The good news…there are a lot of people joining me in this dance…this Utopia. I gotta feeling that people sometimes look at me like that overly-enthusiastic (read: nutjob) woman dancing alone in a crowd of thousands. The event was Oprah Winfrey’s 24 th Season Kickoff Party. Black Eyed Peas released a tweaked version of the track as their brand new single, which also features Snoop Dogg. Whether you thought the Super Bowl XLV half-time show was good or not, in the fall of 2009 the Black Eyed Peas were a part of a rather fantastic experience. Adam Friedmans 'Be Nice' was the winning track on last nights episode of NBCs Songland, selected by featured artist will.i.am. These kids WILL change the world one act of kindness at a time. Oprah, Black Eyed Peas, and Creating a Feeling. It was a great kick-off to this year’s kindness initiative. Just like watching that Oprah episode, witnessing that kind of energy made my heart swell (even more so when two of the students came over to give me a hug too!). Without giving away too much, he created a “tidal wave” with hundreds of students and a simple gesture. It was a much smaller crowd than Oprah’s audience, but impressive nonetheless.īrian Williams from Think Kindness gathered the students together to demonstrate the power of ONE and “paying it forward”. On September 26, 2016, seven years after Oprah’s flash mob, I was lucky enough to experience another one of those Utopian moments at an assembly at our children’s school. I swear my kids and I must have watched and danced along with that flash mob a hundred times. With tears in his eyes, he commented, “This must be what heaven feels like.” He said it felt like U topia, a perfect world where everyone worked together in beautiful harmony. One man commented that he had never ever felt that kind of energy, that kind of JOY before in his life. I quickly grabbed the remote and DVR’d the show.Īfter the flash mob, several audience members were interviewed about their experience. Balancing Brian on my hip and bouncing along to the music, I couldn’t believe what I was watching from my living room. When the cameras up above panned down on the scene, it literally looked like a wave. This continued until it reached ALL 20,000 audience members. Slowly, and with extreme precision, small clusters of people in the crowd began to join in the dancing. Oprah kept dancing and recording.Īnd, that’s when it happened. The rest of the people in the audience just stood there. It was an unusual scene – the only person dancing to the music, besides Oprah and the Black Eyed Peas – was ONE brightly dressed and overly-enthusiastic woman in the front row.
When the Black Eyed Peas started singing “I Gotta Feeling,” Oprah, bouncing up and down, held out an iPhone and recorded the crowd.
Unbeknownst to Oprah, the audience of 20,000 people had gathered hours before the live show to rehearse a carefully choreographed flash mob as a surprise to her. Live from New York: Mariah Carey, Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa.On September 10, 2009, The Oprah Show hosted the Black Eyed Peas to kick-off her talk show’s 24th season. The BLACK EYED PEAS kicked off the new season of OPRAH WINFREYs daytime talk show in stunning fashion on Tuesday (08Sep09) by staging the largest single city flashmob dance event ever.Without. From controversies to celebrity sofa-jumping, here are some of the most memorable moments from the chat shows history.
On Wednesday, September 16, Oprah reveals untold stories behind her history-making 1993 interview with the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.Īfter seven years, "Tell It Like It Is" Phil returns to The Oprah Show stage to set the record straight and bring viewers the story of a woman whose father is a serial killer. The 24th series began with 21,000 audience members dancing to The Black Eyed Peas hit I Gotta Feeling The Oprah Winfrey Show is to end in September 2011, after 25 years on the air.
The back-to-back, two-day event begins Monday, September 14. Oprah's Exclusive Interview with Whitney HoustonĪn interview so candid, so revealingâ¦it was too big for one hour! Whitney talks to Oprahâand no topic is off-limits. Plus, listen to the special song the Black Eyed Peas wrote just for Oprah! MONDAY AND TUESDAY The performance was at Oprah’s 24th Season Kickoff Party on September 8, 2009.
See what five not-to-be-missed all-new shows are coming up premiere week. I was excited when I found this video of the Black Eyed Peas performing a special live version of I Gotta Feeling for Oprah while a flash mob of synchronized dancers groove on Michigan Avenue downtown Chicago, IL USA. A whole new season of feel good is coming! The season premiere of The Oprah Show is Monday, September 14.