- Do you guys think I'm
LILLIANA: I think you are.
I think you should.
I think I am, and I want to.
But I don't know if Miss Abby feels the same way.
Because, like, I don't like that she's calling my mom,
like, obnoxious and things.
And, like, I don't want our appearance
to come off as Snooki because we're, like,
the complete opposite of her.
Like, we're not full of ourselves.
We're not obnoxious.
I mean, we might have loud personalities,
but that doesn't mean we're, like, rude.
I think that she's going to let you do the solo.
I just don't really know, like, exactly
because we weren't in the room.
Yeah.
So, like, I don't really know exactly what she said.
But just by, like, what you're telling us,
I feel like she's going to let you.
I think she's going to let me, too.
It just depends on if my mom lets me.
Because that's like--
It depends on if you want to do it.
I want to do it, and I also don't want to do it.
Because I want to compete because I want to go
head-to-head with, like, them.
And I also want to win so I can go
head-to-head with the new member that's coming in.
And, like, I feel like if I don't do it
or if I don't beat them, Abby's going to be like, well,
you really didn't beat Brady.
Meanwhile, I actually did fair and square.
You know what I mean?
So, like, I don't know.
I feel like my solo is more of an entertainment number
more than, like, a competitive, like hard hitting,
like I'm going to beat you number.
Like, you know what I mean?
I like your dance. GIANINA: I like it, too.
I love it.
I just-- I feel like the theme.
I love everything.
I just-- my mom doesn't like the theme.
Neither does my dad.
They think it's inappropriate and, like, offensive.
Whatever my mom lets me do and whatever Miss Abby wants
me to do, I mean, I'll do it.
But, like, I don't, like--
I don't want her to hold it against me that, like,
of course--
like, if I didn't beat Savannah or Sarah that, like,
you really didn't beat Brady.
And, like, I'll never get a solo again.
Like, we're going back to New Jersey.
And, like, my mom didn't invite anybody.
It's just, like, my dad and, like, my brother coming.
Like, it's nobody like the first time we went home.
My whole studio is not going to be there.
But, like, my family is coming.
And, like, it's kind of emb-- like, not embarrassing,
but it's, like, offensive that she's, like, telling me
that, like, I got the solo because my mom's just like that
and so am I.
GiaNina, your solo character is Snooki.
[gasping]
WOMAN: Yes, Jersey.
Really?
She's like, who is that?
And I am sure--
"shore"-- that your mother can help you with this routine.
My mom doesn't want me to, like, embarrass myself
in our hometown, especially, like, just because I'm
playing that character.
Like, just because I'm Italian, just because I may be,
like, close to the height that she is,
I might be from the Jersey Shore--
like, sure, that's her Jersey Shore.
But, like, that's now how we act and, like, things like that.
LILLIANA: The song is very, like, different.
[laughter]
That's a good way of saying it.
It's different.
I don't feel like it's good for a 13-year-old to be dancing to.
If you were, like, in the senior category, sure, go ahead.
But at the end of the day, you still
have to play the character.
No matter what, you just have to kill it.
Because Snooki was very over the top, dramatic and sassy kind
of.
Last week's solo, it was such a competitive solo.
I'm like, it doesn't have to--
I don't have to only dance to lyrical.
Like, that's not my thing.
Like, of course I love lyrical.
I love contemporary.
I love jazz.
I love hip hop.
I love every style, and I can do every style.
But, like, it's just I get this great dance last week
and, like, a great concept last week that
went great with my dancing.
Like, Gianna does an amazing job with the dance moves.
I love-- I loved everything about it,
and I still love all the dance moves this week.
But my mom does not like the song.
She thinks it's inappropriate.
And the movement-- a few of the movements are inappropriate,
but it's OK.
I think the dance would be good because the dancing
and the choreography-- GIANINA: The dancing is good.
--is good.
But if they just switched it to a different song,
I'm sure the--
GIANINA: Or concept.
Or concept or changed it to not
being Snooki and, like, someone else that's
still sassy or something.
PRESSLEY: And, like, some of Snooki's, like,
traits, I guess you could say-- it's like she's outgoing.
She's different.
She has, like, a big personality,
which, like, you have.
But, like, some of the other aspects of her--
Not me.
They're not you.
But I think if you, like, take the solo
and, like, use the good things about her,
I think that it would be really good.
And I think you would do amazing with it
because I know you could pull it off.
Thanks.
I mean, I know myself I can do it.
But, like, I don't know if my mom's going to let me do it.
Well, I think you should because it's just a character.
Exactly. That's what I'm trying--
You just have to go on the stage.
--to explain to her.
And if you do kill it on stage, like,
I think you could win with it.
I think it's a really good dance.
I don't think any of the other kids or parents
are going to think, oh, she might
have gotten that dance because she's a brat or something.
I think they're just going to say, she got that dance.
She did it, and she did it well.
Because no one's going to assume that you're trying to be
like Snooki, that you're--
well, let's hope they think that.
GIANINA: Well, yeah.
But, like, that's a Miss Abby thing.
Miss Abby thinks that you're being like Snooki when you're
acting, which is like not.
That's not.
You're very nice and sweet.
Well, I think if you don't do it
then you're going to suffer more than if you do do it
because Abby's going to, like, think that you're just going
to, like, turn down something if you don't want to do it
or if you don't like it.
So just like--
like, if you talk to her, just don't, like,
say you don't like it because that's not truth--
- That's not true. - --or anything.
I'm, like, afraid to say anything good or bad
because I feel like it's, like, mixed.
HANNAH: Your dance this week is kind
of like my solo was last week.
I feel like it's more--
you just have to play the character because, like, I
think people know that you're not like that
and, like, I'm not like that either.
I think you just have--
PRESSLEY: It's just like they're role-playing.
Yeah.
You just have to play the character.
Like, my solo, of course, I'm not
like the exorcist or something.
But, like, I had to, like, portray the character.
It's kind of like the same, but it's
just like a different style.
So it's kind of different, but it's still the same.
You just have to play a character.
I don't care about what other people think.
I care about what Miss Abby thinks of me
because she's teaching me.
And she always has her own opinion,
and it's very loud and clear about everything she thinks.
So that's why.
I just-- I want to make her happy.
I want to do what she wants me to do.
I want her to know that I'll do whatever she wants me to do.
I'm just going to go talk to her.
(SINGING) Do it all night.
Pop.
There we go.
All right.
We already talked.
Your mother's here.
She's in the room on private lesson time.
JOANNE: I want to strip Snooki off Gia and let Gia be Gia.
I don't want her to represent Snooki.
That's Jersey Shore crap.
She can go out there and do this exact dance
and rock that without a name attached to it.
She's portraying a character.
And she's here because she wants--
You named it Snooki.
--to be an actress.
But you named it Snooki.
Her name is GiaNina.
She's an Italian American.
ABBY: But why are you ashamed of that?
I don't not want her representing
Snooki in New Jersey in front of everyone I know.
You want to come after me and make me Snooki, that's fine.
But I don't think-- - OK.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're wasting time.
Go, because I want to get this finished.
OK.
I'll talk to you later.
Who is she?