Christi Lukasiak: Hello. Welcome back to my channel.
My name is Christi Lukasiak and this is Barnaby Michael Scott. He's Michael Scott when he's bad,
Barnaby Michael Scott Lukasiak, say hello to everyone. Where's Noble? Where's Noble? So yes,
we have Barnes and Noble. Anyway hi, welcome back to my channel. Thank you for tuning in. I don't
know. I'm all over the place. There's a dog on my lap, this video wasn't what I was expecting,
but today's video is a little different than what I was expecting to share this week.
Christi Lukasiak: I actually had to jump in here and shoot
a different video because after I did last week's video, which was my favorite, Chloe Solos Ranked.
If you missed it, make sure that you check it out here. I think I'm pointing to the right area.
Check it out here. I will link it for you because I went through and ranked my top 20 Chloe solos
from Dance Moms. However, I made a massively huge mistake. Like it is a life altering,
deep mom shame level of mistake. I can't believe I did it. And because this mistake was so massive,
I actually had to do a separate video and come on here and talk about it because it is totally
like I can't believe I did it. Although I can. I can. And we all make mistakes, nobody's perfect,
according to Chloe's solos. So it's okay, I made a mistake, but I'm here to correct it.
Christi Lukasiak: So in my last video, I did my top 20 solos.
It was supposed to be my top 10. I feel like at some point I should do the solos I hated the most.
Let me know if you guys would like that. I feel like that's an area or a video that I think a
lot of you would like as well as maybe my least favorite group dances. If that's all the case,
comment below and let me know if you would like my most hated dances because I feel like yes,
but when I did Chloe solos, I was intending to do 10. Like these are my 10 favorite solos,
but as I kind of went down the Dance Moms rabbit hole, I started watching these old dances and I
was forgetting, all of these memories started to come up and just all of this stuff that I didn't
even remember had happened. Christi Lukasiak:
And somehow in all of my walk down memory lane, I forgot a huge, really important solo. And this
solo would have absolutely 1,000% been in my top five. In fact, I believe if you asked Chloe,
I think she would tell you this was her favorite solo she ever did on the show. I don't want to say
that because she has said that in the past, but I don't want to speak for her. And I feel like maybe
at this point, if she went back and rewatched, she might be like nah, I liked this one better. But
in the past she has said that this was her favorite solo, and it was obviously a huge,
huge, huge favorite amongst you. I got this comment over and over and over again.
Christi Lukasiak: So from the bottom of my heart,
I apologize because Lucky Star absolutely deserves a place in the top five. So
Lucky Star was a dance that Chloe was given to go up against the select team, specifically Cameron,
because any time there was a great new dancer that came in, I don't know if you ever really
realized this on the show, but it was always Chloe who had to go against the best of the best. When
Sophia Lucia came in, if you noticed it was Chloe who had a solo because it was fine if Chloe lost.
It wasn't fine if other people lost. Christi Lukasiak:
So Chloe was always the one who had to go head to head. And the thought was as Cameron was the
person closest in age to Chloe, and to be honest, before the show, Cameron was a dancer at a studio
that was close-ish to ours and she is spectacular. She really was. And we had danced against that
studio an Cameron for years, so I think it was kind of a given that Chloe was going to lose
and she was given Lucky Star and I think that dance was kind of like a grownup nod to Dream On
A Star. When I go back and watch it there's even a part where she looks, which I think is totally
a little salute to Dream On A Star. Christi Lukasiak:
And when Chloe came out in that beautiful silver costume, I forgot how much she nailed that dance.
When I went back and rewatched it, and this is even when I was filming that first video,
I went back and rewatched it and I was like oh. It was just exquisite. It really was. She held
on to everything, she had amazing control, and I mean, always Chloe's turns will always impress me,
but there was just something more about that dance that I just felt like touched me. And
it was fabulous. Christi Lukasiak:
And I remember when she won that it was kind of like oh, that wasn't expected. But to me
it was like oh, well I knew that Chloe could do that. And I remember, it's funny because
even though yes, I am aware that I called all of those moms on national television
interesting nicknames we'll say, and I believe I called Sarah's mom, Tracy Frumpelstiltskin,
which all I can say is I am so lucky no one has punched me on national television. But I
did call Tracy Frumpelstiltskin, and she ended up being a pretty good friend of ours for years.
Christi Lukasiak: And I remember her saying to me after,
she said when I sat in the audience and watched Chloe doing that dance, it was the time that
she had watched her dance in person doing a solo because she had only seen her dance on television.
She said, "I wasn't expecting that." She said, "Because that wasn't the kind of choreography
or the level of dance that Chloe was usually given." And she said,
"I was blown away at how good she really was." And I thought to myself oh my God, of course
I always was looking for somebody to validate Chloe to me, even though I knew she was good,
just because I felt like I was always fighting this uphill battle. Like no, she's a good dancer,
just because of the nature of the show, and so for a mom that knew dance to say that I was oh. It
meant a lot to me. Christi Lukasiak:
But then I look back and I'm like why did I need anybody to validate it? Because I knew Chloe was
a good dancer. Chloe should have known she was good dancer. Maybe it was just a product of the
environment that we were just so used to being told that she wasn't, that any little nugget of
affirmation, I was like oh my God. But I remember Tracy saying that dance was amazing. And when I
go back and watch it, that dance was amazing. So Lucky Star, you absolutely deserved a place
in the top five. I don't want to say where ... Well, okay if I had to base it on ... I think
I would put Lucky Star at number two. I think I would put Lucky Star two and Dream On A Star one,
if I really had to go back. I do really love Into Me, Silence is amazing because of what it was and
what it did for Chloe. But if I had to go back, I feel like Lucky Star
is right under Dream On A Star. I feel like that. So oh, I'm so sorry I forgot that.
Christi Lukasiak: Which leads me to another solo that lots of you
have jumped in the comments and you've had lots to say about it, and to be really honest with you,
oh, this is me being so vulnerable and real and just like who I am, but okay.
So I protect a lot of my emotions from that show and I only let you see certain things, but let
me just be totally frank. I did not watch You Can when I was going back and choosing solos, because
that moment of the show was one of the hardest moments as a mom that I had ever experienced.
And not because Chloe didn't win or whatever, but it was that moment when it all went down
in the room and then Chloe walked over and handed Maddie her trophy. My heart literally broke into
a thousand little tiny shards and shattered on the floor because that was one of the most
heartbreaking things I had ever witnessed. Christi Lukasiak:
So when I was going back and rewatching all of the solos, when that one came up on a list, I was like
I can't watch this. And just because so many of you have been so wonderful and supportive,
I was like you know what? I am going to watch it. And I just watched it, and you know what? Chloe
deserved that solo to be watched. I'm so glad I rewatched that because you know what? My memory is
always so skewed of things because of everything else that happened and that dance was beautiful.
And it just goes to show, I feel when I watch her dance, I feel like Chloe is ethereal. That's the
word that comes to mind. I always was looking for the right descriptive word and I think ethereal is
the word that makes the most sense to me. Christi Lukasiak:
And then with that dance, of course, that was the dance that Chloe and Maddie had the same
choreography and Chloe won on stage and then the judge came in the room and took it away
when we went back to the dressing room. And I get asked all of the time, there's a few questions I
get asked all the time about the show, and that is one of them, what really happened?
And honestly, it really happened like you watched it. We were in the room
and the judge came in and the judge said ... And I think you guys saw this on the reunion show.
Christi Lukasiak: One of the judges came and said that
our dance teacher, after the results were read, went over to the judges privately and was like,
"This is crap. You only let her win because she has more Instagram followers." Which at the time
she did. And the judges were like, "No, this is how it scored." But then all of a sudden there was
a discrepancy in the scores. And it was funny because Chloe had danced, I don't know, 20,
I have no idea. And the 20 dancers before her were all scored properly and the 500 dances after her
were scored properly, but it was weird that her dance just happened to be scored improperly.
Christi Lukasiak: And I think, I don't remember if you saw
that on the reunion, but a judge came and kind of talked about that and it is what it is. I mean, I
don't think I'm giving any big secrets away by saying that because lots of people know,
but that was a really hard moment and it went down exactly like you saw it on television. So
yeah, it was hard. But I will say I'm going to give You Can an honorable mention because I
feel like it deserves it. I think Chloe deserves all of the accolades that I could ever give her,
and you know what? You guys rallied and said that it should have been on the list, so
it's on the list. Okay? Christi Lukasiak:
All right. So Lucky Star, you made it, You Can, you made it. I don't know, I probably
forgot something else and I'll have to come back and do another footnote on the solos. But again,
let me know if you guys want to hear my most hated dances, but I don't know, this was fun.
This was fun to go down memory lane. Thank you for humoring me and letting me share all of my
innermost feelings about it, and I'm sending you a big kiss. Thank you for
all of the love and make sure that you follow my channel, turn on your post notifications,
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