2017-2018 Program Music and Choreographers

[kittysk8ts]

I wonder how Weaver/Poje feel about that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqpK8Zmo5Do

That said, I am sure that V/M's MR will be vastly different.

That is why I initially thought the MR rumour to be just that. I could not imagine they would use something that W/P used. As is often the case, I was wrong. Haha.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

Tango de Roxanne should have been retired after Jonathan Cassar used it.

 

[Tinami Amori]

I really like this version of the song, and the rhythm is more obvious than the original IMO. https://youtu.be/4ujw-u5OaR4

This version comes from a 2-part album called "Bossa N' Stones Vol 1 & 2" with many Rolling Stones songs turned to Latin Rhythm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd9_FU-Lpa0&list=PLNSslBRaE3Xwa0ITv8E2LqM_GbTfwj4kL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsCebWD0o4&list=PL371808ADCACDC5AC

a lovely version is "Angie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFAyxw0yPSg

 

[lauravvv]

I really like this version of the song, and the rhythm is more obvious than the original IMO. https://youtu.be/4ujw-u5OaR4

This girly, small and overly sweet female voice over/instead of the Rolling Stones edgy, kick-a*s original? Please no.

 

[NinjaTurtles]

I think it's a little unfair to blanket call MR a warhorse. El Tango De Roxanne? Yes, but there are a lot of pretty distinct sounding songs in MR and they're not all used equally. Very few have skated to Hindi Sad Diamonds or Bolero.

 

[VGThuy]

Isn't that sort of true for POTO, Les Mis, Carmen, and other musicals/operas/movie soundtracks?

 

[supergirl573]

I think Sympathy for the Devil in their final Olympics is about as badass as it gets. I can already say that I love SD (if it's as musical as they usually are).

I bet that song gets downloaded a lot on iTunes this week.

I never listened to the song, but I actually have the digital album it on, so I listened to it yesterday.

 

[casken]

It's not so much the music, or what tracks they chose, it's the fact that "Moulin Rouge" signals that we're probably getting another variation of the same base V&M FD, rather than something really unexpected and adventurous. I'm basically expecting a more intense version of their "Funny Face" FD. Maybe I will be wrong and it will be filled with with some crazy unexpected, innovative, risky choreography and connecting moves.

 

[Jammers]

This girly, small and overly sweet female voice over/instead of the Rolling Stones edgy, kick-a*s original? Please no.

Yeah you don't use a lame cover version of this song instead of Mick's threatening vocals on the original.

 

[analia]

Hate Moulin Rouge.
La La Land is getting too much hate for no reason. It's pretty good music as far as trendy movie soundtrack goes. Same as The Artist a few years back. (Great Gatsby on the other hand produced horrid skating programs.) I will take either over Moulin Rouge. How many people are skating to Vivaldi's Four Seasons this year? Countless and I will take La La Land over that too, though I wish people would skate to Tchaikovsky's Seasons.

 

[nimi]

Yeah you don't use a lame cover version of this song instead of Mick's threatening vocals on the original.

...except that's exactly what many skaters would do. And DO do. Unfortunately. Hopefully not in this case, but you never know.

 

[VGThuy]

The beginning of "Sympathy for the Devil" sounds almost exactly like the beginning of "Hip Hip Chin Chin".

 

[NinjaTurtles]

Isn't that sort of true for POTO, Les Mis, Carmen, and other musicals/operas/movie soundtracks?

Maybe. Moulin Rouge isn't really a cohesive sound. It's more of a two hour programming block of music videos; the whole gimmick being a mash up of covers from a wide variety of musicians and styles. I wouldn't say it's variations of the same theme and sound throughout like POTO or Les Mis. If you're skating to Music of the Night, you're basically skating to All I Ask of You.

 

[VGThuy]

Maybe. Moulin Rouge isn't really a cohesive sound. It's more of a two hour programming block of music videos; the whole gimmick being a mash up of covers from a wide variety of musicians and styles. I wouldn't say it's variations of the same theme and sound throughout like POTO or Les Mis. If you're skating to Music of the Night, you're basically skating to All I Ask of You.

No argument from me.

 

[Tinami Amori]

Yeah you don't use a lame cover version of this song instead of Mick's threatening vocals on the original.

Yeap! The original has enough beat and Latin to use for SD..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBecM3CQVD8

Plus, Rolling Stones have a studio album, called "Voodoo Lounge" with experiments in Latin Sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tu5OfMVj90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xm64yX5Ry8

I luuuuve V/M.... I never liked Rolling Stones.... darn....

 

[Lanie]

V&M using MR makes me despair. Ugh, please, they are so much better than that dreck!

 

[NAOTMAA]

There are so many great musicals in Hollywood's history, its a shame skaters these days choose to overuse Moulin Rouge above them all. It's so unimaginative, lazy and overrated

Rodgers and Hammerstein have some wonderful dance sections in their musicals (Carousel and Oklahoma just to name two). My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof and Singin in the Rain have been used now and then but not enough considering their musicality. Has anybody ever done Gigi or Meet me in St Louis? And then there's all that Disney too. The choices are endless and they choose Moulin Rouge

I'd love to see a A Star is born program I'm sure some lady would make a great Judy on ice

 

[Aerobicidal]

I'd love to see a A Star is born program I'm sure some lady would make a great Judy on ice

I agree, although I would change the word "lady" to "skater" due to some of the names that immediately come to mind.

Personally, I am thrilled that Virtue and Moir are skating to Moulin Rouge--assuming he will be portraying a decrepit, vertiginous Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and she will be the prostitute who gave Toulouse-Lautrec syphilis.

I'm confident Marie-Universe can create a lift designed to perfectly evoke an infectious sexual encounter. It wouldn't have to be that different from some of their Carmen lifts, actually.

 

[marbri]

There are so many great musicals in Hollywood's history, its a shame skaters these days choose to overuse Moulin Rouge above them all. It's so unimaginative, lazy and overrated

Rodgers and Hammerstein have some wonderful dance sections in their musicals (Carousel and Oklahoma just to name two). My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof and Singin in the Rain have been used now and then but not enough considering their musicality. Has anybody ever done Gigi or Meet me in St Louis? And then there's all that Disney too. The choices are endless and they choose Moulin Rouge

I'd love to see a A Star is born program I'm sure some lady would make a great Judy on ice

Egads. I´ll take MR over your suggestions any day. I guess that's the thing, we all have different taste and think our taste is the right taste but for me, as a V/M fan, I thank god they made the choice they did over those listed in your post. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[sap5]

Yeah you don't use a lame cover version of this song instead of Mick's threatening vocals on the original.

Must agree. It really needs to be the original to be truly awesome. Tessa used the classic Stones tongue icon in her post, so I have faith that we'll be hearing Mick, not anyone else.

 

[MAXSwagg]

Yuzu and Mr. Chiddy should've just gone back to Phantom, so we could have battle of the Phantoms. Javier who?

 

[manhn]

I can already predict the reactions if V&M skated to My Fair Lady...

 

[Coco]

Hopefully they won't butcher the Stones's work like they did with Prince's.

That said, looking forward to the program!

 

[Dobre]

They need another Latin rhythm besides the Samba so they'll have to do something with it.

 

[nimi]

Marin Honda is going to scrap her tango SP and turn it into a show program. The new SP music isn't announced yet.

She'll return to her old Smile SP for US Int Classic and debut the new program at Skate Canada.

source: https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20170830-00000128-sph-spo

 

[her grace]

One less tango!

 

[arakwafan2006]

I just cannot wait to see Mao's new programs....

LEAVE ME ALONE AND LET ME BE DELUSIONAL... IT'S NOT HURTING ANYONE... sigh... i miss her already...

 

[Sylvia]

Jorik Hendrickx just shared a clip of his FS ("En Aranjuez con tu Amor" performed by Il Divo): https://www.instagram.com/p/BYa4QlGBAaU/?hl=en&taken-by=jorik.hendrickx

ETA:

Norway's Sondre ODDVOLL BOE shared a clip of his SP ("Silent Storm" by Carl Espen): https://www.instagram.com/p/BYbITehgkQA/?hl=en&taken-by=sondreboe

 

[Wyliefan]

Marin Honda is going to scrap her tango SP and turn it into a show program. The new SP music isn't announced yet.

She'll return to her old Smile SP for US Int Classic and debut the new program at Skate Canada.

source: https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20170830-00000128-sph-spo

It's an epidemic.

 

[levineismine]

In the video interview with V/M posted in the HPC thread:
Moulin Rouge FD
Sympathy for the Devil, Hotel California, Santana for SD