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		<title>Viral Video, Where The Hell Is Matt?, Pushes Song Into Top 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Lewin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dancing, the latest video from Where The Hell Is Matt&#8216;s Matt Harding, has turned its theme song, Praan, into a Top 20 hit. The song, arranged by composer Garry Schyman and sung by 17 year-old Palbasha Siddique, is one of the Top MP3 Songs at Amazon. &#8220;It&#8217;s up over Madonna and Mariah Carey,&#8221; said Siddique [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.podcastingnews.com/2008/06/24/matt-harding-proves-that-you-can-dance-badly-travel-the-world-get-a-sponsor-and-make-enough-to-do-it-all-over-again/"><strong>Dancing</strong></a>, the latest video from <a href="http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/">Where The Hell Is Matt</a>&#8216;s Matt Harding, has turned its theme song, <em>Praan</em>, into a Top 20 hit.</p>
<p>The song, arranged by composer Garry Schyman and sung by 17 year-old Palbasha Siddique, is one of the Top MP3 Songs at Amazon.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s up over Madonna and Mariah Carey,&#8221; said Siddique in an interview with the <a href="http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/23274364.html?location_refer=Most%20Emailed:Homepage:8">Minneapolis Star Tribune</a></p>
<p>&#8220;I was waiting for something like this to happen for a long time,&#8221; said Siddique, 17, a Bangladesh native who lives in northeast Minneapolis.</p>
<p>Siddique was first contacted to sing on the song just a month ago. Within days of her recording the song, the clip was up on YouTube.</p>
<p>Dancing has been viewed over 4 million times on YouTube.</p>
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		<title>Matt Harding Proves That You Can Dance Badly, Travel The World, Get A Sponsor, And Make Enough To Do It All Over Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Lewin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where the Hell Is Matt (2008), above, is an amazing video that follows Matt Harding around the world, doing a funny little dance and getting lots of other people to dance with him. It&#8217;s also a fun example of the power of vlogging and Internet video. Here&#8217;s the story behind Harding and his video &#8220;In [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Where the Hell Is Matt (2008</strong>), above, is an amazing video that follows Matt Harding around the world, doing a funny little dance and getting lots of other people to dance with him.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also a fun example of the power of vlogging and Internet video. <span id="more-4655"></span></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href="http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/">story</a> behind Harding and his video</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;In February of 2003, he quit his job in Brisbane, Australia and used the money he&#8217;d saved to wander around Asia until it ran out. He made this site so he could keep his family and friends updated about where he is.</p>
<p>A few months into his trip, a travel buddy gave Matt an idea. They were standing around taking pictures in Hanoi, and his friend said &#8220;Hey, why don&#8217;t you stand over there and do that dance. I&#8217;ll record it.&#8221; He was referring to a particular dance Matt does. It&#8217;s actually the only dance Matt does. He does it badly. Anyway, this turned out to be a very good idea.</p>
<p>A couple years later, someone found the video online and passed it to someone else, who passed it to someone else, and so on. Now Matt is quasi-famous as &#8220;That guy who dances on the internet. No, not that guy. The other one. No, not him either. I&#8217;ll send you the link. It&#8217;s funny.&#8221;</p>
<p>The response to the first video brought Matt to the attention of the nice people at <a href="http://www.stridegum.com/" target="_blank">Stride gum</a>. They asked Matt if he&#8217;d be interested in taking another trip around the world to make a new video. Matt asked if they&#8217;d be paying for it. They said yes. Matt thought this sounded like another very good idea.</p>
<p>In 2006, Matt took a 6 month trip through 39 countries on all 7 continents. In that time, he danced a great deal.</p>
<p>The second video made Matt even more quasi-famous. In fact, for a brief period in July, he was <em>semi</em>-famous.</p>
<p>Things settled down again, and then in 2007 Matt went back to Stride with another idea. He realized his bad dancing wasn&#8217;t actually all that interesting, and that other people were much better at being bad at it. He showed them his inbox, which, as a result of his semi-famousness, was overflowing with emails from all over the planet. He told them he wanted to travel around the world one more time and invite the people who&#8217;d written him to come out and dance too.</p>
<p>The Stride people thought that sounded like yet another very good idea, so they let him do it. And he did. And now it&#8217;s done. And he hopes you like it.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Pretty impressive for a guy that can&#8217;t dance, huh?</p>
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