None. This has been a gripe of mine for quite some time. Figure skating music is ABYSMAL. They're stuck in a time warp, playing non-stop music made by dead men who wore powdered wigs. Either that or movie soundtrack music that nobody would otherwise know or care about. (Laughable when the skater tries to act out the movie or character, especially when the audience is unfamiliar with it. We call this "head movie" -- a running joke at my place!)
To me, the best music is the stuff that Kurt Browning uses from BNL. I also take note when a skater dares to use something with some sort of a beat. Denise Beilmann (sp?) used some outstanding house and techno stuff.
I can't tell you how often we watch skating with the mute on.
I see posts about innovation in skating, yet innovation in the music portion is, to many, out of the question. I'd like to see silly rules (such as the "no vocal" rule in some competitions) lifted to give skaters the maximum amount of freedom to innovate. I'd like to hear fresh music, and a wider variety of it. There's a whole world of Latin stuff that skaters have barely ever touched that would be ideal for many routines. Some hard thumpin' Reggaeton, sexy Salsa, blood pumpin' Merengue and some deliberate Cumbia could lead to some interesting skating if skaters / choreographers were free to let the music drive the routine.
I could go on -- the genres are many and just about all of them have been ignored by figure skating, the professionals aside. I really wish that people would quit TALKING about "thinking outside the box" and actually start DOING it.
That's my rant du jour. We now return you to your normal thread.
Isn't that better than hearing the number one song on the pop charts for the millionth time?
