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The Voice – NBC’s New Singing Competition Show “The Voice” Recruits Mega Stars

American Idol Fan — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:35:19 +0000

You’d have to be living under a rock not to have heard about The Voice on NBC, which premiered this past Tuesday, with a repeat performance shown on Wednesday night. American Idol just might have some strong competition for ratings and viewership now that fans have had an opportunity to watch The Voice, and seen how refreshing the new singing show is.

As an avid fan of American Idol, beginning with Kelly Clarkson’s spectacular win with that magnificent voice of hers, as well as the many other past American Idol contestants who have gone on to do great things in their chosen music career, I’m hooked on The Voice. What a great show NBC has created, masterfully chosen musician coaches (not judges, like on Idol), and the brilliant concept of having singers perform blind auditions where each singer is heard but not seen. Genius!

The Voice coaches include mega-star Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton (a cutie-pie) and Maroon Five’s Adam Levine. Carson Daly serves as host of the show. NBC announced today that country star Reba McEntire, Sia (Furler), Monica, and music producer Adam Blackstone will be joining The Voice as advisers, lending their vast knowledge, experience and talents to the mix.

These advisers will be assisting the four coaches on The Voice show during the “Battles” phase in the competition, to help improve the contestants singing abilities and improve their chances of winning the competition. Christina Aguilera will be teaming up with singer/songwriter Sia, Adam Levine with Maroon 5 Music Director Blackstone, Cee Lo Green with singer Monica, and Blake Shelton with veteran singer Reba.

“The Voice” blind auditions premiered on Tuesday to big ratings, averaging 11.8 million viewers and a 5.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic. The Wednesday repeat encore of the new NBC series garnered 6 million viewers on Wednesday. Not too shabby! Choosing a favorite team of contestants is going to be challenging, and fans of the show may find they’re rooting for more than one team.

Will it be Team Xtina? Team Cee Lo? Team Blake or Team Adam? So far, each of the teams have some incredibly talented singers, but I’m holding out on the decision of which team to rally around until all of the contestants are selected into their various teams. Fans of NBC’s The Voice show will want to follow along with all the news and updates about their favorite contestants and coaches, so be sure to follow The Voice Facebook fan page and follow The Voice on Twitter to root for your favorite teams and contestants.

The show’s unique format features three stages of competition. The first phase begins with the blind auditions, then it moves into a battle phase, and then live performance shows. During the blind audition phase, singers sing their song with the judges coaches backs turned, so only the singers voice is heard and no pre-judgements can be made based on physical appearance at all. Brilliant!!!

During these blind auditions, if a coach is impressed with the vocal ability he or she is hearing, pushing a button in front of their chair causes the chair to swivel around so the coach can then be face to face with the contestant. Pushing the button also indicates the coach has selected the contestant to be on his or her team of competitors.

If more than one coach pushes the button and their chair turns around to see the contestant, thereby also selecting the singer, the power shifts to the contestant. The contestant must then choose which coach he or she wants to work with throughout the competition. Any contestant who is not selected by at least one coach pushing their button before the singer is finished with their song is automatically eliminated from the competition.

Once the final teams are chosen, the battle begins. The Voice coaches will mentor the contestants and make them over, ultimately transforming them into stars in the music industry. To help them decide who they want to advance, the coaches will pit two of their own team members against each other to sing the same song in front of a studio audience. Based on the individual performances, the coaches must pick who they want to continue coaching and who will be sent home.

In the final live performance phase of the competition, the top contestants from each team will compete against each other during a live broadcast. The television audience will vote to select who will move on from each team and who will be eliminated. Finally, each coach will have their absolute best contestant left standing to compete in the finale. From these four, one will be named “The Voice” and will receive the grand prize of a life-altering recording contract.

I can’t wait to watch and see how The Voice tv show turns out throughout the competition series and who fans will choose as their favorite(s). Will The Voice become the new and improved American Idol???

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American Idol Lip Syncing Controversy-American Idol Lip Sync Spoiler

American Idol Fan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:55:39 +0000

The American Idol Lip Sync controversy is heating up, with news from the New York Times that the American Idol group performances are nothing but lip-syncing of the worst kind. Watching American Idol contestants perform those abysmal group performances is bad enough, but to learn that American Idol Season 8 contestants are having to lip-sync songs while (obviously) struggling with Idol choreography doesn’t sit well with Idol fans.

Manfred Westphal, a spokesman for FremantleMedia North America (which produces American Idol for FOX) initially denied the Idol group performances were lip-synched by saying, “The Idols don’t lip-sync, period”.

Then we hear the lip-syncing controversy is true! “Due to extensive choreography and to balance their voices with open mikes against a screaming audience, the Idols do sing along to their own prerecorded vocal track during the group performances only”, says Westphal.

Screaming audience? Maybe screaming “Please Stop Lip-Synching the crappy group performances!” The American Idol group performances haven’t been anything to write home about and now we know why! They’re lip-synched, and it’s got to be the worst case of lip-synching we’ve seen in years.

Westphal said the contestants’ solo performances never use any recorded music or vocals, although the contestants do record their weekly song choice before the performance competition so that it will be ready for release on iTunes after the show.

Past American Idol contestant, Justin Guarini, created a firestorm of Idol controversy last week when he said, “Every single year we can’t stand the group performances. I know they can’t stand it either. And I think what makes them even worse now is that they’re lip-synched. They’re really prerecorded now.”

Guarini also said he doesn’t blame American Idol producers for having Idol contestants lip-sync group performances. “I know they are interested in making the best show possible and in caring for the contestants’ voices. It’s almost torture to watch the contestants sing and dance like they don’t have a care in the world when in fact they’re sweating bullets” over who will be voted off during the elimination results show.

Does the fact that the Idol contestants are lip-syncing the group performances come as a surprise to you, or did you already think the performances were lip-synced?

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American Idol 3/26/09 Idol Results – Who Got Voted Off American Idol?

American Idol Fan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:10:12 +0000

Who got voted off on American Idol’s results show on 3-26-09? Who was eliminated and who is safe on American Idol? Who were in the Bottom 3? American Idol fans enjoyed some amazing Idol performances and some Idol duds. Motown greats Smokey Robinson and Berry Gordy appeared as mentors to the Top 10 finalists, giving Idol contestants encouragement and constructive criticism about their chosen Motown songs.

“Over 36 million votes came in, more votes than previous American Idol shows”, says Idol host Ryan Seacrest. Seacrest reminded viewers that the “veto vote” save is still in play, but will the save vote be used tonight?

In celebration of Hittsville USA, the Top 10 finalists sang a Motown songs medley of “Set Me Free”, “You’re All I Need” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”, for Idol viewers. It sounded pretty good, don’t ya think?

After the “Pocketful of Sunshine” car video was shown, Ruben Studdard hit the Idol stage to perform his hit song “Together”. I’ve haven’t followed Ruben close enough since he was a past American Idol contestant, but he sounded great!

Joss Stone and Smokey Robinson sang “You’re The One For Me” together, and my interest in Joss Stone and Smokey Robinson’s music is even greater now. Didn’t they sound great? The audience and judges sure enjoyed it!

Who are the bottom 3 Idol contestants this week? Who was voted off American Idol on 3/26/09? The results are in!

Bottom Three American Idol Performers:

Matt Giraud – Wow! No way!
Michael Sarver – Yeah, no surprise there
Scott MacIntyre – Definitely

Ryan Seacrest told Scott MacIntyre he was safe (are you kidding me?!) and told to go sit with the other safe contestants.

Stevie Wonder rocked the Idol stage with a medley of his hit songs including: “My Cherie Amor”, “Superstition”, “Castle of Love”, “Overjoyed” and “All About The Love”. Stevie Wonder is a spectacular singer and performer! Can’t get enough of Stevie!

Michael Sarver was voted off American Idol on tonight’s results show, receiving the lowest number of votes. Will Michael be saved by the judge’s veto vote with a final performance singing “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg”? After taking too much time deciding on whether to save Michael or not, Simon Cowell announced “Michael, you’re going home”. Dang, that was harsh.

Breakdown list of the guys and girls who are safe:

Adam Lambert is Safe

Kris Allen is Safe

Lil Rounds is Safe

Megan Joy is (surprisingly) Safe

Anoop Desai is Safe

Matt Giraud is Safe

Danny Gokey is Safe

Scott MacIntyre is Safe

Allison Iraheta is Safe

Michael Sarver is gone and we’re now down the Top 9 Finalists! Who are you voting for? Who do you think will be The Next American Idol?

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