Jackie Wong's interview with Ashley: Making of Part 2: Returning to Ashley Wagner's La La Land Free Skate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIC5ezOlbh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIC5ezOlbh8
That would be a little problematic, I think, since it was designed to copy a dress from Moulin Rouge. I kinda wish it would be possible, she looks gorgeous in it. But it's so specifically MR, I'm afraid it would remind people of the sturm und drang of the past two weeks. Ashley wants the focus on her skating and La La Land. It doesn't have to be a yellow dress, but I think it would be very pretty. It could be one of the other looks from LLL,
What I hate about the situation is the drama surrounding it. I think she should have changed the program and not told anyone. Think of what a buzz that would cause if she appeared at nationals with a new program! It would wow everyone! Now we just have groans
this change seems a bit desperate. it shouldn't be aloud to skate to the same program over and over again in the first place. but to change it know, after all her comments that lala is just not exciting enough for her blabla...
That is not what she said. What she said is practically the opposite. She made no disparaging comments about the music. She only talked about her own, personal response to it, and that she'd begun to have doubts whether she could sustain her passion for it.
“I love the music. I still do,” she said. “I just think that it was very much like an inspirational kind of a setup. I loved that. I loved the choreography. I can’t speak highly enough of the music. But I just know myself, and I know that after a couple of months of just one emotion, I get bored.” http://www.wcsh6.com/sports/olympic...-program-early-with-ankle-infection/494990557
These lies get started about Ashley all the time. People make up things inside their own heads, and then state them as if they were Ashley's thoughts. Others take up the thread and yada yada yada. These sorts of lies do a lot of damage to her reputation.
I'll give Ashley the benefit of the doubt. She may not be my favourite skater, but let's consider this.
Midway through last season she lost her national title. Then her long-term boyfriend dumps her right before worlds. She goes to worlds and was OK, but unspectacular, and posts her lowest finish in the event in years, after being the runner-up to Med only a year before. Then this season we find out she has a stalker who was IN HER HOUSE, and who knows how many times that person has been there before. This is now a legal matter, and she's lost sleep and is concerned for her own health and safety. Who can compete when they can't get a good night's sleep? She needs to figure out her life after figure skating ends in a few months' time, because it's not as if she were Sonja Henie who had major contracts that kept her in furs and luxury homes for the rest of her life. She's also not a major national superstar like Yuna or Mao, who will remain megastars in their own countries long after retirement. The structure of US sport and its celebrity infrastructure no longer supports a figure skater as a personality. After she won silver in 2016 she briefly caught the public attention but it quickly faded. She has to know what she's doing next. It is a LOT to consider and to deal with in the span of this year alone.
She may have gone back to Moulin Rouge! because it's done well as a vehicle for her and could have been a source of comfort. But it didn't deliver since she was no longer motivated. She no longer has Gracie as a competitor, who was a major source of motivation for her. It's a time of soul-searching, but she knows she has to deliver respectably for at least the US team medal.
So choosing LLL to jump-start the year is a good step for her. She needs something new to concentrate on. It's a difficult year enough already with the Olympics. Again, I'm not her biggest fan, but I hope she can concentrate and at least have the satisfaction of performing well, medal or not (well, individual, not team event), and end her career on a positive note, on her own terms.
She needs to focus on one thing at a time. Why worry about her life post skating right now??? Her main focus this second should Nationals next month- working on her jumps and doing run throughs of both programs over and over again.
And who said she should retire after this season? There's nobody really coming up behind her and she's still the top US lady. I would recommend she do something like Carolina Kostner- continue skating until you don't want to and do it for the love of it, stop worrying about results and let the love of the sport shine through.
Ashley could easily skate another 4 years if she really wanted to. She's learned so much as far as competing and peaking. It would be a shame not use it. Look at someone like Venus and Serena Williams. They're 38 and 39 I believe and still at the top of the game with careful planning throughout the year and emphasis at peaking for specific events. You control your life, Ashley. Don't feel the need to conform to what most people think or are expecting you to do.
well if she gets bored with it that implies she is not excited anymore with lalala. sorry but I don't see the lie in my comment.
this change seems a bit desperate. it shouldn't be aloud to skate to the same program over and over again in the first place. but to change it know, after all her comments that lala is just not exciting enough for her blabla...
Honestly she had struck lightning twice, first at 2015 Nationals by winning her 3rd U.S. title with the program and then getting the WSM at 2016 Worlds. It was a big ask to try to get a third moment from the same program.
Honestly, her mistake was doubting herself that it was an "Olympic program." I'm not sure what was going through her head when she asked Raf about the program, but honestly she should have stuck with her gut instinct she had back in the spring.
I really think LaLa Land could be another Shae-Ashley masterpiece. Not only is Shae the choreographer of so many great programs this season, the programs she has worked on in the past with Ashley have been stunning :luv17:
I really think LaLa Land could be another Shae-Ashley masterpiece. Not only is Shae the choreographer of so many great programs this season, the programs she has worked on in the past with Ashley have been stunning :luv17: