this is THE VOICE!!! ...thread

So I wanted to start this, and I am oddly hooked on this show but I would be remiss if I didn't start with the worst worst thing in the world that this show has brought us this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbIxCxxrHks&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It's amazing

Currently watching Mondays show on demand and wow this is mostly garbage. Blurrgbbbbhhhh

But I have hope for hour 2!

Holy hell what was that

I can't stop watching it happen to me

seriously what the hell is happening there and who allowed that to go forward

Cee-lo, so much to answer for. Wanna guess which one he picked to go on?

is she actually deaf, or is her first language something like Klingon

and what the hell is with the key changes

The UK version of this show is starting tomorrow - is the US pretty much tuneless dictionless singers?

OH SHIT I WAS JUST LOOKING AT WIKIPEDIA, JORDIS IS ON THIS YEAR??????????????

xp: The US version is usually fantastic singers with powerful voices or engaging singers with quirky voices; the above performance is the absolute worst thing to ever be on the show

That was the worst performance? Viewed in that light it wasn't too bad. Some of you are no doubt familiar with UK X Factor and maybe Britain's (Not) Got Talent, so I'm guessing that our version will be considerably worse.

Unless of course there is some major major screening of potential contestants before they are let anywhere near the coaches.

that's the idea of the show; the "bad" auditionees are screened out before they get to TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaeBtWF9ES0

watch this 50-year-old woman school the shit out of this 20-something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV7Oyd2M9p0&feature=relmfu

I think I liked this a lot more than I should have

he's terrible tho

getting pretty obvious that for the america votes portion they are going to frontload and backload the decent singers and then fill the middle portion with the hopeless dreck. tiny country lady in black and pink singing the maroon 5 song approached the horror of that first youtube in this thread!

also it would be nice if christina didnt keep giving the best singer on the show (last dude - jesse? iirc) the most lolworthy standards to work with. somewhere over the rainbow, srsly, are you saving america the beautiful for the final competition rounds jesus what a dolt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Sc8b5oLbg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

SAVED BY AMERICAS TIN EARS

I think you mean SAVED BY AMERICAS ERECT PENISES AND FLUSHED VAJAJAYS

the voting on that show is so goddamn baffling

I am really slipping re: constantly missing this when it's on

esp since my Rock Star: INXS crush is on it this year

Reading this thread has, oddly, caused me to want to watch this program for the first time ever and for that I can only blame John.

I haven't dared to check out any of the video links, tho

Oh you MUST watch the first video

How is it my life is so out of control busy lately that I haven't had time to watch even the first video?

I did see a patient watching the show in their room tonight, though. SIGH

last night J experienced the joy of watching Erin Martin sing for the first time

the joy was all mine, obv

Someday I'm going to come out from under my "who the hell are you people talking about" rock, but I feel like it might not be until I'm 90. And that is making me ;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXANIWtHPTQ

miss u boo

oh wait, no I don't you caterwauling harpy

Catching up, Adams team kinda sucks, ceelo has 2 of my favorite singers - dude who did Lenny kravitz and lady who did Roxanne. About to watch the replay of the tues night thing and get mad at America all over.

horrible christina 86ing that dude is like a new level of stupid for this show WHAT THE FUCK

on the plus side, i never ever have to hear that raelynn person ever again.

I haven't caught all of the performances but I really have the impression that Christina is mentally ill

at this point I'm backing opera dude because of personal bias but I think HIV dude should probably win

alicia keys backup singer dude was pretty O_Omazing on the monday show actually, first time i got something beyond robotically trained performer out of him and tbh i was pretty shocked.

totally agree about the HIV/recovery dude, he's pretty mindblowingly good. opera dude is great as well but needs to have someone not insane pick songs for him.

opera dude was the only performance I caught this week and I was basically sitting there going "wtf why am I enjoying a rendition of 'Vida La Vida'" mixed in with "I bet this is what Mr. Gwyneth Paltrow thinks he sounds like"

hahaha

you didnt miss that much really (other than alicia keys dude), basically mostly adequate stuff, that lindsey lady with the fancy haircut keeps getting more awful each week and stompy country pillowhead was better than she has been before but was still almost indescribably terrible. oh yeah and i guess despite all logic on tues cristina saved lindsey and dumped the 17 yr old girl that kept getting miles better every week.

yo jjj are you watching this this season? we caught most of a battle round ep this week and everyone on stage deserved to be there, it was shocking and awesome

i havent been, the end last year got dragged out to the point where it broke me

like seriously I watched 5 battles and even when they weren't musically my bag the singing was GREAT

I mean, holy fuck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9y1zxxL5LM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP_NXq3VoNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePHG487ychc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=valH7RXBqUQ

i will watch those later today when it wont scare some hardcore kid to death with actual singing.

how annoying are usher and shakira?

way less annoying than Cee-Lo and Xtina! the other night, Shakira called Blake "Shrek" which basically makes her my favorite person in the world for at least a year

hahahaha

ceelo mainly irritated me because he would end up with some of the singers i liked most and then fuck it up completely

christina more so + a terrible person

the full exchange was something like:

ADAM: You passed me over for that ogre sitting over there *points at Blake* and-
SHAKIRA: What's an ogre?
USHER: It's like a troll.
SHAKIRA: Oh, like Shrek! He's Shrek, yeah.
BLAKE: *rueful shrug, eats a goat*

I thought this was pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AjFGO3F-54

I need to remember to watch this

jesus christ

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/11/entertainment/orlando-christina-grimmie-shot/index.html

this is unreal. that venue is a favorite of mine - it is in such a chill part of town and never had any known incidents. Security is pretty good too.

I will admit to not being familiar with Christina before tonight but all of the pictures of her looking vibrant and full of life, a driven musician, are just too much right now. this is so fucked up. and it happened while she was signing autographs for fans.

gutted for her family, but also gutted for the people who were likely traumatized by the scene. one witness ran out screaming to say a guy had just shot himself next to her, and his disfigured body laid on the concrete.

fucked up shit happens in Orlando, yea, but this is beyond the pale.

https://twitter.com/OrlandoPolice/status/741523297171562496

yea there were conflicting reports for a while, but sadly it's official. just so fucked.

hate to speculate but it sounds like a stalker situation

fucking horrifying

This is very sad.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/22/us/christina-grimmie-the-voice-orlando-police-end-investigation/index.html

jeez

red flags with other red flags stuck atop them