Yes, we are barraged with even more awful music to accompany dances this year notably the music to accompany the quickstep last weekend.

I still, and will maintain to my dying day, the the mood of the the dance can be completely destroyed with some wailing singer and inappropriate tune presumably chosen by the couple in question.
I know that the music is spoiling it for me, yet again and the Rumba music, well, I am speechless.

My advice to you: DON'T watch SCD. Tune to ITV or whatever you fancy to watch on Saturday (and now Sunday) evenings. Save yourself the troubles, okay?

It's not the choice of music that I object to (although some choices are rather brave), and I do love the idea of a live band. However, I have to agree that the standard of singing on last week's show was pretty dreadful.

Parts of Hurt were a bit ropey...

I think they do the standards very well, but struggle with the more contemporary songs. Mind you, I'd still rather listen to them than Westlife!

BTW, my reply to the OP was meant to be a joke (notice the smilie?)

I thought that was what live music is all about. They sang BETTER than any of the X-factorites by a mile despite their off moments here and there.

And I do agree that some of the choice of music are very questionable. I like tango with tango music, paso doble with paso doble music. As for Mark and Karen's AT, I thought it would be perfect 40 for me if the music is NOT Golden Eye (sorry, Maren's fans!). Still it was an excellent routine...

I recalled seeing Colin and Erin (in youtube) doing paso doble to Thriller. The choice of music didn't thrill me one bit...

On the other hand, Mark and Karen's Paso was VERY appropriate. Anton and Patsy's tango was even better. And who can forget Zoe and Ian's Tango?

Notice that those dances that had appropriate music were all with no singing...

Whoever sung Hurt by Christina Aguilera was pretty bad.

I agree, as was the woman singing "Suddenly I See".

Alesha and Matt's rumba was totally spoilt by the awful singing I thought. When I watched it back I had to mute it!

I agree for the most part but I thought the suitability of the music to the dance so far this series has not been too bad.

My only gripe is I do not want to see the band at all and I wish they were in the background out of sight. The programme is about dancing and not to have the singers in my eyeline distracting. If I remember correctly the band were not in our eyeline during the dances in the early series, which is how it should be.

I remembered when the singers did Suddenly I See the first time, the harmonising was quite off at some point. I didn't really notice how dire the singing of Aleshatt's rhumba was because I was too transfixed to the dance.

When the singers did Suddenly I See again in the results show, the harmonising was much better, and the main singer didn't sound like she was wailing...

The woman who sang Hurt was so out of tune, it was painful. It's a shame because it was such a good dance. I don't think the female vocalists have ever been that good. Noticed they've replaced one this year.

I think she just changed her hairstyle into a Claudiaesque-fringy kind... They are the same bunch, I think...

They've definitely changed.
Used to be Tara McDonald, it's now Hayley Sanderson

OIC... Hmm...

Totally agree, I actually wonder if it affected the marks a tad because the awful wailing just detracted from Alesha's performance, whilst 'She's like the wind' enhanced Kelly's

It took a few viewings of Alesha's rumba before I could completely not be distracted by the singing. I think it would have made a positive difference if it was sung better
When the song list is released I always think about how it will sound. I've noticed Whitney ballads are often not a good choice

At a risk of sounding cocky or arrogant, I am musically trained (classical) and the song sung during Aleshatt's rhumba was NOT out of tune at all. Maybe the harmonising was less than good in a few places, but the actual singing was spot-on, pitch and tune-wise. Having said that, I do think it was a rather jarring song for the rhumba. Perhaps she shouldn't holler her way through the song, but adopt a more gentle approach and then it wouldn't be so in-your-face...

When I said 'out of tune' it was just a general term to say it really didn't sound right.
So next time I write 'out of tune' it will probably not be a strict technical description of just how bad I thought the singing was.

I totally agree with this. This singer in particular can be a bit 'too much' from time to time, but overall I think the band and the singers are excellent, especially Lance Ellington. As a semi-professional musician - don't want to sound cocky as well - I totally admire them for their versatility and I DO want to see them in the background because they do a great job and create are huge part of the atmosphere in my opinion. It's always a bit tricky when the band performs a well known song - like Christina Aguilera's Hurt - because it's hard not to compare it with the studio recordings.

I do agree however that there are some bad choices of music, but I'm not sure that's totally to blame on the professional dancers. I remember reading somewhere last year the production team suggests certain songs or give them shortlists to pick a song from. Not sure about that now, because Alesha e.g. keeps talking about picking songs and her nan calling her with ideas about the music...

I agree that the choice of song can either make or break a dance and some of the more modern songs don't seem to fit some of the dances very well.

I like to hear standards with the ballroom dances but call me oldfashioned . The waltz can go well with some of the modern ballads but I think the standards suit the quickstep and foxtrot better.

I feel that the female singing was a bit OTT and overpowering on Saturday too.

I LURVE it when they sang a Sinatra song for Matt Dawson's AS. Colin's QS and AS songs were very appropriate too.

I remembered Vincent choosing a pop song for their Paso. They were underscored, but I suspect it might be partly due to the song choice. It was a very good routine, though. I remembered Vincent always tried to get Louisa's approval when it came to choosing a song for the dance. I remembered him making the sign of a cross once when he played some songs for Louisa to pick.

I must admit that I thought Saturday's performance of Suddenly I See lacked something in comparison with its use on DWTS, but for the most part I think the band does a good job.

Also agreed that choice of song is important; there are times when an unconventional choice works out well but for a dance like the tango it really loses something if the music is not in keeping with the dance (just see last year).

The choice of songs for the AS were perfect.


The tango and paso doble are dances that I like to see done to the "traditional" music, the Spanish type for the paso and good old Hernando's Hideaway for the tango, just like they used to do on Come Dancing ..lol

..mucho respect to the band and singers for even attempting some of the inapropriate songs they are given to perform.....up to now the worse for me was that awful wailing number that Gabby and partner danced the quickstep to ......in truth the band probably did a better job than if the original artist were to come on and perform the song themselves!...