So You Think You Can Dance: The Top 8 Couples Perform
Tonight on So You Think You Can Dance, the guest judge was Adam Shankman. The dancers were telling secrets about each other – stuff America might not know. For example, Kherington thinks Twitch laughs like a bear. Do bears laugh? Oh well, I know what she means – it was deep. Those two danced a hip hop routine that I didn’t find all that exciting, but it had the judges praising it. Nigel listed the positives then said there were no negatives and Mary felt the same way – she whooped! Then, when she threatened to whoop in Adam’s ear, he kissed her – on the lips! Loved his comment afterwards – “That will shock a few people.”
Next up was Courtney and Gev doing the rumba. Again, I wasn’t feeling it, but the judges liked it. I thought the initial slide was not flowing then poor Courtney got her heel caught in her dress. She recovered well though. Dominic was in the crowd and Nigel made references to him while critiquing Courtney and Gev. He said he was “very, very happy” with the routine and both Mary and Adam loved it as well. Chris and Comfort, trying to redeem themselves from last week’s krump, got jazz. This routine was just weird. I honestly never thought I’d see anyone dance to Marilyn Manson’s song “Beautiful People.” The judges expected more from them, saying it wasn’t powerful enough. Jessica and Will DID redeem themselves with their disco routine. Nigel loved Will’s point and Mary admitted there were a few mistakes but it was a difficult routine and they did great.
Kourtni and Matt did contemporary with a new choreographer, Sonya Tayeh, who I am pretty sure was the lead singer from the 80s band Bow Wow Wow (look it up!). The routine was weird and quirky, but it worked. As Nigel said, it was a different style of contemporary. Adam said it looked like Kourtni was dressed in a shopping bag – well, it did! Chelsea and Thayne were trying to get back on the hot tamale train with their quickstep. This routine bored me. Nigel said it didn’t show their personalities, they had the same smile frozen on their faces the whole dance. Adam said they didn’t look comfortable (probably in part because of those frozen smiles!). Mary even threw Chelsea off the train and said Thayne was barely hanging on.
Chelsie and Mark did a hip-hop routine that Nigel said they danced brilliantly. Even Adam yelled for this one. But, the stars of the night were Katee and Joshua – talk about the hot tamale train! Mary said they had two first class tickets on it for their samba and she wasn’t kidding! It was funny when Nigel was talking about Joshua’s butt then asked Joshua’s dad in the audience if he got that butt from him.
Who is in danger? Definitely poor Chris and Comfort again I am afraid. I also thought (despite the judge’s praise) that Kherington and Twitch’s routine was forgettable as was Chelsea and Thayne’s quickstep.
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