his \u201cSuper Selfies;\u201d short video clips which feature Gab\u2019s trademark dance moves and offbeat sense of humour.<\/p>\n

Gab began making and uploading Super Selfies in August 2013, and has since developed quite a large following for his quirky, often zany, homemade dance videos which feature funky dance moves and a distinct editing style.<\/p>\n

Recently, a music video uploaded by Grammy award-winning singer-dancer-actress Beyonce had viewers speculating about the similarities of the video’s concept and choreography to Gab Valenciano\u2019s “Super Selfies”.<\/p>\n

The R&B superstar\u2019s music video for her latest single \u201c7\/11\u201d<\/a> had the Super Selfie author\u2019s signature all over it, and fans wondered if Beyonce had maybe stolen the concept from Gab.<\/p>\n

Gab\u2019s posts on social media provide some insight into the matter, and reveal that Beyonce’s new music video was not ripped-off from the young dancer\u2019s Super Selfies; but was, rather, inspired by them<\/p>\n

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Via his Instagram and Facebook accounts account, Gab posted a segment of Beyonce\u2019s video clip, which featured the latter doing a set of dance moves, including the former\u2019s trademark \u201ckneel-and-throw-hands-up-in-the-air\u201d step. He posted this caption with the video clip: \u201cSo this just happened. Still pretty overwhelmed. Check out the whole video on Beyonce.com #blessed #regram @beyonce\u201d<\/p>\n

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On his Facebook account<\/a>, as well, Gab said in a post made on November 22: \u201cHi everyone, this has been a very surreal season for me, and today is quite special. This video, which apparently was inspired by my videos, is now out. I was told that she herself watched my videos and asked to bring me onboard the creative process. Unbelievable. To God be all glory. Thanks for the support everyone! Still can’t believe it. \u202a#\u200esuperselfie\u202c\u201d<\/p>\n

Gab\u2019s aunt, Maria Rita Cecilia Arenas, also confirmed that the moves were not used without permission.<\/p>\n

\u201cGab was officially consulted by her (Beyonce\u2019s) team, so the signature moves weren\u2019t stolen. They were authorized,\u201d Arenas said.<\/p>\n

Gab\u2019s Super Selfies have all together been viewed millions of times, and have received attention overseas, as well. The Huffington Post, just one publication that carried the dance videos, featured Gab\u2019 Footloose Super Selfie<\/a>, as well as one he made with his dad<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA \u2013 These days, Gab Valenciano \u2013 dancer, as well as son of Mr. Pure Energy himself, Gary V. \u2013 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":32726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}