IM ON UR HOT TAMALE TRAIN BEIN CHAUFFEURED BY LOSS, or So You Think You Can Dance 5 (starts May 21)

Time for a new one, for to anticipate the new season!

Also, I heard that a certain ilxor auditioned -- I wonder if they'll post...

The auditioning did not happen. Was supposed to be today, but after being hung over all yesterday, my attitude was like fuck it. :(

disappointed in u

booooooooo

WE ARE SHAMING YOU TO GO GO GO it would give you a ready-made backstory.

So, my ex-coworker who went to auditions said that she had to stand outside in the rain for 3 hours, then spent another 2 hours sat down in a hall where they weren't aloud to talk, use cell phones, stand or even WARM UP, before doing a 30-second improvisation before the producers to music of the producers' choice. A lot of the people who were picked to move on were people who totally sucked and were picked as "comedy relief". Only one tap dancer was picked anyway.

So basically, I'm glad I didn't go.

I cannot find my velvet bowler hat festooned with purple glitter and feathers. My eye makeup is all awry. These shiny silver hot pants are cutting into my thighs something fierce. And you expect me to dance?! U crazy.

Will the Rev redeem himself?

You probably could've stood out at the Seattle auditions, mang.

The auditions were mostly good. Seems like a lot of people who were last minute cuts at Vegas last year came back. I'm guessing Natalie and Brandon are going right through to top 20, as a "reward" for waiting the additional year after being the final 2 cuts last year.

I liked the use of the 17-year-old guy as pretty much a promo for next season. Thanks for the plug, So You Think You Can Dance (DANCE Dance dance dance)

Is it just me or was Natalie worse this year than last?

So sad that Natalie didn't make it. And that she didn't even get to dance for her life! I really liked her.

that azn ballet dude is tpk wish theyd shown more of him and less of the goofy bros. feelin the tall crybaby dude tho. but it seems like all the girls they focused on got cut except that jaime pressly lookin blonde chick who im guessin is gonna be cut tomorrow n.e.way

The dark-haired salsa girl is going to make it; she's one of the few from last year to make it back to the end this year.

Asian ballet dude apparently has/had contract issues that prevented him from being on the show.

Picking only one of the goofy bros is strike me as being blatantly unfair, kind of like picking between Katie and Natalie last year struck me as being blatantly unfair (btw Natalie's elimination? I saw it coming but it was pretty unfair, esp. since they bent over backwards to give the just-okay-dawg white popper multiple second chances; also wtf why do they hate tap dancers so much although yes Bianca stank at the contemporary routine).

I'd think including both Broadway brothers would be redundant, I didn't see too much difference between them. Asian ballet guy (Alex?) was pretty great and I hope he comes back.

Caitlin looks like she will be an emotional wreck a la Brooke White. The ballroom dancers (Janette, Asuka, Maksim) seem pretty good this year too.

Also major laughs at Lil' C saying "the buck stops here."

why was that episode a full hour? and we didnt even get to see like half the top 20? lol @ my predictive powers tho

Picking only one of the goofy bros is strike me as being blatantly unfair

If they'd both gone through, though, they would have split the vote for those who like goofy old-school masculine dance types, and we wouldn't have gotten as many weeks with either, and that would have made me sad, because ... well, especially with the older one, I liked the injection into this show of a short, muscly, hairy, sweaty, balding, testosteroney man dancing in the last style really designed to flatter stocky, masculine, hairy-backed types of men. (Okay that's not entirely true but you know what I mean.)

I totally loled at "the buck stops here" for sure -- I'm not even sure that was intentional

yah it seems really obv why theyd only need one of those dudes and also kind of obv that theyd pick the less bald one even if he is a little frogfaced.

mostly disappointed that there arent more hip hop dancers

Baldo would've totally worked better for the show -- he's the bro who can actually string together new sentences.

looking forward to when mia michaels gets to choreograph brandon and he does exactly what she wants and she still hates him

was totally pulling for asuka's partner ricky btw, he never got featured really in the vegas week stuff but if you watched him in the background while they were showing tony bellissimo and dems he was pretty strong...plus i just hated the way they treated him at the audition

So maybe I'm in "SQUEEE" mode but... I though that eight of those performances were fantastic...?

eight of those performances were fantastic

Which two disappointed you?

I thought the weakest performers were Jonathan (who will probably stick around based on cuteness) and Tony (ditto?). Asuka and Vitolio got stuck with the worst choreography, but Asuka was still hot stuff; Vitolio not so much.
Best for me were Ade and Melissa, Evan (with Randi along for the ride), Jason and Caitlin, and Kupono and Ashley. Kupono's dancing and personality remind me of Mark Kanemura (who I ultimately felt had limited range and technique).

General comments about this show:

I'm almost always impressed by the quality of the choreography, and I almost always find the improvised solos dull and predictable in comparison.

And on a more confessional note, I tend to find the boys much more memorable and distinctive than the girls each season. I assume this is only because I'm a gay man.

Asuka and Vitolio were hit with the Tyce Stick Of Doom and, as a result, sucked. The other low performance was Paris & Tony, although I'd be surprised if either of them went home due to the WAU HOTT factor (especially her, and especially considering she outdanced him in his own style; if the public doesn't go for them, he's likely to get a pass since they always give the "needs improvement" dancer one freebie). The other bottom three performance (IMO) should be Jonathan & Karla.

Your top 4 and my top 4 are the same; I also was a big fan of Brandon & Janette and Max & Kayla.

thread title = genius

i've been meaning to chime in on this for weeks, somehow haven't gotten a chance til now.

with like maybe 2 exceptions, a solid top 20 this year, huh?

i cant believe u guyz know names already!

wade robson routine was best i think altho nothing 2 match the triplets of belville one other than that they all kind of faded a little. oh hip hop to ne-yo was rad as well. HATED the bollywood routine tho

lol @ judges self-congratulations thnk the light 4 >>

I am still absorbing names, due to referring to half of them by nickname; e.g. I guess people like him but I cannot help thinking of that one tall guy as Cannon Fodder for the early rounds. (NB I also have an irrational hatred of the boyband-looking kid who seems to think he's all smooth and sexy and keeps winking and generally impersonating LL Cool J.)

I see now why certain judges thought Brandon was offputtingly cocky -- I mean geez, look at the move he chose for the intro! Also after last night I like Ashley a lot; before, I kept wondering what it was about her face that seemed so strangely non-dancer-like, but then even as a dummy she used her face really interestingly, and something about that is fascinating me. Max & Kayla seem like they're going to wind up a power couple right up until Max starts seeming like a burden. And Paris doing hip-hop seemed better than any of the styles she's actually meant to be strong in!

Boyband-looking kid hasn't even yet grown adult-sized nipples, he needs to chill out with being smooth

Don't be fooled, I'm googling heavily! The only names I remembered going into the episode were Phillip, Brandon, Max, Kupono and Asuka; I didn't remember the names of half of the dancers I remembered seeing during the auditions (Evan, Janette, Kayla, Caitlin, Jason, Tony).

Which one is "boyband-looking kid"?

btw: woah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXph1yLyHdM

if the boyband dude is tony - one of the few names i remember! - then yah hes kind of off-putting but so clearly pretty i think hell stick around

Boyband due is Jonathan.

For your reference:
http://pnauert.googlepages.com/sytycd.jpg

due->dude

website indicates boyband kid is Jonathan, and Tony is the one I think of as "Cannon Fodder"

btw if Kayla's grandfather was crying over her routine with Max, I'm guessing part of it might have been for different reasons than at the audition

oh yeah, HIM

I want him and Karla gone; I thought their dance sucked and, unlike Vitolio and Asuka, they weren't hamstring by horrifying choreography.

ps: holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z4rdaW9y5A

I'm so looking forward to the "Anticipate TWITCH IN 3-D" thread

haha yes!

btw, the lift at the end of this is WTF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMJuyMsXAXo

no1 is stopping u go ahead and start it xpost

that mandy moore routine was pretty good and i def vibe the ballerina chick good couple. okay boyband = jonathon = see thru shirt = gross okay getting the hang of this

I don't mean to dwell on this but his nipples are like the size of his pupils, and I choose to pretend this means he has not yet reached maturity and should not wink at anyone

btw I hated this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkhAjO7FJyk

I admit I was lolling at Mary going "you guys sucked but it was fun"

Man, I was talking about Mary's botoxiness all night before she joked about it -- she screams all the time because she has no other available mode of expression from her head region, right? (Also possibly because she clearly loads up on drinks for the dance nights.)

hah yah her making that botox joke almost made up for the sheer unwatchableness of the rest of the judging altho usually the clubby insanity of the show and cat deeley are basically the greatest

I am forever on the lookout for an eligible bachelor named Mr. Bobber for Cat Deeley to wind up married to

they usually do incude a top 2 guys head to head (remember that dueling princes one?). but i don't think it matters. they're gonna have to hope that ade's and melissa's voters defect to brandon or someone else bc i think if any of them go to evan, he will win.

another thing, i loved kayla but now i'm bored by her. if she could only do choreography and never her own solos, i'd like her better. her solos are just... lame.

who?
xpost

She did Jeanine and Brandon's combat war routine and totally got in Jeanine's grill during rehearsals.

The thing about Evan is that he guarantees that I'm going to vote for Brandon no matter what either of them do next week.

yeah, but i think the flip side to that is that none of evan's current voters are gonna defect.

i can't vote.
i feel like a convicted felon or something.

I actually can't tell about Brandon's votership versus Evan's -- he was only ever on the bottom of anything once, right? Hard to remember. I was sort of hoping that vote totals for women turn out to be much higher than voting for guys, but based on previous-season turnouts I guess there's no reason to imagine that.

basically if Evan wins I think they should just cancel the show

btw is that one bigger lady in the audience Kayla's mom?

grandma?
didn't she have a weird sob story?

well the grandparents who raised her were there for most of it -- they were sorta appropriately vague about what was up with her mother -- and now lately there's been a woman in a big black shirt as the Kayla's-family go-to, so...

cool, Kayla's mom likes Big Black

Re: Schwimmers - To me, I felt Lacey was different enough from Benji that it didn't matter so much that they were siblings.

their different sexes probably didn't hurt that

kayla is the tallest person in the final 4

i want to say she's my favorite except she danced to that fucking fray song

thing is, evan is a pretty great dancer, but his face is just terrible

Surprised Ellen didn't call him out on taking "performance enhancing mugs." (cue heavy laughter from the rest of the judges)

@ this point whoever wins we all lose imo

i want to say she's my favorite except she danced to that fucking fray song

Is this better, nza?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-IKuruGQ28

In the event that someone manages to interview (or, at least, ask one question) to judges, Cat, the final four dancers, what questions would you like to have asked?

ask them if they can get tyce fired. i watched the performance show yesterday and was struck again by how terrible his routines are. the going to the chapel one was ridic so formless and pointless. and it didnt really make sense given the context ~~ shouldnt it have been urgent and tense? bah he sux

that IS a great question.

also pls to ask: why won't you make anyone dance real hip hop???

Beatrix, judging from the crowd reaction, I'd say find a nice length of rope/I hear Vancouver is nice in the fall.

Hah, Steve Reich.

Bombastic finale, but pretty awesome. Yes, Evan was "thrown under a bus" by the judges & routines, and the showcase Paso Doble piece was given to the two dancers who'd most likely excel at it, but I still have no idea how this is going to go down. Kayla showing personality too? What the.

Jeanine's pirouette where she gradually slows down and stops on a dime = incredible

the evan chant had me a little nervous that white blightning is going to take it all.

Jeanine's pirouette where she gradually slows down and stops on a dime = incredible

Holy fuck yes.

The main thing I took away from the finale was how much more they wanted Ade there instead of Evan.

FINGERS CROSSED - voted about 20 times for B and maybe 10 times for J

oh, who am i kidding, that wasn't enough to keep Evan from walking off with that thing

i love the underhanded/talking-outta-side-of-mouth way all the judges were like "EVAN U POPULAR LOL"

It's too bad* Adam Shenkman is too busy to be a full-time judge on this show because he is much more coherent than Mary and about a bazillion times less annoying.

* - lol not really, congrats on yr successful career Adam

I couldn't count the number of times the judges gave Evan some vague compliment and then mentioned that his partner was awesome. It's like they are afraid of saying too much bad about Evan, lest America underdog him into first place. It doesn't matter, I think he'll win anyway, judging by the enormous crowd support for him at the show. But I thought he was clearly outmatched by everyone he danced with yesterday, just like the last few weeks.

I thought Evan did really well last week!

Evan's a good dancer, and excellent in Broadway stuff. I just think he's not at the same level as the others have been for the past few weeks. I take it back though, you're right, he wasn't outmatched by Melissa last week.

I really liked Evan in both of the Sonya routines from the past two weeks.

I'm wondering if Wade phoned in his very un-Wade-esque cheerleader piece, as a consolation to the 4 dancers who had so many routines to learn in the past few days for both finale nights.

Probably, especially since they weren't actually getting critiqued on it unlike the previous 4 seasons.

http://illwiththecomposition.blogspot.com/2009/08/ill-type-profiling-evan-kasprzak-cant.html

ha that is awesome (if a little harsh on Evan, because really it's not his fault that his dance-style sort of hinges on him moving in slow-motion)

Jeanine's pirouette where she gradually slows down and stops on a dime = incredible

I think this was what fully sealed me in her favor; prior to that I'd just been generally anti-Evan and not really thought through the rest of them a lot.

There was actually one moment where Evan could have done something that would have gotten my vote, and that was if, when asked "what's the nastiest thing you've ever done," he would have reached deep down to the nastiness inside and said, e.g., "Janette."

Yeah, that would have totally lost my vote because it would have dragged someone else into it. Had he said "Mary, I thought that was just between us..." I would have cheered.

BEST RESULTS EVER

Met Janette.

were you applying for a loan?

So happy for Jeanine.

I hope the choreographers aren't burned out of ideas with this fast season turnaround. Some more fresh faces would be nice.

Dan's revision of Evan's chance to be nasty is, yes, much better, though I'd still have wanted him to do it in as assholish a way as possible, just for a change

btw coming in second on this thing kinda sucks, huh? you get no moment :(

no, you don't, do you? you're an afterthought. i really felt for brandon, there. i actually was rooting for him to sweep it.

last year it was kinda different, because twitch kinda lucked into the top 2 and joshua deserved to win. but j and b were evenly matched.

really, katee and joshua shoulda been the last pair standing last year. but i've beaten that point to death. (and i say this as a big Twitch fan)

Have to admit, I didn't see a Jeanine win coming, in fact, I thought it would come down to Brandon vs. Evan. When Evan got the boot, I figured Brandon would definitely win.

Interesting thing about last season: they loved Katee so much that they came up with some bonus prize for her. I think Brandon maybe deserved something similar.

I was trying to remember this last night -- didn't they sort of break up last season's finale in such a way that Katee could be awarded as, like, "top girl?"

I'm guessing money is tight nowadays, and they are giving away another quarter-million in a few months for Season 6. It was convenient that Katee finished 3rd ahead of Courtney and were able to give her a consolation prize.

I was glad Jeanine was able to make a little acceptance speech, I remember the past couple years the finale ran overtime and we barely got a minute past the confetti falling before the credits had finished.

awwwww i feel so happy for jeanine!
i've been carrying a little flame for her for a while but i never thought she would win!