- Dec 21, 2016
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I come to this board with no cheer experience. I had many years in competitive dance and coaching, but, as I go into my thirties, I miss those days! It makes me happy to watch dances on YouTube and to see who wins the different nationals every year. One day I went down a YouTube rabbit hole and found this documentary on the World Cup Twinkles. I thought it was so interesting, and I really got an appreciation for cheer and how difficult it is! That led me to find videos of the Shooting Stars, and I was blown away by that Jersey Boys routine! Anyway, that leads me to my point...I've lurked around here and seen posts talking about the future of cheer, cheer being taken seriously, etc., and I'm not sure anyone has hit the nail on the head, in my opinion. It's not the hair or the makeup that is making people not take the sport seriously--- it's the music. In my opinion, cheer music is dreadful. It is so hard to listen to, generally not that melodic, and doesn't do that much to enhance the amazingness of the stunts that are being performed. I thought hearing "Orange Colored Sky" a thousand times at a dance competition was bad, but I can't imagine having to sit through these mixes back to back all day. The music on many of these routines takes away from their YouTube "rewatchability." Not every team needs to have a theme like the Shooting Stars do, but maybe a little more attention to the songs might be the thing that allows all star cheer to go mainstream as a sport. I don't mean this disrespectfully to the people who engineer the music, because it seems like the production value on these mixes is very high, but the source material can be lacking. I know this is going to be harder with the new music rules, but I think the new Shooting Stars music shows it can be done.
That's just my two cents...
That's just my two cents...