As a diehard Alina/ Evgenia fan this just makes me sad
I love these girls so much.
However I really don’t like how Evgenia acted. She was acting petty on her stor, there’s no other word for it. It’s not a good look for Zhenya especially when some people regard her as childish after the whole Eteri fiasco. I do appreciate that she was standing up for herself though.
For the record I do think Daniil’s choice was aimed. I just think Zhenya could have handled this situation better. Make him look like the low one.
For the record, I absolutely love Zhenya and Alina and I mean no hate towards anyone.
I actually like both girls too. After the Olympics I was a huge fan of both of them, was very active in fan groups and stuff like that. But it started to get less, as the drama unfolded. I just can’t deal with some things. And now I have to constantly remind myself that it‘s not Alina‘s fault what her coaching team is doing, especially if things like that happen.
I don‘t know if it was clever how Zhenya acted but I felt like it was understandable. I think the copycat picture she put on her story was just the right amount of sarcasm. Liking these comments might have been too much, idk. But I thought it was funny and really, what else was she supposed to do? I thought about it, and I don‘t know any other way to make ”Daniil look like the low one.“, other than make those sarcastic remarks. What would you have done. I‘m genuinely interested because I don‘t know what I would have done.
I mean, it‘s obvious that no one stole any music, you can‘t even “steal“ music in figure skating. Otherwise we wouldn‘t have so many Romeo and Juliets every year. But I think there is a certain point when it becomes intentional and that‘s it. Imagine Zhenya had announced she‘d be skating to Carmen last year. After Alina had mentioned a lot how it was her dream to skate to this music once. What would the reactions have been? I think copycat would have been the nicest she‘d have been called.
It‘s a similar situation here. Zhenya did not explicitly say: “I will skate to Billie Eilish“. But she‘s been making lots of hints for months now and I very much doubt Daniil didn’t get any of them. And given her reaction, it seemed like she really had been planning to skate her new ex to this music. For the records, I don‘t even like Billie Eilish’s music, so I‘ll probably be glad if I don‘t have to listen to it too often. Maybe Zhenya‘s going to choose EXO now. There’s lots of things she can do. I think it was just the first reaction after waking up and finding out your idea for the next exhibition had been taken by someone who never expressed any interest in this kind of music.
That’s exactly why my first reaction was a bit incredulous too when I read the news and I made the comment that I made. Of course no one is obliged to show that they have an active interest in the music they choose for their exhibition, but if it‘s exactly the music your rival has been posting and gushing all the time about, saying in interviews it‘s her favourite? A bit too many coincidences for me. And again, I don‘t blame Alina for that. I doubt it was her who made the choice. She probably got the news she would be skating to this program shortly before her holidays ended, when Daniil had decided on it, started to listen to it, to find out what this music’s even about, and put it on her story.
It was a smart move her coaches made, of course. Now everyone is talking about it. Exactly the right amount of hype and drama. But I would have preferred if Alina had not again been the pawn in this game they‘re playing. Hopefully her competitive programs will be something SHE wants to skate to. Like Carmen last year, which I didn’t even particularly like (I thought her SP was way better choreography wise) but she seemed to really enjoy. That‘s why I‘m watching Zhenya‘s recent exhibition numbers and enjoy them, even though the music really isn‘t my cup of tea. Because I know and see that she likes them. It would have been nice to see a personalized choice for Alina‘s exhibition, too. (and before anyone accuses me that it was: Daniil made comments on Instagram, saying :“I chose the music“, not “we chose it“ several times.)
I guess the lesson learned in this is: Don‘t post about music you like before an exhibition or it will be taken by someone else, just go and skate to it. Or announce it as early as possible.
That being said, without thinking of any of this and looking at it like I would at any other music choice: I can see Alina skate to Bad Guy. It will probably be something new for her, something she‘s never done before and that alone makes it interesting. I hope she‘ll enjoy the program even though I‘m going to miss Survivor and both the awesome and awkward moments. Alina struggling with the zipper of her jacket and then continuing to land a 3Lz out of a Charlotte spiral made me realise why I‘d even become a fan at the Olympics in the first place. It was the mix of absolute toughness (going for that 3Lz+3Lo after having missed it the first time? Nerves of steel) and being as adorable as she is. (her “collar problems“, the way she hugged that tiny little doll after winning the Gold). It‘s one of my favourite exhibitions of the entire season because I felt like it showed Alina the way she is. I don‘t know if Bad Guy can do that, but let‘s hope so.
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Seems like something must have changed her mind. I wonder what or who... 
