They should NOT skate to...

[Karen-W]

I know we have the "they should skate to" music ideas thread. In the opposite vein, I'm interested in knowing what music pieces FSUers think need a minimum of a 1-year moratorium for all skaters/teams.

You know - Moulin Rouge, Ghost, Buble, Moonlight Sonata, Turandot, The Irrepressibles, etc. Start listing off what you don't want to hear at all next season!

 

[kwanfan1818]

Notre Dame de Paris. Les Mis.

Orchestral music arrangements for voice. Tinkly piano arrangements of good music. The latest Disney song appealing to eight-year-old girls. Screetchy soprano voices in any genre. "Hallelujah" performed by skaters who think it's from the same genre as "Ave Maria." Music that doesn't have a beat set to a beat track. Endless reams of "atmospheric" music, especially in Dance, that doesn't require a skater to have any kind of precise response to it. Music recorded at 33 that is being skated to at 16.

 

[Evgeniafan]

Papa Can You Hear Me...is a no.

 

[my little pony]

any song heard while in line at Starbucks. musically they go nowhere and usually have some sort of Sylvia Plath energy.

 

[skategal]

Covers.

Just don’t do it!!

 

[my little pony]

omg covers/medleys with different cover artists in the same program. no.

 

[Karen-W]

My must-not skate to list includes:

The Fifth Element soundtrack
Notre Dame de Paris
Les Miserables
Donna Summer (she's boppy but I'm over it already between last season's RDs and both Chiba & Liu re-using their Donna Summers programs again this season)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Tree of Life Suite
Bolero
Michael Jackson

 

[kwanfan1818]

I know what people are talking about when they say "cover," but Frank Sinatra's "My Way" is a cover, most of what Ella Fitzgerald and most jazz singers sing/sang is a cover, anyone who sings Tevye besides Zero Mostel is singing a cover, etc. and I think we have to be careful what we wish for.

Cover of popular music written from the Rock and Roll age and on?

 

[Karen-W]

I think we need to list some specific covers that are just bad and not good for skating - or maybe specific artists whose musical style does not lend itself well to covers of past hits.

 

[BaileyCatts]

My must-not skate to list includes:

......
Umbrellas of Cherbourg

This times onehundredbillion. Please no more Umbrellas of Cherbourg!!!!!!!

 

[floridaice]

House of the Rising Sun - any version!

 

[my little pony]

I am typing under a French poster of umbrellas of cherbourg but be haters, I cant stop it

 

[kwanfan1818]

So many specific rather than categorical ones that I'm scrambling to find the names of, because I've tried to suppress the memories:

Sarah Brightman singing Nessun Dorma
Andrea Boccelli singing anything, but specifically the Caruso song and especially
Io ci saro
Anything by Laura Fabian, but especially Adagio.