Dancing with the Stars Season 28, Week TEN – Who’s Dancing What…and When??
Ahhhhh…much nicer week in store for us on DWTS. 🙂 I like everyone left on the show, I would be good with any of the five taking this home (except maybe Gleb, although I like Lauren). I will still find the judges extremely aggravating and dumb, but you can’t have everything. 🙂 Here’s a take from the press release for the coming week.
For this week, there will be two rounds of competitive dance performances and the stakes are high to get into the finals. In the first round, celebrities will repeat a style of dance they struggled with earlier in the season with a new song. The judges will mentor each of the couples. The second round will be the last time the couples will perform to a style of dance they haven’t performed before.
Vying for America’s vote, each couple will dance to a variety of songs including Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger,” The Temptations’ “Get Ready,” Tim McGraw’s “Humble and Kind,” Hozier’s “Take Me To Church,” Vanessa Williams’ “Save the Best for Last,” Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” and Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” among others.
Sheesh, Hannah can never get two good dances in a row. Hopefully they don’t continue to hose her by giving her shit rumba music. Based on the list below, she is certainly not the favored one that everyone liked to claim at the beginning of the season. I don’t think ANYONE has it as easy as James does this week – fucking Cha Cha?? Are they trying to piss me off and make me not vote for him?? He’s hot and all, but I can’t with the easy ass cha cha. Ally has it pretty good this week too, but she needs it. Everyone else has something of a challenge, at least for one of their two dances.
First dance is a repeat, so I (of course) went to see how they did the first time around. James got two 7s and a 6 in week two – hardly a bad score. I don’t recall it being a struggle either. Conversely, Kel got two 5s and a 6 on his week-one Tango – he will likely get to show the most improvement of the group. Ally got two 7s and a 6 on her week two V. Waltz – her lowest score of the season. This is true for James as well – the problem is, most people recognize at this stage of the game that the first two weeks scores are artificially low a lot of the time. I just object to anyone getting cha cha at this stage of the game. James got three 7s in week two with the Tango – why not pick that one and measure his growth on that? He also got all 7s on his week four quickstep. Anyway, Hannah got 7s on her Rumba in week two – that’s in keeping with the others, but still possibly the hardest dance in the Semi-final. Lauren got two 6s and a 7 on her Week-two Paso, but she got the same score on her week 1 Cha Cha – why did they pick Paso for her instead of the Cha Cha? Hmmmm…
This lineup makes me think they would like for either Kel or James to win – or PERHAPS they really don’t care, which is an argument I’ve made before during this season. All new producers = all new tricks. No one seems to consistently have it easy or hard (possibly excepting Hannah and her music assignments). But one thing remains consistent across the seasons – their desire for a variety of dance styles and songs through out the season unfairly handicaps some and helps others. It’s just not necessarily the same person from week to week. I would love to go back in time to when there were two dances styles every week for most of the season and you do one or the other. Then you can measure the couples against each other. Ah well…
Kel and Witney – Tango and Contemporary
James and Emma – Cha Cha and Foxtrot
Ally and Sasha – Viennese Waltz and Charleston
Hannah and Alan – Rumba and Contemporary
Lauren and Gleb – Paso and Viennese Waltz
I agree, I miss the days when it was the same two dances for the first few weeks, and there wasn’t a ton of dance styles throughout the season.
I don’t know whose going to have a tougher time this week. I fully expect James and Hannah to be through to the finals. I hope Kel makes it, but like the last couple of weeks I worry he could be in trouble. I wouldn’t care if Ally went, but I love Sasha. Hannah isn’t really my favorite, either, but I think she’s gotten a raw deal. I mainly want James and Kel through, and one of them to win. I don’t care who rounds out the top 4.
I hope whoever gets “Save the best for last” doesn’t go last, because I can already hear the corny puns from the judges if that’s the case.
There’s actually an article by people magazine with all of the songs they are dancing this week! We know the songs ahead of time and I like it!
They should’ve done Trios for the 2nd round of dances.
I guess I was wrong about there being no Charlestons this season.
Unless Lauren gets her highest scores next week, she’d probably be the next one to get the boot if she winds up in the bottom two.
Cheryl’s right. The chosen songs are on the People magazine site. I guess no one is dancing to “Save the Best for Last” after all. I like the song, but it’s too slow and anticlimactic for a dance routine.
Contemporary is a bye to the final. Much more difficult to see mistakes. That and VW traditionally very high scoring. Cha and FT is more of a tuff ask than maybe first thoughts. I am worried for James this week
Any chance they pull a surprise double elimination and only send three to the final? that’s the only thing i thought of that might change any outcomes .
Lauren and gleb should have to redo their tango or cha cha cha in my opinion but paso was a great redo choice for them too.
Worried for James??? As if. He’s got the easiest set of the week.
So this means we’re never getting an Argentine Tango from James? That makes me sad.
James may have the easiest set but these are also styles that make “hard to impress” numbers… You don’t see a lot of 10s being thrown around for cha chas. It would be a good set for an earlier week but this week they have to really make it big to cause impact. Contemporary is great for that, you hide mistakes well and tell emotional stories, that usually hepls pump the scores up. Viennese Waltz and Argentine Tango are two dances that usually get people excited because they look more advanced. I’m sure James will ace both styles but I wonder if he’ll manage to make a lasting impression.
On other news, website published the songs for each couple, so we have:
Lauren and Gleb: Paso to ‘Stronger’ by Kelly Clarkson and Viennese Waltz to ‘Humble and kind’ by Tim McGraw
Ally and Sasha: Viennese Waltz to ‘Perfect’ by Ed Sheeran and Charleston to ‘Sing sing sing’ by Ray Chew Live
Hannah and Alan: Rumba to ‘Dancing with a stranger’ by Sam Smith and Normani, and Contemporary to ‘Lose you to love me’ by Selena Gomez
Kel and Witney: Tango to ‘Get ready’ by The Temptations and Contemporary to ‘I will always love you’ by Whitney Houston
James and Emma: Cha cha to ‘Canned heat’ by Jamiroquai and Foxtrot to ‘Take me to church’ by Hozier
From these choices, only Hannah has songs that were never used before on the show, and they’re good songs. I’m honestly relieved because she was being sc****d over every week with song choices. I’m a bit worried about Kel’s contemporary because even though he has a great song, the number has a good chance of ending up too cheesy/corny. Canned Heat was the song from Candace’s infamous ‘lowest score ever’ freestyle, but it was not the song’s fault and it can turn into a great cha cha number if they know how to use it. Most of these songs bring fresh memories from other dance numbers to my mind, we’ll jsut have to see if that’s a good thing or not.
I wouldn’t be worried about Kel .. if anyone can work with that song it’s Wit.
Think it’s shaping up for a great show, i think we will see more then one couple end on 60 for the night.
Not DWTS related: FORD v FERRARI is really good. Saw it today (oddly enough one of three movies I want to see this year that aren’t Netflix ones….The Irishman looks awesome)
@Justin You’re right, Witney usually does tasteful contemporary numbers, and she worked with that song in SYTYCD. She often surprises me positively 😀
I’m excited for the show too! For the first time this season I feel liek I have a chance of enjoying it from start to finish, now that the evil was defeated. James has the easiest set but it’s also the most underwhelming, let’s see how Emma will work her magic to add that special glow to the dances. She’s good at that. I hope Hannah’s contemporary is better than Alexis’s, hers wasn’t bad but I felt it was a bit broken if that makes sense? As if the connective steps between the main figures were not that well thought out/executed. I’m hoping all the pros bring their A game this Monday.
Finally saw “Last Christmas” Vin and you’re right – really good. Very unexpected, actually.
@princess Heidi: ikr! I was like gotta go see I think for the mother of dragons and walked out going “that was the perfect movie for this time of year and it wasn’t too cheesy”. Just gotta see Star Wars now and that’s literally the last one in theaters that I wanna see lol. The other movie with to. Hanks looks good too but at the same time I don’t want them to ruin mr rogers for me lol.