If anyone is still checking in, this blog is now being temporarily re-purposed for the summer. Bring your best snark to the joy that is SYTYCD.
Have you caught up with all the recaps and interviews over at Idolatry? Adam's interviews are so charming. He comes off as so much more "Christian" than Gokey, to no one's surprise. I think at least a little tiny bit of his amiability must be carefully crafted image control and marketing, but you can't completely fake that for 20 minutes of straight interview -- I think the guy is just sweet, down-to-earth, and likable. For real.
Now a little retro snark. Everyone gives David Cook credit for changing up Idol and bringing crazy offbeat arrangements to the stage, forcing everyone else to up their game. Okay, fair enough. But didn't Blake do a good bit of that the season before?? I'm thinking Time of the Season, or You Give Love a Bad Name. Just sayin'.
So. Who do you like on SYTYCD so far? Are you as irritated as I am that they wasted all that time on Sex and that stupid dance-off instead of showing us more great dancing? Weren't those Utah hip-hop brothers about the most adorably, unselfconsciously bromantic duo ever? I've watched Nathan's (red shorts, black socks) audition about six times now... and then he's not old enough!! What's that song he's dancing to? Love it. And then there's Shakiro....
I really like tap dancing. And I adore Kat Deely. And if you haven't watched the Glee pilot yet, go download it NOW.
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Sweet! I just started watching SYTYCD last year and loved it, though I thought Katie should've won; and thought the black guy who studied with Debi Allen was sent home way too soon. I resisted watching for so long because it's got possibly the dumbest show title ever. I'm not sure exactly why, but it bugs the hell out of me. But then this IS the snark site, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteI wish we could see, at least when they get down to fewer groups, the entire choreographed numbers and ALL the dancers -- it's really annoying that they just focus on one and we don't get to see the others on stage. Even if you're focusing on the person for story reasons, it's still easier to tell if they're any good when you can see what everyone else is doing. Surely seeing all of the four final routines is more interesting than hearing every last judge tell someone they suck?
In the Idolatry interviews I was actually surprised that Gokey is way dimwitted. Even cutting him some slack as clearly not being a verbal person (which I'm constitutionally incapable of doing, to tell the truth), he still comes across as a few fries short of a happy meal. And he did one of my pet peeves -- started up some new "charity" as a vanity project when there are thousands of groups already doing stuff "for the kids" that could reach a lot more people with his added celebrity. Ugh.
I also loved his bit about how he'd chosen a song by some group Michael McDonald used to be in. It's not as bad as the proverbial "Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?" bit, but hello, The Doobie Brothers? What guy with Gokey's voice isn't familiar with them? But it sounds like he lives entirely in churchland, and didn't know any of the other music he performed, so I shouldn't be surprised.
Damn, that's a lot of snark on Gokey. Dude annoys me, can you tell?