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Our relatable and hilariously timeless mom moment totally brought the internet together. The actress and singer must have returned from work on a Thursday, child in tow, to find that her daughter had stayed late to accomplish one thing: School mom on the #ChrisBrownChallenge. What happens next, one can only call magical, with a little bit of mom guilt thrown in and geeky remarks about some dastardly figure standing somewhere in the background.
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Sidora literally starts the evening by dancing out of the car with excitement for such an amazing track. Mama just put on “mommy mode,” climbed inside without setting down her bags, and started dancing. The caption is an open wound among the working parents: “Am I the only mommy that feels guilty having to leave my babies to go work? #mommyguilt.” By judging follower’s reactions, it definitely isn’t!
Really, Niy Niy is the true star! Niy is making no jokes about it. She anthem every single step, dressed to the nines with every ounce of attitude, making Chris Brown proud. Comments cleared the way for the mini-mover and shaker. An account put it the best way possible: “Baby mami ATE IT UP!!” Another added, “Baby didn’t miss not one step!!!” The focus and skill are definitely impressive for her age.
And Drew? She really killed it! She’s smooth, keeping up, and that mother-daughter switch-up sync is something else! One fan stated, “Okay Niy Niy got them moves down hunny and Drew just smooth with it.” It’s sincere joy that feels much less like toeing the social media line and more like an honest glimpse into the living room.
Yet this is the internet; what brings joy also brings some questions and a little bit of chaos. The jaw-dropping setting features the unmistakable shape of a bed, and lying therein is… something. Or maybe someone. It’s mostly still, which plunged a wave of inquiries that almost rivaled comments about the dancing. “Who’s that in the bed?” asked one curious follower. Another chimed in, “The way I zoomed in to see who’s in the bed.” Could well be tied for best-observational-comment-if-“Dancing is on point but what/who is that in the bed? Looks like a mannequin” doesn’t snag the best-observational-comment award all by itself. What solving Zuma and bed occupant gainer ever will be remains great unsolved mystery that lends one more half-stab to the intrigue.
Those comments then went down to open the stage for a more serious tone. A random comment somewhat makes valid points: “Why are parents doing this challenge with minors. Has anyone else listened to the lyrics?” The comment then sparked a decent amount of discussion, somewhat agreeing and somewhat dismissing the comment, which highlighted the constant balancing act parents engage in between being very much part of society fun and saying, “Here is some responsibility about what our children engage with.” So here’s a brief but clear flash of reflection in an otherwise light-hearted thread.
In the end, this post hits the jackpot. It is honest. It is funny. It shows this amazing relationship between a mom and her gifted Guppy-lover of a daughter and gives a massive shout-out to all working parents that they’re not experiencing these tug-of-war moments between career and family alone. So much guilt, so many priceless moments in just a second after you walk into the door. For Sidora and Drew, the danced challenge was never going to be just that; it was one of those parenting moments shared with all of us, weird bed-guy and all. And those are sometimes exactly what we really need.
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This also serves as a reminder of Beyoncé’s influence on modern artists.
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