The Voice: Final Performances

You know I'm going to be straight-forward with you.  

All season long I've been saying how great The Voice has been with the production, time, and sets of the show, but last night's 2-hour-long fiasco was a bit much.

The coaches commenced the show with another performance by Queen, "Under Pressure." It really wasn't that great, and when you have to see them again on stage singing with their team finalist, it kinda makes you wonder, is this promotion really necessary?  Geez, the judges have gotten more airtime than the contestants.  They also had a Ne-Yo duet with Pit Bull, and a Brad Paisley performance on top of that.

For their final performance, each of the contestants sang an original song.  Many online sites, including my partner, Ryan, mentioned that they should have sang a cover instead of an original.  I could "maybe" agree with that, but then again, I can't.  If you would have given one of these original songs, to let's say, Adam Lambert, or hell, all of the judges - they would have belted these same songs out like there were no tomorrow.  Seriously, if you cannot take an original song, and make it your own, then you have some problems.

Let's watch the performances:

Javier Colon sang "Stitch by Stitch" written by Rodney Jerkins.  Honestly, I was falling asleep listening to this number.  First, the title sounds like something out of Disney's Lilo & Stitch, and finally, like I've said it all season long.  He's just "more of the same."  Nothing unique about his voice.  If he wins, its because of "fan favorites," and not-so-much "an out of this world" performance.

Vicci Martinez sang "Afraid To Sleep" written by Butch Walker. In my opinion, this was the worst of the night.  "Afraid To Sleep," really?  You probably had difficulty sleeping last night, after this hot mess.  At this point, I'm really disappointed with the contestants.

Dia Frampton sang "Inventing Shadows" written by Frasier T. Smith.  If I had to rank last night's performances based on this song, I'd have to say Dia would be in the top 2.

 

Beverly McClellan sang "Lovesick" written by Bill Appleberry. Obviously the best performance of the night, Beverly actually sang the song like all the others should have.  My guess is, favoritism will decide the winner, and not so much their talent.

The Voice: Semi-Final Results Show

And the final four were chosen.  If you missed yesterday's post on the Final 8 performances from Tuesday night's show, you can go here to view them, and read my reviews.

As I've mentioned many times before, The Voice has truly proven to be a better show than American Idol.  In MHO (my humble opinion), I think the producers knew what they were doing when they put this show together.  It was very entertaining, and all the semi-finalists are really good, despite some of my comments on Javier Colon.

So this is how the votes are calculated.  You have the public's votes and the judge's points from the previous night combined together to make it a total of 200 points.  On Tuesday night's show, each of the judges were given 100 points to distribute between their two contestants.  It was obvious from last night's show, the public's votes were converted to a scale of 100% in order to make up the total of 200.

In reality, the Judge's votes are important, because they can actually make it to where one of their "favorites" makes it through regardless of the public's votes.  All they would need to do is award their 100 points to one contestant, which was not the case last night.  It came close, but it didn't turn out that way.

In brief, this is how it went down...

Team Cee Lo Green:  Vicci Martinez garnered 124 points and Nakia 76 points;  Cee Lo had awarded Nakia 51 to Dia's 49, but in the end the Public voted her through.

Team Adam Levine:  Javier Colon garnered 138 points and Casey Weston 62 points;  Simply put, Adam was a douche.  He awarded Casey only 35 of his points and Javier 65.  You obviously know who his favorite was, not that he really had to coach him, because the old guy can sing already.

Team Blake Shelton:  Dia Frampton garnered 106 points and Xenia Martinez 94 points; Their total award was practically the same as Christina's team.  Both judges gave each of their contestants 50 points each.  Add in the public's percentage, and it gave them barely enough to overcome their competitor.

Team Christina Aguilera:  Beverly McClellan 107 points and Frenchie Davis 93 points; As the case with Team Blake, the public's percentage helped Beverly make it through to the next round.  Gay Power!

I'm voting for Beverly to win next week, but America will probably put Javier through.  Ugh!