SCD 2024 #12 It’s Blackpool Baby! NO SPOILERS

[CaveMum]

New thread and we’re mid-way through Blackpool Night.

Video thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5172178-scd-2024-the-one-with-all-the-videos?reply=139506952

Spoiler thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5154780-the-strictly-come-dancing-spoilers-thread-2024

This is NOT a difficult song to sing well. How are they making it so bad?

I really can't get on with the extra dancers at Blackpool...surely they are blocking the judges view a lot of the time?

I want the posse of other dancers to stay in the background.

this version of a classic song is so wrong I can’t concentrate on the dancing

We were saying the same.

Everything about this, looks and feels wrong.

Its just off.

This arrangement of that song is horrific.

This singer is so very far behind the beat

I didn’t feel any connection between the music and the dance

I loved the dance but they've got to stop messing with good songs!!!

gosh the song was too slow. I saw Lauren about 10 days ago and I promise she is fantastic, but this was killed by the song/ugly costumes/backing dancers.

I really can't watch the dance when the music is appalling. Far too distracting.

The backing dancers - there is one man who is trying to be the main act. Ridiculous. Are they not told they are not the important ones in this dance. Worse than Neil.

That dance was sensory overload

ok giving my votes to JB.

It got better when I sang over the singers.

Slightly strange posture. I was hoping for more, but JB is a sweetheart.

I barely even watched the dance, I was wincing at the music so hard.

Love that song but that was an awful version! Didn’t work for a QS.

Were the illuminations the inspiration for Lauren's dress? Just so gaudy.

Syncopated beats did NOT work for that song. I really disliked that-the song stopped me focusing on the dance so can’t even say what I thought about that.

It goes to show that they love the comfort of the studio and do tend to perform better there.

Give you up is faster than the dirge they made of it

The music didn’t work for a quickstep at all. I think he did well with what he was given though and shouldn’t be anywhere near the bottom two.

Another (badly sung) 80s tune.
Sorry @RainbowColouredRainbows 😁

I agree the song wasn't right.

Blackpool has been awful apart from the TPSB.

I feel let down apart from Chris.