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"Despite earning fans during the New York City auditions for being the &amp;#039;Woo Man&amp;#039;, Robert Taylor Jr&amp;#039;s larger-than-life personality sometimes got the better of him, prompting the judges to urge him to tone it down so as not to distract from his dancing. While the 31-year-old hip-hop dancer made great strides in his three weeks on the show, he repeatedly found himself amongst the lowest voted contestants and, after much deliberation, was sent home during Thursday night&amp;#039;s live results show. Here&amp;#039;s what Robert had to say following his elimination...  You&amp;#039;d been in the group of Bottom 3 boys twice, along with Mitchell. Did you figure that you would be the one to go? &amp;quot;I always considered myself the underdog of the entire competition because of the fact that I have no tricks, you know. I was always expecting to be in the bottom and to go home. I think what saved me the first week when I had to do my solo with Mitchell was my personality. This time last night, I felt so much better because I thought it went better than what I did two weeks ago and was up to the levels of what I brought to the Vegas week and my very first audition in New York... I just had a feeling that I was going to go because I felt like the underdog. I always felt like I was fighting to stay.&amp;quot; Did you feel in your element doing a Broadway routine given your background in theatre? &amp;quot;I have spent time in musical theatres and I&amp;#039;ve done the Hairspray tour so I had a feeling for what musical theatre is. I&amp;#039;m not a 100% Broadway guy but I do have the feeling for it, so finding out that I was going to be doing a routine with Tyce [DiOrio, choreographer], I felt like it would be really good. I had a great time doing it and I could have done better because we only have a certain amount of time to learn it. But it was a blast and a great pleasure and it was a chance for me to show America that I have a musical theatre side.&amp;quot; Did you feel hampered by the fact that your genre, hip-hop, is pretty far from most other styles? &amp;quot;Every chance that we had to go, I think we took that opportunity regardless of whether or not it was in our genre, which it wasn&amp;#039;t ever. People mistake me for having my own style with the hip-hop element... my style isn&amp;#039;t really hip-hop. It incorporates the elements of hip-hop like popping and locking and weaving and gliding and cutting. I would say it&amp;#039;s more like street jazz. It&amp;#039;s something like what Beyonc\u00E9 does, people like that. For me it was difficult and I give so much credit to Miranda for helping me with that and making me feel loose and comfortable. I had to keep up with her, which was really hard!&amp;quot; Do you think that your solo performance was as strong as possible? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not one of those guys who&amp;#039;s done a whole lot of flips and stuff like that, but what I incorporated was the individual elements. My solo was more about the grooving and the feeling &amp;#039;cos in the &amp;#039;90s, that&amp;#039;s when hip-hop started to evolve more with feeling. Just a simple groove back in that time was the stuff, the greatest stuff you&amp;#039;ve ever seen. Today it&amp;#039;s different. Some people in that style want to be more intricate rather than what you see on the show, which is people trying to do tricks and breakdancing moves, as opposed to someone like myself. I incorporate a little bit of waving and blocking... I&amp;#039;m more of an old school hip-hop dancer.&amp;quot; What message did you want to send with your final dance? &amp;quot;I did small stuff here and there and pulled a couple things out - a little floorwork and tricks. I felt that I did dance for my life. I don&amp;#039;t flip or do tricks so I didn&amp;#039;t want to flip for my life because I don&amp;#039;t do that. I just dance! That&amp;#039;s pretty much what happened there. They didn&amp;#039;t give me any critiques on my dancing, they just mentioned that I always ended up in the bottom three despite my personality.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; So You Think You Can Dance Top 16: Beetlejuice and love stories: Pictures &amp;gt; So You Think You Can Dance recap: Kristin Chenoweth guest judges Top 16 Do you think that having so much personality was a detriment on the show? &amp;quot;Nigel at the very first show told me that I had the biggest personality out of the guys but that it could work against me, so I trimmed it down a bit because I wanted to show them more that I could get down to business. At the same time, I didn&amp;#039;t want to let down the fans who were with me since the very beginning of the &amp;quot;Woo!&amp;quot;. I just wanted to show them some love too and I didn&amp;#039;t want to be this cold dancer that shuts down. I think that people who got turned off by my personality in the very first episode probably just didn&amp;#039;t like me and voted against me even after I started improving.&amp;quot; What was going through your mind as Nigel praised Chris last week for the dance you had actually performed? &amp;quot;I wanted to laugh but it was such a serious moment that I had to keep my composure! I just wanted to keep character and let it ride by. It was just a mistake on Nigel&amp;#039;s part, I think, so who knows!&amp;quot; Did you find any challenges in being the oldest contestant this season? &amp;quot;I thought I would be looked at differently from the other contestants but at the same time, it didn&amp;#039;t bother me because I don&amp;#039;t feel my age at all. There&amp;#039;s not a single bone in my body that feels 31, I still feel 19 or 22. So no, it didn&amp;#039;t bother me.&amp;quot; What was your favourite part of the competition? &amp;quot;I think it was being on stage all the time. We were growing so much as a team and I feel that you started to see that because the very first week, Nigel said that my personality was too much, but then people got a chance to see the real side of me, a more serious side. I would also say the fact that we always took on the challenges and got better every single time... It&amp;#039;s a shame that they couldn&amp;#039;t see more because we had so much left in us.&amp;quot; What are your immediate plans now that you&amp;#039;ve left the show and what would you like to accomplish down the line? &amp;quot;For me, there&amp;#039;s quite a lot! I&amp;#039;ve always been the guy who wanted to get into everything as far as the arts are concerned. I would like to dance with Usher or Chris Brown because they&amp;#039;re very close to Michael Jackson and what he did. I would also like to become an R&amp;amp;B entertainer because I sing. As far as other things are concerned, I&amp;#039;d love to do some films, like a comedy or to be a guest host for VH1 or BET. The sky&amp;#039;s the limit and there&amp;#039;s a lot that I would love to do.&amp;quot; So You Think You Can Dance airs Wednesdays and Thursdays on Fox "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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