Spectacular - but do we really need more and more syncopated dancers?
I thought this watching The Brits too. Far too often dull performers make up for it by having hundreds of dancers or thousands of choir members.
Boring.
However, tricks like the giant smart phone rising into the air with a pregnant Rhianna on it did manage to make me gasp (more worrying for her - I certainly wouldn't do it; especially if pregnant).

I never understood dance troupes or choirs when watching a solo artist. Surely a solo singer can captive an audience alone?

Especially if they are illuminati mega stars.

She couldn't do much jigging or singing herself because of the pregnancy, but I hated the choreography, and even if I had ever liked the "hoody and penis grabbing" style, I would be thoroughly bored with it now.
I always enjoy Rhianna though.

that's been a long time approach.. put sexy and exotic dancers in the background .. even Bananarama used to do this in songs like
Venus, Love In The First Degree, I Want You Back..

Sometimes it looks a bit obvious.. particularly with solo singers..

Honey wrote:
She couldn't do much jigging or singing herself because of the pregnancy, but I hated the choreography, and even if I had ever liked the "hoody and penis grabbing" style, I would be thoroughly bored with it now.
I always enjoy Rhianna though.

I was a tad disappointed with her but I'm a fan.

I thought the floating stages spectacular but I get vertigo.

lying down now with the thought of JK being pregnant though anything is possible these days.

Don't worry Hedda - being pregnant makes my head spin too.
I started all that Dancers thing in the mid 1970s d av - after many times on Top of the Pops I noticed that my performances inevitably made the records drop down the charts so made a video directed by Mike Mansfield using a then un-named group of dancers discovered by my friend Michael Summerton under Arlene Philips - later called Hot Gossip - to distract viewers and potential buyers from my useless performance. It worked and It Only Takes A Minute went UP the charts (1976?).

I remember the wonderful Michael Summerton and Pans People..didn't he have about 4 troupes of them on the go?

hedda wrote:
I remember the wonderful Michael Summerton and Pans People..didn't he have about 4 troupes of them on the go?

I always thought they were the distraction for the crap songs.