I screamed "WHAT THE HELL?" aloud. I am STILL speechless.

I get SO PISSED OFF when crap like this happens. I almost stopped watching last season because of fucking Billy Ray Cyrus getting voted back week after week. I've been a fan since the beginning, been to the tour, got the t-shirt, so for me to not want watch the show is a BIG THING. Now I'm getting the same feeling here. I'm sticking around because I love Helio and Jennie, but if one of them leaves next week in lieu of Marie or Jane...

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I yelled "WHAT...?!?" Couldn't even articulate past that. I like Jane, and she's done well. I was glad to see her get this far but seriously? She should have been the one going home. One thing that none of the judges commented on Monday night that I think they should have is that she did dance a jive. The music she danced to was not jive tempo, it was swing tempo -- and a relatively relaxed swing at that. Not even close to the challenge of a jive at jive tempo. [/rant about the music]

The only thing I can think of is that people voted for the ones they thought would be in jeopardy and simply didn't vote for the ones they thought were safe. Nothing else makes any sense at all. I totally believed the final would be Sabrina and Mel. I really did.

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errr.. did not dance a jive...

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I like Jane, and she's done well. I was glad to see her get this far but seriously? She should have been the one going home.

I agree, she or Marie should have gone home. I truly think Marie was saved from elimination by pity votes last week, and was fully expecting her to get the boot this week. The fact that she was announced as safe was a huge jolt.

And yes, Jane's dance wasn't a proper jive. Every dancer has a dance that doesn't suit them at all, and the jives is hers, but you're right, the music wasn't much help at all. The music this season has been -awful-. It rarely fits the type of dance they're trying to do, and I think that contributes a lot to bad performances- I mean, there's only so much the pros can do when they have to choreograph to a song that's totally inappropriate to the kind of dance they're trying to do. Cameron and Edyta's Paso impressed the hell out of me for the simple fact that they were able to do a Paso Doble to the Superman theme.

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"Cameron and Edyta's Paso impressed the hell out of me for the simple fact that they were able to do a Paso Doble to the Superman theme."

And yet, that music was a better Paso (at least it was a march so the 'feel' was partially there) than the piece of "whatever that was" that Sabrina had to dance to...and she pulled off a Paso with all the styling. Personally? Had I been choosing the dance for that music, I'd have picked a foxtrot.

I keep telling people they're just lucky they're being spared my rants on the musical choices this season, hee! Whoever is picking it seems to have no clue that the music should enhance the dancing -- and that when the music supports the styling the performance will be even better.

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I don't mind music rants, myself- my ma and I watch the show together and keep commenting on how awful and inappropriate it's been this season. I guess they're trying not to repeat anything they've used in the first 5 seasons, but good GRIEF, they're not even trying. And the funniest part is, it's the producers that pick the music- the pros and dancers are pretty much stuck with whatever they get. I think on occasion they get granted requests, but otherwise, what they get it what they've got.

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Heh. I realize they can't do what happens in actual dance competition where the Paso music will be one of two selections and everyone knows it. But those two pieces of music have the accent/pose at exactly the same place so the choreogrphy can hit that pose and know it'll be there. But for these purposes I understand they aren't going to do that.

What irks me is that each dance has certain requirements and this year the producers don't seem to understand anything beyond "it's in 4/4 time unless it's a waltz and then it's 3/4 time." Getting it right seems accidental.

Jive and quickstep need to be energetic, tango and paso doble need to evoke passion and arrogance, waltz and foxtrot need to have flow. I'm almost at the point where I want to watch them dance with the sound muted. But then I wouldn't be able to rant about the stupid music choices. Hmmm... decisions. oh who am I kidding? Gotta rant!

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