Interview with Steve Ibsen, Kitty Cat Dance creator
Check it out! Here's my interview with Steve Ibsen, the Kitty Cat Dance creator!
Steve Ibsen, pictured with Kayla of the Kitty Cat Dance
UK: What was your inspiration for the video? How did it come about?
Steve: I was a senior in high school and I had just bought a digital camera for a photography class I was in, and the morning before school I was playing with my camera when my cat, Kayla, started doing her usual routine of stretching on her back on my bed. So i took a bunch of pictures of her standing over her then ran off to school. Then in class I was scrolling through the pictures on my camera and I realized that if I jumped back and forth between pictures, it kind of looked like she was dancing which definitely cracked me up.
UK: So from there you wrote the song?
Steve: When I got home, I loaded all the pictures onto my computer and whipped out my guitar and started singing the exact words for the kitty cat dance, wrote them down, then recorded the song on my 4-track pretty much laughing the entire time, then I just made a quick video and slapped it on my website!
UK: How do you feel about the explosion of popularity the video has had?
Steve: I don't know if the kitty cat dance is explosively popular, haha. It is really funny though to be walking down the street and see a little girl singing and dancing the kitty cat dance. I'm glad people enjoy it, it's great to see people laugh.
UK: What are you working on now? Any plans for a sequel?
Steve: I'm actually getting a degree at the Art Institute of Seattle for media arts and animation right now. I've worked on a lot of stuff since then, some of my own creations and a few jobs for companies. And yea actually I did come up with an idea for a sequel to the Kitty Cat Dance, I'm just so involved in school and work right now that its been hard to find the time to put it together, but at some point there will be a sequel to the Kitty Cat Dance!
And there you have it. Thanks to Steve Ibsen for taking the time to chat with us and making an awesome video For more of Steve’s stuff, you can check out www.g-shack.com.
booooooo your music is good
how did you come up w/ uk? how long have josh and you or dave and you have been friends? oh, and 1 more question, how do you choose between ALL those kawaii pets?!?!
I want to know what Steve is singing when he jams out during those stretching poses.
I found lyrics at http://buhsnarf.net/wordpress/2006/01/27/cat-im-a-kitty-cat/ , should help you figure out.. ;]