Is the Olympic season Rhythm Dance exciting?

[Mathman]

"The Nineties music boom was a gold rush for singles – everywhere you went on the radio, you heard a high-speed collision of different beats.

I think the Egyptian writer means the 1960s That was the true area of something-for-everyone diversity in popular music. Classical, folk, rock and roll, blues, jazz, Motown, British Invasion, Doo-wop, old standards, teenage bubble gum -- not to mention any combination of the above.

 

[Skater Boy]

Honestly unless the ISU wants to simply go through the decades it is getting tiresome goint through timpe periods. I suppose they want to appeal to a wider or new market. But what use to be Compulsory dances which relally look at technique and rhthm etc is a lost art I guess. Going this route favours less technical teams like Gibson and Fear who focus on fun, high appeal to audiences.vv. Skaters during the eras when there were Compulsory dances, RD and fd really were better skater. Ice dancing is going a differrent route from when skating was based on real dances rather than musical eras.

 

[DancingCactus]

Btw in Germany we call girl and boy bands girl and boy groups. They are not musicians, they are a product.

 

[semosk8tfan]

Ice Dance used to be my favorite discipline. Not any more. I watch the highlights but I am certainly not getting up in the middle of the night to watch it live. The RD has very little to do with sport any more and this year's music theme is awful.

 

[CoyoteChris]

No. These new Rhythm dances are aweful. And bring back the pattern dance.

 

[lariko]

Another issue is the complicated music rights, with the 1990s music being new enough for the rights probably being way too hard/expensive to obtain

 

[jorge2912]

Ice Dance used to be my favorite discipline. Not any more. I watch the highlights but I am certainly not getting up in the middle of the night to watch it live. The RD has very little to do with sport any more and this year's music theme is awful.

Some RD are interesting but not all. Even when existed OD and CD years ago was more funny than now with RD

Another issue is the complicated music rights, with the 1990s music being new enough for the rights probably being way too hard/expensive to obtain

That is main reason, now they can't use a good music because copyrights and get the rights are expensive and for just a season are senseless

 

[rain]

In a word, answering the question posed in the thread title: NO.

 

[Azikin]

In a word, answering the question posed in the thread title: NO.

I agree, so much bad music and even worse costumes...

 

[viennaskater]

Another issue is the complicated music rights, with the 1990s music being new enough for the rights probably being way too hard/expensive to obtain

Yes, how ridiculous is that? I watched the replay of Lila and Lewis's FD from the Grand Prix de France and the Proclaimers '500 Miles' was removed.

You would think the Proclaimers would be glad of the publicity!

I can't count how many great music discoveries I have made just from people skating to them. Seriously, if it hadn't been for skating I would never have known Woodkid existed. To name but one example.

Sorry to go off topic.

 

[lariko]

well, i still like some here and there

 

[bramweld]

No. No. NO. It is absolutely dreadful. Not worth getting up for. The organizers need to feel the impact in their pockets, and then maybe common sense might return to the sport.

 

[Mathman]

All the more credit to the performers and choreographers who can make silk purses out of these sow's ears.

 

[skatingguy]

I agree, so much bad music and even worse costumes...

Bad music can be great if the program goes all the way into it, but too often the choreography, and performance play it safe.

 

[noskates]

I found most of the music discordant and almost painful to listen to. And I agree - the costumes weren't much better. As I've said before - this just doesnt' seem like gearing up for an Olympic year.

 

[Ivana]

I'm a 90's kid, I love 90's music, but I don't enjoy this years RD's at all, there are a few odd ones I like, but the rest is just blending together for me, it's like I'm watching the same program over and over again.

 

[skatingfan4ever]

What just came to my mind is this question: WHY OH WHY must the RD be high energy as a requirement? I think I would have liked this RD theme better if the programs weren't all rock songs or sexy songs or party songs. Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, etc, released some lovely power ballads in the 90s. Heck, with more freedom maybe some teams could have made a 90s movie soundtrack work for the RD. But no, every program has a party/be sexy/go to the club theme, so it's tiring. There was a ton of music released in the 90s, but most of the RD music teams chose I've personally never listened to before because it's not in a style or with a message that I appreciate listening to.

 

[lariko]

Slutzkaya/Goncharov delivered another awesome RD in my view

 

[rain]

What just came to my mind is this question: WHY OH WHY must the RD be high energy as a requirement? I think I would have liked this RD theme better if the programs weren't all rock songs or sexy songs or party songs. Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, etc, released some lovely power ballads in the 90s. Heck, with more freedom maybe some teams could have made a 90s movie soundtrack work for the RD. But no, every program has a party/be sexy/go to the club theme, so it's tiring. There was a ton of music released in the 90s, but most of the RD music teams chose I've personally never listened to before because it's not in a style or with a message that I appreciate listening to.

This is one of the biggest problems to me. I keep watching these thinking, music wasn't this bad in the 90s. But when you constrain it to only allowing upbeat/club songs this is what you get. None of this was what I was listening to in the 90s.

 

[Take2cnsdr]

This is one of the biggest problems to me. I keep watching these thinking, music wasn't this bad in the 90s. But when you constrain it to only allowing upbeat/club songs this is what you get. None of this was what I was listening to in the 90s.

The requirement for high energy is actually both exhausting and limiting unfortunately. No performer in a musical discipline for instance would expect a ticket buying crowd to enjoy sitting through an entire set of 10 upbeat high energy songs back to back.