Am I the only one who finds the music inappropriate?

The band plays well no doubt but someone somewhere has a strange idea of the music that fits a tango, a cha-cha and a rhumba in fact there have been peculiar choices for all dancers. Ballroom dancers respond to the 'right' music. On sevaral occasions I have been surprised at the right music and delighted at the dancers response.

The situation is not help by the dreadfull singing group. Bad intonation, trying to sing classic songs and demonstrating how much damage has been done to the art of singing by adulation given to today's mediocre vocalists.

The iffy sound balance for the group shows up the lack of ensemble skills of the group. Don't they listen to each other and try to blend?

If the producers stopped kow towing to the young and performed good appropriate music properly , the dancers would be able to perform.

A minor niggle, get the audience to clap on 2 and 4, it makes naff music sound even worse, kills the swing element that should occur when dancing.

I thought there was very dodgy vocals on saturday ~ the singers really seemed to be struggling with "Dancing in the moonlight" for Carol & Matt's cha cha ~ I grimaced several times!

I was away for the weekend so had to tape the show & watch it last night: but when we were out on saturday we ended up in a bar which had bbc1 on without sound just in time for the results show ~ so the professional dance was to the bar's soundtrack of "can't get you out of my head", & just as Erin & Peter took to the floor for the last dance "my first, my last, my everything" by Barry white started ~ oddly enough they both fitted quite well!

I've been banging on about this since day one. The Tango/Paso's that I was soooo looking forward to has been totally spoilt by inappropriate music. Eleanor Rigby?!?.... for a Tango???....and Bon Jovi?!?... for the Paso???....I mean honestly!
I've heard a great deal about the pros picking the music but I still smell the hand of BBC interference. I think the pros may be free to choose ther music but perhaps it is from a certain "playlist" in the same way radio DJ's are free to play anything in the Top 40 but are certainly not allowed to play jazz, or folk music say. The most annoying thing is that the most memorable performances come from having appropriate music. Can anyone imagine Zoe and Ian's triumphant Tango being performed to Abba....or Colin's Quickstep being done to the strains of the Pretenders

This subject has been covered repeatedly on these forums.
All the serious ballroom dancers I have spoken to are astounded at some of the totally inappropriate and technically incorrect music that is featured on this programme. And very often it is next to impossible to tell if the dancers are 'in time'.
Yet the so-called 'expert' judges never seem to notice it! One wonders if they actually know what strict-tempo dance music is! It's hardly surprising that many people think that most of the music is suggested by the B.B.C. suits who have never danced a step in their lives.

Last Saturday's program was superb entertainment, the result was as expected and handled with good grace.

I still wonder whether there is a competition I don't know about; possibly within the BBC, to find the music most likely to confuse the contestants. Ave Maria for the jive perhaps!

I have to see the recording again but did one of the contestants stumble because the solo lady vocalist insisted on doing one of those never ending 'soul' type meandering embellishments at the end of one song? No-one could hear where she was going to finish the suspect irrelevant octave jumps, that have nothing to do with the music, so bang went the precision finish to the dance!.

It is not their show. All they have to do is straight vocalising.
That would actually be more entertaining, delightful dancing and great dancing music, who would want more. The trouble is that those who select the music have only a nodding aquaintance with the appropriate music unless some pop personality has decided to resurrect something from the great American songbook.

Truth of the matter is that 'vocals' are not really needed for ballroom and latin dancing. Any regular dancer will confirm that 'vocals' are very much in the minority at both social and competition dancing events. The S.C.D. judges and competitors seem to lose sight of how really important the right music is .... it enhances the pleasure of the dance, both for dancers and viewers, and is worth at least an extra point. But will they ever wake up to this obvious fact?

Dancin 'Doc.

It seems to me they are picking certain songs because they are more mainstream pop and something that most people have heard of, rather than opting for the authentic style of music that suits the particular dance.

In dance competitions, it is usually just an instrumental piece rather than vocals, which I thought were seen as a distraction from the main performance.