Nora Jones on Dancing with the Stars and Natalie Coughlin Takes a Dive
Dancing with the Stars never ceases to amaze me with the variety of talented singers that they bring to the show. Seriously, Nora Jones this week and Taylor Swift next week. Oh yeah, and Shakira was on DWTS last week. Impressive stuff if you ask me.
As usual, I like to list the music used on the DWTS results show.
Norah Jones sang “It’s Gonna Be” with the Norah Jones’ dancers and also sang “Come Away with Me” with Anna Trebunskaya and Jonathan Roberts dancing.
The Michael Jackson tribute was to the songs “I Want You Back” with Mark Ballas, Karina Smirnoff and Derek Hough dancing, “Man in the Mirror” with Chelsie Hightower, Tony Dovolani, Dmitry Chaplin, Lacey Schwimmer, Edyta Śliwińska and Maksim Chmerkovskiy dancing, and “Thriller” with all 16 pro dancers but starting off with Cheryl Burke and Louis van Amstel dancing. Amazing performance. You can see the video of the Dancing with the Stars MJ tribute as well.
Well, my dear Natalie Coughlin. I was super excited to see that you were going to be on this season, but you mostly disappointed. Except for a couple weeks of sexy slow dances, it was disappointing for me. However, it’s still sad that she was sent home before some of the other stars that are still there. I’m sure she’ll be fine. She does have how many gold medals? Those are nicer than a mirror ball trophy for sure.
Ug except for Anna and Jonathan dancing to their wedding song, last night pissed me off. Michael should have gone home. One week of improvement doesn’t make up for 4 weeks of CRAP.
As for the MJ tribute…ug…the major thing that pissed me off is calling him the father of dance and Choreography. I can’t remember who said that but they need to be smacked upside the head and schooled on dance history.
I wish that ‘walk a long’ (pedestrian as Len says) would be eliminated! I know he is cute, but he really doesn’t dance!!!!
I would like to see more dancing and songs that are more suited to the dance – the Pase Doble only works with a true bull fighter song. – There is too much non – dancing on a “dancing show” – explain how the people are paired up sometime and how the dances are given to the couples – the 10/19/09 show had 6 arg.tangos and 4 pase dobles
what is going on?
Marianne,
I thought that some of the songs didn’t fit well either. Paso Doble in particular needs the right song or it just doesn’t feel right.
The only song from monday that fits the paso was Mark and Lacey, that song was great but is not hard doing a paso with odd songs, most of the best pasos on the show had unusual songs.
Does anyone know how to find out who choreographed the dancers in the first Norah Jones song?
Phillipe, you’re wrong, Michael and Anna’s song WAS the original bull fighting song. It’s about a Bullfighter!
“Les Toreadors” by Bizet. A Toreador is a bullfighter (see lyrics here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toreador_Song, though they are out of context from the whole Opera, Carmen). Mark and Lacey’s song is really a Paso song originally. Go Google/youtube Les Toreadors and watch a video of the opera(not the dance videos that are on here), you’ll that it’s a Paso song.
Katrina i forget about Michael, i don’t even remenber his dance.
Glad you noticed the disproportionate amount of tangos to pasos this week too, Marianne! Every 5 minutes I was like “Great, another tango! Where the heck is the paso doble tonight???” – the pasos truly did get a bit lost amongst all the tangos.
But I do have an answer for you on why there were 6 tangos and 4 pasos! The couples are actually told what dances they’ll be doing the next week before the results show has aired during the current week – it gives the pros a bit of a “heads up” to start choreographing and allows for the couples to start practicing immediately after the results show (and if Twitter is any indicator, a lot of them do go straight from the results show to the practice facility!). The dances are distributed as evenly as possible (sometimes there’s an odd # of couples) amongst the couples before the elimination even happens – so whoever goes home, that’s one less [insert dance here] that will be performed the next week. In this case, I’m guessing Chuck was probably going to do the paso, and the original count was 6 tangos and 5 pasos (again, odd # of couples), and Chuck got sent home – hence, 6 tangos & 4 pasos. 🙂 It stinks sometimes, but it’s how the cards fall…then again, I can’t help but wonder if production has their invisible hands meddling in all of this assigning of dances…