#drew lachey

Hello everyone. I actually realized that it wouldn't be smart to put this up at night, so I have it scheduled for mid-morning. As some of you know, I have been doing a DWTS rewatch. I am currently on season 4 and I've been thinking a lot about Apolo's time on the show. Last week I watched his first rumba and I figured I should go compare it to his rumba from All-Stars, which is one of my favorite dances, period. I watched the brilliance of it and then I started to think about how Carrie Ann told Joseph Baena last season that he performed one of the best male rumbas ever on the show. Now I think we all know that she was just being weirdly caught up in the moment of a good dance. But I started thinking about the handful of other men that knocked the rumba out of the park and decided to go watch those and compare it to Joseph just to make sure my suspicions were correct. And they were. Miss Inaba was just talking just to talk lol. Now this is no hate to Joseph. I do think his rumba was pretty good and I think he (and a few others last season) were given the short end of the stick with scores and elimination order. But I wanted to take the time to highlight some amazing male celebrity rumbas that have been done on the show in the past. I see that much of the fandom tends to fall victim to recency bias (or they don't even have the knowledge of the seasons before 20) and I kinda wanna show what these men have to go up against if they want the title of best male rumba.

Now before I post the videos, just know that a lot of these are a bit more modern and I will tell you what my theory is. I think most of the female pros, outside of Karina, have a lot of issues with teaching the rumba to their male partners. I don't think that's their fault. The rumba requires more feminine energy than most of the other Latin styles and because society frowns upon men being anything less than the manliest man they can be, there was always a bit of a struggle with the men finding the right balance of the gentleness and the strength you need to pull it off. So it usually comes off as overly sexual and strong in nature or they go to the other extreme of not being strong enough. I think as time has gone on and we have progressed as a society (as little as we have), we see more men that understand that balance and not being the manliest man in public is not seen as something that is terrible and bad and makes you less than and unworthy of respect (in some regards, not all and not even most).

Just some notes about the dances I chose. This is not an end all be all list. This is just my opinion. The dances I chose felt like they were next level dances. All of them are also high scoring because good technique is extremely important for me.

Honorable Mentions:

Drew and Cheryl- Season 2 Emmitt and Cheryl- Season 3

I think those two are closest to where I see these other rumbas. Both are incredible. But neither one quite tapped into what the other men that are getting their own posts were able to do. I will say that Emmitt probably would've gotten his own post in the All-Star season if he had done a full on rumba routine. If his rumba/samba fusion and his bolero were any indication of how his rumba would've been, we missed out on a potentially incredible dance.

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