For icons evening on Dancing with the Stars, the ultimate seven will honor their favourite musical icons by performing dances to the icons’ hits. The chilly open was a fragrance business parody that talked about icons as individuals who “have a Grammy you are too well-known to care about” and “others need to carry again as a hologram.” LOL.
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Justina Machado and Sasha Farber
Dance/Tune: Rumba / “Loopy For You” by Madonna
How They Did: The music alternative is unimaginable for a rumba, however Justina is just not fairly positive tips on how to dance one thing so sluggish that feels prefer it must be quicker. She rushes a bit at first, however finally, she settles in rather well and even lets some sexiness ooze out. On the finish of the dance, she pulls off a formidable flooring sequence. However the semi-finals are subsequent week and the judges are getting extra vital — they thought Justina may have been sharper.
Rating: 24/30
Nelly and Daniella Karagach
Dance/Tune: Jazz / “California Love” by Tupac
How They Did: Properly, who knew that jazz was what we wanted for Nelly to essentially showcase some slick strikes — he even does a backflip! It is a ton of enjoyable, although it is far more hip hop-y than jazz. However the judges do not ding him for that. They do ding him for lacking just a few steps right here and there, which is truthful, however total, they’re more than happy with Nelly’s efficiency.
Rating: 24/30
AJ McLean and Cheryl Burke
Dance/Tune: Viennese Waltz / “Anyone to Love” by Freddie Mercury
How They Did: This music is surprisingly good for the Viennese waltz, and AJ and Cheryl are cute collectively, however there are just a few issues right here. AJ loses the steps just a few instances and he additionally is not fairly as sleek as, say, Johnny Weir. However he does his finest and is clearly attempting very arduous.
Rating: 23/30
Kaitlyn Bristowe and Artem Chigvintsev
Dance/Tune: Argentine Tango / “Poisonous” by Britney Spears
How They Did: That is one other nice dance/music combo. Additionally, this simply Kaitlyn’s finest efficiency on the present to this point. She completely nails this — her legs are sharp, her facials are fierce and there may be some warmth between her and Artem. Stunning, particularly the lifts they pull off. The lifts make the diploma of problem actually excessive (or at the least look actually excessive). Fortunately, the judges are in full settlement.
Rating: 30/30
Johnny Weir and Britt Stewart
Dance/Tune: Quickstep / “Valerie” by Amy Winehouse
How They Did: The quickstep is triiiiicky dance, but when anyone can nail it, it is Johnny. After which he does! It was so pleasant that I simply sat there and did not sort a factor. I used to be captivated by the spirit and enjoyable. Excellent — actually, actually good technical quickstep. This was simply on par with Kaitlyn’s tango and fortunately the judges acknowledge that.
Rating: 30/30
Skai Jackson and Alan Bersten
Dance/Tune: Paso Doble / “If” by Janet Jackson
How They Did: SKai undoubtedly deserves to be within the semi-finals, however a part of her drawback truthfully is that she’s not as identified to the voters of this present as a result of she’s so younger and on the Disney Channel — and this routine is not going to assist her join with the voting demographic. It is nice, she does an exquisite job on the precise steps and that spin on the ground was fierce. Nevertheless it feels indignant relatively than enjoyable and the purple mild is so jarring, plus the music is just too harsh. Skai might not be round when the elimination rolls round.
Rating: 27/30
Nev Schulman and Jenna Johnson
Dance/Tune: Jive / “Saturday Night time” by Elton John
How They Did: Nev is already a frontrunner, however he cements his standing with this high-stepping, lightning-quick jive. He and Jenna look completely spectacular of their outfits and the quantity of jive content material crammed into this couple of minutes is spectacular. Tremendous sharp.
Rating: 27/30
The Dance-Off
Nev and Jenna have immunity from the dance-off as a result of they’ve completed so properly this season, however they don’t seem to be immune from the underside two. The pairings for the dance-off are as follows: Justina versus Kaitlyn on the cha cha, Nelly versus Skai on the salsa, and AJ versus Johnny on the jive.
The Justina/Kaitlyn cha cha, “Phone” by Girl Gaga and Beyonce
That is hardly truthful. They act like it’ll be an actual dogfight, but it surely’s not. Kaitlyn mops the ground with Justina. Justina has plenty of enjoyable and is de facto excessive power, however Kaitlyn is technically a lot stronger. She wins the 2 bonus factors.
The Nelly/Skai salsa, “The Cup of Life” by Ricky Martin
This is not actually truthful to make use of with a female and male newbie as a result of the salsa is a dance the place the person will be very mediocre and you do not discover if the girl is flashy sufficient. So Nelly’s dance appears to be like deceptively good despite the fact that he isn’t doing that a lot whereas Skai is dancing her butt off. Fortunately, the judges acknowledge how unimaginable Skai was and award her the bonus factors.
The AJ/Johnny jive, “Wake Me Up Earlier than You Go-Go” by WHAM
OK, confession time — I like this music a lot and the jive is PERFECT for it. After which each males are SO GOOD. Johnny is the superior dancer simply by advantage of his background, however AJ does a extremely good job too! They need to get to separate the factors, however whoa! AJ will get the bonus factors. Wow. That’s actually nice, good for him.
Elimination: The underside two find yourself being Johnny and AJ. Wow. That is an actual disgrace approaching the heels of their jive dance-off. The judges are very torn, however Bruno Tonioli saves Johnny, Derek Hough saves AJ, and Carrie Ann Inaba saves Johnny, so AJ McLean goes dwelling.
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