Skate America was last weekend, kicking off the new figure skating competitive season. And you know what that means, right? We’re going to have to hear the same old crappy music again and again in competition!
Ugh! How many times must I hear music from Phantom of the Opera and Romeo and Juliet? Seriously: I think they should take a deduction for using tired old music for your skating program. If you must skate to music from Broadway musicals, then how about swapping out “Music of the Night” from Phantom of the Opera for “The Internet is for Porn” from Avenue Q once in a while? For mercy’s sake: give us all a break!
And another thing: It looks like it’s going to be another year full of skaters falling during jumps, so I have an idea: let’s have them add a record skip sound effect whenever someone falls! That way, it will look like it was supposed to happen! Whenever skaters fall during the music normally, it’s clear that they’re making a mistake. But if they would play a record skip sound effect whenever a skater falls, it would seem like they meant to do it, and that it was part of the program. Then they’d look much better, right?
