James Maslow Remembers to Have Fun Leading Up to 'DWTS' Semifinals

James Maslow goes to grab his car door as he leaves Dancing with the Stars practice on Tuesday afternoon (May 6) in Hollywood.

The 23-year-old Big Time Rush member, who was soon followed by his partner Peta Murgatroyd, recently opened up about the pressure of heading into the last few weeks of the show.

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“There’s more pressure because there’s more dances to learn and the judges are going to be harder, so in that sense it’s going to be more stressful, but I just have to remember to have fun,” James wrote in his Parade blog. “I signed up for this to enjoy it and I’ve enjoyed almost every step along the way. I don’t want to let that stress take away from the experience and if we do that, I think it’s going to help us perform our best.”

He continued, “We’ve made it to the semifinals, which is amazing, so I just want to get through next week and get to the finals so we can do our freestyle. I now have a goal to get to the point where I’m doing a freestyle because I think that’s really a place where I can step up and impress the audience. I want to pull out any and every trick that I can use, so that might be some of the hip hop choreography that I’m more comfortable doing, it might be some flips I haven’t done yet on the show, whatever is unique that I can do that would help separate me from the other dances.”

10+ pics inside of James Maslow and Peta Murgatroyd at rehearsals…