With the VMAs airing Sunday night at 9pm, America’s Best Dance Crew (airing at 7pm) will rightfully pay tribute to the legendary music showcase by challenging its remaining four crews to get inspired by some of the awards show's most memorable performances. For this special episode of ABDC, each crew will update a classic VMA dance-driven routine, plus kick off the show with an incredible group performance of ... well, we gots to wait to tell you that until later this week. For now though, g'head and munch on Episode 6's song selections:

AFROBORIKE "Slave 4 U" Britney Spears
MASSIVE MONKEES "Tearing Up My Heart" *NSYNC
RHYTHM CITY "Wall To Wall" Chris Brown
WE ARE HEROES "Vogue" Madonna

After the jump, refresh your VMA memory by watching Madonna's "Vogue" performance from 1990!
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With MTV's Top Pop Group kicking off in less than two weeks, we figured it was time to round up a list of our all-time favorite pop princes and princesses. So here, in no particular order, is a list of the six musical acts who once had us shelling out our hard-earned allowances for a newfangled technological marvel commonly known as the "CD."

New Kids on the Block - These guys were the first -- and, some say, the best -- boy band racket in town. They had it all: the moves, the girls and, of course, the over-the-top merchandising (NKOTB lunch boxes, action figures and onesie pajamas? Seriously??) Yeah, we're gonna ignore their unsolicited comeback and focus on the happier times instead. As in, the days when Donnie Wahlberg was actually considered "the famous one."

Backstreet Boys - Remember when Paris Hilton had her heart broken by Nick Carter? Neither do we! But it, like, totally happened. That said, we'll best remember the Backstreet Boys for embodying all the classic b-band characteristics: the matching outfits, the cheesy choreography, and the requisite "edgy" one (who wore weird hats and had crazy highlights and appeared to the pseudo-rebellious mainstream teenybopper).

The Spice Girls - Before she was the lovely/robotic Victoria Beckham, you knew her as Posh Spice, the girl best known for never smiling, wearing ridiculous clothes and mugging for the camera. (Apparently, some things never change). And despite embracing "girl power," you never did figure out what the hell "Wannabe" was really about. Although you did (eventually) stop coveting Scary Spice's abs...around the same time you found out she got knocked up by professional babymaker Eddie Murphy.

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