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"Cat Daddy" is a 2011 song by American Hip hop group The Rej3ctz. It is based on a dance of the same name and is from the 2010 mixtape ''TheFUNKtion vs theKICKback''. "Cat Daddy" was a MTV Jams "Jam Of The Week" in January 2011. It was released for digital download on February 16, 2011 on iTunes and subsequently charted on several ''Billboard'' charts, including the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where it spent fourteen weeks and eventually peaked at number 77, after being re-released on June 27, 2011. Chris Brown performed the Cat Daddy dance during the ''106 & Park'' 10th Anniversary special in October 2010. Brown was the featured dance performer on the song's official video, which has over 99 million YouTube views. A Cat Daddy 2.0 video by Mario Van Peebles preceded the re-release of the song and was associated with the movie ''We the Party''. Several notable celebrities have been filmed doing the dance, including Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. The dance is described as a combination of buckling a seatbelt and rolling a wheelchair. The song and dance became a viral video in May 2012 when then-current ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue'' cover model Kate Upton posted a video of her bikini-clad rendition of the dance on YouTube, causing YouTube to temporarily ban the video. The propriety of the YouTube ban was hotly debated with articles in many top-tier publications including the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Washington Post'' and the ''Daily News'' as well as leading news services such as ABC News and Fox News. Her video has about 25.7 million YouTube views, . ==Release== The "Cat Daddy" dance was originated by The Rej3ctz group member Reject Sam before the group linked it to the song.〔 The song came from a 2010 mixtape entitled ''TheFUNKtion vs theKICKback'',〔 which is sometimes just referred to as ''The FUNKtion''.〔 In late 2010 and 2011, Chris Brown popularized the Cat Daddy dance after performing it in the official video. On October 6, 2010, Brown performed the Cat Daddy on ''106 & Park'' for their 10-year anniversary show. Then, the Rej3ctz released a video of the song, featuring Brown dancing, that was produced at Venice Beach on or before August 2010. The song was released February 16, 2011 as a music download on iTunes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cat Daddy )〕 According to Thomas Clayton of ''The Daily Rind'', the song had 14,000 downloads on iTunes in its first week and the video had 9 million pageviews at the time. By April 20, 2011, the official video had 21 million pageviews. the original December 2, 2010 upload of the official video has over 81.9 million YouTube views, while an alternate March 9, 2011 upload of the video has an additional 17.4 million plus views. In April 2011, Mario Van Peebles produced a "Cat Daddy 2.0" video that included appearances of several artist playing parody roles of themselves like actor and singer Quincy, rapper YG and entertainer Carlos Olivero. The video was associated with the release of Van Peebles' movie ''We the Party'' and the story behind The Rej3ctz' audition for it.〔 The video shows how The Rej3ctz anticipated succeeding in their auditions, but realized that the competition was stiffer than expected. They were rejected until Van Peebles' kids got Mario to ask them to perform their song and dance. The video was Van Peebles' first music video. The song was re-released on iTunes on June 27, 2011.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cat Daddy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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