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P-Pop girl group BINI dances to their hit song “Pantropiko.” Shannel Tanggol, ABS-CBN News Intern

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Pantropiko

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fil fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17141034840091714103482800.png" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;width:950px" id="isPasted" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="P-Pop girl group BINI dances to their hit song “Pantropiko.” Shannel Tanggol, ABS-CBN News Intern "/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">P-Pop girl group BINI dances to their hit song “Pantropiko.” Shannel Tanggol, ABS-CBN News Intern</span> </span></span></span> </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MANILA -- Guided by the grip of BINI’s alluring vocals and moves onstage, some 6,000 “Blooms&#x27;&#x27; cheered, sang and danced along to the mega-hit song “Pantropiko” at a mall in Antipolo City last April 20.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Since the stage could not be seen from all sides of the venue, fans at the back failed to get the full BINI experience. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To everyone’s delight, a Bloom stepped up at the back and confidently danced, surrounded by fellow fans who formed a temporary “islang Pantropiko.”          </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The choreography for the song&#x27;s chorus matches its summer and island vibe — arms outstretched a la Hawaiian hula then crisscrossing as if to mimic the waves of the ocean. </span></div><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-0" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3m2fMLvLJ3/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fnews-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A124448%2C%22ls%22%3A124023.69999999995%2C%22le%22%3A124434.69999999995%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="881" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Credit for the viral steps and gestures goes to BINI’s youngest member and main dancer, Sheena.</span></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:300px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1714103419424BINI 2.jpg" style="width:300px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BINI’s Sheena dances and interacts with fans at a mall guesting in Antipolo City on April 20, 2024. <em>Shannel Tanggol, ABS-CBN News Intern</em></span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><em> </em></span></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">But for the 19-year-old Sheena, coming up with the perfect dance combo did not come easy. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A former dance group member and a &quot;Pinoy Big Brother: Otso&quot; housemate, Sheena said she experimented with several backup versions before finding “the one.”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Every night, after training, nag a-ano ako ng ano bang magandang combination.” she said in an interview with ABS-CBN News. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(I would spend my nights experimenting with different dance combinations.) </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><strong>‘KAPIT HANGGANG HULI’</strong></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span> <span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17141034837641714103482090.png" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Screen grab from BINI’s Dance Practice Video. BINI/YouTube"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Screen grab from BINI’s Dance Practice Video. <em>BINI/YouTube</em></span></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Everything started as a challenge to Sheena by one of BINI’s dance coaches, Mickey Perz.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">With promotions for their single “Karera” ending at the time and Perz pressuring her for the choreography, Sheena admitted she was under a lot of stress to finalize the steps for “Pantropiko.”</span></div><div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="3018511"></ivs-player></div><script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">But with the help of BINI’s other dance coaches Matthew Almodovar and Reden Blanquera, she completed the dance. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Napa-send po ako bigla so pagod na pagod na pagod po kami sa training nun pero wala po akong choice kung &#x27;di mag-video na,” Sheena said.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(I was exhausted from training but I had no choice but to send the video.)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To Sheena’s surprise, the draft was approved.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">She later posted a video dancing her moves on TikTok, which started to gain traction from fans, non-fans and even international celebrities.</span></div><blockquote cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@bini_sheena/video/7323188620884757766" class="tiktok-embed" data-video-id="7323188620884757766" id="v26485152049593096" style="max-width:605px;min-width:325px"><iframe name="__tt_embed__v26485152049593096" sandbox="allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-scripts allow-top-navigation allow-same-origin" src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7323188620884757766?lang=en-US&amp;referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fnews-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com%2F%23%2Fworkspace%2Fmonitoring%3Fitem%3Durn%3Anewsml%3Anews-workbench-api.abs-cbn.com%3A2024-04-26T04%3A45%3A53.366108%3Ac65e908e-48b7-4cb1-9a1c-c24267a28591%26action%3Dedit" style="width:100%;height:740px;display:block;visibility:unset;max-height:740px"></iframe></blockquote><script async="" src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js"></script><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As of writing, “Pantropiko’s” performance video has surpassed 10 million views on YouTube, while nearly 647,000 videos using the song as their background music are posted on TikTok. </span></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zx31bB2vMns?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Local and international celebrities including Niana Guerrero, Denise Julia, SB19, former 2NE1 member Minzy and UNIS have participated in the dance challenge.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The P-pop hit has also jumped to the K-Pop world, with fans requesting their biases to groove to “Pantropiko” — among them Red Velvet’s Irene, Enhypen’s Jay and ITZY’s Ryujin.</span></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/2024/4/9/former-2ne1-member-minzy-joins-pantropiko-dance-challenge-1805">Former 2NE1 member Minzy joins &#x27;Pantropiko&#x27; dance challenge</a><br/><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/2024/2/14/bini-gushes-over-irene-of-red-velvet-s-pantropiko-dance-challenge-2243">BINI gushes over Irene of Red Velvet&#x27;s &#x27;Pantropiko&#x27; dance challenge</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><strong>‘NABIGYAN NG JUSTICE’</strong></span></div><div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="3012520"></ivs-player></div><script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Pantropiko’s” success also surprised the team behind the summer love anthem.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Nabigyan nila ng justice ‘yung song (They gave justice to the song),” producer and composer Mat Olavides of FlipMusic Productions Inc. said in a separate interview. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A perfect balance of hip, leg, and upper-body work brought out what Olavides envisioned during the music production process. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For him, Sheena understood the assignment and delivered.</span></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Co-composer Pow Chavez, also from FlipMusic, said the choreography added to the impact of the song.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Malaking bagay kasi when people add choreo, parang nagkakaroon din siya ng something that makes you remember it easily,” Chavez said. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Choreography is a huge deal. It makes people remember songs easily.)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Beyond just singing, BINI’s ability to create their own choreography speaks volumes about their versatility as artists, Chavez added.</span></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/2024/4/23/bini-tops-billboard-ph-charts-with-pantropiko-2124">BINI tops Billboard PH charts with &#x27;Pantropiko&#x27;</a><br/><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/2024/4/19/bini-s-pantropiko-is-spotify-top-song-in-ph-for-april-18-2202">BINI’s ‘Pantropiko’ is Spotify Top Song in PH for April 18 </a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As the craze for “Pantropiko” continues, one more BINI song, “Salamin, Salamin”, is topping charts and owning people’s hearts with its cutesy hand-gesture-heavy choreography.</span></div><blockquote cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@bini_ph/video/7353083286173928709" class="tiktok-embed" data-video-id="7353083286173928709" id="v4782910542585217" style="max-width:605px;min-width:325px"><iframe name="__tt_embed__v4782910542585217" sandbox="allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-scripts allow-top-navigation allow-same-origin" src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7353083286173928709?lang=en-US&amp;referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fnews-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com%2F%23%2Fworkspace%2Fmonitoring%3Fitem%3Durn%3Anewsml%3Anews-workbench-api.abs-cbn.com%3A2024-04-26T04%3A45%3A53.366108%3Ac65e908e-48b7-4cb1-9a1c-c24267a28591%26action%3Dedit" style="width:100%;height:740px;display:block;visibility:unset;max-height:740px"></iframe></blockquote><script async="" src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js"></script><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For the girls, the still-growing fame of not only their songs but the accompanying moves three years after their group’s debut “feels so good.”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sheena said that if she is ever given another chance to choreograph for BINI, she will gladly take on the challenge.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“I just feel like kaya ko pang mag-choreo pa kasi it’s for BINI,” Sheena told ABS-CBN current affairs show “Tao Po.”  </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(I just feel that I can do more choreographies because it’s for BINI.)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Magko-choreo ba ako ng pangit? Hindi.”</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Would I choreograph something plain? Never.)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><strong>RELATED VIDEOS: </strong></span></div><div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="3013294"></ivs-player></div><script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script><div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="3009602"></ivs-player></div><script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script>

<p>Credit for the viral steps and gestures goes to BINI’s youngest member and main dancer, Sheena. But for the 19-year-old Sheena, coming up with the perfect dance combo did not come easy.</p>

Credit for the viral steps and gestures goes to BINI’s youngest member and main dancer, Sheena. But for the 19-year-old Sheena, coming up with the perfect dance combo did not come easy.

Dive into BINI’s ‘Pantropiko’: From one member’s challenge to a summer dance craze

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Dive into BINI’s ‘Pantropiko’: From one member’s challenge to a summer dance craze

ABS-CBN News Intern,

Sophia Potenciano

Published April 26, 2024 12:28 PM PHT

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Updated April 27, 2024 08:44 PM PHT

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