Dance Moms

 

 

             Although I have already written about Dance Moms I still can't get over the 2 week season finale where the ALDC traveled to Los Angeles, and competed in Nationals.

            The first half of the finale started in Los Angeles where Chloe, Kendall, and Kamryn received a solo, but Maddie didn't. For once I actually sided with Abby with something, and that was not giving Maddie a solo. It's pretty obvious Maddie is put on the pedestal, and is Abby's clear favorite, and always receives solos, because she always wins, but I think she doesn't give the other girls a chance, and when she does I feel she gives them lower quality choreography compared to Maddie and sets her up to win. The only thing I didn't agree with is when she said that Maddie doesn't get a solo, because she's busy with Jimmy Kimmel. I know she most likely is too busy to learn a new solo, but the way Abby said it was almost rubbing it in the other girl's faces that Maddie was going to be on Jimmy Kimmel. Even though none of the solos won I was much happier that they got a chance than them actually winning first.

             Of course no reality show is good without a little drama, and thanks to Cathy from Candy Apples Dance Studio there wasn't a shortage during these episodes. Maddie Ziegler from Abby Lee Dance Company was featured in a music video of a song by Sia called Chandelier, and the song, and music video became a worldwide hit, and Cathy decided to have her dancers dance to this song for Nationals. Overall I had mixed feeling about what Cathy did, because yes she does have the right, and did pay the money so that her dances could dance to that song, but I feel like why she did it was wrong. To me it didn't seem like she wanted to do it, because it was a good song she wanted to do it in hopes of having her student's perform better than Maddie did in the music video. Her dancer's did do have an immaculate performance, and it was overall very cohesive, but I feel like no one could have a better performance than Maddie, because the music video was amazing!

           Over the course of the show it had become apparent that Abby is not the nicest person....okay let me rephrase that it has become apparent that Abby is the least nice person. Over the course of the show she has sabotaged her own dancers, and ridiculed them, and out of all the dancers Chloe has received the worst treatment from her. During all seasons of Dance Moms, Chloe has been compared to Maddie countless times, and when she is she is usually compared as being worse. At the end of the show Chloe said "I still want to dance, but not with her anymore." referring to Abby. I've been wondering all series long how any of the girls, and moms put up with Abby, and why none of them have left yet, because Abby treats them horribly. I was proud of Chloe for finally sticking up for herself and deciding that enough is enough, and I could tell that because of Abby's treatment Chloe was losing her passion for dance, and didn't seem like she wanted to dance anymore. Chloe has been my favorite since the beginning, because she's the underdog of the show, and I'm sad because I'm not sure if she will still be on the show at another studio or what the future holds.

            Overall this season has been filled with twists, and turns and I'm excited to see what the reunion on Tuesday night will bring.