re: NBC The Voice Season 5 Thread

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My wife (no pics) nailed it last night talking about JL. She said that JL would have done so much better if Christina hadn't tried to make her into Christina's little protege. I think Adam would have coached her much better.

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I agree with your wife.

Right now, Tessanne is at #1 with the Whitney song and #2 with her duet. Will is at #8 with I Do it for You and #9 with his duet. Jackie is a #9 with her Jennifer Hudson song. Interesting. Will might come in at #2 which would be a surprise.

The iTunes thing is dumb.

I mean I get they are trying to make money, but I bet they also lose viewers because of it. (Well I guess not everyone posts in Voice threads where the itunes charts are posted ). I have zero desire to watch tonight because the results shows suck, and I pretty much know the results.

I'm sorry HC. I guess I shouldn't have posted that, but I'm not sure who wins unless they get the top votes. I'm not sure what the rules are with iTunes except some votes get multiplied and that's it. I'm guessing, though I thought Tessanne would win anyway, but that's a guess, too.

Results shows do suck. They're long and drawn out, especially the finale. At that point, I just want to know who won.

Sorry about that.

I compartmentalized my subjective enjoyment of certain genres/voices and watched. T absolutely should win, power with very warm tone, very few pitch issues, she just flat out ruled last night and really consistently improved/cleaned up some minor issues the last 4-5 weeks.

I am a Will fan, but JL overall should beat him out-until I think about how much I just didn't care for her duet, and the knee drop screaming for 20 seconds that really dampened her final. Will might have swung the compassion votes, he wasn't at his best, but I did enjoy his duet and final solo. I give them all thumbs up for effort and drive to make the finals, the demands on the contestants has got to take a heavy toll the last few weeks.

Ever since Xtina had JL do one knee drop a few weeks back JL has done it in almost every performance since.

From what I've read about past finals, the iTunes votes are a very very small fraction of the actual votes.

Yes they get x5 (was x10 last year and year before) but they are all 3 in the Top 10 and you can only have one x5 so Tessanne having two still only counts as one.

The online and text votes determine the winner by a large margin, so there is really no telling.

I'm seeing a lot of Jacquie love across social media though.

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Like a trained hamster. She can't get out of her own way. She'll be aight with some seasoning, can't even imagine having a voice with that much potential. Less can be more, etc.

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She's 16 and she is being instructed by one of the most talented pop singers around. If I were 16 and in that sort of situation I wouldn't know what the hell to do (other than what I was being told to do) either.

I really like JL. She's got such an amazing voice and range for her age it's almost criminal. The one thing she still needs to work on is emoting. A lot of the time when she sings her face is about as empathic as an ironing board. Once she gets that down though, the sky is the limit!

I have to admit that I really didn't care for Tessanne for most of the season. Low-register female voices like that just don't do it for me (nor does reggae). All 3 of her perfomances last night though were very well done (two solo, one with Adam). Not only did they show she has a much larger range than I thought, but that her higher register is really quite nice. Before last night, I would have thought of her as more limited than JL. Now, I see her as a more matured version of JL (which is a huge compliment to both artists).

Will is good, but like JL he seems to worry too much about the technicalities while performing and it shows on his face as being far less emotive than should be. He's got a good voice, but Adam really nailed it when he said Wil needs to smile more.

I think it may have been JL win until last night. The song choices for Tessanne were just too spot-on for her voice for the other three to compete with.

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eta: watching the judges sing Pour some sugar on me made my arse hurt.

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Yeah but we did get to see the one armed drummer

And C-Lo really sounds like shite on this show when he performs. Positive of last night was that he didn't have anyone in the finals so there was no duet with him.

And I feel like Christina gave too much coaching and info to JL as far as stage presence goes. You could tell in almost all of her performances how robotic and calculated each movement was. I would bet it looked the exact same in every rehearsal. At this beat move here. At his point move here. At this beat throw the mic stand. It just never looked natural and I think it took away from her performances.