LOL - how I love to hate the music on this show. When I heard “Why Can’t I Be You?” start cranking up, I was saying, “Just sing it, don’t impersonate. Just sing, don’t impersonate. Just sing, don’t… oh damn he’s impersonating!” He actually didn’t do a horrible job (I find the male singers to be far better than the females), but it was still pretty comical to listen to.
Jane Seymour – quickstep – “I Walk the Line.”
The mind reels. Forget “one of these things is not like the others” – “two of these things are not like the others.”
The show was pre-empted here, thanks to a slight matter of a football game, so I only saw some highlights on the morning news. Still, I can’t believe they had Jane Seymour (or anyone else) do a quickstep to “I Walk the Line”. Were they trying to sabotage her?
For music last night, I was highly distracted from the coolness of the Mel & Maks Paso because apparently you can’t say “prostitute” or “dope” on Dancing with the Stars.
Closed Captioning didn’t even try to write down the words they actually sang.
Jane & Helio need to go next. Neither of them are improving.
My mind is mostly boggled on how Johnny Cash and Jane Seymour ever even met. It’s not like they moved in the same circles…
Two dances was obviously a stretch for some. I missed Mel and Maks because of storms. I can’t believe they tried to consider “Walk the Line” a quickstep. That’s just wrong. Johnny was on Dr. Quinn, so that may be how they met. Helio just tries to get by on his smile, but it’s not working for me. Cameron is really coming on. It’ll be interesting to see how he lasts. Marie looked pretty winded at the end. I can’t remember Jenny’s dances.
StG
This season is just cursed. Marie Osmond’s father died this morning.
My mom is watching the episode right now and I just caught Mel B’s performance. It was spectacular and on a more superficial note, good god, is she friggin’ hot. I was a teen during the height of the Spice Girls’ popularity and was not at all impressed with her then but the ensuing decade has been *great * to her.
Yeah. That’s pretty much the only reason I posted. I hope she wins.
The results show has aired on the East Coast.
And so we say “buh-bye” to:
Jane and Tony. You went just as far as you deserved to and no further. Oh wait, you outlasted Sabrina – so I guess you did.
Good Grief, another dead parent! (Marie Osmond’s father died yesterday.)
I enjoyed the commentary by Jerry Rice, et al.
Everyone seems to be taking Jane’s departure in stride. (So to speak.)
I loved Jane in the early weeks, but it was time for her to go. Past time, even.
I suspect that Marie was also in the bottom two, and they decided it would be needlessly cruel to make Jonothan stand in the red light alone.
Who else was in the bottom two?
They did not do a bottom two this time. With three couples left, they said they were going to change things and only identify the couple going home. Like ENugent, I speculate that Marie was second to last, but with her gone because of the family death, there was no point in having an empty red spot at the end.
Well, Marie has gotten as far as she should, but I think the sympathy vote will keep her in for one more week. Cameron, alas, seems to have a vocal soap-fan claque – he also should be bottom two. Those two are so significantly below the other three that I can’t even figure out which of the other three might be bottom two – probably Jenny, who lacks charisma, as has been pointed out more than once. Helio’s charm keeps him going – and their second dance last night was a hoot and a half. That leap at the front – I started grinning and didn’t stop till the dance was over.
I’d do the current rankings as:
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Mel and Maks (head and shoulders above the rest)
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Helio (based on last night)
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Jenny (the psychological game has done her in)
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Cameron
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Marie
Did anyone notice that Julianne’s dress for the quickstep looked remarkably like Jane’s gold dress from last week, but with a long skirt added? Apparently, I’m no good at finding pics online. But I swear it was 95% the same dress.
From last night, Mel & Maks did well, not as well as the week before, but still well.
I thought Jennie did pretty well, despite the judges comments.
Cameron looks stiff to me. He’s improved a lot, huge difference between where he started and where he is now, but he’s still a little stiff. I liked their waltz, though.
It looked to me like Julianne was leading that quickstep. He was charming, but he was kind of being pulled around the floor.
There wasn’t enough dance in Marie’s dances. What there was, was ok. But there needed to be more.
My lastest “They are dancing to what?” moment–Harry Potter Music for Cameron.
I loved Helio’s Paso Doble–although in fairness, it was the fact that Julianne was doing so many flourishes with the cape which I enjoyed so much. I’ll admit it–I don’t watch this show with concentration. But I saw Marie’s Paso Doble and she was blah–and lying on the floor. And I saw at least one other that I don’t recall the details of where I couldn’t recognize the dance as a Paso Doble–not-bullfighting enough. But Helio and Julianne were great last night.
I strongly disagree. One of the reasons I loved that quickstep was that it looked like he was actually leading it.
Yes, and it was followed for me by “Brown Sugar” for a Cha-cha. Two strikes against Cameron there. How could he not be choppy?
On the other hand, being able to do a mambo to Mambo Jambo? That’s almost cheating! 
But since I’ve loved Perez Prado forever, I sat back, smiled, and enjoyed it.