By Erica
I found out right after I sent Tamara last night’s blog, that there were THREE artists who made it to the top ten of iTunes. They are also the first three that Carson announced as moving on to next week’s Top Ten. On the list I was watching, Chloe showed up first, then Allison, and right before I went to bed, Red appeared.
What I didn’t know is that Keisha actually made it to the top Country singles. Carson always prolongs the suspense by quizzing the artists who remain on stage. It must be nerve wracking, and Keisha stumbled a bit over her words in her nervousness. I actually found it a little endearing. She expressed her gratitude especially to the country music community as she was doing something “no one else has done before” and when she looked through the list she didn’t see anyone else who looked like her. Now, that IS true and I love that country is becoming more inclusive. However, Keisha, sweetie, Darius Rucker started out as Hootie and the Blowfish! An African American HAS crossed genres before! He joined Charley Pride as one of the few people of color in country music. I suspect you may be the first for an African American woman though! Sadly, making the country charts doesn’t help her in any way votes wise.
NON COMPETITION PERFORMANCES
We had some fun, coaches and artist only numbers tonight. However, I have to ask if anyone else thought they might be having some microphone issues? I felt like both Miley and Jennifer’s mics faded out briefly. If there were, they fixed them in time of the save performances thank goodness.
I loved the song pick for Team Miley. With her “Herstory” making team this season, Shania Twain’s “I Feel Like a Woman” was a good pick. Since I started blogging, I have really become a critical watcher. Now, I’ve always paid attention to the performances of the artists with their coaches to see how and if they hold their own against a seasoned professional. Once she got past the Hannah Montana tours, Miley has always been known to work the stage when the song calls for it. She totally commits, whether it is twerking her ass off or wearing some giant flower costume or a bondage outfit complete with a plastic penis. Miley also knows the trick that if you are on stage and doing a move, you have to exaggerate it a little for it to look good.
Watch the women interact with Miley. Lord knows I am rooting for Ashland, but she REALLY needs to work on being comfortable on a bigger stage. Janice did ok, but while she needs a little polish, Brooke is the one who committed the most! It bodes well for her progress. OK, calling it now. If Brooke is the last woman standing on Team Miley, I want them to sing Wrecking Ball together. Ha!
Team Adam performed a favorite of mine, “Go Your Own Way”. If you don’t like Fleetwood Mac, I don’t know if I want to know you. We didn’t get to see them work the stage as that isn’t Adam’s thing when he’s with his groups, but those three distinctive voices meshed so well together. Another great sign for budding professionalism.
Finally, Blake busted out a new song from his just released album Texoma Shore. For the record, I looked it up and Blake did NOT write “I’ll Name the Dogs” so it is not a cute little love song to Gwen. Jennifer joined him and instead of changing her outfit they threw a denim shirt over her sequined gown. It was strange, but otherwise you could tell Blake was enjoying performing with Jen. Blake’s dimples TOTALLY emerged which made me very happy. I love that man’s dimples.
THE INSTANT SAVE
In order of announcement, Chloe Kohanski (B), Addison Agen (A), Brooke Simpson (M), Davon Fleming (J), Red Marlow (B), Keisha Renee (B), Noah Mack (J), Ashland Craft (M), and Shi’Ann Jones (J) all safe. I put the coach’s first initial in parentheses after their names. Chloe and Addison came in with the #1 and #2 spots on iTunes, respectively, while Red’s rendition of The Dance got him to #10.
Shockingly, Janice Freeman (M) and Adam Cunningham (A) are in the bottom two. Adam finally sang country again, and killed with Lonestar’s “Amazed”. (I don’t know Lonestar, but it was good). Janice, whom I love, attempted Sia’s Chandelier. This should have been a no-brainer for her, but in all honesty, there were a couple of cracks that make me think she is fighting a cold. Miley did say yesterday that people didn’t know the tough week Janice had gone through. Perhaps that is it. I hope it is only a cold!
Sadly, amidst many tears from Miley and a few from Janice, America tweeted to save Adam once again. Now, I said Adam did amazingly well, but how many chances should one guy get? Janice’s performances throughout the show have been much stronger, both in comparison to herself tonight and in comparison to Adam’s body of work on the show.
Maybe one of you know Twitter better than me. I noticed last week that Jon Mero and the hashtag #VoiceSaveJon was trending. That hashtag format is how The Voice counts the tweets or retweets in that 5 minute window to choose who is saved. Adam wasn’t even mentioned, let alone his hashtag. I thought perhaps I was looking too late and it had shifted. I tweeted to the Voice asking how it worked, no response. THIS week, I looked while everyone was tweeting. #VoiceSaveJanice hit number one in the US, and afterwards, others tweeted that she was trending world wide. Again, no Adam trends. Yet he stayed.
I’m sure there is some algorithm reason that is beyond my decidedly right brained mind. I just want to know there IS a logical explanation beyond they are rigging the results. I would be crushed if that is the case.
Sorry I could have put this up earlier, I got sucked in to This Is Us, and then watched some other stuff and forgot to check back until the just about to shut down the computer email check.
I couldn’t tell if Jennifer Hudson just didn’t know the words or if it was a microphone issue. She lost custody of her kid today, so she was likely not in the best headspace. She didn’t lose complete custody but David was given primary custody and she ended up dropping her protective order. He’s not moving back into the family home though. He and the boy will find their own place.
I’ve been sent a few emails since posting this article, http://tamaratattles.com/2017/11/17/jennifer-hudson-and-david-otunga-splitting-up-after-ten-years-and-its-ugly/ that assured me that my concerns over the accusations that Jennifer made about David were well founded.
Some people who have worked with her had a lot to say about her unpleasant personality and her cut throat ways. I’m very disappointed because I was quite fond of Jennifer. It was certainly a terrible time for someone to be implying that hey were in danger when the judge did not see things that way.
Anyway back to the show. I didn’t think Team Miley did a particularly good job either. And I love that song. I didn’t even realize what they were singing at first. I was about to FF through it because I needed to be caught up by the time the sing off started and then they finally got to the chorus. Blake and Jennifer’s team were much better the night before.
As for the bottom two. I’ve been over Janice for weeks. I was surprised she was in the bottom and fully expected her to pull it out, however…
Adam gave his best performance of the season. Great song choice. He was just fantastic.
I was still a tad behind when I was voting and all I saw in the Tweeter feeds were tons of people talking about how terribly bad Janice was butchering Chandelier. As I continued to retweet all of the Adam votes, Janice started to sing and I had to stop to listen to how bad it was. She didn’t hold a candle to that heavy set religious kid who set the bar for that song a few seasons ago. At times she seemed to lose her way and sing more quietly, at that point the back up singers got super loud. After that she tried to do the big finish for the second half and seemed off key.
Miley’s face standing there watching looked distraught. She was crying by the time it was her turn to talk. So was Janice. They both knew she blew it.
As for Twitter, they do not have trending topics anymore. Or timelines. My timeline is always out of order with stupid “In Case You Missed It” tweets thrown in distrupting what is supposed to be a chronological list of tweets that I follow.
As for “trending topics” They are no longer in any particular order. They too now have things listed that are things that they think you would like. So if you are voting for Janice, they give you Janice. They don’t list the number of tweets for all the things in your personal “trending box”, I now often see things “trending” with two thousand total tweets because someone I follow is tweeting about it. It also tells me that my friend X and Y are talking about this. Those are not trends. The not trends are also not in any specific order. The one at the top is not “trending.”
That said I still pay attention to the box of “trends” and I didn’t see a voice trend at all until after the voting closed. I imagine that Miley’s tears caused a lot of people to vote for Janice. Many people watch the show a few minutes behind. I don’t think there was anything nefarious about Jon or Janice leaving. They both flubbed up their save song.
So, even though I dont have the trend setting set on customized for me but the United States, Twitter is still going to try to guess what I am interested in.
Annoying, but makes sense because Facebook tries to do that.
Thanks!
Yes, like aomeone singing Blue Bayou several weeks ago, the artists need to now be carefuk of songs associated with past winners.
So no one emailed you about David? No one? My daughter told me alot about him and the WWE that I didn’t have time to post in response, including his fellow commentators unhappiness with his pulling the toy gun on Jennifer and his getting fired from his hosting gig, but I figured someone else would bring it up.
My understanding is that Jennifer and David decided on his gaining primary custody at this time, not that it was a court order, but hey it’s much more fun to bash her than to really dig into David O.
It was a judge. Actually who wrote the order responding to David’s filings. David basically said that if Jennifer was going to claim abuse she needed to do it in court under oath, otherwise the emergency order (which doesn’t required testimony under oath) must be dropped. She didn’t want to be under oath so it was dropped. Magically, she was just fine with David getting his child back and had no desire to fight to keep him safe from the scary man.
Your daughters facts don’t match up with what is going on in court, so I’m sticking with the legal documents.
David is still a WWE commenter although when Jennifer started making her allegations he took off from his most recent job with them to fight her in court.
And you seem not to understand that wrestling commenters argue with each other all the time. It’s part of the fake job.
I was so incredibly sad to see Janice leave. I thought Adam outperformed her but like you said Erica, her body of work was much stronger than Adam’s.
However, from someone who is sick sick, I feel something serious is going on with Janice and everyone on the set knows. Adam Levine didn’t even look happy to see Adam saved and I pray to God that her cancer hasn’t come back. Keisha Renee also made a beautiful Instagram post about Janice I thought was touching.
That’s an interesting theory. There was a whole lot of crying by Miley and Janice. Janice gave what I thought was her worst performance during the save song. Didn’t someone mention she was having a bad week?
The same conclusion could be drawn if she just had a bad cold or something though. If you ever watch Idol, they often have the first few shows and at times the last auditions during flu season and on multiple seasons half a dozen or more people would be really sick during the final cuts
I’m rambling and projecting because I feel like crap. But what I am trying to say is let’s hope it is another illness and not cancer.
Depending on when she actually finished with chemo, etc. even a bad chest cold could be VERY serious for her.
Another thing about the Save. So, lets say there is literally 500,000 votes between the bottom person and the next to the last person. Lets say that Adam was on the bottom (not unreasonable to believe, because he was on the bottom two last week).
Janice is sick, not life threatening, but sick in a way that could eventually affect her voice. She leaves it all out on stage on Monday (which I think she did), and because of that, she’s a bit froggy and sicker than she was on Monday.
She performs, losing her voice, and goes home, HAVING KICKED THE GUYS ASS ON MONDAY.
That is another reason I think the Voice Saves sucks.
People go home all the time for being sick on these shows. Each night is a battle, you can’t call in sick.
To her credit, this idea that she is sick is speculation (although her voice cracks, etc. on Tuesday support this theory).
She didn’t call for sympathy. Miley didn’t mention what was going on before the votes.
But I still think Voice Saves sucks. She was probably sick on Monday and rose to the occasion. I like that about her.
Also regarding Janice versus Adam in the save. The Eastern time zone includes the southeast where the largest country base is and country fans tend to vote for the country singers so they have an advantage.
I went back and reviewed the votes for a bit last night, and I also noticed that people do not know how to spell Janice. Adam is easier to spell correctly. You would not believe all the versions of Janice I saw in uncounted votes.
Also, every week, I have to triplecheck of the exact vote that counts. It is #VoiceSaveAdam
#TheVoiceSaveAdam #SaveAdam #Adam #SaveAdamFreeman #AdamTheVoice etc do not count. And it is very confusing if you are on the voice timeline looking for the right version.
GREAT points. I even started to fuck it up. I did #TheVoiceSaves vs #VoiceSaves.
God I hate it.
I don’t think Adam has a snow balls chance in hell of beating Red or Keisha. Maybe Ashland because she has disappointed me a little. However, there was no one like Janice. Since I started doing the blog, a lot of other recaps show up in my Google news feed. I don’t even click on them because, DUH, mine’s the best.
But there are a LOT of headlines talking about how a more talented and interesting artist went home this week, or that there are some major flaws to the Voice Saves system.
About time they’ve caught up to me. I’ve been saying this sucks shit since Season 5.
My home state, country/folk/slightly rock guy Austin Jenkes got fucking ROBBED then.
You still don’t have the hashtag right. Which is a good thing. Because you always vote for the wrong person.
The save is a good thing because sometimes someone might come in last because they had a bad night PERHAPS THEY WERE SICK and then they get a second chance.
Janice like Jon picked the wrong song for the save performance. It didn’t matter what she did before. This was the performance that counted against Adam and she blew it miserably. I hoPe she isn’t ill but if she is it doesn’t get the sympathy vote. The Voice is about singing so I don’t like all the personal background sad stories. I just want to hear the best singers because I can’t sing but I have my own sad stories. I have no favorites right now but I have enjoyed a few of the performances of people that I know nothing about because I either fast forward or change channels when back stories are told so I can use my ears without emotional tugs 🙂
OK.. taking away from the sympathy vote, what about the scenario I gave above? What if she had a large lead over Adam in the Monday night votes and he really was rock bottom? If it is about the singing, why should he get a second chance (for the second time) when she gave it her all the night before with a chest cold? Why should anyone get a second chance if we are judging song by song and not considering their body of work?
I’m sounding snarky and I don’t mean to be. I have total respect for your opinion, and if song by song is really how it should go then it should REALLY be song by song, with no weekly second chances, no immunity idol. .
No one knows or cares if she has a chest cold. Even RuPaul’s Drag Race has a Lip Sync For Your LIFE with the bottom two. It seems like you are asking why people should have a second chance and at the same time playing the imaginary illness card. Janice could not beat Adam in a battle. She deserved to go home. She did a really bad job on a song that was way too big for her that she clearly didn’t bother to rehearse because she was over confident. Another great reason for the save. weeds out people who can’t sing with little preparation. Adam rises to the challenge and Janice fell on her face. It’s all part of being THE VOICE.
Perfectly put!
I feel for Janice, and she joins the ranks of better singers who went home too soon. Red, Adam and Ashley just aren’t doing it for me, and Shi’Ann is just too raw to be a serious competitor. Hated song selections for Janice, and didn’t like her unflattering leggings-those wouldn’t look good on anyone. That said, Janice is someone I’d pay to see perform in a club or small theater.
Chloe, Addison and Noah are stars. Davon was incredible, too. Not sure why Keisha is trying to be country because her rendition sounded anything but. Still love her voice, though.
Miley’s girls looked and sounded great, but their group performance needed more rehearsal.