I Agree With Paul Wylie

[cassieandcheetah]

I also like Mao's SP music but thought it a bit repetitive. But I agree that the main theme is extremely beautiful. I think that Mao tried to challenge herself with a different type of music that she has never skated to before. I see more strength in her skating and body moves. But because she seems to have been extremely nervous in her SP due to the struggle with the combination jump, it seems to have been difficult to relate to the music. When she overcomes the jump concerns, I am sure that she'll do it great:agree:

I thought Kimmie's LP repetitive, too. But it is such a gorgeous piece of music. It's very dynamic, happy and matches her happy atmosphere. She seems to have started this program pretty recently. When she gets used to the program more, she'll look much better

I love how positive you are Bennett! I should stop sounding like a negative Nancy!

 

[anya_angie]

Honestly, I think it's a combination of the skaters, coaches/choreographers, and the current state of film music that's to blame for the lameness in skating to soundtracks. All we've got basically is Zimmer and his Zombies. Desplat? PLEASE have some taste, skaters. Occasionally we'll see Williams, Horner, Newton Howard, but where is Elfman, Silvestri, T. Newman, Bernstein, North, Goldsmith (course HE is HARD to do justice to... I certainly wouldn't recommend it without the right choreography to go with it)? Nowhere that I've seen.

To quote a friend of mine from IMDB:

"I would love to see melody make a comeback. I miss it. "

 

[Tonichelle]

I like Zimmer's take on Pirates 2 and 3...

but then I like everything that's Pirates lol (it does sound oddly similar to his Muppet Treasure Island soundtrack now that I think of it. )

John Williams is still around and still producing great bits

Was listening to the radio on my way home from finals today (done for the semester! w00t!) and Michael W. Smith had a very nice piano piece called "Snowfall" that would work well for a Short Program.

 

[waxel]

I totally agree with those that haved praised Paul's commentating! I actually had intended to start a thread about it. He is the best at explaining the vagueries of CoP. His comments are interesting, he gives tough but sound criticism and I enjoy how he sometimes mentions his own skating ups and downs as a way of illustrating a point. I could not be more impressed with him. (Hope there's still TV coverage in the future for him to comment on?????)

 

[carolinefan177]

I totally agree with those that haved praised Paul's commentating! I actually had intended to start a thread about it. He is the best at explaining the vagueries of CoP. His comments are interesting, he gives tough but sound criticism and I enjoy how he sometimes mentions his own skating ups and downs as a way of illustrating a point. I could not be more impressed with him. (Hope there's still TV coverage in the future for him to comment on?????)

^
When Terry Ganon asked him something about how Miki Ando was skating well in practices and fell apart on the ice and the whole doing well in a noncompetition environment, I loved when Paul said, "Yeah, I always won all of the practices!"

 

[sillylionlove]

I think Paul is an awesome commentator. I hope they keep him around. I finally got around to watching NHK last night. He made comments about Miki when she fell during her long like...it's taking her long to get up she's not getting up as fast as other skaters do...etc. I was like yeah here are some comments that are actually relevent to the skating.

 

[Tinymavy15]

I actually liked Robin and Aliona's music though, so much so that I even got an mp3 of it! It's kind of slow I have to say, but I think they kind of take a slow and methodical approach to everything in general.....


But the real disappointment is Kimmie's long program. I can't believe the same melody plays on and on for like 4 and a half minutes. At least Shizuka had some variety in her program, but Kimmie, wow, it was just mindboggling how monotone and unvarying the cut turned out.

I too am a fan of Robin and Ailona's music. It is a great program... and as usuall for them, very diffrent. It suits them well.

:agree::agree::agree: to your comments about Kimmie's music selection. Nessun Dorma is a beautiful song, very strong, powerful and passioinate. Kimmie has a terrible version that takes all the good qualities out of the music. the Vanessa Mae version that everybody else uses is beautiful, but there are other good ones out there too.

 

[JonnyCoop]

I too am a fan of Robin and Ailona's music. It is a great program... and as usuall for them, very diffrent. It suits them well.

I don't like the music from a pure MUSICAL perspective (a bit languid for my personal taste), and on first viewing, I didn't like it with the program, but the more I see it, the more I like the total package of choreography and music with this program. It is extremely subtle and one of those programs you have to really pay attention to to appreciate, IMHO, unlike a more "in your face" program with a more vigorous music selection that grabs you right off the bat.

I too have to agree with Paul on the "stringy" music selections. It takes a very innovative choreographer to do anything interesting with the type of thing he was talking about, but then again I don't think a very innovative choreographer would choose that kind of music to start with. Sarah M's program is, to me, basically rather dull but is at least redeemed by the elegance and beautiful carriage she uses; the one that's a total yawner for me is Kiira Korpi's. IMO, that kind of music, you can do nothing with, or since it's just basically white noise in the background, you can do ANYTHING with it, and I'm not sure which approach is worse.

 

[Dee4707]

I agree with Paul.

I also like his commentating. He does a good job!

I think he does a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful job!!!!

Dee

 

[lehmeh]

I think that the spiral sequences are an important reason why women go for soft music---the spiral sequences don't go at all with fast or dramatic music and look out of place. They go better with softer or slower music.

I wish they'd do away with the spiral sequences for a number of reasons --they're boring, they take too long, and they are too, um, revealing if you know what I mean.

But relevant to Paul's comments, I think they also hold women back from using more exciting music choices.

The other reason I think women go for soft music is that "soft, pretty" women skaters seem to be more accepted. I miss skaters like Olga Markova and Vanessa Gusmeroli and Stephanie Rosenthal who did things that were exciting.