Secret Santa gift for @raaorqtpbpdy ! I saw Caruso pop up a lot in their prompts and decided to draw this big idiot for them. I was gonna draw a short comic for one of their prompts but ran outta time sadly. Maybe I’ll still make it anyways eventually!
Anyways. Caruso from dinosquad. I want to dissect him.
My wish came true. I found a skating program to Lara Fabian's "Caruso" that takes my breath away.
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Shae-Lynn Bourne is so musical and has incredible presence and movement quality. She manages to not only hold her own against the music, but actually add to it.
Here's another video of her; less blurry but more shaky
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And I also think this is a song that works much better as an exhibition piece. The demands of the music and the demands of a competitive program contradict each other; as the music calls for many long held moments.
Nevertheless it turns out to be a very popular song to skate too. I've found at least a dozen programs on YouTube to various singers' versions of it (perhaps a post for another time). I should have known—no song is ever used by just one person in the skating world lol.
Shae-Lynn's is by far my favorite, although Denis Ten (💔) is also very powerful and moving in his SP to Joseph Calleja's rendition.
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I adore Denis' skating in general, it's just that I don't think competition allows for the most expressive use of this song.