PureDWTS Season 22, Week 7 – The Team Dances!!!
Well, as it was announced on the show last night, for the first time ever, they’ve opted to pit the guys vs. the gals – and to clarify, that is the male celebs and their female pros vs. the female celebs and their male pros. Everyone is still with their partner, guys – it wasn’t all the male pros & male celebs vs. all the female pros and female celebs, as someone on Twitter was claiming. Nice try guys…thanks for playing. 🙂
So in case you need any further clarification, here are the teams:
Team Guys: Wanya & Lindsay, Nyle & Peta, Antonio & Sharna, Von & Witney
Team Gals: Paige & Mark, Ginger & Val, Jodie & Keo, Kim & Sasha
As Antonio announced on Instagram, the guys have James Brown as their icon – and source says the teams are actually dancing to a medley of songs from their icon, so I’m guessing it’s going to be 2-3 of the artist’s big hits. The gals have Beyonce as their icon – be prepared for a lot of hair-flipping, I think. I’m sure “Crazy In Love” will be part of the girls’ medley…as for the guys, I’m thinking “Sexmachine” will work its way in 😛
Also the dances are freestyles, so pretty much anything goes – I was told that Mark and Val were cracking up while samba rolling each other during rehearsal last night. Boys will be boys, I guess 😛
My thoughts? I have a feeling things are going to tip slightly in the favor of Team James Brown, because I think the guys on that team are probably going to have an easier time embodying James’ style than the girls on Team Beyonce will have emulating hers. Plus I think Lindsay, Peta, Sharna, & Witney are probably cumulatively slightly better than Mark, Val, Keo, & Sasha. But that’s just me – and I actually wouldn’t be at all shocked if the teams tied. Hell, this is the first time in 5 years that Derek hasn’t been part of the team dance…wonder if that means the pressure’s kinda off for the remaining pros?
I’m excited for these team dances! I’ve always thought the concept of “Men vs. Women” would be interesting to do. They did in the Australian version and it worked well! The men actually ended up winning that, to my surprise.
But anyways, I think everyone left is a good enough dancer that there are no real “weak links” in either team which is always good. I guess if I had to pick a weak link for the women it would be Kim and for the men maybe Von or Antonio. Either way, they’re all pretty skilled that I think the dances are gonna end up being pretty solid. I would agree that the guys might have the edge with the James Brown theme and having very skilled pros, but on the flip side the girls have Mark and Val – the former being a terrific choreographer whom I think and hope will take charge of the team and come up with something good.. I guess Val is a pretty good choreographer too when properly inspired and I think the combination of him and Mark works pretty well. Then there’s Sasha who’s a master at doing all these crazy tricks and who definitely has picked up some of Derek’s “pearls of wisdom”, if you will.
Here’s hoping for a repeat of the Season 20 team dances which ended up being equally fun!
Haha im rooting for the ladies but i also feel the guys might take this. Lol beyonce is hard to emulate! I also hope someone does david bowie for their dance and someone does prince, although the music may be hard to clear.
Like Court, I wouldn’t be surprised if they tie too. I hope they all work super hard, put the time in, and put out super creative and powerful dances.
PS: I am going to miss Derek more than ever this week. Awww memories to he and Mark working together last season.
The first thing I thought of when Tom said guys against girls was both teams will either get all 9s or all 10s and it’ll be up to the voters.
While two of my favorite celebs, Wanya and Nyle are on Team Testosterone, I think I’m going to go with my fellow sisters and hope Team Estrogen wins, just because I think the show stacked the deck against them by doing a boys vs girls team dance.
I would imagine the show will pound the Men vs Women angle enough to make me grind my teeth in annoyance (which is why I nicknamed the team dances above), so I can see Beyonce’s Girls Run The World or Single Ladies and James Brown’s It’s A Man’s World, especially as both of those songs have been cleared and used before. In the case of Single Ladies, even as a previous team dance.
I’d love to see Bey’s Formation used, especially because they could do a freaking cool homage to the video with the ladies doing their version of the formation dance line.
I really enjoy the team dances. It is one of my favorites of each season. I think the judges have been favoring the males somewhat this season which may continue. A tie is always nice though. I think it will be a fun night.
I really do miss Derek not the same without him.. It’s almost like the pros are not giving their best to teach this season.when Derek’s there then it seems like more of a competition then they are better …
Yeah, Dawn – I keep wondering why so many people, associated with DWTS, and fans alike, keep saying that NOT having Derek to compete with will make them up their choreo. Seems to me that the other pros don’t have to worry about keeping up with Derek – so they’d be more likely to NOT try as hard… I don’t see it.
I also miss Derek. He spoiled me so much. And I agree that the other pros don’t seem to be trying as hard as when Derek is on to give them competition. I think Lindsay and Mark are giving it their all.
Last season with Bindi was utterly awsome! Bindi blew me away! I knew who my favorite was right off the bat. I still have a few this season yet. I have an inner gut feeling it’s going to be a male winner this season.
People are actually claiming that Derek NOT being there will make the pros up their choreo?? Not only is that a bit of extremely faulty logic, it’s also clearly NOT TRUE! It’s bordering on idiotic.
I’m sure there’s probably a million scientific studies out there that show that all true competitors compete better when they’re competing against the best.
Last season teams were not good (think halloween teams always suck… IMHO). But, have to say, I liked team Nightmare the better…
Having Derek out SHOULD have upped the game for the rest, but for most it just hasn’t happened. Mark Sasha and Lindsay would be working it with or without Derek there. The rest tend to be more inconsistent with some good some bad weeks/seasons.
It will be interesting to see what transpires this week