This year once again, Arlington High School is participating in the lip dub. A lip dub is where a whole high school comes together and makes a video including different people lip sinking throughout the school to a song in a choreographed order, and everyone else in attendance throwing confetti and dancing.
Arlington High School has performed five lip dubs over the years and will be creating their sixth on March 26th. The theme is video games portraying Mario, Street Fighter, Frogger, and Minecraft. Students get to interact and ultimately make a fun experience out of the day.
“We take time out of our day for everyone to be recorded, and it definitely brings you together, because it’s like a group that’s waking up and rehearsing together for something that’s going to be here forever,” Marquell Butler (‘26) said.
It brings a lot of pressure and responsibility. In order to be able to get it in the amount of takes they need to have. Bella Jones (‘28), one of the main leads of the 2026 lip dub said some of her main responsibilities and focuses as being apart of it.
“My biggest responsibility doing the lip dub is just making sure everybody’s in the right spot because when I’m walking through, if someone’s not in the right spot and I run into them, we can’t do the whole thing and we only get two takes. So it really needs to be kind of perfect on the first one,” Jones said.
The song Thunderstruck by ACDC was chosen this year because of its high energy and loud environment. Also having the theme as video games it has a more upbeat vibe and the director Stevie Costello (’26) felt it needed an energetic perception.
“The words are pretty easy to lip-sync. It’s not too fast, not too slow, and it’s pretty high energy, upbeat the whole time and it has a really pretty iconic intro,” Costello said.
The most charitable thing is it will stay online forever and you get to share that with your friends and family. Most of all, it is getting to be a part of something so significant and important to the student body.
“It’s such a fun experience. It’s something you don’t really get to do often. It’s once a year. Kids are going to watch it in like 10 years, when they do another lip dub. It’s kind of like being a part of history in school,” Jones said.
