One thing, though. Each skater has to design a program for herself without knowing what others are going to do. If a competitor comes out with something just as lilting and floaty as my choice (or even skates to the same music) -- I don't have any control over that.
Now if it were a show instead of an athletic competition, they could arrange the acts by putting in, say, a comic routine between two floaty ones.
I think at this point skaters can just assume that 50% of the programs will be light and floaty (or Carmen) and just avoid that kind of music all together. At least for one season.
In Mai defence (kinda) It’s Magic is performed in a more heavy sly flirty by Doris Day but Mai has chooser not to portray that side of the music.