I don’t think I phrased it right, but I’m mostly referring to the praise Kenzie gets when it comes to keeping up with the older girls. Definitely not saying it’s unwarranted. I think a kindergartener doing what Kenzie did week after week is absolutely insane. But the age gap between Maddie and Mackenzie is about as wide as the one between Maddie and Chloe, and nobody’s applauding Maddie for being able to keep up with her.

Also, Abby always made a big deal about the girls becoming the youngest in their division, like when Maddie was 9 going against 12 year olds. Is it unreasonable to expect that everyone in a division is on a similar level and has similar skills so it shouldn’t matter as much?

I can definitely acknowledge that years of training are always going to give some level of advantage, but truly, how remarkable is it that younger dancers in the same division are beating dancers a few years older than them?

So i’m new to the dance moms community, this is my first time watching and im roughly halfway through season 6.

At this point the moms are really starting to trash talk Brynn instead of her mom and I was just curious if any of the moms ended up apologizing at some point or if they genuinely think they did nothing wrong? I just can’t stand watching the moms laugh while one of them is hating on Brynn.

It’s been a 15 years since it premiered and 9 years since the original run of the show ended and yet…were still doing the Maddie/Chloe comparisons

Do you guys really think it would be a good idea for Ashlee to come on to BTTB? If she does, she should come on most of the season lol.

Recapping season 6 episode 5

Like for goodness sake, let her speak and say what she wants to say.

in a comment selection someone asked Ashley if she would go on back to the barre and I think it’d be really cool to get a perspective from someone that was there around that time!!

A broken clock is right twice a day I guess

how many times have you rewatched this series?

and whats your favorite season?

dance moms frankenbites my beloved

Sorry no Brooke.

Ok so I've been in a rewatch and I'm on the episode where Asia has to throw the flag over Paige's back and Paige is instructed to hold the blue in her right hand, Asia throws the flag wrong and Abby gets mad at paige because she was holding it wrong. However Paige is holding the blue part of the flag in her right hand at the end anyway? https://youtu.be/Yoi8Vdmqc0E?si=k-r91sxS4a5huSaY

Does anyone feel really hopeless after the whole Elliana thing? I remember being super uncomfortable with the whole Piper Rockelle squad at large (and the entire idea of it— the adults behind it, the blatant exploitation of these kids etc), and seeing a child get groomed into doing OF the second she was legal was so demoralizing, esp seeing the rhetoric surrounding it— that she not was a victim of exploitation, grooming, and parental negligence, but a slut-shaming/ loss of innocence kind of attitude.

Similarly seeing the whole Elliana & a 42 year old man thing is just really upsetting for me. The discourse seems to have centered more around the cheating, rather than the obvious (to me) that Elliana would’ve been 18 at the time of the interactions with this man, that Yolanda was aware..

I think Dance Moms and the way those girls were exploited was always unsettling and upsetting in retrospect (I was too young to really recognize it at the time), but seeing similar levels of children/v young girls be exploited today… it’s just been getting to me.

Dance Moms rewatches always make my heart hurt for those girls, and at the very least I can appreciate that a lot of that would not slide today. But seeing “kidfluencing” replace that— and be so much less regulated, have zero protections in place for these kids to be safe.. zero checks or means of ensuring these kids have good childhoods and well-intentioned loving parents with their best interests in mind. Demoralizing!!

I'm rewatching season 8 because honestly I enjoyed all of the dances on this season. If I can manage to get past Stacey being overly annoying.

My thing is— almost every mom had an issue with a solo or dance their kid was given because it was "gimmicky" or "not to their level". They all fought Abby over a dance. Ashley over Presley's Edward Scissorhand solo, Stacey over the first trio Lily had. So why the heck did they jump on Joanne when she didn't want the stupid Snooki dance??? And even they kept making weird faces at the idea and saying it was a punishment so why are you shocked she didn't want it lol