My iTunes gave me El Tango de Roxanne (from Moulin Rouge) and it occurred to me that it would be a good figure skating program. So I went googling and it seems Yu-Na Kim did it a year or two ago (and very impressively indeed!)
But the thing I forgot about figure skating music is a) they take out the lyrics, and b) people clap along at the slightest provocation. So while the end result was still a tango, without the lyrics it wasn't nearly as sexually aggressive as the original, and the audience was merrily clapping along to this dirtyish song about a prostitute and her jealous lover.
I'd still like to see it done in pairs skating though.
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Be sure to check out Japanese skater Daisuke Takahsshi's Roxanne with some lyrics on YouTube. < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns1CPnuLfo8 >
He is skating this as an exhibition skate which offers more freedom than the structured competition skate. Singles skaters still have to use music sans vocals in competition programs.
By the way, Kim YunA is training in Toronto. Her Roxanne skated in Tokyo in Mar 2007 held the record for the highest score ever for a woman's short program until she broke that record this month in Vancouver with an extraordinary intepretation of Danse Macabre - Here < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3DWjUOMUhI >
I'd love to see them skate it together. Or at least on the same ice at the same time (if they don't crash into each other)
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