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We’re back again with the list of the SYTYCD 2009 results show music for the top 18. Last night had a real hit song that a lot of people seemed to love called “Falling Slowly” by The Frames. Feel free to take a look back at all the SYTYCD 2009 music.

Now for the SYTYCD 2009 top 18 results show music:
SYTYCD top 18Group dance to the song “Higher Ground” —Stevie Wonder (Choreographer: Mia Michaels)

Special musical guest sang “Goodbye” —Kristinia DeBarge (Original Kristinia DeBarge music video )

Special guest Indian dancer: Amrapali Ambegaokar: Kathak

The bottom 3 couples did the following solos:
Caitlin Kinney: “Make You Feel My Love” —Adele
Jason Glover: “Superman” —Robin Thicke
Ashley Valerio: “By Your Side” —CocoRosie
Kupono Aweau: “Many Moons” —Janelle Monáe (Original Janelle Monáe music video )
Kayla Radomski: “Walking On Air” —Kerli (Original Kerli music video )
Max Kapitannikov: “Footloose” —Kenny Loggins

The Ashley Valerio montage was to the song “Already Gone” by Kelly Clarkson
The Max Kapitannikov montage was to the song “On Your Own” by Green River Ordinance

It’s now all official and we know who will be in the So You Think You Can Dance 2009 top 20. All over the web people are twittering about who they like, blogging about it, and commenting on blogs like mine. So, I might as well take a minute to write down a few of my rants (both good and bad) about the So You Think You Can Dance top 20.

Brandon Bryant – A lot of people are up in arms about Mia Michael’s comments to Brandon Bryant. Now you may remember that I said that Mia Michaels was a mean judge, but this time I’m actually backing Mia. Ok, she was a little over the top in her criticism but I think she was right. There’s something missing in Brandon’s performance in Las Vegas that’s not quite there.

Maybe it’s like his friend Natalie Reid who said that she couldn’t live up to her expectations. Brandon definitely can’t live up to the expectations of a crying Mary Murphy. However, for me I’m not sure it’s all about living up to expectations. I just think with certain styles of dance he’s going to have troubles and not blows us away like he did in his audition. Plus, he is a little bit arrogant in his ways. He’s not like Danny Tidwell arrogant, but just a touch of that maybe. Luckily unlike Danny Tidwell, when Brandon Bryant talks the arrogance doesn’t seem to come out. That’s a really good thing for him.

I also love the conspiracy theory someone suggested in the comments that maybe Mia Michaels was trying to avoid the Will Wingfield issue of being considered a judges favorite and having that hurt your chances with the vote. I don’t think Mia did that on purpose, but I definitely believe that Brandon Bryant will benefit from his fans voting extra for him thanks to Mia.

Ashley Valero – Can you say 4 times? That’s a lot of tryouts. I couldn’t be happier for her. Looking forward to see more of her dancing.

Alex Wong – Second to most heart breaking moment of the night. Whether you liked Alex Wong’s dancing or not you had to appreciate his desire to dance. It’s unfortunate that he wasn’t able to get out of his contract. I’m not calling for a boycott of his ballet company, but man it’s sad he went to all that work and now has to go home to only do ballet.

Kasprzak Brothers – Most heartbreaking moment of the night. I’m sure Fox wants ratings, but this was just cruel. “Worst nightmare” was an apt description. I also really hated that Nigel said they always thought they could only let one person with their style into this year’s top 20. That’s crap to me. You put in the best dancers. If they’re all contemporary then so be it. I hate to hear stuff like this.

I’ll admit that I ended up watching this episode twice already and as I sat back and just enjoyed it the second time, I was really excited to see so many of the dancers in the top 20. I don’t think this season is going to be the best one ever, but I also don’t think it will disappoint either. Plus, Wade Robson and Shane Sparks are BACKKKKK!!!! (in case you missed that news)

As I’ll be doing throughout the season, I plan on posting all of the So You Think You Can Dance 2009 music. So far the music from this season has been amazing and I don’t expect that to change. However, the Las Vegas week music is sometimes harder to figure out than other weeks. So, I’m posting this early so that people can leave comments as they figure out the various music from So You Think You Can Dance Las Vegas week episode 1. I plan on updating this post throughout the night.

As a side note while you wait for the start of SYTYCD, Ash Koley’s “Don’t Let Your Feet Touch Ground” is now on iTunes for those who wanted to download the song, but it wasn’t available.

Music Heard on Tonight show (still needs to be placed in order, hopefully)

Montage at the 5 min. mark (montage of first solo dances) was “Dance With Me” by The Old 97’s

Tabitha and Napoleon’s choreography was to the song “Boom Boom Pow” by Black Eyed Peas

Jean-Marc Genereux waltz choreography to the song ”May It Be”  by Hayley Westenra

Sonya’s choreography was to the song “Great DJ” by The Ting Tings

Gabi Rojas did a solo to “dance for her life” to the song “Four Women” by Nina Simone

Natalie Reid gets sent home to the song “Coldfront” by Amie Miriello

Brandon Bryant saved, talks about Natalie Reid and says good bye to Natalie Reid to the song “Wave Goodbye” by Mike Schmid

Mia’s choreography was to the song “Belief” (Stripped Version) by Gavin DeGraw

Montage of those passing Mia’s choreography was to the song “A Beautiful World” by Tim Myers

Group choreography ? was to the song “Slow Me Down” by Emmy Rossum

Female Broadway by Tyce DiOrio was to the song “America” from West Side Story

Male Broadway by Tyce DiOrio was to the song “Cool” from West Side Story

“Shake It”  by Metro Station

“Stay” by Gavin DeGraw

Waltz, No. 2 (XO) by Elliott Smith

“Somebody’s Watching Me” by Rockwell

“Freeze” by T-Pain and Chris Brown

“Make You Feel My Love” by Adele

“Hold You In My Arms” By Ray Lamontagne

“Freeze” by T-Pain (feat. Chris Brown)

Closing Montage showing the final solo performances was to the song “Shot Away” (Buy Single on Amazon) by Pawn Shop (Although many people say this sounds a lot like “Gimme Shelter” by The Rolling Stones , the words are close but not the same)

During the end credits was the song “Dance With Me” by Old 97s

**I counted up the number of different pieces of music on tonight’s episode and I counted 83 pieces of music. Granted a number of the songs were used a couple times and some of it was just background music that no one cares about, but that’s still a lot of music. I guess it’s hard to do much dance without music.

So You Think You Can Dance Las Vegas Week Music Hour 1
Too many to list…

So You Think You Can Dance Las Vegas Week Music Hour 2
Too many to list…

I don’t know how many of you have been following my list of So You Think You Can Dance Music, but one of the interesting artists that’s had their music on multiple seasons of So You Think You Can Dance is Elisa Toffoli.

So far, Elisa Toffoli’s music has been on SYTYCD at least 3 times that I know of:
Lacey Schwimmer and Kameron dancing to Elisa’s song “Dancing” to Mia Michaels choreography. Here’s a video of Lacey Schwimmer and Kameron dancing to “Dancing”:

Some people have called this dance their favorite SYTYCD dance of all time. My favorite part is when Lacey leaps into Kameron’s arms at about the 1:15 mark.

The song Dancing sung by Elisa was also performed by Kelli Baker during the Salt Lake City/Dallas audition show:

Finally, Courtney Galiano danced a Top 6 solo to the song “Rock Your Soul” by Elisa

Well, it turns out that Lacey Schwimmer made an unofficial video for Elisa Toffoli’s song “Rainbow.” Honestly, I would have loved to see Lacey do a Rhumba to this song, but Lacey actually did a pretty credible job as an actor in this video. Enjoy:

Also, watch this blog over the next couple weeks, because I plan on giving away some free Elisa Toffoli CDs. My only hint is that if you want some free Elisa Toffoli CDs and music, then it would be a good idea to start adding thoughtful comments to my blog.

Enjoy this video of the So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) Finale Final 4 Group Dance choreographed by Mia Michaels.

Special Performance: The final four contestants perform a Contemporary piece choreographed by Mia Michaels to “Hallelujah” by The Vitamin String Quartet

Near the beginning of So You Think You Can Dance, I read someone suggest that SYTYCD should have the various choreographers dance on the show. Ok, I think this is a great idea if we’re talking about Wade Robson, Lil C, Shane Sparks, Tice D’orio, etc. However, there are a number of choreographers that I respect and enjoy as choreographers and professionals, but I never want to see them dance. My short list for now includes: Mary Murphy, Nigel Lythgote (sp?) and more than any of the others Mia Michaels.

Take a look at the following video and see what I mean about Mia Michaels dancing.

It’s nothing personal. I’d say the same thing about myself dancing on SYTYCD. Not something that America wants to see. She’s a great choreographer and I usually like her as a judge, but I don’t want to see her dance.

Who else did I miss? Oh, I wouldn’t mind seeing Tabitha and Napoleon do a little number.

Today, Rocky and myself were chatting about tonight’s SYTYCD top 10 show. I thought it might be of interest to our readers. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts in the comments. Also, let me know if you think a SYTYCD chat on this blog would be cool too.

Rocky says:
I’m with you! I can’t wait till the sytycd comes on tonight….but I’m not looking forward to Thursdays anymore.
John says:
why not?
John says:
it will make you cry?
John says:
2 hours tonight…should be good
Rocky says:
I think what I will feel most is annoyed For the next few weeks elimination will be strictly fanbase without regards to quality of performance on Wednesday. Every season good dancers go home because weaker ones still have pity votes.
Rocky says:
Kherington may well go home tonight and that will make me sad.
John says:
nope…she can’t go home…i won’t let her
John says:
everyone said that twitch was carrying her, but I think that she might have been carrying twitch, although since they were in the bottom 3 it’s hard to say either was carrying the other
John says:
tonight should be exciting, because it’s the night where they get new partners
Rocky says:
I know, that makes it exciting to see what everyone can do with new partners. I’ve read that overall it will be a good show. They are doing a group Bollywood routine Thursday night, I can’t wait. I love it.
John says:
sweet…i loved the previous Bollywood number. Bollywood can be really cool if done right or really bad if done wrong. Like most dances really
Rocky says:
Very true, but for this show, I’m sure they will make it good! The dancers will be doing another routine on Thursday, as well. One with just the females, and one with just the males. Mia choreographed the one for the girls so it will be interesting, for sure.
John says:
Well, I’m biased and will certainly love almost any dance with all females. Mia can do some really cool stuff, but some of her stuff is just weird. I definitely haven’t drunk the Mia koolaid. She’s very talented, but not God.
Rocky says:
I agree, she’s not the world’s greatest choreographer but I love weird and quirky so most of her routines are great to me.
John says:
I’m really looking forward to the show…nothing like a beautiful Wednesday night of SYTYCD
Rocky says:
Agreed. Lots of dancing tonight. Two dances per couple and a solo each.

As promised here’s the 2 videos of the Mia Michaels routines from the top 14 of So You Think You Can Dance.

Katee and Joshua danced the heck out of this one. I really like the way they performed it. I wasn’t so into the routine myself, but sometimes Mia is hard to understand. However, Katee and Joshua definitely gave their whole selfs to the routine.

Enjoy the video of Katee and Joshua’s top 24 contemporary routine:

I think Twitch and Kherington’s bed routine will be the most memorable dance of the season even if I prefer the Viennese Waltz they did earlier in the season. Either way, the bed idea of Mia Michaels is an incredible concept that Twitch and Kherington really performed amazingly. The expressions on Twitch and Kherington’s face were priceless and expressed such emotion.

Enjoy the video of Twitch and Kherington’s top 14 contemporary bed routine

I’m pretty sure that Mia Michaels will have a choreographer job on SYTYCD for a long time to come.

I meant to post this video a long time ago, but never got around to it. Today I came across it in my search for the video of Twitch and Kherington Payne’s Mia Michaels bed routine and so I decided to post it now. This was a killer Shane Sparks group routine. I think my favorite part is when it’s 3 guys and Comfort and Comfort more than holds her own. It’s awesome to watch what Shane Sparks created.

Also, I haven’t found the video of Kherington and Twitch Mia Michaels bed routine yet, but you can be sure I’ll post it when I do find it. I’m pretty sure that’s going to be one that a lot of people remember and want to watch.

Great elimination show. Sad to see anyone go, but we still have all the music for SYTYCD. I think we’re pretty close to reaching the point that anyone who gets sent home will be a great dancer.

Below you’ll find all the music from the sytycd top 16 elimination show. Just click on the iTunes link to be able to download the song.

Group dance to the song “The Dance” sung by Charlotte Martin (Choreographer: Mia Michaels )

The Best Dance Crew danced to “Chemical Calisthenics” by Blackalicious feat. Cut Chemist

Musical guest: “One Step at a Time”—Jordin Sparks

Chelsea Traille danced a solo to the song “A Song For You” sung by Donny Hathaway

Thayne Jasperson danced a solo to the song “Always” sung by Bon Jovi

Comfort Fedoke danced a solo to the song “Just Fine” sung by Mary J. Blige

Chris Jarosz danced a solo to the song “After Tonight” sung by Justin Nozuka

Kourtni Lind danced a solo to the song “Fire Door (Live)” sung by Ani DiFranco

Matt Dorame danced a solo to the song “I’m Yours” sung by Jason Mraz

Elimination songs:
Chelsea Traille: “When You’re Gone”—Avril Lavigne

Chris Jarosz: “All We Are”—OneRepublic