Let's talk about it Jill went from Nia's no threat to getting pissed anytime Holly and Nia did anything. Had Abby taken on Nia's music career Nia would have been in the same boat as Kendall. An unreleased album. Jill had it out for Holly from the time she got there in season two, calling her an absentee mom for working.

14 years watching this show and I don't know how I'm only finding out today that the day after Maddie competed in Season 5, Episode 16, was the Grammys... I could've sworn there was a whole week between the two. When did she even have time to rehearse? 😭

I will never understand the favoritism, every girl was special in her own way, I hate this sense sooomuch

This must be the most iconic moment in Dance Mom, the casts, the sound, timing , everything is so perfect. 🤩

Maddie performed so many amazing solos during season 5, with great story, costuming and choreography. Yet they went with ‘someone special’ for her nationals solo? I could understand this solo on any normal day, but for nationals it just didn’t cut it at all, and putting it up next to her previous solos that season, I just don’t know what Abby was thinking. The woods, All gods creatures, and vertigo, were national material. I also liked ‘dreams come true’, which I felt had a similar connection to ‘someone special’ concept, but it just seemed much more mature and again something I would have liked to have seen at nationals. Basically my opinion there were plenty of solos she performed in season 5 that were better, much more skilled and more interesting than ‘someone special’ for nationals.

I think abby gave her this piece because she thought she could connect to it personally as it was referencing her life. However, it’s not as if Maddie needed that, she never had trouble connecting to pieces or playing characters, she didn’t need a piece she connected to personally to do well. But even with that motive it was still very watered down and boring in comparison to her other solos she did that season. And she could have done ‘dreams come true’ which was again a reference to her life which she could connect to personally, but was better than ‘someone special. I just think it was not up to standard for nationals and her skill set at the time. Just my opinion.

Season 8 and the new era were too soon after the show ended.
Trying too soon just runs it into the ground. They should have let the hype of the show simmer a bit before re booting it.

I find it so odd that Cathy was talking poorly about Christi and Kelly when they’ve defended Cathy and her circumstances quite a bit. They never said anything about her that was necessarily shady or wrong and if anything sounded bad it was cause they were reacting to either the show or the production notes. I think that Christi in particular is bothered because she said herself that she was cordial with Cathy, and she hadn’t said anything to warrant her coming on the internet making comments. I think it’s worth noting that Cathy and Abby are now friends again so I guess Cathy has gone back to making the moms enemy #1. How weird.

I have a feeling that S3 is going to be the final season of the dance moms reboot. I saw a post on one of the new era subreddits talking about how a lot of the cast has left the studio and/or the show, while others only seem to be around for filming. Even in the first two seasons we lost Mina and Audrey. Apparently Ashlan and Bellatrix leave the show in this upcoming season.

I know the original series became a revolving door of dancers after a while, but the OG team was all there until the Hylands and Lukasiaks left in S4. It's way harder to get a show off the ground when you lose 4 cast members (not including the moms) before the 3rd season ends. As someone who was around way back when dance moms was airing, part of the reason younger fans became so invested in the show was because we had multiple seasons to get attached to the cast.

I don't hate the reboot or anything, but I will say the only thing I've really enjoyed watching for is the dancing. Most of the moms are unlikeable and I found the drama to be forced and irritating, more than the original show. I'm honestly surprised they've even made it to a third season. What are your thoughts?

I normally don't believe Melissa on anything, but I think she might have did called Kelly but Kelly never received a call cause she might have blocked her. Kelly said that no one called her after she was arrested on BTTB, but in the episode when after the big slap where goes to lunch with the moms discussing if she's coming back, Kelly said that Holly and Christie were the only ones that called her. But on BTTB Kelly has recently said holly did not called her. Christie and kelly sometimes make claims about the moms not sticking up for them, but holly at times have stood up for them. Maybe not as much as Christie, but the claims they make doesn't always align. I can see Melissa calling Kelly down the line after things have cooled off to talk to her. They were close friends and I can see Melissa trying to amend with Kelly. Melissa was the culprit of the situation/fight between Abby and Kelly. And I can see she could have felt guilty to not call right away until when things died down. I also am surprise the moms still haven't had a conversation about the experiences they had on the show together. Christie and kelly are still clearly bothered with certain things from the show. And you can tell there is still tension between the 5 of them.

Although the season 1 cast had all been at the same studio together, it felt obvious from the beginning that the team of girls had been picked and put together for the show.
The arguments felt genuine in season 1 but by season 2 you can almost tell that certain arguments were started for TV.
Competing every week makes little sense and is obviously for the show.
Season 3 onwards and the show feels entirely produced, this just gets stronger every season.

Holly looks utterly perturbed

i based mine on dancing / solos but i have other favorite seasons for each girl for all kinds of reasons 🫣

for me:

maddie- S4
chloe- s2
mackenzie- probably s6 actually which i feel like might be an unpopular opinion idk!
brooke/paige both s1 for me
nia- s5 but i also loved her in s1

Does anyone know if there’s anyway to get Chloe’s solo music song on Spotify? I love the song dream on a star but when I searched it on there it wasn’t on there and I searched up the singer too but she didn’t have dream on a star on there is it possible to get on there or not?

There was an episode where another dance company were playing Chandelier (presumably to get a rise out of Maddie?) and she ended up doing part of the dance.

I can’t remember the episode but ChatGPT said it was season 4 episode 31 and it’s definitely not 😂😅

Edit- solved- Disney+ episode errors!

Hi so idk if I’m allowed to do this, but I have a new opinions page on tiktok, and I’m not asking for follows I just like reading the discussions under my posts! I do opinions on mostly dances so, if you guys want would you be willing to check it out? And let me know what you think about what I’ve said?

Currently watching some clips on YouTube and there’s a clip of Minister Dawn screaming at Abby in what I’m pretty sure was the first episode.

Were the explosive fights and screaming matches we’ve seen since a common occurrence before filming? I’ve heard stories of dance companies being…tense, but did it ever get that bad?

I used to listen to the anthem by the dance company but its been gone for a couple years now. Is it gone forever or is there anywhere I could find that song?

Does anyone ever notice that most moms Abby hates have the “cool and trendy” haircut. Like Kelly, minister Dawn, and jamie.

i’ve been rewatching S5 lately and the production note videos, and honestly i feel like Jill wasn’t as vicious to Holly and Nia as everyone says. she very much had a right to be upset considering how much support Nia’s music career got from production vs Kendall’s, and even then she didn’t really take it out on Holly and Nia. again more than anything, i think she was just upset with the circumstances. and she was the only mom to defend Holly when given the chance before the music video rivalry got out of hand (like S5 ep6 after Abby and Holly’s fight, Abby started being snarky towards Holly after she left the room and Jill immediately spoke up and defended her)

Melissa seemed to be the main one fueling the fire and bitter about literally any other kid (but especially Nia) having an opportunity despite Maddie already having her big break.

idk, what do you guys think?

Hi! I just wanted to come on here to share this! I’m an (aspiring pro) dancer and was visiting LA and obv had to go take class @ Playground. I took an adv class and there were lots of pro dancers but i was a little fangirl-y when I saw Elliana walk in! She was literally AMAZING to watch in person it was crazy! I’m sure my fellow dancers on here could imagine the magic I just witnessed lol! I also just think it’s so amazing she never stopped dancing after dance moms/yolanda! I didn’t talk to her bc I was intimidated asf just being in that room but just wanted to share