DWTS All Stars, Week 7 – Who’s Dancing What…and When??
Week 7 – another crazy week. Two dances, three dances, no elimination…what will they change next. Really, the changing of the game as we go has GOT to stop. It doesn’t really feel fair. I know, this show is never fair I should stop hoping for that. But…I am eternally optimistic, believe it or not. 🙂 I don’t know why Apolo is talking about three dances. No clue. And the Swing Marathon was added at the last minute to make up for no live elimination on Monday night. I don’t know what the story is there – would love to hear the real one because the one Tom gave was totally bogus. He got all shifty eyed AND the story didn’t make any sense.
It just occurred to me that Apolo could be talking about three dances because he’s looking at the fusion dance as TWO dances…which is really NOT a good sign. At all. It’s supposed to be *fusion*…not Cha Cha followed by Paso or whatever. And that leads me to realize another way some couples could/should get marked down, but probably won’t.
ETA1: Gilles just can’t wait to share, can he?? He must know we all wait with baited breath. :::rolls eyes:::
ETA2: Courtney tells me that she thinks Emmitt is the most screwed with his song. From the sound of it, his pro also rolls her eyes at fusion.
ETA3: Please take note of the footnote at the bottom. We’re not sure about the group dance song.
ETA4: Looks like Mark may well be dancing for Derek tomorrow, if Mark’s rather gloating tweet to a Derek fan is any indication. And Derek got his MRI back and the doc asked him if he’d been in numerous car accidents. Um, thanks Derek, I really didn’t need to hear that. 🙂 In other news, Emmitt is dancing second and Kelly has a song that rings no bells for me.
ETA5: I take it back, I do know Kelly’s song, now that I listen to it. I just didn’t recognize the artist’s name.
ETA6: I see Gilles is back in the latter half of the show. Too bad for him it’s right before the Marathon. Heh. Called Apolo’s dance order right before she posted it. Predictable, I guess.
Apolo/Karina – Cha Cha/Paso Doble Fusion (Song: “Scream” by Usher)
Dancing 1st
Voting #: 1-800-868-3407
Emmett/Cheryl – Rumba/Samba Fusion (Song: “Fine by Me” by Andy Grammer)
Dancing 2nd
Voting #: 1-800-868-3413
Kirstie/Maks – Quickstep/Samba Fusion (Song: “Sir Duke” by Stevie Wonder)
Dancing 3rd
Voting #: 1-800-868-3412
Kelly/Val – Cha Cha/Foxtrot Fusion (Song: “Don’t Stop” by Gin Wigmore)
Voting #: 1-800-868-3411
Melissa/Tony – Tango/Cha Cha Fusion (Song: “Die Young” by Ke$ha)
Dancing 5th
Voting #: 1-800-868-3406
Shawn/Derek (Mark?) – Tango/Paso Doble Fusion (See PDH)
Voting #: 1-800-868-3402
Gilles/Peta – Argentine tango/Samba Fusion (Song: “When I Get You Alone” by Thicke)
Dancing 7th
Voting #: 1-800-868-3410
Swing Marathon- All couples (Song** Do Your Thing by Basement Jaxx)
**This is what all the couples are rehearsing to, but we’re not sure if it’s the actual song that will be used on the show or not.
I’d think Apolo could just mean having to practice two different dance styles for the fusion and counting them as 2. Can’t imagine Karina would be practicing next week’s dance this early.
Here’s my conspiracy theory about why there will be no elimination next week. Let’s imagine that one of the couples got enough votes to pass Sabrina, but they got much fewer votes than everyone else, to the point that no matter how much the judges overscore them, they’d be beyond saving. So to protect said couple, TPTB decided to scrap elimination altogether this week to give them another chance to garner enough votes. I don’t know if such a scenario is possible, statistically speaking, but it’s the first thing that came to mind once I heard Tom saying that there would be no elimination.
It could also be to avoid accusations that, since they already knew the voting percentages, TPTB could manipulate the scores to ensure one particular couple gets eliminated. But that’s the optimist in me who thinks everything is rainbows and unicorns…
I’ve read that they have done fusion dances on some foreign versions of the show and it is almost always 1/2 one dance and then people tear off part of their costume and do the other dance. I’m hoping the better choreographers don’t do that this time.
Gilles tweeeted out his song yesterday too!
Robin Thicke- When I get You alone
Well, that’s not what Derek is doing with his and Shawn’s dance, KarenT. 😀
When they do 45 seconds of each dance, I’ve seen it referred to as a segue dance. That would feel like an easy way out.
They’ve handled this season really terribly. Presidential debates, elections. These things are no surprise. I just have a feeling there’s more to it than the storm and the election.
Heidi: Whats your personal opinion about Derek, do you think he will dance on Monday night? Do you think he’s well enough to do so, or will he make that decision at the last minute. We all want him well of course. I hope he can.
It will be interesting to see the songs selections when they are posted. I’m curious to see how these dance “fusions” will turn out. I can see some of the pros doing what Karen T said and I can see the others blending them. It will be interesting to see.
I believe the reason there is no elimination is because of the election. There can not be a results show because they have to cover the election.
I can see how some of those dances can be fused together (tango/paso for example), but honestly, how can you fuse, say, the quickstep and samba? You are not supposed to break hold for the quickstep, yet I can’t picture samba danced entirely in hold. Plus, what kind of costume could match both a quickstep and a samba? Time will tell, I gues……
Side note: I watched Kelly’s interview where she said this season was 13 weeks versus her original 6 weeks in Season 1. Is she including her training before the season started or is the season going to go longer than 10? I know all about the November sweeps, etc. but it just seemed a little odd she mentioned 13 weeks.
well, apolo is twitting it “pacho”…
Music thoughts…
I’m thinking about J. Lo’s “Papi” to tango-chacha or tango-samba or tango-paso. “love you like a love song” by selena gomez to rumba and samba… “titanium” for tango-paso or tango-chacha…
Oh, and I just rewatched Tuesday’s episode and Len specifically says it when “a couple is given 1 piece of music and within that must do two different dances”. I can easily see how couples would do two completely distinct dances in there 1 song.
Dee, there was originally supposed to be an elimination on Monday of next week due to the election – that is what we’re referring to.
I really don’t see why so many people are freaking out over these fusion dances – like one of our mods said, they are all doable. (Though the only one I can’t see is Argentine tango/samba…sort of. I think that one depends on the music.) 45 seconds of each dance would be a cop-out, especially since most of the dances fused have similar figures. I don’t know how many people know this, but a huge portion of the steps in the Latin dances were taken from the ballroom dances.
Cha cha and foxtrot actually look very similar when you see them in competition. Cha cha/tango have similar timings that would make it pretty simple to blend them together. Quickstep and samba have similar moods and definitely share a lot of the same steps. Tango/paso are each other’s direct counterparts from Latin to ballroom. Cha cha/paso isn’t impossible, especially since I believe Karina is the best on the show at taking steps from one dance style and timing them into another – she used a very distinct paso figure in her samba with Apolo last week and changed the hold – bam, awesome new samba step. Rumba and samba is doable, too – the moods of the dances are different, but it would be great depending on music – all one would have to do is change the step timings (which is a challenge, but not impossible).
I’m actually just really curious to see which pro does what…this is when we see what pro really knows their stuff and who’s really creative. I hope we don’t see a single 45 seconds of 1 style, ripoff of costume and segue into the 2nd style, that’d actually make my heart ache.
I really hope Karina will do a real fusion dance – she is so creative, it would be a shame if she went the easy route.
Cannot wait to see what Derek came up with – even if Mark will dance, it should be great.
I also am interested to see Tony’s choreo – he is doing so much better this season.
Hopefully there will be no – Karina wronged Maks somehow, I am really tired of this stuff. Maks should move on, LOL.
Gilles got a good song for sure, I could totally see samba and a.t in that song ( the music is very tango with the violins but the melody and the singing is very samba). But I’m not 100% sure that Peta call pull it of this.
Melissa song works too,I don;t like this song, but I totally agree with Courtney, the songs sounds very appropriate to the dances.
I can’t wait to hear Apolo and Shawn’s music.
I personally love Melissa’s song. I like a lot of Ke$ha songs (don’t judge me, lol). I definitely see Cha-Cha. Tango is more questionable to me. Clearly Gilles has Samba in his song, however, I don’t see A. Tango that much… :/
Also – I know what KarenT is talking about. They had something called a “segue” dance in the Australian version. They mashed 3 dances into one routine, but it was as she said. I.E. dance a little Waltz, go into a Paso, then rip off some of the costume and dance Cha-Cha. But they had 3 separate pieces of music, not one.
I will be disappointed if they do the half half with the rip off costume, all the fusions are doable.
A great cha cha tango here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vck1X6DEK0g
cha cha paso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKVWJkTcXXs&feature=related
Tony – the volins in that song are perfect for the A. tango, Peta doesn’t even need to think much where to put the samba portion and the a.tango portion, the song already gives that to her.
Just listened to the music so far, and did a little counting, and Melissa’s piece has both cha cha and tango; the feel of the song is more cha cha, but tango counts work. With Gilles’ song, the samba is definitely there, and the feel is samba, but A. tango should work. I’ve talked with folks that dance a lot of Argentine, and one thing they’ve mentioned is that it can be danced to many types and styles of music, because it is more flexible in its counts than typical ballroom/latin dances. There are several distinct styles within Argentine, and the music varies a lot. The big thing for me is the feel of the song, vs the counts, as to whether it’s Argentine tango or not. And Gilles’ song doesn’t feel Argentine at all.
Oooh, I just thought of something. @Courtney, do you remember before the season, or either when it just began, that I asked you about the song “Lights”? And you said you could see cha cha or Paso? I think that is what you said. Anyway, I would be so excited if that were Apolo’s song!
I know you already know what it is, and I’m not asking that you spoil it now, I just wanted to throw that out there before the song gets posted, just in case I’m guessing right!
I hope I’ll be able to check in for the rankings next week. We’re headed to the Smokies tonight to visit my MIL for the week.
Didn’t Erin and Maks do a samba to Gille’s song in S10?
My dream song for Shawn tango/ paso woud definitely be the glee version of smooth criminal with the crazy violins, since I heard that version I could see a tango in my head. I know it is probably impossible that they would use this song, but it would be epic if they did it.
Someone should dance a tango to that song one day, especially this version.
Violet, doesn’t the MIL watch DWTS? You need to work on that. 😉
LOL Cidra, she doesn’t, and I do need to work on that! But then, she hardly watches TV at all, so I should be able to watch the show and check in here. The only thing is, my SIL and BIL also live in Knoxville, and if we’re at their house…BIL will never let me have control of the TV, especially for DWTS. 🙁
Funny coincidence, Heidi, my BIL is also a geologist, albeit an out of work geologist (he was laid off in March). I’ve never known anyone else with that occupation until I saw your bio under your articles. 🙂
I have reading but not posting all season (lurking) but want to say how much I appreciate your work, because I live at ” the other side of pond” is following you and reading here a great way to follow the show.
I like most of the couples, my favourite couple is Apolo / Karina! Love his humor, as Tony said: he is hilarious!
I think you are right MnBonnie that Apolo is meaning to different dance styles, in one interview he says that Karina teach him the dance “from the beginning” not only the choreograhed dance.
#21 katarina Yes they did. Her first Samba when Len went crazy about Maks taking his shirt off.
That’s interesting Susana, because I think it’s telling what a great teacher Karina is when you see the quality of movement in Apolo. I loved him in his original season, but I think he’s a MUCH better dancer now with Karina. Shawn also looks like she understands dancing much better now. Of course this comes with prior DWTS experience, and I credit Mark and Julianne both for doing great with them – but Derek and Karina have elevated them both to amazing levels. I personally wish my OWN ballroom teacher would teach me more basics rather than trying to get me on the dancefloor without knowing WHY the things they teach us are important. I like him so much as a person but he seems to have no interest in that part of teaching, which is disappointing given how much I pay an hour 🙁
*GASP!*
Hold on, you mean Gilles is getting a song that someone else has danced to?! Does he know?!
Susanne (#25), I’m glad you decided to come out of the shadows and post. Of course, lurking is fine too. 🙂 You’re right about this blog. If you want to keep up with what’s happening on DWTS-USA, Pure DWTS is the one and only place to be!
Heh. Good one, Jennifer. 🙂
Tony & Melissa’s song is not bad at all. Tango/ChaCha is not the best dance for Melissa but I’m sure they’ll surprise everyone again.
I love marathons and I think the top three will be Melissa, Shawn and Gilles or Apolo.
Karina is the most experience there, about show dance, in the competitive ballroom world. She did an amazing show dance with Slavisk in 2004 integrate rumba steps to a Paso music, she should be fine, all depends in the song. I still don’t like Paso with the chacha fusion, Paso go with samba and Tango. I think the impact of the dances were better with tango/Paso Paso/samba Argentine Tango/Paso AT/rumba. QS/jive. Foxtrot/Tango. the best doing show Dances in the competitive world were Max and Julia, Love their Paso/samba.
Fusion in the competitive world exist, we called show dance. I’m pretty sure Max and Karina know how to do it well cause they have done it when they compete internationally.
I understand what people mean to choreograph a dance to please the TV audience. That may separate a competitive ballroom expert from the rest.
I think Karina suits better to Strictly than DWTS cause the audience here though they look for entertainment they also look for recognizable dances.Although the have been exemptions in the few past 3 years. But in General people like to recognize the dances.
As a world champion Karina go for the technique and teach the basics. The others just choreograph a routine and teach steps for their routines, maybe more public pleaser rather than a routine.
I think what Apollo is referring is that Karina is also already teaching him his next steps for the next week routine. If u go and watch his first training she was teaching quick steps and as well of the chacha.
For us if u teach the basics to your students helps to make them confident when something goes wrong in the routine on the night they know how to cover up the mistake.
I’ve seen people say that samba/quickstep is one of the hardest fusion dances but here’s a good example of how it could work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up7DLegMp5E
it’s a routine from sytycd Australia, choreographed by Jason Gilkison of course.
You seem to forget, Carol, that Karina and Maks aren’t dancing with professional partners.
I watched that Quickstep/Samba and while it was a great dance to watch, I would have never realized that was supposed to be part Quickstep had I not been told.
Chery hasn’t had exciting choreography in forever…the last time I can remember anything decent was maybe Robs freestyle? Gilles AT? She has danced around her hot men for many seasons now.
Kirstie/Maks have Sir Duke for their Quickstep/Samba? I guess that means they’ll be resurrecting the so-slow-it’s-unrecognizable version Tristan/Gladys used for their Quickstep last season. My finger will be poised above the mute button to avoid a replay of the horror.
oohh my… Shawn’s song… i ADORE it…to say the least…this is gonna be one epic choreo…and one epic performance… still keep wondering if Derek will be able to stay away from his favorite dances mixed in an awesome fusion… this dance yells Derek Hough… i still hope he stays the week off…not that i don’t want to see him dance… but i care more about his health that about a performance…did i mention that i love the song??? Thank you ladies for all that you do throughout the season… i don’t think i say this often enough…
Shawn sure has a Epic song, Maks and Hope danced a tango to this song (horrible). The choreo will be awesome but really hard with a fast song like this one, Shawn never done tango, but I’m sure she will be just fine, if Len takes his meds this week, this totally fells like their first 30.
I recently listened to an interview with Apolo/Karina about the upcoming fusion dance. (I forget where, but I think it may have been the Slacker/ABC News DWTS Radio channel.) They both seemed pretty unhappy about the dance, not so much because of the styles as because of the song they had. They said they couldn’t think of a worse song for their dance, and then clarified the song itself wasn’t bad, but they didn’t think it at all matched the styles they were dancing to. They stressed how important the song was for a dance.
I don’t know, if they are that unhappy about it, maybe they can change the song.
No offense, setsuna, but I find that hard to believe because I think they got one of the better songs this week, and it’s highly appropriate for both cha-cha and paso doble – and I think Vogue probably would have found this interview and posted it, if it existed. Are you sure it was Apolo & Karina? I haven’t received any word about anyone changing songs, either – I don’t even think they were given that option this week, because the songs were carefully selected to reflect each fusion.
Courtney actually Karina didn’t sound very happy about the song during the interview for ontheredcarpet or access hollywood tuesday , she said she loved the fusion but not the song, something like that.
Well then I think Karina might just be grumpy, because I see nothing at all wrong with their song…I was actually really excited when I heard it. If anyone has a right to be whiny about their song, it’s Emmitt – because I think his song is beyond dumb.
My mistake, I watched again, she just said she was nervous about the song choice, I don;t think she knew the song when she did the interview
Ok, that makes more sense – because I don’t think the couples got their music until after the press line on Tuesday.
Alright, this is a quote from Karina’s FB and also her recent tweet regarding the song.
“Working on the fusion dance 4 this Monday night and loving it! Really excited!!! Think u all will enjoy seeing Apolo and I like this:)”
Karina Smirnoff @Karina_Smirnoff
@43ojo @ApoloOhno Love our song!!!! Super excited!
Thanks for setting the record straight, alicia. Call me paranoid, but this is the 2nd time in 24 hours that someone has tried to feed me bad information…no me gusta. Safe to say I’m pretty skeptical about any intel I get from any source other than Deep Throat now…
I think some couples had their music by the time they did OTRC because Shawn told the interviewer she loved her fusion song.
Karina answered a tweet the other day and said she loves their song and is so excited for us to see her and Apolo “this way”.
Oops, sorry Alicia…I posted same time u did.
Maks appeared to have a cd of his & Kirstie’s music in their OTRC press line interview Tuesday, so pairs likely got their music prior to hitting the press line. Maybe Apolo & Karina were granted a song change?
Listen to http://www.slacker.com/station/dancing-with-the-stars the “Up Next..Funky Fusion Time” segment. Maybe they’ve changed their mind on it, but it was definitely Apolo/Karina talking about how the song is everything and that it was tough. Karina said it was the last song she would have chosen.
Sheery, that’s what I saw Karina tweet too so I was surprised about the radio interview, which I can’t connect to.
If Karina originally didn’t like the song, that could have changed as she did the choreography and spend more time with it. I imagine Derek wasn’t thrilled with the theme song from Psycho, but I think he liked the way it came out in the end.
#27 Figmentation – I know what you mean about the technique! My instructor is ALL about the technique. It makes for slow going, but once I learn something for one dance, it applies for so many other dances… He’s quite fond of saying steps are easy – technique is hard! His “ladies” do quite well at competitions, so I’m more than willing to learn this way 😀
I can’t connect to that radio interview either, but I’m seeing fans freaking out over Apolo tweeting “this pacho is touggghhhhh!” Doesn’t he know that he is my “happy place” right now? He can’t be struggling or anything lol.
Sheery- I’m sure that most of them a struggling right now, this dances can’t be easy, two dances in one, two technique to learn and master, plus a three and half minutos marathon.
Melissa complained too on twitter today, Shawn didn’t even started to learn the marathon yet.
but I’m sure they are going to be just fine.
I’m pretty sure that Kirtie is freaking out right now, Kelly can’t nearly get one dance clean in a week. So who knows
Just saw a tweet from Shawn (she posted it earlier today), that she hasn’t started her second dance yet and she’s nervous since show day is two days away.
Heidi my apologies that is true. My point is she has done fusion before. So if she get it wrong, something is wrong with her now.
About the song, the song needs to be right to get some impact in dance. Have to has sort of sinilar beat.
Violet…how does BIL feel about ND…they are trying to hire geologists every day and the pay is great…in fact they are sooooo desperate they have hired 20 year olds with a couple geology classes for some of the positions. Why ND?? That is where the Bakken formation is….and drilling is nuts. I know I am right, I have land there and we have the lowest unemployment rate in the country. It’s a long way from Knoxville I know, but these young guys are starting at 150 thousand a year with NO experience, and no degree. It might be something for him to look into and yes ND is as cold as TN is hot…sorry about that, but the people are great. Sorry folks for going off thread.
@Lynne…I don’t think he has, but I’m not sure. I don’t think he would mind the cold, but SIL might be another story!
Could you e-mail me more info, like city, etc? I don’t want to disrupt comments here.
violetsunshine27@yahoo.com
Oh wow Cheryl and Emmitt are screwed with that song. Awful choice
Who did Emmitt and Cheryl tick off to get that song?
Sorry for the double post but I was just wondering is the Marathon going to be like seasons past and the couples get picked off one by one or have they found a way to “improve” this as well?
I may just be a party-pooper or something, but I’m actually kind of disappointed with Shawn’s song. :/ “Livin’ On A Prayer” just doesn’t do it for me, I guess. I was expecting something more…epic. I know. I’m being stupid and crazy. But that’s just me. I’m sure I’ll change my mind when I see her dance.
“Do your thing” don’t sound very swing for me, good for Shawn and Mark, this was their freestyle song, they could recycle the lifts and some bits of the dance.
I hope it’s Shawn and Mark…I’m afraid Derek will try to dance both dances since he’s never sat one out that he choreographed. I hope he sits the week out, as much as I will miss him and as much that will lend some credibility to the super cray cray Mark fans who think it’s all part of the plan that Derek bow out for the season because they want Shawn with Mark.
Yes, crack is wack.
Much as I like Andy Grammer, I just can’t see a Samba, much less a Rumba with “Fine by Me”.
Heidi, I had the stuped idea to look a the board in the official dwts website, people are cray cray over there. Not only some Mark’s fans, but in general, some people are saying that it is not fair that Shawn’s has two choreo, and again about the plain for Shawn and Mark dance together and all that crap. That place is mental.
I normally don’t like when Mark respond to hate tweetes , but I thought it was cute when some lame person tweeted something hateful about Derek and he was all “he is my bro, he is hurt, don’t say that”
@Laila: “Do Your Thing” has been used twice as a Quickstep, however.
@Patricia – I think the big problem with “Fine By Me”, in comparison to the other songs this week, is that it’s a wishy-washy in-between of rumba & samba…and generally just not a very impactful song. I think all of the other songs have stronger beats – either for both dances in the fusion, or at least one of them. It’s also a song I don’t see Emmitt having on his iPod, so it’s a little hard picturing him dancing to it and actually enjoying himself 😛
Someone asked earlier about who Emmitt & Cheryl pissed off to get that song – as much as I’d like to say someone stuck them with it, I found out that all the songs for the fusions were pre-determined, before the couples even picked the dances for each other. It had to be that way, because they were carefully picked to fit the list of fusions the couples had to pick from. So while it’s tempting to think, “Ugh, Shawn is the golden girl and that’s why they gave her a good song!!!” or “The producers hate Emmitt, that’s why they stuck him with that song!”, it’s just not the case – no one knew what the songs were when they were picking the fusions for each other, and once they were assigned the fusions, they got their songs – and that was that. And contrary to what was being discussed yesterday about Apolo & Karina switching songs, there were no song switches allowed this week…the couples were stuck with whatever music they got, because it was too hard to come up with replacement songs that fit such specific fusions.
And as for the Google searches – I don’t put any more stock in Google searches than I do YouTube hits or Twitter followers. None of it really matters in the grand scheme of things, because it’s VOTES that count. Remember: it’s what the average viewer is doing that really determines who stays and who goes…and as we’ve said, the average viewer is not the type to scour the internet for news on their favorites, or spend a lot of time power voting on the web. Hell, I’m not sure some of them even know what the interwebs are 😛 Long story short: don’t obsess over Google searches. If it’s any consolation, look at the 3rd, 4th, & 5th most searched names in the past 90 days – two of them are already gone, and one has been in the bottom 2 at least once. Everyone below them in search hits is still there. I don’t think Google hits mean sh*t.
Tony_ I know, Maria Lopez did with Karina, not sure the other one. I’m just saying that if Mark is smart, he would recycle some of the freestyle stuff (lifts and flips), he already knows where they work in the song. Still don’t get swing from this song, specially from a marathon this song this really fast.
Courtney I agree that based on the demographics of the show, google search or youtube hits don’t mean much or anything sometimes, Twitter followers even last (Kim K.).
But I do think that in some cases it says the obvious, Like if you are doing really well in the show, and people already know that you and your partner have a big fanbase, you won and your partners won three times, I doesn’t surprise that they are pretty much the most searched pro and celeb and also have the most hits on youtube by a long mile.
But again, I agree that in the overall results of who win or who gets eliminated they don’t mean sh*t, because if people don’t vote you are going to win.
Google doesn’t mean anything when searching organic listing google has this secret algorithm when you search certain keyword that rank the pages it has nothing to do with clicks as it has to do with a various other factors. Trust me I had to take 2 google courses in the past year for college. I think as far as the competition goes I am excited to see if Apolo and Karina can keep up the momentum they gained last week and wat derek choreograph for shawn and mark. Hopefully Gilles will be the next surprise elimination I cant stand him.
I know their’s no results this week i mean the 2 week scoring and out of 100 points for the 3 nights that screw Gilles over since the margins are going to be low again
Cheryl tweeted that she and Emmitt are dancing 2nd tomorrow night. Which is definitely better than 7th!
:::sigh::: I have twitter too.
Kelly song’s is kind of obscure, but I recognize it from some eBay commercials.
I saw Mark’s tweet and I don’t think he’s gloating at all. I think he’s just really happy to be dancing with Shawn again. I mean if I had been stuck with Bristol this season then I would be happy to have Shawn as a partner. Besides Mark obviously loves dance so it means that he gets to dance again. Also, Shawn was originally his partner anyways. I just don’t think he’s gloating. He’s happy. Besides Derek is like his brother so Mark wouldn’t do that to Derek.
You’d be surprised what brothers do to each other.
@Laila: The second time was Wendy & Tony in Season 12.
I’m already panicking. Apolo/Karina open the show. You know what that means: lower judges scores and pretty much forgettable by the end of the 2-hour show.
Karina Smirnoff
Happy Sunday! At camera block now. Looking forward 2 Monday night. We open the show.
source: Karina’s FB
Jady, IMHO I think it burned Mark’s arse to be with Bristol as Louie danced with Sabrina and Shawn with Derek. Do you think Bristol pulled that “fight” out of thin air? Hey, if Derek has to bow out and Mark steps in, he will smell nothing but a third MBT win….tying his “bro”.
I agree Jada-Mark was not gloating, that is not Mark’s style. He is dancing with the Vibe dancers Monday anyway. It was nice of Mark to step in and help Derek out. I would think any pro would do that for each other if they were hurt.
Alicia, I’ve noticed that some pros get excited about opening the show. Interesting.
Wait…soon people will be saying how so & so went first and the were eliminated.
If you follow Apolo on twitter, he was freaking fans out by always saying how hard or tough his day was.
Try to look on the bright side, maybe his dance is good and the judges will say, “:Great way to start the show.”…..silver lining…..?
Sherry – if Derek really leaves the competition and Shawn end up winning with Mark, they will probably give one trophy for Mark and one for Derek, it wouldn’t be fair if Derek don;t get after dancing 6/7 weeks with Shawn and for Mark as well if he dances all 4 last weeks. Bu I;m sure that Derek will be back, if not this week or next week, later. Julianne was out for two weeks when she danced with Cody and returned during the semi finals.
But I kind agree with Jade, it can’t be nice having people tweeting you all the time that they don’t want see you dance with her, I want Derek. He is not taking Derek’s place, he is just helping a friend who is hurt but at the same time enjoying dancing with a another friend, specially after having Bristol (her head must be exploding right now). I think he got tired of the complaining and tweeted that, not very mature, but somehow understandable. I’m not saying that I aprove, but just like yesterday some lame person tweeted something hateful about Derek and Mark defended his friend.
Alicia, My 12 yr old said, “Uh oh, first? Well, at least they will be well rested for the marathon dance.” See more positivity !!! 🙂
Laila, I’m just going by an interview that Hines & Kym did. When Kym was hurt and had Cheryl (her BFF) practice with Hines, Hines was up all night worrying. he could “feel it” with Cheryl and didn’t want to dance with anyone else but Kym and word from a Pitt reporter who would sit with his manager at the show was that he’d even drop out. Kym taught him, they were a team, and they’d go out together. When asked if he did have to stay and dance with Cheryl and they would have won, who would get the trophy. Kym said Cheryl and Hines said, “Really?” Kym nodded and then Hines said, “You’d have mine.” Another reason I loved that teddy bear!
Sheery, I’m not very optimistic about their fans votes to start with. It looked like they were barely saved last 2 weeks. (Whatever hell it was, it didn’t look good to me) Now, you know it’s always some judges criticism and lower score for the first performing couple. And finally I don’t see any enthusiasm coming from Apolo or Karina about this dance. They for sure were enthusiastic last week. So, try to keep myself positive but it’s getting harder now.
Gilles “pimp spot”. CAI falls again, Len says he’s the best dancer of all seasons and Bruno open legs
The only good thing that comes from Gilles being last is that he might be out early in the marathon. MIGHT. -__-
Really, Gilles is dancing last ** rolling my eyes***. I’m so not watching the judges comments on this one.
Not sure the pimp spot is the best spot Monday night. The swing marathon is actually the last dance.
Btw, I would wonder if Derek is up for the marathon? Swinging your partner around can’t help his neck at all. It might be better for Shawn to have Mark Monday night to let Derek’s neck heal.
I wouldn’t be shocked if Gilles is the show’s next “need to save” project, now that they failed at saving Sabrina.
What is this about a tweet that went out saying someone who has never taken his shirt off before will tomorrow night? The buzz is it might be Apolo. Although I would be freeze framing my tv, hope it’s not a desperate attempt lol.
Courtney, hear of any man dancing shirtless? lol
Just listened to Apolo’s fusion! I love it!!!
Feel Mark handled the whole tweet situation horribly and in general he should be more mature with handling the “hate”. I do not understand either. I always found mark pretty defensive and petty. See season 12. He also seemed pretty possessive of Shawn. He did the whole tweeting how they are the original pairing that won when she was paired with Derek. Him screaming “that’s my girl” etc. I am guessing but feel being with Bristol and seeing Shawn do well with Derek and seeing how much people like the pairing, I feel he is going to be all feel better Derek but remember I won with her blah blah. He always came off as insecure and I feel we will extra Marky with his dances to say “remember me!”
Sheery, maybe it’s Tom who is taking his shirt off. LOL
Loving Karina/Apolo’s song! Can’t wait to see them dance! 🙂
@sheery – Haven’t heard anything about costumes. But Karina did say that Apolo would take his shirt off if they made it to week 8, and no one is getting voted off this week, so…
I’m hoping Shawn will get the 6th spot so that Gilles will have to dance right after what I’m sure will be a great and memorable dance from her and Mark (or Derek, but assuming it’ll be Mark). I’m not worried about her having to do the marathon shortly after since that girl is a ball of energy.
Courney, Karina has never done it before to any of her partners including Sitch. Let see if it’s going to happen this Season.
Sherry, just in a case if it doesn’t happen or you want some preview here the old pics of him. I think, he might look even better now.
http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/10700000/Sexy-Apolo-Ohno-apolo-anton-ohno-10799744-270-400.jpg
Sorry, this is my last post for today.
Wow, did not know Cheryl would have been the winner technically with Hines had Kym been too hurt to continue. Horrible rule IMO. That would deserve an asterisk. I know the show is about the celebs but pros count too. I just hope Derek heals quickly and maybe see Jennifer and Maria’s doctors!
Apolo pachoing without a shirt, swoon. Thank you, Karina. I think they got one of the better songs too. I’m staying positive.
I’m thinking they did away with the elimination this week because of the shakeup with Shawn and Derek. The finals would be ridiculous without Shawn and Apolo IMO. I don’t think the producers are going to let Shawn go very easily, in part because It’s Derek’s final season. I’ve said all along Derek deserves to go out in style.
I really hope Apolo is the one with the shirt of, I will be forever grateful to Karina it this is true.
Jen- me too, I think Gilles got lucky in this past three weeks dancing before Shawn, I would dare the judges give him a 10 in that Bollywood after seeing Shawn’s flawless mambo (even Gilles said that).
As HOT as I think Apolo is.. I hate when the guys feel the need to take of their shirt.
Hey, I called out Derek and Val, and Maks previously…. Fair is fair!
I’m not so quick to believe something just because one of the pros says something. Love Kym, but there is always the possibility that she was wrong.
@Heidi – Do you think we are in for any surprises on Monday night? As far as Derek’s injury.
So there is no elimination this week? Did I read that correctly. Then a double elimination next week.
@Sandy – No elim this week. Definite double next week, probable double the following week, as well.
Ok, and I’m going to (hopefully) set the record straight about exactly why there isn’t going to be an elimination this week after all – and sorry, conspiracy theorists, it’s really not all that exciting, and it has nothing to do with Derek’s injury. According to Deep Throat, the Monday night elim was scrapped out of sheer, extraordinarily poor planning on the part of the powers that be – literally, they just could not figure out the logistics of it. It sounds like they had never really hammered out the details to begin with, and then Sandy threw a wrench into everything, because the original plan was to just let the east coast voters (the ones watching the show live) vote during the show, and somehow tally the votes before the end of the show and eliminate someone. Cue the cries of indignance from all the non-east coasters 😛 But yeah, there’s really no point in trying that if the bulk of the east coast is still in the dark. And I can only imagine the negative feedback they were getting from viewers about letting the judges votes alone decide who goes home, so they just decided to scrap it and add a 3rd double elim (we think). Sorry if this explanation isn’t as sexy or scandalous as some of you were hoping 😛
If there’s a surprise it will be a surprise to Derek too, I think. I think he fully intends to be back at least next week. Despite what the crazy assed Mark fans are thinking – that this is TPTB’s way to get Mark back with Shawn because that pairing is so much better.
Except of course it ISN’T and Derek is easily more popular than Mark is and it’s his last season. If Derek isn’t back it will be because he couldn’t get medically cleared to dance. BTW, to any of you wackos that might be reading – having a neck injury just means Derek can’t dance, it does NOT mean that he has to stay home in bed, immobile.
Why, yes, I have been reading a whole lot of stupidity today, why do you ask? 🙂
Well, DAMN, Court! I wanted scandal and conspiracy and all that good stuff! 😉 Sometimes you gotta wonder if it’s the inmates running the asylum over there. *SMH*
Kirstie & Maks are 3rd.
Seeing as how the women regularly dance in sparky bikinis with a bit of fringe, I’m quite happy to see the men join the women in their state of barely dressed. Apolo, Val, all of them. It seems more congruent for both men and women to show skin on this show. I want the men to dance in sparkly speedos when they are dancing next to women wearing sparkly bikinis. Hope I see it someday!
I’m getting mighty hungry for a big hunk of cheesecake. Yumm…..cheesecake.
Just curious, C and PH, since I KNOW TPTB frequently think of stupid things to keep people guessing about the show….
Do you think it possible, to try to get ratings, that instead of having double eliminations in both week 8 and 9, that instead they do the (in my opinion) stupidest thing possible, and eliminate THREE people in week 8?
@Evaine – Yeah, sometimes it’s not as salacious and underhanded as we might want to believe – sometimes TPTB are just boneheads who lack the motivation to think things completely through before they make outlandish decisions. 😛
@Lori – I highly doubt there will be a triple elim – then again, I didn’t think they’d even consider a live elim, so who knows. I think what is more probable is either a) 2 double elims, in weeks 8 & 9, or b) double elim in week 8, single elim in week 9, 4 couples go to finale, one gets eliminated at the beginning of the 2nd night, one gets eliminated after the first dance of the 2nd night, and the last two duke it out in a finale dance for the MBT. But that’s just me.
I look at those pictures of Derek and think of this one science class that I took that pretty much debunked a lot of “science” out there and how I learned that acupuncture pretty does absolutely nothing.
Just for the record, my thought was just that, a single thought. No conspiracy theory involved 😉
Melissa tweeted a reply that she and Tony dance 5th.
Dancing 5th is not bad. They’ll have a lot of time to rest for the Swing Marathon.
This dance with Utah vibe kids is probably after Gilles dance, to give them some time to rest, change and stuff. If Mark is dancing with Shawn tomorrow fusion and marathon, he will probably be dead by the end of the show, so I would say Shawn go fourth to give mark some time to rest, and Kelly six. It works better, because if Shawn goes 6, we will see tango/chacha tango/paso and a.tango/samba one after another.
Louis said he will be part of the opening number and doing a fusion paso, cha cha, and Argentine Tango dance. As I read that I wrinkled up my lips like ugh! Apolo’s paso cha cha has to follow the pros. Fabulous…..sigh.
Sherry, I hate when they do pro number before the performance show, last week country thing was ok, but actual balroom no no. Makes the celeb look weak IMO, leave the pro number to results show.
I checked out Mark’s twitter, and I agree with Jady (#80), Kae (#85), and Laila (#87)…I didn’t think there was anything he said that was “gloating.” In fact, he didn’t say anything about himself, just that Derek is hurting and healing and that Shawn is “looking great.”
Thank you for posting all the songs. I quite like almost all the songs, the song for Emmet not sure about it.
Listening to Apollo song is good for his fusion dance. My only concern been the first to dance. Some people don’t get to watch the show at the Start.
I would love to see Apollo in the finals but I don’t think he will be.
My money the two finalist are Shawn and Gilles. And perhaps Kelly, I think mostly because people like the supposedly romance between Val and Kelly, hopefully not.
Not a fan of striping off shirts, but is a TV show and like someone says the pro have to think in the people who vote, and go for it. Hope everyone have a good time.
Not a fan of striping off shirts, but is a TV show and like someone says the pro have to think in the people who vote, and go for it.
Hope everyone have a good time. Xx
Running across this list has gotten me thinking about 2 things:
1. Now everyone left has gone first at least once, except Emmitt and Shawn.
2. The only people part of the entire All Star that did a marathon dance in their original season were Bristol and Pamela and they’ve both been eliminated, so this is the first DWTS tradition (group dance, team dance, etc) that is brand new to all couples this season.
Cali, Mark deleted the objectionable tweet.
I don’t think Mark would ever wish for Derek to get hurt but he seems awfully gleeful that Derek IS hurt. It seems as though, to Mark, Derek’s injury is a welcome opportunity to resurect TeamShark” and he is thrilled about it. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but to me it is unfortunate and doesn’t come across well.
I agree peonies. I am sure Mark wants Derek to be better, but he seems to think this is not just him subbing for Derek moment but yes to resurrect and remind people he was Shawn’s partner first. If you connect that with his little twitter incident when the pairings were first made, I believe it. I mean, Shawn knew Mark well enough to say Mark would not be happy at the start. I know I am one of many who prefer Shawn with Derek and hearing Shawn talk about Derek, he has done a lot to make her a better performer and dancer.
Mark deleted the gloating tweets. He needs thicker skin if he could not take fans calling out his behavior. But then again his cray cray fans seem to think this is some elaborate plan reunite them so if that is true, then Mark just buys the crazy.
Ideally, it would be to have Derek dance the fusion dance and rest for the marathon if he needs it. contrary to what Mark might say, he cannot dance contemporary. I would rather see Allison and Derek doing another fusion number. That would be stunning.
@Sheery, You’re right, ompletely unfair to have the pros do a paso/chacha fusion right before Apolo and Karina do theirs. WTF??
Well based off of the Choreographers meeting last week that Derek went too, he said he is doing contemporary this week so i have to think that his dance with Allison and crew might be next week elimination? i was convinced that Derek was going to dance tonight but after listening to his interviews and mark i am pretty confident he is not dancing at all.
The only thing weird to me is when they first listed the celebrites coming back for all stars, Mark made it clear he wanted to dance with sabrina again. campainging for her, you tube video, interviews , everything.He never mentioned Shawn or bristol and wanting to dance with them again. Now hes thrilled that team shark is reunited. but im still excited to see them dance together.
Ai ai ai…I think everyone’s reading far too much into the running order at this point. Heidi & I have told you guys time and again that running order kinda ceases to be important about midway through the season – and we’re past that point. People already have their favorites, and with everyone dancing multiple times, there’s no real pimp spot or crap spot. Just breeeeeathe…it’s not that serious.
IMO, Mark enjoys egging on what he considers the haters since his uber fans will jump in and protect him. I just hope Shawn isn’t the one that suffers from Mark being stretched so thin tonight but I’m sure he’s enjoying all the attention he’s getting.
Shawn went second in week 1 which is statistically WORSE than going first. I don’t know how or why people got hung up on this whole “going first” thing when Courtney and I have been saying for a while that it’s far worse to go 2nd or 3rd. We’ve also been saying for a very long time that at this point in the season running order doesn’t matter nearly as much. And in an All Star season it matters even less than that. So, are people willfully blind or just not inclined to believe the math??
Funny – that also applies to climate change. 🙂
Everyone that doesn’t kiss his ass is deemed a hater by Mark, from what I can see.
If for some reason Derek can’t come back this season, I think Apolo has a MUCH better shot of winning.
Listening to all the songs, I think Melissa and Tony have the most appropriate song for their fusion dance.
Out of interest, what are some songs you guys would pick as samba/rumba fusion songs? I was struggling to think of any.. I put my iTunes on shuffle and out of about a hundred songs I thought maybe 15 Step by Radiohead? Curious to know what you would choose.
^^ I also thought maybe A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton would be an okay rumba/samba fusion song.
I would say Samba Pa Ti by Santana would be a good fusion song for rumba/samba or don’t lie by the black eyed peas that mark and Lacey danced to in season 9 for their rumba. (Hate the song though)
Heidi,
I agree. After Shawn & Derek’s quickstep, I told a friend that if S&D made it to the finale they’d be almost impossible to beat – because of Derek’s creative choreography and Shawn’s ability to perform it they’d be hard to beat – no matter who they were up against. I saw it as almost a “sure thing”. Mark and Shawn? Not so much. Much as I love Apolo (and I do love Apolo) – I’d still much rather see Shawn and Derek be able to finish what they started. I already saw what Mark could do with Shawn in a freestyle. I can only imagine what Derek would do! I hope Derek’s doctors decide he’s okay to dance – because what a swan song it would be to go out on a Freestyle he choreographs with someone of Shawn’s caliber/skill set. (Even if it does mean (and I think it would) that Apolo won’t win a 2nd mirror ball trophy.) More than anything though – I hope he’s okay! He’s such a unique talent/dancer/choreographer. I’ve been waiting forever to see him choreograph for SYTYCD!
Mark’s dancing tonight, Mikey – but from what Shawn tweeted it certainly sounds like Derek will be back.
Ugh!!! Extra Tv was supposed to have a behind the scenes look at tonights show (I think with Sherri Shepherd), but the news continued in my area about the presidential election.
Hopefully they will put in online tonight.