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Come on guys, do you really need that many couples. They barely even fit across your big huge stage!
Following in the footsteps of Project Runway, which kicked off this season with a show-high 16 designers, Dancing with the Stars kicked off Season 9 with 16 couples. Don't they realize I'm a busy person, and this ever-expanding contestant roster lengthens my recaps? Sheesh.
This week's three-night kick-off extravaganza included a night for the men to compete, a night for the women to compete and tonight's impending results show. All two hour long episodes.
Yes, 6 hours of my week. My devotion to reality talent shows is getting a bit ridiculous, what with Project Runway still having 11 weeks to go, So You Think You Can Dance just barely starting and Dancing with the Stars kicking off too. It's ridonkulous, who's with me?
So, since we all have places to go and people to tweet, let's get started with Monday, the Night of the Men:
First our eight couples performed either a Cha Cha Cha or a Foxtrot, then they did a "relay dance"...which really just means each couple did 30 seconds of some other dance, rather than a whole second routine. Normally I might complain about less of the actual dancing I watch the show for, but as mentioned above: tick tock tick tock.
1. The first couple out on the floor for Season 9 was former boy wonder singer Aaron Carter and Karina, who danced the Cha Cha Cha
I always calls 'em as sees 'em, and this boy is a ringer...just like Lance Bass and other similar pop singers have been. OK, maybe they haven't done ballroom or Latin dancing before, but they have rehearsed and learned dance routines, and they have learned to match their physical movement to the music, and they've usually already moved through the oh-I'm-shaking-my-hips-what will everyone think trepidation. So, sure enough, Aaron was very strong. Sharp. Good hip action and snappy extended arms. The worst you could say is that his posture needed some improvement. He should be safe.
2. Next came Ultimate Fighting Champion Chick Lidell and Anna T., who danced the Foxtrot
Chuck also had strength and sharpness, but no grace or musicality. Actually his biggest problem was that it was written all over his face that he was thinking real hard and desperately just trying to get through this. (Another advantage performers usually have is that they're used to blithely smiling through disaster!) Chuck wasn't the best out there, but he actually wasn't the worst, and the audience roots for a big hulk of a guy trying to pull off finesse. I
