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It seems so often here group think takes over and what is considered fact doesn't jive with what is seen. For years everyone talked about Yuna's "non-pointed toes" and going by that one could be forgiven in thinking the error must be glaring and yet every time I had watched a recorded performance of hers I could never see anything of that kind of error in aesthetic that jumped out at me. I had thought to myself, maybe I'm not looking hard enough, maybe I'm not looking in the right place but then it occurred to me, it's not me, it's this narrative that gets reinforced to a degree that it becomes a de facto truth when in reality it is a minor nitpick that gets blown up to unwarranted significance. Same now with this narrative about Gracie "not feeling the music'. If one were to envision a performance of hers solely based on the descriptions found here one would expect to see something a lot worse than what the reality in fact is. She's no Yuna but few are and many are not much better (if at all) than Gracie and Gracie is merely adequate but her musicality or lack of it, like other skates doesn't significantly distract from her performance like say Miyahara's jumps distract from hers. Besides that, her performance at Nationals was elite level and doesn't deserve this kind of criticism.
). Wagner was also able to do that (though not in both programs at the same event, I think).
If its rude to laugh at that OK let it be my flaw rather than chroeographers' & Gracie's ! 
Why don't some of you have a look at the pieces from the ballet and you'll get a better picture of what Gracie, Frank, and Lori are going for.
