JoJo From Dance Moms Dropped a Hot New No-Haters Rap Banger

In an episode on the most recent season of Dance Moms, 13-year-old JoJo Siwa, who loves hip-hop and is prone to wearing large bows in her hair, is tasked with channeling Michael Jackson for a solo dance she will be taking to a competition. She can do it no problem, she says, because she IS Michael Jackson.
Abby Lee Miller Claims Dance Moms Producer Wanted Child Dancer to Perform as a Pregnant Teen
Dance Mom’s chief leviathan Abby Lee Miller claims that she’s willing to delay shooting on Season 6 of her show because a producer with “cockamamie ideas” suggested that one of her child dancers don a fake pregnancy belly and perform as a pregnant teen. Way to put your foot down, Abby! Only the best and most tasteful…
Creep Who Sent Weird Shit to Jojo Siwa Also Sent Packages to Maddie Ziegler
Since Phoenix Sundown was caught sending disturbing packages—which contained child pornography, an Elvis blanket and a coffee maker—to Dance Moms star Jojo Siwa, he has admitted to sending packages to other young celebs.
Sia Weeps: The Tweens Choose Dance Moms' Chloe Over Dance Moms' Maddie
Sunday night was the Teen Choice Awards, the annual celebration where ad executives get kids to scream their prepubescent throats raw while you, a grown adult, ask yourself questions like “Who’s that?,” “Wait, Austin Mahone and Cody Simpson are two separate people?,” and “No, but SERIOUSLY, who IS that?”
Abby Lee Miller Not Guilty Of Assaulting Dance Moms Cast Member
Last October, Paige Hyland filed a lawsuit against her dance coach and Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller over an alleged assault that took place during the filming of Lifetime’s hit reality show. This week, a judge dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that after watching relevant clips of the show she didn’t feel that Hyland…
Here Is Sia's Third Music Video Featuring Maddie Ziegler
Sia shared the video for "Big Girls Cry," from last year's 1000 Forms of Fear, her third consecutive video featuring 12-year-old Dance Moms star Maddie Ziegler.
Dance Moms Fans React in Totally Normal, Sane Way to Essay About Them
Yesterday, we published a quick internet deep dive essay investigating the young, Instagram-based fandom of the Lifetime show Dance Moms. Amy McCarthy wrote about this manic and self-contained social media universe: the constellations of fake accounts, password-hacking, promises to leak "secrets" about the young…
The Terrifying Instagram World of the Tweenage Dance Moms Fans
Over the past four seasons, Lifetime's Dance Moms has rapidly become one of the most popular reality shows on television, particularly with girls under the age of 18. Nearly two million viewers tuned into last week's Season 5 premiere, which features Pittsburgh's Abby Lee Miller and a troupe of elite dancers ranging…
New 'Dance Moms' Promo Goes '80s and Takes On A-ha
Lifetime has been marketing Dance Moms so perfectly, giving a little wink to appreciators of camp, who probably make up at least half of the show's audience. In the promo trailer for the new season, Abby and the girls recreate the iconic video for A-ha's "Take On Me."
Greta Gerwig on the Cultish Tendencies of Ballet Class
When future humans look back at the era of gender normative child-rearing, when parents watched their girls stumble around a dance studio and watched their boys try to decapitate a tee-ball stand, they’ll probably draw misguided conclusions, conclusions distorted by a preponderance of archived Dance Moms clips. “Wow,…
'Dance Moms' Star Abby Lee Miller Dresses as 'Black Swan' for Conceptual Tabloid Shoot
Abby Lee Miller, the hoarse-voiced choreographer who became a reality star by screaming at little girls and their mothers on Dance Moms, took part of an artsy photo shoot with In Touch in which she's wearing kabuki-like makeup and a black-feathered ballet costume while posing menacingly with her young…
Jennifer Lawrence Would Much Rather Watch Abby Lee Miller Yell at Preteen Girls Than Go Clubbing
Isn't it heartening to know that those semi-divine beings we fondly call "celebrities" sometimes behave with the same self-loathing abandon that we mortals do, indulging in the basest of pleasures and pretending, if only for a few hours, that they aren't so much different from the normies in the world? Of course it…
Reality Show Will Exploit Long-Term Breastfeeding Moms for the Sake of Our Collective Sanctimony
From the fiendishly exploitative producers that brought you Dance Moms, a show about a group of winos who keep accidentally entering their embarassed pre-adolescent daughters in dance competitions, comes a reality show about breasts and the toddlers that still rely on them. The production company Collins Avenue has…
Dance Moms Outdoes Itself With Helen Keller Interpretive Dance
Did you know that Dance Moms was back on the air? Again? For a third season? After the show and Lifetime both experienced major fallout from an episode in which prepubescent girls were made to don nude suits for a burlesque number (the episode was removed from iTunes and will never see the light of day again due to…
