Thursdays Just Got Even Better
With The Office and 30 Rock finished for the season, and with the finale of Lost still A WEEK AWAY (but that’s another post), I could wallow in despair. But there is hope. Nay, there is salvation. So You Think You Can Dance premiers its fouth season tonight on FOX!
Can you tell I’m totally excited? I can’t dance, nor do I even try; but I LOVE this show!! The first round is similar to American Idol in that you see the good AND the bad. And the judges aren’t shy about telling you that you can’t dance. There’s no Paula “Sugarcoat The Obvious” Abdul here.
What I get from SYTYCD that I don’t get from AI anymore is an emotional connection. The dancers must have a connection to their choreography in order to sell it. On Idol, there are a good number of the contestants who just go through the motions and don’t give any real emotion to their songs (not all of them, but enough to make us channel surf in the middle of a performance). There’s a lot of talk about what AI is lacking right now and I think it has a little less to do with hosts or the judges and a little more to do with, what’s this competition all about? When Kelly Clarkson won, you felt that she connected to each and every song. And that’s what you get from the dancers on SYTYCD.
Which is why I’m super psyched for the debut of season four! I’m also looking forward to pointing out the similarities between SYTYCD judge Mary Murphy and Merlot’s own Kym Preslar… again, that’s another post.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Anyone know where I can take “jump style” lessons?