Dancing With The Stars vs So You Think You Can Dance – Which is Best?
These two shows have taken America by storm. They’re a new twist on an old TV them, that being reality TV, and it looks like audiences just can’t get enough of either one. But the question I posed to my Wife was, if you could only watch Dancing With The Stars or So You Think You Can Dance, which one would it be?
She immediately become defensive, I guess thinking I would make her only watch one or the other. I explained to her it was just a ‘what if’ type of question, no harm was intended.
After thinking a while, she said that she would not be able to make that decision. That there were good and bad about each show and that she really though they were different. And I guess she’s right.
Dancing With The Stars is fun to watch because we get to see Celebrities in a light that we don’t normally get to see them. This being that they are out of their elements, or are suppose to be. As we’ve found out over the last few years, some Celebs actually have an advantage over others due to their past dancing experience or previous professional dance lessons.
Still, most of the contestants are not professional dancers and we love to see how they will perform under pressure.
Meanwhile, So You Think You Can Dance hits us at a totally different angle. This show is basically an audition for amateur dancers to show off their skills to the judges. From the people I talk to, it’s not clear which is the best show, the amateur dancers or the drama going on between the judges!
Personally, I just feel that ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ is not as well put together show. It feels like a B grade show being shot in some swanky warehouse in Los Angeles. Sure, I enjoy it, but not near as much as Dancing With The Stars. But isn’t it nice that we have the choice of two dance shows to choose from?