This is the last west coast episode and the competition is judged by kids! Nia and Kendall shoot their videos. Abby and Holly are butting heads over the videos. Abby remains pissed and vindictive about Nia doing her video with Aubrey O’Day.
JoJo and Kendall are doing solos. Mackenzie is “sick” and I think Maddie is going to the Grammys. So my guess is Mackenzie is going to the Grammys.
Abby is in love with Kendall. She is planning to have her replace Maddie when Maddie flies the coop. Nia on the other hand asks Abby to come to her video shoot. I don’t think she should have asked her. Abby just only wants to sabotage. But Aubrey O’Day is like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. I cannot stand her. I even mean blogged about her when she was on Celebrity Apprentice. I would much rather work with Abby than Aubrey.
Between the two videos, Nia has a big name hair stylist and another big named makeup artist. Nia is loving all the attention and looks in credible. Aubrey points out that she can’t stand Abby. No surprise. Aubrey hates everyone. Abby says that Nia’s image has been changed so much. She is furious. Mostly because Nia looks great and Holly put them on social media. Everyone in Nia’s camp is super supportive. Nia has a million costume changes and they are all fantastic. Nia’s actual video is not easily found on YouTube if it is there. But there is video of her performing the song in Australia last month. Kendall’s video is on YouTube.
Kendall is struggling in her solo rehearsal and Abby is riding her hard. Jo Jo’s dance is in a straight jacket. I am not kidding.
At the competition, Jo Jo had to have a serious, conflicted face. It was a challenge for her. She thinks she did great. We shall see.
Kendall’s dance was sort of pole dancer. She was supposed to be a drum major. After the solo Kendall has a break down. She forgot parts of her choreography. Abby tells Kendall to suck it up.
The group dance was fantastic. The kid judges will eat this up. Five ballerinas in princesses dresses. It was all very “Frozen.”
Kendall got 5th in the solo competition. Jo Jo didn’t place in the top five. The group dance took first place. Jo Jo is terrified that Abby is going to hate her. She is crying. Abby is nice to both Jo Jo and Kendall.
BTW, Maddie was in the group dance and Mackenzie was there but not dancing. At the end of the pep talk, Abby says she is off to the Grammys. Also on this show we saw a bit of Abby’s new studio. It needs a lot of work.
I am not too fond of Aubrey myself. Will go to your mean blogging about her for some laughs. Nia was great in her video. I sure wish Abby would get behind her instead of hating on her so much. Would serve Abby right if of all the girls, Nia would become the biggest star.
watched Aubrey on celebrity apprentice. never heard of her before that. she was an immature witch. all she talked about was how creative she was but most of the tasks that she ‘created’ on failed! i haven’t watched dance moms before, but may just watch this show to see aubrey.
actually, the only reason i watch any of these reality shows is if i know someone on the show. that’s why i loved celebrity apprentice – i usually knew all of the cast/contestants.
i saw brandi glanville on another season of celebrity apprentice, and that’s the only reason why i started watching RHOBH.
i’ve tried watching RHONY and couldn’t get into it cus i didn’t ‘know’ anyone on there. there’s so many shows out there – i could never watch them all, so that’s kind of how i decide which ones to watch.
Aubrey started off in a singing competition show with P Diddy. Then he signed her to a girl group. He quickly realized she was difficult to work with and fired her.
Nia did look great in her video. I have often wondered with so many hair options available why she never did more with her hair. In the entertainment industry it would make her so much more marketable. it showed that to be true in the video because she looked fantastic. I thought the group dance was good but didn’t get the connection to the title of platinum.
Kendall cannot be the next Maddie. She’s not nearly as good technically or performance wise. She is stunning, though. Fun fact: the blonde in her music video is her older sister.
Abby’s crap about Nia’s video not being in line with who she is is such BS. Are we supposed to believe that Maddie’s Sia videos (which are awesome) are in line with who Maddie is? Maddie’s a young girl with a pretty blessed life. She’s not an addict dealing with addicted parents and mental health issues. Abby’s just a mean, nasty woman. I completely respect how calm and rationale Nia was when speaking to her about the video shoot. The moms should take a lesson from her.
I thought JoJo’s dance was great. Better than Kendall’s. Shocked she didn’t place. The group dance was lovely, but did not get the platinum connection or storyline.
Agree with everything, swizzle. How is wearing cd’s on your head representative of a record going platinum (especially considering it was representing Kendall’s overly auto-tuned song). I can’t stand that Kendall can’t keep her shoulders DOWN! (former dance/cheer mom speaking here.) I also agree that Kendall is a vision. Too bad we couldn’t see more of her sister in her video.
First time commenting but have been following TT for a few months. Hope I do it right;) Kudos to Holly for seeing in her daughter what no one else did and for not listening to Abby trying to discourage Nia at every turn. Mega Kudos to Nia for being polite and standing her ground with Abby, and for her AMAZING performance at her video shoot. My daughters and I were cheering from the couch;) In my opinion, Abby turned the Kendall K and Nia videos into a competition, not Holly. Jill was just fine going along with Kendall being the favorite and Abby being all about her video and completely ignoring Nia, but then she and Melissa turned ghostly white when they saw that Nia’s shoot was AMAZING! I was mad that Holly’s musketeers couldn’t be happy for Nia and support Holly. I also thought the comment about “some things” being inappropriate in Nia’s video was just pure jealously, and YAY for Holly’s comeback about the nude leotard.
I agree about the leotard comment. Welcome Suzy!
I’m very tired of Holly. I used to like her but all she does is gripe. If being at the ALDC is so insufferable, leave! There would be no way I would subject my child to this abuse. Holly won’t give up the fame, money and attention. I sometimes wonder if at least Holly is scripted because Nia acts so disengaged most of the time…like she doesn’t bother reacting to the bad because it isn’t real. Nothing against Nia personally but I think she’s incredible boring.
The Holly Nia stuff has to be scripted. That is so not Holly’s personality. Also, when the girls were in Australia, Nia did a solo performance of her video song.
I like Nia. She a has presence on stage. Kendall is a beautiful girl, but that is all. Both of the girls’ music videos sound very autotune to me. Mackenzie’s did too. This Holly against the other Moms and Abby has gotten very old very fast. Some other studio would love to get Nia.
Am I the only person who didn’t know who Aubrey is?
The three words that came to mind watching Kendall’s video shoot: Yvan eht nioj.
I could not find Nia’s actual video anywhere. I did see the Australia performance. It’s like Abby snapped and it was gone never to compete with Kendall’s video.
I just heard her song.
The music video is coming out tuesday according to Holly’s Instagram
Kendall K. Lolol. I love how tough sounding these kids rapper names. So creative too!
Aka matty B, Mack z. Hehe
It’s because Abby is so plugged in to how the “cool, hep” kids of today talk, donchaknow?
Yup. If u look up hip in the dictionary, you’ll surely see a picture of Abby! Lol
I think Kendal is beautiful, but I personally think Kendal is a brat and cannot stand her. That’s because of her mother though. Remember when she first came on a few seasons ago and her mom said she would give her $20 if she did her solo well?
I’m curious about something. since I don’t have kids and feel out of the loop in this aspect of the world. Is making a music video now the thing to do if you’re a kid taking dance lessons or is this just a result of the popularity of the show? And who is paying for it? Seems like they would be expensive. In watching the show, It seems like it’s a given that all the girls should have music videos, so is this how it is in kidland or is this just happening to Abby lees kids? (Or exorbitantly rich kids?)
I was really hoping the ALDC group performance would lose. I can’t pull for a team that is coached by Abby. Just can’t do it! I thought Nia did a great job on her video, can’t say much about Kendall’s because I don’t like Jill and never have. She is just as bad as Cathy to me. And Melissa she will do whatever Abby asked regardless.
Why does Holly think Abby would promote Nia’s music video. Abby didn’t start it, Holly went out on her own and got it. Yes Abbey should be promoting Kendall’s music video because Abby was the who set it up. Why would Holly even bring it up, just to start drama.
Because Abby is supposedly Nia’s manager.
I’ve come to remind TT to see the new episode. It’s so good. Nia does great. I think maybe the traffic on the Dance Moms recaps aren’t as busy because the blogs go up days after they air. This show seems to be low on the TT priority list. Maybe the comments and clicks reflect that?
Anywho, love the show and hope I continue to read TT’s tea on it.