So You Think You Can Dance Show Recap and Music

What a great So You Think You Can Dance last night. Here’s a recap:

Cat struts out wearing what is either the world’s largest garbage bag or an antique blackout curtain from the London Blitz. Either way she looks super hot. Cat, please turn it down, I’m running out of superlatives.

Cat wastes no time announcing the special guest, award-winning dancer/choreographer Debbie Allen who’ll be in the rotating judge spot this week joining Nigel and Mary.

The judges work through some talking points then it’s down to the dancing.

First dance style tonight is a style new to the show this season, Krumping. Sara and Jesus will be beta-testing this product of South-Central LA as taught by Lil’C. They hit the stage with a bang, dressed in matching jeans, white shoes and red t-shirts. This style is totally new to both of them and it shows. From what little Krumping I’ve seen before, this falls short, but they do have some seriously great attitude and energy. The judges are totally wowed by their presence and energy. These kids are safe this week I say.
It’s Okay
One Blood

Now Mia Michaels will be teaching Cedric and Shauna one of the notoriously challenging contemporary routines. Mia wastes no time and starts speaking in metaphors about beginnings of ends and celebrating goodbye’s. They bound onto the stage in normal looking street clothes and start the acting. Big movements, lots of the throwing and flailing, emotional faces, tearful faces, then the goodbye. The crowd is freaking out and Mia, yes! Mia is crying! We have an official emotional response! Debbie Allen wastes no time showering their praises in a surprisingly eloquent manner. Mary comes in with an unpopular opinion saying it wasn’t good enough and Cedric needs to leave the competition. If she keeps talking, mob rule is going to take over. Nigel walks the line again saying he agrees with both sides, including an aside about the Paris Hilton jail sentence. Nigel says in no uncertain terms that Cedric is out of here.
I Thought We had
The Family Stand

The Queen of the dangerous bangs and the king of the consistently awkward mohawk, aka Lacey and Kameron, are up next and they have the quick step! This is the mega kryptonite dance, known for ruining the chances of even the most versatile dancer. They even bring out the dance shoulder frame for Kameron, I could use one right now. They definitely look the part, straight from that ubiquitous era that swing is rumored to come from. These two look at home in a speakeasy, but they’re dancing like they haven’t touched a drop of moonshine. This may be the first time I’ve seen quickstep right. Oh! I just realized Kameron lost the mohawk, maybe that’s what did it for me. Well done Kam. The judges all love the routine. I think these kids will be safe yet again.
Big and Bad
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Anya and Danny are up next, but first we need to hear a little about their non-dance aspirations. Anya says she aspires to own an animal shelter, a dream she’s had since she was little. Danny has more Hollywood-centric dreams aside from dance, to work in production in whatever way possible. A wise PA with ancient cargo shorts once said “you gotta get on set”, word to the wise Danny. The two are paired with Dan Karaty for a Hip-hop routine. Right away the routine seems lackluster. The choreography is cool but they can’t get in sync. That aspect alone sinks the routine for me, I’m sure the judges will totally disagree. Andddd they do. They totally love it pretty much drooling all over Danny. This is not going to help that ego problem. I just don’t get what they saw that I didn’t.
Oh Timbaland
Timbaland

The pair of Sabra and Dominic are set to do a Rumba . Last week this pair became the golden ones with a super popular contemporary routine, we’ll see if they can hack it with the Frenchman Jean-Marc. At the very least they’re looking very sexy, but I have another issue with a Jean-Marc Genereux routine. What part the about the Pussycat Dolls makes you think of Rumba sir? This is a musical anachronism at the very least. And it’s too bad because the kids nail the dance with expert precision. Dominic has really taken on a new candor that has the crowd freaking out. Debbie delays her response to create some dramatic tension, then breaks down and yells to call the fire dept. because that was hot. Mary loves it and so does Nigel. These two are definitely the favorite couple.
Stickwitu
The Pussycat Dolls

Time to hear from Lauren and Neil. They draw tango out of the hat and have the sassy Frenchman Jean-Marc Genereaux for choreography. Lauren is looking sexier than she ever has, and the dress sure helps. As Hot as Lauren looks the dance doesn’t sell the judges as much as Neil and Lauren seemed to think. Mary breaks down the specifics of where they went wrong. Nigel saves it at the end with some unique praise for Neil
Tanguera
Sexteto Mayor

Next up is Hok and Jaimie, but before we see them dance we have to hear them talk about their other interests. Hok is evidently a visual artist capable of drawing giraffes and more abstract wildlife. Jaimie loves to write and is planning on writing a book about her later mother. OK, enough of that sappy dream crap, dance time. Wade Robson will be teaching the pair a Jazz dance in which Jaimie plays a flower and Hok a butterfly, I approve. Unique is definitely the key word here. Hok seems to enjoy doing insect-like twitches, kind of a nouveau-break style. Jaimie is flexing her powerful dance thighs and trying not spear Hok with her sci-fi hair spikes.
The Chairman’s Waltz
Memoirs of a Geisha (sndtrk)

Pasha and Jessi are going to be rounding out the competition tonight. Last week these two were in the bottom three, this week they’re doing the Cha-cha. Tony Meredith and his slicked back hair will be teaching them some rather raunchy moves. He used the word “gyrate”, does that mean anything to you? So it’s going to be pretty sexy. But wait, something is amiss! Cut to Jessi in a the back of an ambulance! She’s having trouble breathing and had to stay in the hospital. I don’t know what to say. Just like that Jessi is out for this week. Pasha still gets a chance to show his skills, and his arms in a sleeveless shirt only a Russian dancer could wear with any seriousness. Pasha nails it, but It’s not the same without Jessi, seeing as his replacement partner is a good 15 years older than the svelte young Jessi. The judges all totally love it as well as every girl under 15 in North America.
Let’s Get Loud
Jennifer Lopez

That’s the show, albeit a weird one. See you tomorrow when we see who’s going home. Note: if Jessi does not recover to the point where she can perform a solo, she will be cut.