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I've never seen it! I'm curious about some of their choices though - there are a lot of limitations to what they have available, even though I'm happy with a lot of what they do have. I'd love to see World of Dance on there - I saw some episodes when I still bothered with Direct TV and really enjoyed them, but I couldn't justify how expensive it was in light of how few other shows I watched.

I only vaguely know what Tiktok is, and have no idea what avant la lettre is, but I'm assuming it's good and totally agree with the rest 😄

They took Midsomer Murders away and I'm still not over it

she was such a doll!!!! One of my favorite Kelli comments was about her - I think it was something like, "what can I say about her.....? She skips through her dances 'cause she's happy." The way she said it totally killed me 😂

she has always been one of my favorites.....in my DCC Categories of Beautiful (TM) she has always been one of the "sweetheart beautiful" girls to me (the kind of girl you'd want to be best friends with, who would spend hours talking you through a breakup, and then come over first thing in the morning with a plate of brownies, loves kids and puppies, etc.). I watched through her first season on Pluto recently and was also struck by how funny and sweet she was....just seems like a really nice girl. she's really pretty, but I don't recognize her either, so I'm thinking perhaps she wasn't a DCC.....perhaps another friend or relative?

what a seriously beautiful group of girls - so glad it looks like they had a good time. And how adorable is Mackenzie's little lady??!!?

...I actually thought it was really cute *hides*

whether she took the photos willingly or not is entirely irrelevant. Revenge porn is illegal for a reason (as well as completely morally reprehensible). Absolutely.

I have zero inside knowledge about this, but I would imagine that the disgusting ex-boyfriend deliberately chose to do so once he'd heard she was invited to camp in order to spoil any chance she might have ever had of making the team. To send those photographs during tryouts prior to camp would not have necessarily achieved the results he wanted - it is far more likely that he waited until she was happily sharing the news with her friends and family, and then made his move. Carla paid a heavy price for trusting a revolting human being.

I think Carrie just skipped the season following her rookie year intending to come back - I could be wrong but I don't think she was cut. I believe she referenced taking a year off to get married when she was auditioning again during Season 3.

I think they all have a standard one they are supposed to wear - and my memory could be deceiving me, but I thought it was the Victoria's Secret Bombshell. I think Kelli just doesn't want them adding anything extra on top of that, which is understandable - but to be fair, I don't see how you could possibly stuff anything more into a Bombshell bra (absolutely no idea how Britney Schram pulled it off, if that is indeed what she was wearing at the time). Those bras are stacked. The one time I tried one on, I looked like a cartoon character (and sadly, not in a good way).

I really hope they don't end up doing Mavs-style pre-game tryouts on the regular as a new policy now.....I feel like if you're good enough to make the team, you should be able to dance with your teammates. I can't imagine the nerves you'd get pre-performance anyway, and adding that kind of pressure on top of everything else seems really over-the-top to me. I also feel like it could figure into hard feelings, and there are enough issues right now with the team dynamic without adding anything else on top of it. Someone with more knowledge on this please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that the Mavs environment could be really brutal sometimes, and personally I'd wonder how much those kinds of requisites played into that dynamic.

I still really love Kelli and Judy both.....I am just so floored by some of the choices that have been made, and as much as I can empathize with love blinding individual perception, there have been some seriously egregious oversights I cannot even begin to understand.

I've been having a hard time with things the last couple seasons because I've always really loved Kelli, but my overall reaction to her decisions and reactions lately has been comprised of..... That said, I loved the sections about the personality tests so freaking much. Maddie is an absolutely adorable dictator, and I loved seeing where the girls fell in the tests. Even though personality is definitely more of a nuanced spectrum than a test can entirely define, I still think they are a lot of fun, and can be really useful tools. I know Myers-Briggs gets a lot of hate, but for me at least it's so accurate it's actually spooky, so it's been extremely useful for me.

oh I definitely agree....a doctor's note should be more than enough to allow someone to stay home. I think though that when they're made to attend regardless, it's about seeing how the formations are practiced so that they can fall in seamlessly again once they're well (and also possibly to discourage anyone from calling off without cause). I feel like with the kinds of technology we have at our disposal now though that keeping up with the group while allowing sick girls to stay at home in bed shouldn't be out of the question. However, as much as I love DCC, I have an idea that certain types of adaptation are not exactly their forte.

Missing rehearsals twice over 14 years is a pretty exceptional record. Also, and much more importantly, Kelli is the director. The requisites she has, and the requisites the girls have, are different. And as much as I feel for the girls, I honestly get it about rehearsal discipline. There are nearly 40 different schedules to coordinate, and since the girls are dancing as a team, their performances (and safety in kickline) depend on one another. I also strongly suspect that unless there was a hard line for it, attendance would be out of control, regardless of individual professionalism.

it's funny, every time this has been mentioned, I'd never remembered it being Katy who mentioned Angela being difficult to book. I'd always thought it was Shelly who had said so, but I'd never brought it up cause I didn't want to put her on the spot (sorry Shelly!!! 😫). Seeing it mentioned again though I decided to just watch it over and see, and we're both right - Shelly actually brought it up first, and Katy confirmed it. Specifically, Shelly said, "she has turned down a lot of things," and then Katy said, "I've needed [like] appearances, and she's turned it down." The only thing Katy said about Jinelle was, "if you're talking full package, then I'd put her on there." I kind of feel as though if that was the truth (and I def think it was - Jinelle is a doll and one of my all-time favorite DCCs), then it needed to be said. In semi-related news, Jackie Bob is just totally freaking beautiful, and watching the entire panel try not to laugh over "sprangled" kind of made my night 😂

I can just imagine....I hope it ends up working out where you might be able to consider it eventually though....it would be so kickass to be able to root for someone I "know" (or at least, gave an internet high five to 😄)

(see Reason....I did, and it's irrelevant)

LOL I did too!! And honestly I'm surprised there aren't more UK girls who head over - I don't think I've ever seen any who do, although it seems like there are a lot of international fans from that region. I always love cheering on the girls from other places (Yoshiko, Angela, Jinelle, Yuko), and hope there are some who show up for tryouts this year.

ROTY: Lily VOTY: Maddie, or maybe Heather ProBowl: Amy many of the other girls would also be amazing picks for each of these, but I think these are the most likely suspects.

*slowly raises hand*

What’s up with her belly? It looks like she has ripples in the tummy. I’m assuming it’s the reflection of the water, but I think it looks horrible I would kill to look that horrible

love it!!! of course I feel like the girls can exemplify whatever aspect of these "categories" they want, but it's just kind of fun to think about. Also there is a lot of crossover for me too - I put wayyyyy too much thought into whether Molly should go into "sexy" or "60s vibe" (I feel like she would rock the hell out of some old-school cat-eye liner), or whether Gina was "Cali-girl" or "sexy beautiful" 😂 Absolutely - these girls are all 10s. Same. When I was reading upthread about the comment Kelli had made about insulting LA dancers, I was a bit like WTF, since iTunes hadn't downloaded the episode for me yet, but after watching, I absolutely see what she meant. I'm really surprised about Julia's responses, honestly. She was absolutely a girl I had been rooting for hard through camp, and her interview and handling of that meeting doesn't seem in keeping with my initial impressions of her, especially since I believe @SmpIsimon had mentioned she was a team favorite (hope I remembered that right, didn't want to put words in your mouth). I'd have thought she'd have been more graceful about her wording, but maybe she felt as though she was just being honest about her specific experiences there. One of my younger sisters lived out there for a while, and another toured out that way and has worked there professionally, and honestly they both said similar things about the environment, so I could see where Julia might have been coming from. That is not to say it exemplifies the dancers there or the environment as a whole, but it makes sense to me if those are things she experienced and was trying to express that. I'm just surprised she wasn't more diplomatic about it. There is a fine art to the synthesis of honesty and diplomacy, and I think that is what Kelli and Judy were looking for, and found lacking in that instance.

As many have noted, it really does seem like there are different kinds of beauty for everyone on the squad. I've always been fascinated by the concept, and yesterday I was out poking through some used books and I found that old "what is your season" beauty book from back when people had more eyeshadow than sense (not a slam, right now it's brow pencil and fillers than sense, so pick your poison I suppose). I don't entirely like the idea of categorizing people, but it's fun to speculate about, so in the spirit of that book and DCC beauty (and since I have way too much time on my hands right now), I'm going to run through the whole roster with my opinions. Glam girl beautiful Rachel W, Briana, Caroline, Victoria, Lexi, Savannah, Kat Classic girl-next-door beautiful Bridget, Ashlee, Heather, Alanna, Erin, Cianna, Kelcey, Chandi Sporty beautiful Christina, Amy, Lily, Taylor J, Lisa, Rachel A Pre-Raphaelite beautiful Maddie (she had this beautiful promo pic for some classes she was running with Michelle Keys quite a while ago, and it had that kind of vibe to it, so that's always kind of how I've seen her - also, I'm loving her longer hair) Sexy beautiful Hannah, Gina, Alexis, Molly, Jalyn, Meredith, Kristin Sweetheart beautiful Miranda Cali-girl beautiful Taylor, Daphne Sophisticated beautiful Brennan, Tess Ethereal beautiful Amanda 60s vibe beautiful Madeleine (somebody once pointed out that she looks like a sexy Mary Anne from Gilligan's Island, and I just can't unsee it) Demi Moore beautiful Amber (same as above)