Familiar Faces ft. Kacey Musgraves, Demi Lovato & More! ? #DCCMakingTheTeam | CMT

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- We have a country music artist
who I am very, very, very fond of.
She has been around small towns
on merry-go-rounds a little bit.
- [Team] (gasping) Oh!
- She knows a little bit about trailer parks.
She minds her own biscuits.
She followed her own arrow
to Nashville. (women laugh)
Two time Grammy winner, platinum sales, Kacey Musgraves!
(team cheers)
- [Kacey] Hi!
- [Kelli] Hi!
- Kelli invited me to the rehearsal tonight
to just look at everyone, and give my opinion
on who stands out in good and bad ways.
Being from Texas, the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders
are a group of girls that I've always just really admired.
I'm very, very pumped to be here.
Oh my gosh. - Surprise (laughs)!
- Hey!
I'm a huge fan of all y'all, and I'm really proud
to be from Texas, and East Texas, also.
So thanks for having me.
I've been really excited about this (chuckles).
- We want you to see how we take a song,
and illustrate it visually through dance.
- Okay.
("Meet Me On The Dance Floor" by Extreme Music)
♪ Baby, meet me on the dance floor ♪
♪ You, me, are about to lose control ♪
♪ 'Cause I know, I know, I know ♪
♪ I know this is love ♪ (women cheer)
♪ Meet me on the dance floor ♪
♪ Baby, meet me on the dance floor ♪
- Yes, dang! (women cheer)
♪ You, me, won't stop until the morn ♪
♪ 'Cause I know, I know, yeah I know, ♪
♪ I know this is love ♪
- Yes! (team cheers)
♪ Meet me on the dance floor ♪
♪ Get your body on the dance floor ♪
♪ Get your body on the dance floor ♪
- Yay! (team cheers)
♪ Get your body on the dance floor ♪
♪ Get your body on the dance floor ♪
- Yes! (team cheers)
♪ Oh, you know ♪
♪ Get your body on the dance floor ♪
♪ Meet me on the dance floor ♪
♪ Get your body on the dance floor ♪
- Damn. ♪ You know, you know ♪
♪ Get your body on the dance floor ♪
♪ I know, I know ♪ - [Kacey] Yes!
♪ Get your body on the dance floor ♪
(team cheers) - That's awesome!
(all cheer)
(giggles) I love it!
That's amazing.
It's getting a little hot.
That's awesome!
Oh my gosh, okay, Texan dreams have come true.
- Aw! (all laugh)
- I have a surprise for Kelli and Judy.
(team cheers)
I thought they'd really enjoy a pair of boots
from my new line, Kacey for Lucchese.
- Uh uh, stop! - This is one
of my favorite pairs, so-- (team oohing)
- Fringe, woo!
- I'm a big fan of Lucchese boots,
and I know they make the girl's boots.
(women cheer) So naturally,
I thought it would be a great fit
to bring along a pair for each of them
that I actually got to design myself.
- [Kelli] How about we make a deal.
- Okay. - We come out
on stage with you. - Okay?
- If you wear our Lucchese boots
on stage. - Okay!
(team cheers) Done (chuckles).
- We have a pair for you, too! - What?
Stop, for real?
Uh uh!
- There are authentic Lucchese
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders boots.
- Oh my gosh, dying.
Okay, dream come true. (team cheers)
And they're adorable, I'm gonna wear them all the time.
So, it's a super big honor.
(upbeat music)
- My daughter entered a contest
to have Demi Lovato party at our house, and we won (laughs).
(upbeat music)
- Now we're gonna do a run through with the girls.
We're operating on the fly a little bit,
and we are gonna just see what we can do.
- Don't go up until she passes.
Gonna give her the full Dallas effects,
so we're welcoming her with open arms,
just like we do with all of our players on game day.
("Give Your Heart a Break" by Demi Lovato)
(crowd cheers) ♪ Don't wanna break your heart ♪
♪ Wanna give your heart a break ♪
♪ I know your scared, it's wrong ♪
♪ Like you might make a mistake ♪
- Demi, Demi, Demi, Demi!
- Louder, come on, yell!
- [Crowd] Demi, Demi, Demi, Demi, Demi!
- [Announcer] All right, here she is!
(crowd cheers) ♪ Give your heart a break ♪
♪ Your heart a break ♪
♪ Oh, yeah yeah ♪
- How are you guys doing?
(crowd cheers)
Let's do it.
("Cool for the Summer" by Demi Lovato)
♪ Take me down into your paradise ♪
♪ Don't be scared 'cause I'm your body type ♪
♪ Just something that we wanna try ♪
♪ 'Cause you and I ♪
♪ We're cool for the summer ♪
- [Announcer] Dallas, let's make some noise for Demi Lovato!
(crowd cheers)
- Yeah, it's pretty cool. - Thank you for having us.
- Of course, thank you so much.
- Of course.
- I love your outfits.
(team laughs)
- We heard that your mom was a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader.
Is that correct? - Yes, in 1983!
- Wow, I heard she cheered with our choreographer, Judy.
- Yes, she did, she loved her.
It means so much to me that the cheerleaders
came out to support me.
I grew up rooting for the Cowboys, I still do.
My mom was a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader,
so I grew up wanting to be one.
It's cool to see them support me at my house party.
- We do have a special guest tonight,
and I'm really excited, because she's got
chart-toping country hits.
In my opinion, one of country's it-girls.
And so, I think she's gonna bring us
some great expertise on performance.
So, please welcome RaeLynn!
(all cheer)
("Lonely Call" by RaeLynn) ♪ I used to be your 6:00 a.m. ♪
(group cheers) ♪ Hey, good morning ♪
♪ Beautiful, how you been ♪ - Y'all are so pretty!
- She's a cupcake! - Oh, thanks.
I'm so excited to be hanging out
with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
They're such a staple in the cheerleading world.
And to be able to hang out with these girls is so much fun.
- So we took the liberty of taking one said artist's song,
and they girls choreographed it,
and we wanted to show it to you.
- Oh my god, I'm so excited! (women laugh)
("Lonely Call" by RaeLynn)
♪ Just a Monday ♪
♪ Thrift shop couch ♪
- Oh my gosh. ♪ Bowl of Cheerios ♪
♪ It's getting dark out ♪
♪ Clicking my remote to an episode ♪
♪ Of Crazy Housewives ♪ - Hey, hey.
♪ And before you know ♪
♪ I see your face on my screen ♪
♪ That ringtone can only mean ♪ - Oh my gosh.
♪ I used to be your 6:00 a.m. ♪
♪ Hey, good morning ♪
♪ Beautiful, how you been ♪
♪ I used to be your we just landed ♪
- Dancing to a song in front of the artist
who actually created, wrote, and sang the song
was so amazing, just so awesome to perform for her today.
(team cheers)
- Thank you!
Oh my gosh, come on tour with me, I'll take you.
(women cheer) When I saw the girls
performing to "Lonely Call", I teared up.
How long did it take y'all to work on that dance?
- They actually did that on their own time.
That's the first time I've seen it, too.
- That's awesome. - And I think y'all
did awesome. - And the fact
that they took their spare time
in the middle of all this craziness
to do this was so sweet.
- It's always exciting to have great artists
share with the girls their experiences and knowledge.
- All the girls were so sweet, so loving,
and just all so talented.
I honestly felt like I could have had a slumber party
with all of them, they're all so sweet.
(pom poms rustling)
- [Kelli] Oh yeah, that's it (laughs).
- Yes!
- I love to bring in other entertainers
to motivate them to keep pushing forward.
Someone who's a poster child for the come-back kid.
One of the contestants of American Idol,
the winner of Dancing with the Stars,
the star of her own television show, Miss Kellie Pickler.
(team cheers) ("Tough" by Kellie Pickler)
♪ I ain't never been nothing but tough ♪
- Woo! (Kelli laughs)
- Welcome to the stadium. - Well, hello!
Thank you, hey y'all!
Congratulations on making it this far, that's so wonderful!
I'm so happy to be here.
- We're thrilled to have you. - Thank you.
- We think so much of you, A, as an entertainer,
and a songwriter, and a dancer.
I asked Kellie what was harder for her,
American Idol or Dancing with the Stars.
And some of the things that she said to me were so profound.
That's when we thought, "Man, it'd be great
"if you could come visit the girls."
So, I'm gonna let you answer that question.
- Doing American Idol, and then Dancing with the Stars, woo!
Simon Cowell and Len, (Kelli chuckles)
yeah, it's tough.
With American Idol, I got in line
because I was chasing a dream
that would hopefully lead me to Nashville.
And thankfully, it did so.
Idol was a little trickier in the sense of
that's what I was the most passionate about, music,
so you didn't wanna be told, "No."
You don't want to get the boot, you know?
It's a scary thing to put yourself out there in the world
to be picked apart, and that's what you're doing today.
- You're actually here probably one
of the most critical nights
of the process. - And I'm tough.
- And we would appreciate your opinion 'cause we're really,
as you know, we're looking for entertainers.
I think it's time for y'all to take the turf.
- All right, let's do it, let's kick it off.
("Break Free" by Ariana Grande)
♪ This is the part when I say I don't want ya ♪
- On the very end. - Kyndall.
- Does her own thing every now and then.
- [Kelli] She moves like a little girl,
and I want her to look like a pretty girl that she is.
- [Kellie] Haelynn's too fast.
♪ This is the part when I say I don't want ya ♪
- Amy, you're a different person on the sidelines
than you are traveling across the field.
♪ This is ♪
- Brynan didn't have her best night.
She looks a little ridged and awkward.
♪ And I can't resist it no more ♪
(team applauds)
- At this phase of the season, we're eliminating some.
And it's hard.
I don't think we saw totally eye to eye.
- Narrow it down to 10 girls.
It's like if I'm picking guitar players,
I wanna see them battle it out.
You wanna be lead guitar player, show me why.
(suspenseful country music)
Y'all have a hard decision to make (chuckles),
I'm just like, ah!
No matter what you do in life,
you never stop paying your dues.
You never not make sacrifices for what you love,
for what you're passionate about.
You have to work hard.
It's easier to get to the top than it is to stay there.
There's always gonna be somebody a little younger,
a little more in shape, never been injured.
For a long as you wanna wear that uniform
you have to work for it.
Nobody's safe, nobody.
- [Kelli] Kellie, I know I speak on behalf of everybody,
you have won my heart.
You are amazing.
- It's an honor to be here, it really is, truly is.
- [Kelli] One, two, three.
- [Kellie] Being here and seeing the girls first-hand
out here on the field working so hard, so disciplined,
I am so proud of all of them. - Yay!
- I can't wait to see who's gonna make the team.
- Okay, we are going to roll back the rehearsal footage
that you just did.
Pay particular attention to moving down the field.
It is plain as day if your hitting those lines
on four and eight.
Jasmine, where are you?
You'll see what we're talking about in the lines.
Okay, so what I need y'all to do now
is pay close attention to it,
you'll see what we've been saying.
And then we'll start, we'll do the same thing again.
We're gonna do entrances, we're gonna do
some more sidelines.
- [Cheerleaders] Yes ma'am.
- Okay.
Ladies sometimes seeing is believing.
And believing in yourself is the only thing
that will make you successful here in this stadium.
You have been pushed beyond natural limits.
We need you to believe in yourself,
and believe in this team forever more.
Congratulations.
(team cheers)
You have made the 2012 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
(upbeat music) (women cheering)
- I can't breathe (cries).
- I can say I'm a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader (screams)!
- Ladies, tonight is a very, very exciting night.
I'm so excited, we have a surprise for you.
We have a special guest that is joining us tonight.
Dallas Cowboys Head Coach, Jason Garrett.
(team cheers)
- Really, Coach Garrett's here?
Just to be in the same room with him is amazing.
(team cheers)
- Hey guys.
I'm a huge fan of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
They've been a huge asset to this organization
for a long, long time, and it's a real privilege
to be able to come down here and talk to the girls.
- [Kelli] There are our veterans, they're in blue.
And these are our rookie candidates.
They'll know 50 routines before the first game.
- Wow.
- I just wanted Coach Garrett to come in here
and share a few words of wisdom.
Thank you for joining us.
- Okay.
I wanna say congratulations.
It's a long tradition here
with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders,
and it's hard to get in this room.
So, it's a real privilege to do this.
It's difficult to be a world-class performer.
And it takes a lot of people doing things the right way
over and over and over again on a daily basis.
If you come out of our team meeting room,
we have this big sign, it's 4x6, it says, "Mental Toughness,
"be your best regardless of circumstance."
I'm sure at some point Kelli says something to you guys
that you don't really like.
(women laugh) How do we respond to that?
Do we say, "Aw, she's mean,"?
We kind of go into a little shell.
Or do we just throw our shoulders back,
and be our best regardless of what the circumstances are?
And I think if you think about that in your everyday life,
it's a good guide for how to behave,
and maybe more importantly, how to think.
That's gonna allow you to survive
and thrive in a situation like this.
And that's how we define mental toughness.
Our players hear me say this 100 times a day.
So, that's my message for you.
Thanks for having me here tonight.
(team applauds)
- [Emily] I'm Emily.
- I'm Haley.
- [Twins] And we wanna be Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
- [Haley] Pursuing the dream of being
a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader together
is just something that we've always wanted to do.
I think the one thing that my sister and I
have had to overcome is our scoliosis.
We had to wear back braces till we were about 16,
our junior year in high school.
- [Emily] We've just been so blessed and fortunate
to not have to get surgery.
And everything is in place, and staying,
and we're good right now.
We're so excited to be here,
we wouldn't trade it for the world.
- Come on, ladies, let's get it fired up here!
(team cheers)
Come up here, come up here!
Let's get it fired up in here!
Let's get it fired up in here!
Come on, ladies, let's get it fired up here now!
Come on, ladies, are you ready?
(team cheers)
Oh no, I don't believe you're ready.
Come on, show you are, come on!
(cheerleaders cheer) - Move that sheet!
Move that sheet! - Here we go!
- [Twin] Our numbers are on the board.
I think this is definitely one step closer
to making our dream come true.
I feel like this is already such a great accomplishment.
- Hi. - Hi, guys.
Kelli's asked me to work with three of the girls today.
Well, I know this is the time when the stress
really starts to kick in.
You know when one mistake unfortunately
can be the make or break.
- The pressures of training camp
can definitely get heavy on everyone,
so Melissa Rycroft, she's great mentor for us
because not only has she been in our shoes,
but she also has experience in arenas around the world.
- Okay, so now we are gonna dance as a group.
Apply the corrections that we just made.
Make sure you're dancing as a unit,
okay? - Yes ma'am.
- Let's do it.
("Fireball" by Pitbull feat. John Ryan)
- Melissa gave some great insight and advice,
along with Gina, and hopefully I can take
what they said to me today and try it out
on the field tonight.
- Smile, Lily, smile! ♪ Baby, baby, I'm on fire ♪
♪ I tell her baby baby baby baby baby baby baby ♪
♪ I'm a fireball ♪ - Good job.
(peppy southern rock music)