I thought that was icky and weird too.

Especially later when he was getting all choked up talking about how she's a gift to singing, or whatever he was choking up over.

Especially later when he was getting all choked up talking about how she's a gift to singing, or whatever he was choking up over.

Exactly. All season long he's been working this proud papa angle and then he's singing about falling in love with her. Ewww. And no.

I can't with the Voice finale from 9-11, so someone tell me who won and if there's anything in the show I should see?

Also, I feel like they are setting us up for a crappy season of SYTYCD, between all the "investing in people we're not sure can do it" and the actual criticism tonight, so maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised? Although is the criticism because they are actually going to cut people next week? Maybe so.

What Jesse said.

Both things.

I can't believe how much filler The Voice is managing to cram in.

Saw the Top 20 for SYTYCD. I think there are some dancers who are really good in their style, not sure how they will do in other styles or partnering with dancers who aren't quite as strong.

Glad the tapper got in, but sorry the other guy got hurt.

I think Amy is strong (she's the dark haired, super pale girl, I think her style is jazz) - she danced with Jasmine.

CHER.

SYTYCD -

So I did not really care for the hip hop routine. Luther has done much better work.

I loved the first Modern piece. Stacey is great. The boo-hooing was a bit much though.

The tappers' routine was okay, but I felt like there was so much lost opportunity.

Loved the Animators. They did a great job.

I loved the second Modern piece. Mia did a great job.

I did not like the ballroom routine at all. I thought the camera work blew all kinds of chunks. The dancing seemed to be pretty good, but who the fuck could tell.

Sonia's routine (Modern 3) - I thought Jasmine put all of her shit into that dance. Holy shit. I don't think Jasmine has anything left after that.

Holy shit - the men's dance was fucking awesome. Loved it.

And now I get Bon's post: the women's dance was really good too. BTW, their choreographer I *know* was on something. And his teeth could be seen from SPACE.

I liked Sonia's Top 20 dance, but the camera work and smoke was so much ass. Too hard to see all of what I wanted to.

I thought the judges' comments were kind of bullshitty.

LET'S HAVE A KIKI!! Love it!

Seven pages of notes on SYTYCD. I threw most of it on my blog if you want to read lots and lots about very little. Short version:

I'm less happy with the boys top 10 than I wanted to be. I don't get Jade in the Top 20. He seems not to be that great in other styles and he's a teeny man and despite what Mia says, that is going to be a problem for partnering. But I got Tucker and he's gorgeous and he cut off the tragic hair so I'm happy.

I am more happy with the girls top 10 though many of them are just a blur to me right now. Love Amy. Love Mariah. Love Jasmine M.

I thought most of the intro routines tonight were really strong. I was annoyed by the Mia piece. It was awfully hair fling-y and flail-y. I was wanting more dance in the dance. Also, Malece was there and she's the worst. I thought both Stacey and Sonya put their respective feet in their intro dances. I don't know enough about tap to know if the choreography in that routine was good, bad or ugly but I enjoyed the heck out of that routine. I was glad to see no NappyTab fingerprints on my hip hop.

I was extra pleased with the boys top 10 routine. Great choreography from Christopher Scott and many of the boys were exquisite. Tucker and Nico, I see you both. I did not enjoy the girls top 10 routine. It was easy. It felt like high school dance team choreography. It was Fosse derivative in that way that Tasty loves (even though Tasty wasn't the choreographer) and I felt it didn't showcase the girls to their best advantage. Also, while I enjoyed the song, it felt like the kind of thing Ru would make her queens lip synch for their lives to on Drag Race which is great if I were watching Drag Race or if Ray Leeper had seen fit to choreograph a couple of death drops for these girls, but since that did not happen, I wasn't feeling it. I was annoyed that Sonya basically just decided to sideline anyone who wasn't a jazz or ballet/modern trained dancer by sending them off stage for large swathes of the Top 20 group routine while she choreographed a very traditional jazz piece for a select few dancers. Ew. That said, what she choreographed was lovely. Sad that there was way too much smoke to see the dancers' feet.

So yeah, I liked Top 20 Reveal show. Enough to write 7 pages of notes!

Fashion Note: Sparkly gold sequined romper that you yourself compared to something Roller Girl would have worn? Oh, no, Cat Deeley. No.

The Voice:

I only saw the last 20 minutes which included Cher and I saw who won so I really don't feel like I missed anything. Not surprised about, but disappointed in, who won.