After three months of blind auditions, battle rounds and Grammy production style live shows, the very first winner of The Voice will be crowned tonight winning them a record contract and some driving around money. No word on what the winning coach will receive aside from bragging rights. Before we get to tonight, check out of my live blog of yesterday’s The Voice Finale.
7:59 – I wonder if Vegas is taking bets on Javier Colon winning only to get bum-rushed by Kanye West who grabs the mic screaming, “Yo Javier, I’m really happy for you. I’mma let you finish, but Dia Frampton gave the greatest rendition of a song of all time. OF ALL TIME!!!!” I have money to burn.
8:01 – Well Dia Fampton already wins the award for largest applause. Higher than the judges and guests (how did Ryan Tedder get such a large one though, he is the worst of the bunch). Did she cut her hair even shorter?
8:05 – A Jay Leno recap? Ugg, they are really going to stretch this show out like turkey meat.
8:07 – When the announced the guest performances I went 0-3 guessing which finalist they would sing with. It was like they pulled names out of a hat to see who would perform. It should be interesting to see which will turn out to be the biggest train wreck (my money is on Beverly / Tedder).
8:12 – I love Drops of Jupiter and all, but is Pat Monahan really anyone’s favorite artist? I guess that is a better introduction that “Singing with an artist she sort of likes, but was the only one we could get to say yes.”
8:15 – Mark it: the first gratuitous NBC employee crowd shot.
8:16 - Bring back the V Room!!! Wow, someone actually asked Allison Haislip a question.
8:27 – Javier should sing with artists that wrote that song more often because he actually kept to the melody and did not ruin the song. And amazingly Javier went through the whole competition without singing one song that had higher than 25 beats per minute.
8:27 – Wow, Christina Aguilera just groped herself on live television for no apparent reason. I bet that GIF hits the web in 3, 2…
8:37 – So they paired one of the bolded voices on the show with a dude who makes the most boring music on the planet. Alrighty. At least Beverly weirdness made the performance almost watchable. But to think this could (should) have been Xenia dueting with Norah Jones. Sigh.
8:44 - Ha, they skipped over Dia's Battle Round in the montage, the lowpoint of the series this season.
8:47 – Ugg, the one song I was hoping Dia and Miranda Lambert were not going to sing. Yawn. Why couldn’t they have done one of her ish kicking song?
8:54 - Beverly and Vicci clearly know its not them.
8:58 – Wow, Javier Colon is The Voice.
9:00 – The Voice has a serious credibility problem right off the bat. Every week, Dia topped Javier on the iTunes charts, even reaching number one today, and she did not win. There really needs to be a recount, seriously, it was like Katherine Harris was involved in tabulating the votes or something. If someone like Dia dominates the iTunes charts where people spend their hard earned money and not just set up phony e-mail accounts to vote en mass, there is something wrong with your voting system. Mark Burnett really needs to explain this result because The Voice is now officially a fraud.
(Scooter's Note: I wrote this portion before the live show started) And here is a look at how the all The Voice performances stacked up on iTunes (click to download) just minutes before the show started, I vaguely remember Carson mentioning that only the original songs count as votes so I have bolded those. But keep in mind those bolded count as votes so the list may be a little spoilery (and let’s face it, if the most downloaded contestant does not win, The Voice will have a credibility problem right off the bat).
1. Inventing Shadows - Dia Frampton
2. Stitch By Stitch - Javier Colon
6. Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera
7. Man In the Mirror (The Voice Performance) - Man In the Mirror - Javier Colon and Adam Lavine
12. I Won't Back Down - Dia Frampton
15. Afraid to Sleep - Vicci Martinez
16. Beautiful - Beverly McClellan and Christina Aguilera
34. Lovesick - Beverly McClellan
35. Love Is a Battlefield - Vicci Martinez and Cee-Lo Green
41. Losing My Religion - Dia Frampton
48. Heartless - Dia Frampton
55. Fix You - Javier Colon
83. Time After Time - Javier Colon
84. Dog Days Are Over (The Voice Performance) - Dog Days Are Over - Vicci Martinez
105. Angel - Javier Colon
139. Jolene - Vicci Martinez
148. Price Tag - Xenia
167. The Man Who Can’t Be Moved - Xenia
179. Bubbly - Dia Frampton
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