Dear Emily,
I hate to say this, but you and I are never going to be on
So You Think You Can Dance. Everyone on
the show is better than I am. Almost everyone
is better than you too.
Let’s take this first round of emails from a high
level. If everyone is still awake we can
get into each routine later, okay? I
thought that all of the couples were good and three of them were very close to
great. Can you guess which three?
I was very happy that we saw the top 20 dance tonight. You know that I have had my reservations
about this season and—I’m embarrassed just typing this—that I was very
emotionally invested in some of last year’s dancers…Kherington, Kaytee and
Twitch to name a few. So I was
pleasantly surprised by how into tonight’s contestants I was. I hope that you felt the same way.
Let me ask you, how do you think they choose the partners to
open the season? And do you really think
that the dance styles are selected at random?
I mean, c’mon both Phillip and Tony get hip-hop? My theory is that in order for a dancer with
less formal training to stay around they need to get something in their
wheelhouse early. In Phillip’s case, the
producers have invested so much in his story that it would be silly to let him
get a slow waltz right out of the gate and promptly go home. If this is too much of a conspiracy for you,
how about a lesser one: The producers didn’t put any of the real killer disciplines
in the show tonight. No two-step, no
aforementioned slow waltz and no disco.
You know there’s a good chance of going home if you get one of those.
Okay, that’s enough for you to digest. You’re young.
You were out late last night. I
don’t want to fry your brain.
Excitedly,
Joe
This is why there was no A&A last night? You were watching dudes in leotards?
Posted by: Lou | June 11, 2009 at 08:32 AM