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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Carrie Underwood Dress- Carrie Underwood ACM Country Music Awards Entertainer of the Year

American Idol Fan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:14:00 +0000

During last night’s 44th ACM Country Music Awards, past American Idol Carrie Underwood won the Entertainer of the Year Award from the Academy of Country Music. Carrie Underwood became the first woman to win the prestigious ACM Entertainer of the Year Award since the Dixie Chicks won in 2000, and the ACM award has only been won 6 times by a woman prior to Underwood’s win.

The ACM Awards ceremony took place April 5, 2009 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, with country music star and legend Reba McEntire serving as host. Carrie Underwood’s burgundy wine colored dress, the Lava Dress, has people talking, which was obviously done on purpose to ignite interest and gossip about what Carrie Underwood was wearing. Reba McEntire even joked that she had had planned on wearing that same dress.

Underwood’s dress was kept a secret from the public, with no video, photos or discussions about the dress allowed before the LIVE performance. “The dress that I’ll be wearing during my performance is … It’s big,” Carrie said. “There’s a lot — a lot of dress.”

The Associated Press wrote that Underwood’s dress was treated as if it “were a matter of national security,” adding that reporters had to promise “no photos, no video and no describing the gown” in order to gain access to rehearsal performances.

Underwood’s dress is a Rafael Cennamo merlot silk taffeta gown with an extremely long and dramatic ruffled train that took up a lot of space on the stage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena as she sang “I Told You Ss”, but Carrie Underwood could wear a potato sack and no makeup and still look stunning and ravishingly beautiful.

Before the LIVE ACM Awards show, Carrie Underwood hinted about her burgundy red dress by saying her lava dress is “Kind of like water, maybe? Like red water? That sounds scary, doesn’t it? Maybe like lava. It’s like lava. Or icing. Red icing.”

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Upon winning the Entertainer of the Year Award, Underwood was nearly speechless about winning the award by saying, “I’ve had a lot of good moments in the last four years. This one takes the cake!” “I don’t know what to say! I got nothing.”

The Country Music Awards 2009 show was a big night for former Idol contestant, Carrie Underwood, as she also won the ACM Top Female Vocalist award. Current American Idol contestants, as well as former Idol winners, should continue to work very hard on their singing and performances, because you just never know…you may one day win the Top Female or Male Vocalist of the Year Award too.

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