Make America jazzy again
If you enjoyed last weeks shake-up, I have bad news.
If you didnt, I have GREAT news.
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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Are we alternating like this for the rest of the competition?
Dmitry choreographed both, so good on him for making his life easier this week.
Paula wants to squish him.
Cat Deeley takes no prisoners, boys.
Now its just finding it further apart from each other.
Nigel asks whether she plans to go into ballet or contemporary.
Im trying to keep my options open now, she says.
Kida and All-Star Fik-Shun
Choreographer: Dave Scott, Hip-Hop
Song: Panda by Desiigner
Send in the puppets.
Jason wanted more levels to Kidas facial expressions, but Nigel appreciates his commitment to character.
I honestly think this whole show is a dream sometimes.
She still doesnt know.
But listen it has EVERYTHING to do with a saxophone, and thats what matters.
This piece is what might happen if a Lisa Frank notebook learned jazz.
Heres a bonus: Jason looks at their black-and-white leggings and sequined high-tops and thinks, 1920s.
In other news, I yelled YES multiple times during Jordans solo.
That last drop to the floor added five years to my life.
Sheaden makes me happy.
Look at his face!
He was born into that life.
Nigel accurately, if creepily, describes this strut-filled number as the old-man swag, the pacemaker pulse.
Paula echoes him, calling Sheaden an old soul.
I dont want to agree with this, but I DO.
I feel like he could wear a grandpa sweater and pull it off.
Is this what Macklemore has wrought?
He loves an underdog.
(Now thats how you de-creep the age difference.)
Tahani goes from jumping on Comforts back to doing her own backbend like its nothing.
Jason, meanwhile, is confident that singer Sean Paul did a great job choreographing this number.
Not African at all, corrects Jason, who literally just got done celebrating dancehalls Jamaican roots.
Anyone else already crying?
Nigel calls them his favorite pairing of the season.
Paula one-ups him: Applause, I believe, was created for moments like that.
I just want to know how they switched the empty mirror frame with an actual mirror so quickly.
Was it Sheadens magic?
Maybe he can stay on as magic consultant.
By the end, I want Emma and Kida tearing it up.
I want Luther Brown wondering how she knows about that life.
Its a good place to be.
Heres what Im not feeling good about: eliminations.
Watching kids dreams die on national television is not a happy way to spend a Monday night.
But why didnt audiences connect with Sheaden, who isso good at connecting with audiences?
This is not change I can believe in.
Until next week, America.
