We knew SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE couldn’t go too long without doing some sort of Michael Jackson tie-in and I think taking a number from THE WIZ is a fun way to pay tribute without ramming it down our throats (that’s what she said).
The TV Talk Podcast: So You Think You Can Dance Edition is back! Kath and Dan break down the Top 7 Couples, their performances, the Judges comments, the outfits and whether or not some of these Judges are bangin’.
Kath reveals her Season 5 SYTYCD Boyfriend while Dan reveals how we were almost arrested recording this puppy.
The Top 14 dance for their lives and we decide who should stay and who should really just call it a day.
I know that I’m a really horrible TV Blogger, I get it and I know it sucks. If I’m not gallivanting here or there, I’m too busy doing X, Y & Z or like this past week… packing and moving. That really puts a huge kink in television viewing which then means I’ve got nothing to blog about.
Trust me, it annoys me more than it annoys y’all. The only thing I can tell you is that Kath (GMMR) and I plan on doing another podcast as soon as possible because we know there’s a ton of stuff to talk about.
What are you all watching? What do you all want to talk about? Should we talk about Jason Stackhouse’s abs (TRUE BLOOD)? Thomas Jane’s monster wang (HUNG)? HARPER’S ISLAND’s newest dead weight? Who’ll become THE NEXT FOOD NETWORK STAR? NURSE JACKIE? WIPEOUT?
Oh no, I’ve got it… THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NJ’s crazy assedness! While I love the HOUSEWIVES franchise and thoroughly enjoyed New Jersey’s cast, that reunion show was the most boring thing ever!
You know how Dina’s Husband Tommy has never been on the show? Well I got to see him today! Randomly I turned on the tube for a couple minutes and saw Dina and Caroline! It wasn’t Housewives though, it was a 2007 rerun of MY BIG FAT FABULOUS WEDDING! The show chronicled Dina and Tommy’s $1,125,000 750 guest wedding and it was banoodles! I loved seeing little Lexie, roots for days Dina and semi-Kate Gosselin bad hair on Caroline. No sign of Teresa, Jacqueline or whorey mcwhoresalot Danielle.
I hope to be back to regular viewing shortly, in the meantime thanks for being cramazing.
It’s been two weeks since I last did a post on SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 5 and that’s crazy talk! I was out of town last week and to this day I still have not seen the performances that sent Ashley and Maxim home but oh well, moving on…
This week I hate to burst your bubble but I’m only going to give some quick thoughts on each of the Top 8 couples as I’m moving in the morning. Ducky needs some beauty sleep.
The Guest Judge this week is Toni Basil and I used to be excited to see her but now I feel like she’s turned into a cold uninterested yet unable to criticize bore. I thought hands down this was the weakest set of dances we’ve seen on this show in a while. Most of the couples were forgettable and still the Judges praised almost all of them as if they were blind. It pissed me off. Am I the only one that thought the dances kinda sucked this week? Please, correct me if I’m wrong.
First up were Karla and Jonathan doing a Dave Scott choreographed Hip-Hop routine. I was kind of excited to see little Jonathan try and be gangsta but it fell so damn flat. I thought both kids were off mark and kinda terrible this week. The choreography was also pretty weak but what are ya gonna do?
Asuka and Vitolio danced a Jazz routine by Mandy Moore and I hate to admit it (because you know I love my girl Mandy Moore) but that routine sucked big donkey balls. Asuka & Vitolio were so poorly matched for this style of dance that at times I thought they were in slow motion. They were too quiet and fluid to match the hard edge the song required and I don’t know if it was Mandy’s choreography or their actual technique that was killing me but something stunk to high heaven.
Continue reading my recap of tonight’s episode… (more…)
From time to time Kath and I like to shake things up. We’ll disappear for 4 months without podcasting, we’ll move, we’ll record entire Comic-Con panels, we’ll be Two Idiots Talking LOST and during the summer we really like to talk about SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE!
Welcome to a special SYTYCD Edition of the TV Talk Podcast where Kath and I give our thoughts on everything Season 5!
This week we start with covering the Top 20 performance episode, list our faves, talk about potential SYTYCD TV Boyfriends and finally discuss whether or not the first two dancers eliminated deserved to go home or not!
If you’re a fan of So You Think You Can Dance, sit back and listen to the pouring rain outside the car as we talk enjoy! Yes we did a podcast in a car and yes, it was a monsoon outside!
Last night was the first elimination night of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 5 and as you can see by my late post, I didn’t watch the show until this morning. I know, blasphemy.
To kick off the show, the Top 20 performed a hip-hop number to “Boom Boom Pow” from The Black Eyed Peas choreographed by Shane Sparks! While I love me some ABDC, I miss having Shane as a Judge on my beloved SYTYCD. At least we get the dude back on the show every once in a while! I’ll take it.
GMMR and I were just talking last night about how they got rid of the parter reveal and looky-loo last night they showed us a rapid fire version of the boys revealing themselves to the girls - wait, that sounds dirtier than it was… or was it?
The first three couples take the stage:
Kayla & Max - Safe
Randi & Evan - Safe
Jeanine & Phillip - Safe
The audience flipped out when they mentioned Phillip’s name. I guess his exposure from last season has made him a huge fan fave. After the reveal that all 3 couples were safe, it was adorable to watch Cat just throw her cards in the air (and wave em like she just don’t care).
Next on stage:
Caitlin & Jason - Safe
Melissa & Ade - Safe
Ashley & Kupono - Safe
Paris & Tony - Bottom 3
While I’m not surprised that Tony and Paris are in the Bottom 3, I’m a little shocked that more girls (and gays) didn’t reach out and dial to save Jailbait Tony.
Last group:
Asuka & Vitolio - Bottom 3
Janette & Brandon - Safe
Karla & Jonathan - Bottom 3
While I’m not surprised Jonathan is a bottom (I kid, I kid) - I’m actually completely surprised that he and Karla were in the Bottom 3. What’s going on out there? I guess the little tweens were in bed by the time 10 o’clock came around and they couldn’t vote for the adorable ones? Seriously, is this a dance competition or a beauty pageant? Oh wait, it is about the dancing… (more…)
TV Talk Podcast with GMMR and Ducky is back… well sorta! We know we’ve been gone for a couple months and we’re sorry to have abandoned you all so here’s a little something to tide you over until we can do a real podcast in the upcoming weeks. Thank you all for being patient with our ridonkulously busy schedules and for always being such kick ass listeners.
Well, its the episode we’ve been waiting almost a year to see, the Top 20 of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 5 are set, paired and dancing their asses off for our judgment and hopefully approval! Going into tonight, I was giddy as a schoolgirl with excitement but then I watched WIPEOUT and TOP CHEF MASTERS because I got a little nervous and wanted to ease into the performances. I’m so lame… this I know!
“Welcome to So You Think You Can Dance!” Cat Deeley, I’ve missed you saying that and I love to hear it again! Now if only we can make it through the episode without hearing the audience say “Jidges”…
I love that she came out dancing in some bedazzled spiders web of a dress and claimed that she had “new babies” - she’s sickly sweet and… OH CHRIST she just had the audience scream “Jidges” - curses! Make it stop.
The Judges tonight are obviously Nigel and Mary and thankfully joining them for the first performance episode is The Shankman who’s pulled himself together enough to get on television after his heartbreak of the last week or so. We love you Shankman!
Here’s some previous contestant scoop before the dancing starts: Katee, Joshua, Ivan, Twitch and other SYTYCD alum are in Step It Up 3-D (which is the ONLY way you’ll get my ass into a seat to watch that crap).
Jeanine and Phillip are first with a hip-hop routine from Napoleon and Tabitha. If you’ve been following me for the last couple seasons, you know I cant stand a slow hip-hop and this was one of them. While there were some good moments and some fun choreography, overall I felt that these two are not completely comfortable together yet. Jeanine was actually really good and I found that she was more “on” than Phillip. Shankman praised them to the hills and I’m kinda shocked. I’m gonna rewatch… I still find these two missing beats and out of sync. Am I wrong?
Asuka and Vitolio are next and their matched with Tyce Diorio for a Broadway silent film-esque number. What Asuka lacked in technique with this genre, she made up for it in confidence. Vitolio can jump like a mother frakker and has great control. There was something lacking for part of the performance and I don’t really know what was off. Mary thought it was safe, Nigel thought it was an issue with the expectations of choreography and personality. I think I agree.
Karla and Jonathan (aka pretty eyes but way too jailbait to comment) have the Cha-Cha with Tony Meredith. If you made it through the first part of the dance and all the strobe lights without having a seizure, pat yourselves on the back. Did you see Jonathan’s split through Karla’s legs? HELLO! This is the first well matched coupling of the night but my issue is that the two didn’t have a lot of eye contact and for a sexy dance, I wanted a little more interplay. Shankman liked it, Mary screamed and commented that she likes her cha-cha rough… Miss Murphy if you’re nasty! Nigel keeps talking about how some of these kids have slipped through the radar but he’s the fucking Exec. Producer and he can change that so he’s got no one to blame but himself.
Randi and Evan are up next and I gotta say I’m not a huge fan (on sight) about this pairing. They’re going with a Jazz routine from Tyce which is well matched for my boy Evan so I’m pretty excited about that at least. Wait, Randi is MARRIED? Shouldn’t she be on ENGAGED AND UNDERAGE? Now that I’ve watched the routine 3x, I have to eat my words. Randi is incredbile and fearless. She had no problem throwing herself around and attacking Evan! Hands down my favorite couple of the night! Who knew? Evan is a cramazing dancer and I cannot wait to see him get a Mia, Mandy or Sonya routine because that boy can work it!
Last night, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE announced their Top 20 finalists for Season 5 and aside from a few surprises, I’m really excited for the crop of kids that will be dancing across my screen all summer. Here they are in all their neuvo 80’s and craptastic dance stylings.
The top 10 girls are Randi Evans, Karla Garcia, Caitlin Kinney, Asuka Kondoh, Janette Manrara, Jeanine Mason, Kayla Radomski, Melissa Sandvig, Paris Torres and Ashley Valerio; and the top guys are Kupono Aweau, Tony Bellissimo, Brandon Bryant, Phillip Chbeeb, Jason Glover, Vitolio Jeune, Max Kapitannikov, Evan Kasprzak, Ade Obayomi and Jonathan Platero.
This is it kids, the SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 5 Top 20 were revealed last night and I was out doing my best GLEE rendition of “Don’t Stop Believin’” on Rock Band 2 while you all watched the show! I’m a bad SYTYCD fan… or am I support FOX in awesome multitaskingness? You decide.
Anywhoozle, there were some shockers and plenty of tears and as we saw Wednesday night, they’re not wasting any time notifying these kids which ones stay and which ones go home. Instead of recapping the entire episode, I’m just giving you some of my thoughts as it played out.
That flip/split lovin’ Janette made it to the Top 20, I can handle that. She seems pretty good and god knows she’s flexible. No complaints in sending her to the live shows.
Who is this adorable Diana chick with the Kelis hair? She didn’t make the Top 20 but she got some great feedback from the Judges and girl is green, use it for next season!
Vitolio? Nitro? What’s his name? The boy’s got Joshua’s ability to jump and because we’ve really not seen the kid before, I’m excited to see where his talent lies.
I love that during the “No” montage, Cat was sitting behind that curtain to give each of these kids a big hug. Again, how does she not get nominated for an Emmy every season? I still call bullshit.
Blond Kayla has hair that Jon hates. That’s about all I remember of this girl. Mia went into some diatribe about how she loves male dancers and how its rare she connects with female dancers… until Kayla. That has me intrigued because that’s some killer high praise from my girl Mia!
Pono (Kuponohiipoi Aweau) hit the stage and I almost forgot about the kid. Maybe we didn’t notice him because he shaved off that amazing hair of his. Dammit, that hair was hot business but apparently it was distracting to Mary. Really Mary? That hair was distracting but that cowboy outfit and heinous dye job from the Dallas auditions was fine for you to be sporting? Doubtful! Praise the gods that this kid made it to the Top 20!
Can anyone guess my most hated moments of the Top 20 reveal? Yes friends, that would be the “yes” montage where they just breeze past some dancers we know but more importantly, ones we don’t frakkin’ know yet. HATE THAT! Paris Torres, Jeanine Mason and Ade, Karla and someone named Jonathan got the breeze by (and surely I got some of their names wrong).
They drag little innocent Brandon Bryant out on stage and the first thing said to the kid was that he annoys the fuck out of Mia and that she thinks he’s got an attitude and a fake smile. Wow! Debbie Allen steps in to fight Mia, Nigel gets up in arms, Lil C backs Mia up then Mary Murphy says she can’t sit there and listen to this crap. After all the slander, the kid makes it to the Top 20. When Mia asks what’s gonna happen when they get in a room together all he says is that “it’s on!” Nice!
After the break, my boy Tony Bellissimo heads out to the lions den AND MAKES IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can’t tell I’m excited, can you? Potential SYTYCD Season 5 Boyfriend #1 - check!
Oh Christ, more of the “yes” breeze throughs. Someone named Maxim, the other Kinney girl, Melissa in the tutu, and sweeeeet… dance-kick his partner in the face Jason Glover made it! That’s Potential SYTYCD Season 5 Boyfriend #2 - check!
4 time auditioner Ashley Valerio made it to the Top 20 and does anyone else see a little Jessica Alba and Rachael Lee Cook in her? Adorable!
Kelly PicklerRandi Evans loves a unitard and Mia commended the girl on her commitment to the ‘tard. It was pretty funny. I’m officially dubbing her Randi’tard.
After the break, my boy Alex Wong took the stage and can we talk about the calves on this kid? He is ridiculously muscly and hot while he performs. The fact that he didn’t make the Top 20 because he’s under contract with a ballet company that won’t release him makes me sick. PLEASE RETURN NEXT YEAR ALEX WONG!
“No” montage to Kelly Clarkson’s “Save You” …
And here’s a total shocker… with only 3 spots left there are 5 dancers sitting backstage. No surprise, they’re going to pit The Broadway Brothers against each other because the next to last spot for the boys goes to Phillip Chbeeb. While I love The Chbeeb… nevermind, I won’t finish that sentence. Congratulations kiddo.
Fuck me. The Broadway Brothers (Evan and Ryan Kaspzrak) are pitted against each other and if I’m forced to choose, I go with the younger one Evan. While I realize Ryan has the choreography background and a general ease with all styles, in the footage we’ve seen over the weeks, Evan has the technique and potential. You’ll be missed Ryan. You will be missed!
For the girls, I loved that Asuka asked why the Asian ballroom was up against the blond contemporary jazz girl (Deanna). I’m with ya sister! Moving into the Top 20 will be Asuka!
It’s Thursday morning and I’ve managed to go 11 hours without being spoiled on the first cuts made on SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 5 Vegas Week… that is until someone I never expected in a million years even watched the show, spoiled me on Facebook 2 minutes before I sat down to watch last night’s episode. *shakes fist* CURSES!
172 Season 5 hopefuls are in Vegas competing for a spot in the Top 20 and to help guide us through the Top 20 are the crazy awesome Mia Michaels, Lil C, The Shankman and praise the lord she’s back, Debbie Allen!
The dancers kick off with solos and Alex Wong is first up. He’s crazy manic and tribal and Mia damn near wet herself for the guy. If I’m being honest, so did I… that boy’s body was sick and the control he had over that monster, genius!
Hip-Hopper Tony Bellissimo came with a briefcase, photo of Nigel and plenty of theatrics but I wanted more dancing from the kid. He’s adorable but dance kid, dance!
After the solos, Nigel brings the entire crew on stage and makes the first set of cuts. 45 dancers are gone including Friday Night Lights Travis and some others but there’s not time to cry because NappyTabs are putting the kids through some intense hip-hop choreography!
After the first round of hip-hop, 38 contestants were sent packing. My favorite moment so far is Mia getting nasty and telling everyone she likes watching people go home! Sing it sister. The most shocking moment so far is the reveal of Mary Murphy’s new lips. WTF?!
Day 2 started with 97 nervous dancers being greeted by Jean-Marc Generaux and his flame headed partner (looooves them). Watching people try and do the waltz, people like popper Phillip Chbeeb… it’s hilarious. Probably not so for his partner Arielle but what can ya do?
How much do you love Hiro Nabuya? He actually was really entertaining and surprisingly delicate during the waltz. That says a lot for a popper with a ton of personality and heart (damn kid had me tearing up at his emotional confessional)!
Going into the second half of the day, 16 more dancers were cut and the remaining kids face off with Sonya Tayeh’s choreography! There’s injury after injury, bloody lips, kicked faces and plenty of sweat. Natalie and Brandon Bryant were used as the example for the rest of the contestants and they were cramazing!!! Sadly when Nat got to the actual judging moment she lost a little something and holy shit they fucking CUT her! OMG that was a hot mess and it scared the shit out of the other contestants. She was after all the standard. I need a minute. Damn…
Our final night of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE auditions takes us to Los Angeles and Seattle. As we’re coming to the end of the first looks, I’m sad to say that there are really no stand outs for Season 5. I haven’t been completely blown away or surprised by any of the performances this season and that scares me a little bit. I’m also nervous that a SYTYCD Season 5 Boyfriend hasn’t even appeared for the slightest of seconds yet. I mean, let’s face it… that’s part of the fun in watching the show.
In L.A. Adam Shankman finally joined Toothy and Mary for some Judging action and not a moment too soon. After last night’s Tyce debacle, I need a respectable gay up there holding court! Welcome back Shankman, we love you! Also in the house are Season 4 vets Comfort Fedoke, Katee Shean and Winner Joshua Allen. On with the show…
LOS ANGELES AUDITIONS:
Starting off the night was returning tapper Bianca Revel who looks a hell of a lot like Real World vet Aneesa but taps like Gregory Hines. She’s got a great personality, some killer hair and an adorable Mom. Girl, get your ass to Vegas!
Brynelle and Xaviar Blanton have to be the oddest brother and sister coupling since Angelina made out with her brother on the Red Carpet back in the blood vile days. I loved watching this audition because it was like the two of them examined every contemporary dance routine the show’s ever aired and tried to incorporate it into their try-out. The best part is that they have no training or comfort in their movements. It was so awkward that I had to watch it a couple times. What was with Brynelle’s eye shadow? They’re not really brother and sister are they? Can’t be.
Zaftig Debra Lawson was amazing! She was by no means a great dancer but that girl worked it out and had a blast! I don’t know about that whole Orthodox thing but I do know that she had some good moves. How funny was it when the music stopped and Nigel thought she was done, only to have the song burst to life and Debra spring back into action? Genius, I was dying.
The whole time I was watching 30 year old Calico Sequeria do her swingin’ I kept thinking that she’d be really good in a club or VW hall somewhere and it I had to pat myself on the back when Nigel called her out for being a social skilled dancer. Look at me with my trained eye (riiiight!). Can we talk about how much she must have been dying when Shankman got on stage with her? Oh and I love that his age was listed as 21-ish. Boy can move, no?
International Latin Ballroom couple Asuka Kondoh and Ricky Sun are back for another try. Asuka made it to the final cut in Vegas last year and I really enjoy watching her. Is she as good as an Anya? Not really but girl can move and the camera loves her. The stripper dress was a little much and if I’m being honest, I totally forgot about Ricky. Sorry dude. Shankman’s pushing Asuka down the stairs comment FTW! I love that guy.
Once again they blew through a number of interesting dancers that hopefully we’ll see more from in Vegas and again I hate when they do that.
Jailbait Nathan Trasoras is the first guy in contention for Ducky (and presumably GMMR’s) Season 5 Boyfriend. He’s tall, dark, handsome, talented, rosy cheeked and j’adorable. I watched his audition 3x because it was *that* good. OMFG, I’m dying… he’s only 17 and ineligible for Season 5. I’m so sad. Luckily though he got a ticket to Vegas for Season 6, so there you have it. See you in the fall Jailbait!
Day 2 in Los Angeles brought 19 year old Sammy Ramirez to the stage and he’s a fun popper/locker. The best part of his audition was watching Cat do some wrestling moves. Is he the best popper we’ve seen? No but the kid’s damn good. He’s a Jr. Robert Muraine and I have my fingers crossed that he does well in choreography.
Stacey House was the spaz sporting the Olivia “Physical” outfit and dancing to Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams” and she had me rollin’. Obviously she not right for the show but it cracked a smile on my face and that works for me tonight!
Amanda Kerby is the sickening sweet American girl and her backstory involves a sick Dad with MS. Was she amazing? Hardly. Was she good enough? Sure. I feel like her nerves were getting the best of her because its apparent she has the training but she wasn’t landing everything which means there was something going on.
Phillip Chbeeb showed up and because he got sick last season, Nigel just called him off stage and handed him a ticket to Vegas even though he was there as a couple this season! I love that kid!!! Arielle Coker worked with Phillip and taught him partnering. Their blending contemporary with Phillips’s style was interesting. Thankfully she’s got the skills to make it to Vegas and stand out on stage next to that kid.
The auditions continued with Alexi Agdeppa who had a wonderfully gorgeous routine, Diana Vaden that sauced up what we normally know as contemporary, and “crazy” Chanel Smith joined the choreography crew. Chanel was cut, Sammy Ramirez made it to Vegas as did Diana and Alexi.
Last night the auditions for SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 5 continued in Miami and Memphis. The one thing I hate about locations auditions are the city centric call outs and stereotypical commentary. Enough with the salsa expectations, caliente, local flavor shout-outs. Give it a rest shall we?
MIAMI Auditions:
A faker crack pot named Tony Riendeau did some flopping around on the floor, coined his own style of dance “The Tony” and then proceeded to feign a Mariah exhaustion episode after being made fun of by the Judges. Nigel got a kick out of Tony which pisses me off because he’s so inconsistent. Either love them all or hate them all Nigel (like Simon does on IDOL) because I’m sick of your wishy-washy attitude with the jokester auditions. Toothy ass.
The quirky Priscilla Marrero can thankfully dance better than she can form a sentence. While her grasp of sentence structure and making any kind of sense are weak, her style was great and I really enjoyed watching her. I wonder what’s under that huge tent-like blue dress though. Is she stick thin or stocky like a gymnast? Better yet, is she preggers?
Season 4 rejects Janette Manrara and Romulo Villaverde brought some high energy semi-dangerlicious action to the stage. They had this crazy *pow* backflip split-lift thing that makes me wonder how many of Romulo’s teeth are original because you know that girl’s kicked him in the face more than 100 times or so in trying to perfect that move. Crazy!
Joseph Smith aka Sha-wham did this showy, limited routine that for some reason Nigel and Mary enjoyed but it worked my nerve. Was I the only one that thought he kinda looked like Urkel?
Tapper Erik “Silky” Moore was adorable and his Michael Jackson tap-homage was pretty damn good. His moon walk was sick, right? Even more sick was his worm-reverse worm action. Did he deserve a direct shot to Vegas? I don’t know, I would have loved to see what he could do with the choreography.
I had little to no confidence that pageant queen, Miss Washington Paris Torres, would be any good but her demented ballerina performance was one of my faves so far this season. It helps that it was set to Yael Naim’s haunting and simple version of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” - download it now, it’s cramazing!
I hate that we had limited views of contemporary dancer 19 year old Henry Riviero because his skill was excellent and the boy went straight to Vegas. Same with legs for miles Alex Wong and Megan Kinney (who btw has horribly fried and crispy hair).
The “Pulls at the Heartstrings Audition” goes to Talia Rickards who lost her young husband in a motorcycle accident a year prior to the audition. She mixed some street into her latin and salsa but it kinda bored me along with the Judges. She was good but she’s wasn’t show ready. Regardless, she made it through to choreography and ultimately to Vegas along with 31 other dancers.
The Bad Dancers of Miami:
The Terrible Gaudix Twins not only had bad outfits but bad eye shadow and dance moves. If Wislande Latang isn’t a stripper with her step-ball-change moves, stripper crotch flashes and tits, I’m a 35 year old married straight man with 4 children.
Before moving on to Memphis, can I just say that I’m way over guest judge Tyce Diorio. Right off the bat his commentary was annoying me. He just worked my nerve. He was trying to be funny and quirky and witty but he just came across as immature, fake and performy. Maybe it was seeing him be a douche in the doc Every Little Step that has me down on him or maybe he’s just a conceited asshole through and through, eithe way, how about we keep Tyce behind the scenes from now on? Is that a deal SYTYCD?
The pretty great Memphis audition recap is after the jump… (more…)
I just breezed through the SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 5 Premiere and I can’t tell you how happy I am that the show is back! I know that comes as no surprise to anyone that’s been following my blog for the last 4 years but hot damn, its like I forget how much I love it then, BLAM, I’m sucked right back in.
Tonight, the show started off the audition process in Brooklyn and ended in Denver. Along the way there were the usual dumbasses, deludinoids, and sycophants but I was happy to see that the main focus was on the talented dancers! I swear in years past they’ve focused more on the idiots, the fake-out backstories and the absurd more than they did tonight. If that was a conscious decision, I applaud you FOX. I know people love to see the funny auditions but I’m so over them and hate that by the time the Top 20 are revealed, we’ve barely seen half of them before. Maybe this year will be different. Fingers crossed!
NEW YORK AUDITIONS:
Brooklyn kicked off with an amazing talent in Gaby Rojas who was raised in the circus and brought down the house with her amazing contemporary routine! She claims to have some kind of arthritis (rheumatoid I believe) and I hope that it doesn’t hamper her chances because she was killer and I’d like to see what she can do with a lion and a hula hoop.
On ABDC there have been those crews that can do that whole bone breaking thing. It’s harsh to look at, trainwreck style its a totes fascination to me. Two kids from Brooklyn named Storyboard and Hobgoblin made my skin crawl. While Nigel, Mary, Napoleon and Tabitha shrieked in fake horror, all admitted to being completely amazed by their mutant mutations. Keep it up kids and you’ll be on that other dance show I love… ABDC FTW!
This year’s tap dancing talent wasn’t from some 16 year old fey boy but from some butch ass Rocky Balboa lookin’ Italian named Peter Sabastino. The guy was damn good, too bad he had on the most heinous outfit ever. One of those designer wife-beaters and huge (I’m talking HUGE) boxing shorts with tube socks. What the fug? Regardless, the kid was pretty damn good.
In the video interview with Japanese locker Nobuya I thought he was some kind of Paris Is Burning voguer from the House of Nobuya but he ended up being pretty damn good at poppin’ and lockin’! Who knew?
Arielle Taylor came back for yet another year of auditions and once again was sent to Vegas. I don’t really remember her, do you guys?
The Pot Stirrer and her partner what’s his face… Seriously the spins that Nina Estrina pulled off with her partner Igor Zabrodin were banoodles! While I don’t think they’re anywhere near as amazing as say Pasha and Anya, they may surprise us.
The first really emotional male contemporary dancer was Kellen Stancil who performed with a prop. I’m not a fan of the prop nor of the schmaltzy backstory. Sorry, I’m a heartless bitch, I know.
Chimezie is a kid that much like two kids from Season 4 has a ton of hip-hop skillz and only time will tell if he has the chops to pull off a Twitch (cramazing) or a Gev (meh)…
More Season 5 SYTYCD Auditions continue after the jump… (more…)
It seems hard to believe but my favorite summer show SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE kicks off Season 5 tonight.
Sure, there will be lots of really shitty auditions and we’ll barely see any of the kids that will make it into the top slots but who cares? We get Cat Deeley back in our lives and that my friends… is a good thing (unless she busts out the audience participation of “jidges”)!
Obviously GMMR and I will be doing our best to bring you a crazy amount of coverage and we hope to start up those SYTYCD Podcasts again because let’s face it, you’ve been asking and we’ve got plenty to say about the show.
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