If you love watching Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler belt their hearts out to “You Don’t Own Me” at the end of the 1996 comedy “The First Wives’ Club,” you are going to be locked into watching these three young sisters perform with just as much joy and abandon.
A video of the Meyer girls — Hildy, 5, Hazel, 4, and Ivy, almost 2 — lip syncing, dancing and strutting down the street to the tune of the classic Lesley Gore song earned over 100,000 views on Instagram in less than a week.
Chicago mom Erica Jaffe Meyer was looking for inspiration for her kids’ Halloween costumes when her social media feed was inundated by people reposting the iconic ending of the 1996 as a tribute to Keaton who died of pneumonia on Oct. 11.
“I was engrossed in that, feeling all that joy unlocked from childhood,” she tells TODAY.com. She remembers thinking, “If I can find three white blazers, I think I can make this happen.”
And of course, she located two key items: a Diane Keaton-style wig and wire glasses.
Comments online have been overwhelmingly positive:
- “It’s not even Halloween yet and you’ve already won.”
- “Sorry, but now they have to do this every year until they’re 18. I don’t make the rules.”
- “Diane Keaton would be so fricking PROUD.”
In addition to acting as a tribute to Keaton, the video was also a nod to Meyer’s mother, who passed away earlier this year.
“She was my biggest, loudest and proudest cheerleader,” Meyer shares. “My mom is sort of in this in spirit.”
Meyer didn’t hold rehearsals with the girls. Instead, she simply showed them the video, hoping they would love it as much as she did. Though it was a departure from the girls’ favorite Taylor Swift music, they warmed right up to the song.
When the family happened to have a half hour between activities on the weekend, Meyer dressed the girls up and recorded them. Though she did demonstrate a few steps for them, she mostly just let them have fun with it. “Their attention span is pretty much zero,” she laughs.
“They don’t make movies like this anymore!” she adds.
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