~dance moms rant lol
i usually never post tv criticism on here, but i’ve been rewatching season 5 of dance moms and it honestly makes me so fucking infuriated about the way that nia was treated the entire season. first of all, why do these moms even want abby to manage their kids at all? she’s a DANCE INSTRUCTOR, not a music/acting/career manager. she has no experience in it. why not take their kids to an agency/professional? i think holly made the right decision pulling abby as nia’s manager because abby ruined her audition and then said she couldn’t do a song, so why wouldn’t holly find new management for nia and seek out opportunities on her own? abby clearly proved that she didn’t care about nia’s career.
nia’s music video was honestly awesome, it looked like something that would’ve premiered on TRL. she look amazing and confident, and her voice sounded good. i don’t know WHY melissa, jill, and abby were all up holly’s ass about nia dancing with the kiss boys, maddie was dancing with shia lebouf in the “elastic heart” video so let’s stop with the double standard.
and i just finished watching the australia episode, and abby had the nerve to tell holly not to associate aldc with it (like anyone would care), didn’t invite nia or jojo to any of her private events, and told jill it was good that the other girls (aside from jojo) weren’t invited to be in nia’s concert because they would outshine her. uh, excuse me? nia is a star on her own.
and abby and jill were soooo sprung on making sure kendall beat nia in this whole “music video contest,” and now fast forward to season 6.
nia has two music videos out and is coming out with more music, was an automatic shoe-in to the dance moms spread in seventeen magazine (whereas kendall had to audition for it), is working with debbie allen and misty copeland, is shooting a movie, performed in an OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL over the summer, and was in a syncronated ladies music video tap dancing to formation that freaking BEYONCE reposted.
and now, jill is realizing that abby has done nothing for kendall aside from release that music video that was essentially a dance moms video, and that was 18 months ago. apparently kendall recorded an album last summer and abby hasn’t released it yet. seeing as how this episodes airing now were filmed in april/may and its now almost october and we haven’t seen an album yet, it’s probably not coming out
i don’t have anything against kendall, she’s a beautiful little girl and dancer. but it just goes to show that karma is a BITCCCHHHH and nia is out here doing shit and never let anything get her down!! and now all of a sudden abby is interested in her career and wanting to forge a relationship with her and its like UHHH BECAUSE SHE’S ACTUALLY SUCCESSFUL AND GETS SIDE JOBS AND IS KILLING IT. jill mentioned that kendall is the only girl that abby manages, and tbh that’s probably why kendall doesn’t really get any cool side jobs except for some modeling photoshoots.
and tbh i think jill really thought that by abby managing kendall, she would elevate kendall’s career like maddie’s did and kendall would receive special treatment. but what she forgot is that yeah abby and the aldc faculty trained maddie in dance and the reason we do know her is bc of dance moms, but SIA is the one who really got her career to the next level. the chandelier video has over a billion views on youtube, and she’s been in 4 other sia music videos and tours with sia. working with sia was the elevation maddie needed to become a household name, not abby. and that was what jill forgot.
anyways ugh i feel like im trash for writing a dance moms rant lol, but im just so fucking happy that nia made it through all the colossal, excluding bullshit and fake ass people acting like she couldn’t do it, when she is really out here getting all these jobs and working it, and i’m so proud of her :)