Now that the Blind Auditions are done it is clear that having back to back season in the spring and fall was a bad idea for The Voice, even Cee-Lo has already checked out (and I have a feeling he fell asleep during the Blind Auditions a couple times). Well at least from a quality standpoint because I doubt NBC is looking at the ratings and regretting their decision as it is crushing Dancing with the "All-Stars" and X-Factor. But even though there are bigger teams this season (16 compared to 12 last season, and doubled the amount of season one) I am not sure if five artists this season would have been good enough to have even made it to the Live Shows last season. For comparison, despite having sixteen more singers in the competition, this season only five contestants got all four chairs to turn around (which was a bit inflated because I do not know how Adriana Louise got all the coaches to turn around) while last season there were six with sixteen less spots to be filled.
And they did not do a very good job finding professionals that have not gotten a big break this season with only six who have put out records, two of which did not make it on a team (Liz Davis apparently won a record contract on a previous singing competition that no one watch but never released an album; and I am not even counting the other boy bander who was supposable big in Germany because if David Hasselhoff can be big there how hard can it be to get a hit). Last season there was nine. Thankfully they will be cutting down the number of contestants in half over the next month, and will trim the fat even more with the new Knockout Round with only five contestants from each team making it to the Live Show.
1. Cassadee Pope (Blake)2. Trevin Hunte (Cee-Lo)
3. Nelly's Echo (Christina)
4. Nicole Nelson (Adam)
5. De'Borah (Christina)
6. Caitlin Michele (Adam)
7. Avery Wilson (Cee-Lo)
8. Brandon Mahone (Adam)
9. Devyn DeLoera (Christina)
10. Lelia Broussard (Blake)11. Amanda Brown (Cee-Lo)
12. Alexis Marceaux (Cee-Lo)
13. Suzanna Choffel (Blake)
14. Aquile (Christina)
15. Melanie Martinez (Adam)
16. Brian Keith (Adam)
17. Terry McDermott (Blake)
18. Mycle Wastman (Cee-Lo)
19. Benji (Adam)
20. Liz Davis (Blake)21. Rudy Parris (Blake)
22. Terisa Griffin (Blake)
23. Brian Scartocci (Adam)
24. Nicholas David (Cee-Lo)
25. MacKenzie Bourg (Cee-Lo)
26. Samuel Mouton (Adam)
27. Diego Val (Cee-Lo)
28. Joe Kirkland (Adam)
29. Julio Cesar Castillo (Blake)
30. Gracia Harrison (Blake)31. Michelle Brooks-Thompson (Adam)
32. Jordan Pruitt (Christina)
33. J.R. Aquino (Cee-Lo)
34. Cody Belew (Cee-Lo)
35. Charlie Rey (Blake)
36. Celica Westbrook (Christina)
37. Adriana Louise (Christina)
38. Alessandra Guercio (Adam)
39. Collin McLoughlin (Adam)
40. Kayla Nevarez (Adam)
So let’s go ahead and look who has the strongest team according to my power rankings giving 64 points to number one and so on (though I cut off my list at forty because that is the amount that will make it to the Knockout Round, I did rank all sixty four):
Adam: 569
Cee-Lo: 541
Blake: 529
Christina: 440
The three boys are a bit bunched together but Christina is pulling up the rear thanks to her heavily bland pop team. She has seven (7!) teenage girls that might as well be the same person. She can crawl back into the thick of things after the battle rounds if she chooses correctly because she does have three singers in the top ten of my Power Rankings. Oh wait, the previews show that Nelly’s Eho (#3) will be battle De’Borah (#5) so she will be losing one of them. Hopefully someone will use their Coach’s Save on the loser. That is not the only potential Save possibility because Cee-Lo battle between Trevin Hunte and Amanda Brown should also result in a Coach’s Save (and unless there is some creative editing, it looks like Adam is ready to pounce on the loser).
Sure it is silly to predict who is going to represent each team in the finals this early especial with Team Steals introduced this season which means eight singers will be on different teams after the Battle Rounds, but here are who think will be the finalist for each team based on which team they are on now (with a back up in parentheses):
Adam: Joe Kirkland (Bryan Keith)
Cee-Lo: Avery Wilson (MacKenzie Bourg)
Christina: Aquile (Jordan Pruitt)
Blake: Cassadee Pope (Liz Davis)
Even though they were not as egregious as some of the omissions last season (seriously, what the heck happened to Ducky), there are a couple of contestants that deserved a spot especially above the onslaught of teen girls this season nd hopefully will get a second chance next season. But none of them former boy band members. Seriously, The Voice, stop it with the boy bander after-rans.1. Kameron Corvet
2. Yolanda Barber
3. Jessica Sharpe
4. Garrett Garnder
5. Anita Antoinette
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