so, i thought i could dance.

And I still do believe I can dance. I just thought it sounded like a good title.

Let me be the first to unveil to you the trickery and foolishness of these reality dance shows.

As you can see, I didn't make it.

Some of y'all know me. Some of y'all don't. But a lot of y'all know I can dance.
I definitely could have gotten a call back.
I had the potential compared to my competition.
But I went at the wrong time, like too late in the process.

With So You Think You Can Dance, here is how it works...
You stand in line for hours until the doors open. In my case, in the cold. Meanwhile, camera men and producers are yelling at you, "Energy" and "Okay when the cameras come by jump up and down". They even had us do the wave.
Yeah. The wave.
Then the line starts moving.. once you get inside and through security you turn in your release form and get a sticker with a number on it. They cram everyone into a room and give you a speech.

It was the typical, 'do your best and don't let nerves get to you' with a lil bit of 'remember this is a performance not you dancing in your bedroom by yourself' on the side... They also let you know that you won't be doing your solo for the judges but instead free styling in front of the producer to a song of his choice. and BOY was the producer an asshole lol.

They couldnt' fit everyone in the room so they asked for anyone not in a chair to step out and then people were in and out from there.. You had to classify yourself into a genre so you could be put in a group of ten... and then each group of ten would go up dance 360 style (tag your man anybody?)...

The thing about it is, they were looking for tv...

They wanted you to look at them and entertain them like you were their personal jestures. They wanted people to suck... they moved those people forward.. or they wanted them to stand out...

In the contemporary category, really really really good people got cut. it was so sad.
And in the hip hop category almost everyone got cut except for break dancers and white girls that sucked.

What really angered me is that the producer just didn't know what hip hop was. He was yelling at the contestants asking them if they knew... If you didn't pop and lock, he didn't consider it hip hop. No crumping, nothing big, nothing wild, or you get cut.

I should have tapped cuz there were only like 6 tappers and I had a better chance lmao.
Point is:

That show is for entertainment.

And yes, I love to entertain.

But I don't want to have to conform in order to do that.


Know who you are, and know that it is enough =]