TV | tender is the night

Posted on June 16, 2011 by ally

It’s summer TV programming in the US now which means… So You Think You Can Dance is back! Yay! :D

I never watched Season 1, and only sporadically watched Seasons 2 and 3… although my few viewings were enough for me to develop plenty of love and admiration for wonderful dancers like Travis Wall, Allison Holker, Neil Haskell and Hok Konishi. But Season 4 sealed my love affair for SYTYCD and I’ve been hooked ever since.

Seeing these people dance, I am constantly in awe of the way the human body can move to music; so much that I wish I had taken dance lessons when I was younger. :( Not only that, the show has also introduced me to a whole plethora of music I’d never heard before. Aaaannnd, more ~~superficially~~ importantly, it started a little trend of what I call my SYTYCD boyfriends.

It all started in Season 4, where Mark Kanemura danced this number with his partner, Chelsie Hightower:

Then he did this with Courtney Galiano and I was reduced to a puddle of goo:

Season 5 came along and I got a bit greedy, declaring Jason Glover and Kupono Aweau to be my SYTYCD boyfriends. Because seriously? How do you expect me to pick one when they did these two incredible routines?

With Season 6, I found my ultimate SYTYCD boyfriend who was clear right from the start. It was always gonna be you, Jonathan “Legacy” Perez. People, just look at this B-Boy doing Contemporary, yo!

And I dare you to tell me he was not hot doing the Paso Doble:

Here, he shows off his b-boy moves in this Jazz number:

Finally, there’s this siiiick and intense routine with my favourite girl from the season, Ellenore Scott:

Then last season, I couldn’t stop gushing over the very handsome Robert Roldan who not only looked ridiculously good, but could also dance really, really well (alas, video embedding was disallowed):

Link 1 – Contemporary with Allison Holker
Link 2 – Contemporary with Kathryn McCormick
Link 3 – Contemporary with Lauren Froderman

In this new season, even though there’s only been one live episode so far, I have declared Marko Germar as my Season 8 SYTYCD boyfriend. Here’s why:

Breathtaking, isn’t it? But my Season 7 SYTYCD boyfriend wouldn’t leave me alone because he came back to fill in for an injured contestant and I started swooning over his handsomeness all over again:

Isn’t he absolutely beautiful to watch? ;)

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Song of the Day

In This Shirt, by The Irrepressibles

Posted on March 3, 2011 by ally

Is it just me, or is this season of American Idol looking slightly abysmal?

I only watched a few audition episodes here and there, completely bypassed the Hollywood round, and started on the Top 24. I must say, I don’t feel like I’ve missed out at all. All the guys were forgettable, except the screamer who did a Judas Priest song. But I only remembered his screaming, not his singing, and the fact that he did a Judas Priest song. The other dudes? They were just… meh. The girls were better, but they all seemed to have rather weak vocals. There were a few who stood out a little more (Thia, Lauren A, and Pia), and I’m hoping that they’ll improve as the season goes along. Even so, none of them blew me away.

The horror of horrors happened when a contestant-who-shall-not-be-named completely butchered one of my all-time favourite songs. And I really do mean taking a cleaver and hacking the song into a million unrecognisable pieces and later putting it into a grinder and coming out like the ugliest bit of mush you can ever imagine. Did that get you sick enough? No? Well, then watch this:

This, my friends, is how the song is supposed to sound like:

Won’t you please join me now in hitting the contestant-who-shall-not-be-named.

I’m gonna give Idol one more chance. If I’m still not drawn to any of the contestants by next week, I’m gonna give this season a miss.

Don’t we all miss Simon (and to a small extent, even Paula)?

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Song of the Day:

Jar of Hearts, by Christina Perri

Posted on February 7, 2011 by ally

Glee’s back! Glee’s back! Glee’s back!

That is all.

No, seriously, I don’t know what it is about this show but it makes me feel RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY (so true to its name, huh?) and then I’ll get into this groove where I’ll just keep singing to myself.

Indeed, it is a guilty pleasure. :p

In other news, the Super Bowl was on. I don’t care for it (mostly because we don’t get American football here) but I look forward to the commercials each year. Who can resist a good, witty ad? So here’s a really good one from Audi this year, which comes in two parts.