Charlotte Kids Show 'Panthers Pride' in Adorable ‘Shut Up and Dance’ Video
“We had over 100 students submit lyrics to the song,” said the principal.
— -- These elementary school kids certainly weren’t using their inside voices when creating this spirited Super Bowl-inspired video.
The children at Polo Ridge Elementary in Charlotte, North Carolina, were instead singing their “Panthers Pride” from the top of their lungs to the tune of Walk the Moon’s “Shut Up and Dance.”
“We’ve been doing spirit wear where we wear Panther gear on Fridays to support our team,” Principal Nizy John told ABC News. “We’ve been doing it since the games started and they kept winning and winning and winning. The Panthers have given so much to the community, so we wanted to give back to them.”
The creative kids even wrote all their own lyrics.
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“We had over 100 students submit lyrics to the song,” said John. “They had to do it at home and they brought it in the next day. We had a committee of teachers get together and they took lines from multiple students, then they had two days to learn it.”
More than 1,000 people took part, including teachers and kids from kindergarten through 5th grade.
They’ve even gotten thumbs up from Carolina’s head coach, Ron Rivera, who tweeted the viral video.
With nearly 100,000 views, the mini-Panthers fans are definitely determined to “Keep Pounding” until the big game.
“They are just all smiles. They just don’t even know what to do,” teacher Erin Watson said of the students’ new-found fame. “It’s exciting because for all the elementary kids, this is the first time the Panthers have gone to a Super Bowl.”
And if the Panthers win?
“They’ll go beyond crazy,” she added.
