{"id":140808,"date":"2025-11-15T07:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/140808\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:10:10","slug":"my-generation-needs-dance-moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/140808\/","title":{"rendered":"My Generation Needs &#8216;Dance Moms&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, Dance Moms\u2014the cult reality show about the girl prodigies of the <a href=\"https:\/\/abbyleedancecompany.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abby Lee Dance Company<\/a> (ALDC)\u2014felt cozy. I associate it with the faint, hypnotic glow of my laptop balanced on my knees, the episode breakdowns at school the next morning, the sudden influx\u2014myself included\u2014of girls joining my school\u2019s Dance Club.<\/p>\n<p>But rewatching now, the girls are younger than I remember, Abby Lee Miller meaner, the feeling heavier. <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/niasioux\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nia Sioux<\/a>, who starred on the show, told me she feels similarly: \u201cI always knew I was young, but once I was an adult and watched the show back, I was like, \u2018Oh my gosh, we were babies.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sioux found fame at age 9 when she joined the cast of Dance Moms. Now 24, she\u2019s just become a best-selling author, with the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/93116\/9781400253043\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her memoir<\/a> last week. The underachiever stopped by the Free Press office this week to talk with my colleague Rafaela Siewert about the bullying she endured during the show\u2019s seven brutal seasons. Listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/she-was-a-reality-tv-child-star-now-she-tells-her-story-nia-sioux\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their conversation<\/a>, I kept wondering: Why does my generation still love this show so much? Do I still love it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten years ago, Dance Moms\u2014the cult reality show about the girl prodigies of the Abby Lee Dance Company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-140808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}