In Grand Rapids, Mich., they’re calling him a hero, the kid who saved the city from ignominy after Newsweek’s website carried a report that named Rob Bliss’s hometown one of America’s “dying cities”...

...The video, titled “Grand Rapids LipDub,” was uploaded to YouTube on Memorial Day weekend, and quickly went viral, As of Friday, the moving, uplifting and strangely eerie epic, depicting Grand Rapids as a lively, healthy and cheerful community, had been viewed 1.9 million times.

Renowned movie critic Roger Ebert calls it “the best music video ever made” – without apology to Thriller creators Michael Jackson and John Landis.