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The live rounds will be 2 hours starting at 9pm tonight for several weeks.

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Last night it was Team Blake competing against Team Christina. all the singers are top-notch, so what separates them can be personal preferences for their style of music or specific vocal qualities.

I personally don't like any of the styles of music represented, but I have some strong opinions on voices. I did not like either of the male voices. Jared Blake has the least talent of any singer left in this competition. Patrick Thomas uses an excess of vibrato.

The youngest women have the best voices in my opinion although I add Frenchie Davis in with them. I found the voices of Raquel, Xenia, Lily, Dia and Frenchie to be the ones I would like to see win. Beverly McClellan has a good voice, but I don't see her as good as the others. However, since my best case scenario has the two females on Team Blake surviving, that would be Xenia and Dia. On all-female Team Christina my case case is Beverly bites the dust and two out of Raquel, Lily and Frenchie survive. I think Frenchie deserves a second chance for her career, which has taken some hard knocks. over the years.

Every voter (you can do so for free at www.nbc.com until 10amEDT Monday) gets to "save" one singer from each competing team and the coach gets to save another one, with the results to be presented Tuesday night on the next show.   On that show Team CeeLo and Team Adam will compete live.

I have to mention one bit of inanity that NBC has been using to court the younger viewers, because it turns me off totally. that is the Twitter correspondent, who is called on by host Carson Daly periodically to summarize what's happening on Twitter relative to the singers. It was a stupid idea and the person who conceived it should be fired.

One more thing that's absurd is all of the coaches' comments, whether they are for their singers or for those of other teams. It is hard to listen to such content-free banter. The coaches are doing a high value talent improvement in their one-on-one sessions with the singers, but what they say on the air is absurdly positive. Nobody ever does anything other than perfection if you listen to those comments. You know that is complete crap!

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the Voice Quarterfinal round, part 2

This was not an exciting round, as the baloney from the coaches drowned out the very good singing from the performers.

The opening was Christina and the audience learning that the fan vote had selected Beverly (ugh) as one of the two going on. Christina then had to select the other one. She chose Frenchie over Raquel and Lily, I think a wise choice given Frenchie's vocal power.

Then the members of Team Adam and Team CeeLo sang for their supper The Thompson sisters were particularly comely doing Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy in 2 parts (the Andrews sisters did it in 3). Vicci Martinez, Nakia and Curtis Grimes later sang. I expect that the two singers chosen to move ahead will be Nakia and the Thompson sisters, leaving Vicci and Curtis in the dust, but I said that about Beverly so what do I know?

Team CeeLo's Casey Weston, Jeff Jenkins, Devon Barley and Javier Colon. You just have to have Javier on the final team, that's for sure. the other spot could go to anyone, but I liked Jeff the best. That would leave Casey and Devon out.

The final part of this episode was the announcement about Team Blake. All went according to my plan. Dia got the fan vote and Xenia joined her with Blake's vote. The guys Jared and Patrick are out even though they did well.

franxaverian:
@Apskip: It's Vicci Martinez, not Nicci. It must be from the battle round that you mistakenly remember the Nikki name.  :snicker:

Okay...this is my opinion of The Voice Semifinal 1&2:

Contrary to your beliefs, I actually pick Frenchie and Beverly as the one moving on. Frenchie would be an automatic finalist no matter what happens. As for Bev, I tried to compare her singing that particular song with Lauren Alaina in American Idol. I prefer Beverly's version. Lily and Raquel were also good but for me, they are just ordinary.

For Blake's team, the automatic finalist is Dia Frampton. I don't see a case of her going home last night. However, I had Xenia as the automatic booted one. I have never considered her a strong singer, especially with Patrick Thomas(the only country singer in Blake's team)

CeeLo has apparently picked some unique songs for his singers. I was drawn back by the sisters' song, never heard of them and I felt that it was just CeeLo's desire to see two cute young girls dancing in 70's(?) 40's costume. The automatic finalist in this team would be Nakia and the automatic booted one would be Curtis, for sure. I like Vicci Martinez as the one accompany Nakia to the final but the T&T is quite good last night.

Adam's team, no thinking needed. Javier is the automatic finalist with Jeff Jenkins as the other finalist from Adam's team.

This is just my opinion and I know that sometimes things can go the other way but CeeLo and Adam would be dumb not to save their automatic finalist.  :lol:

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The first part of the semi-final episode was to show the results of the audience vote from last week's live performances for the 4 remaining from Team CeeLo and 4m remaining from Adam. The audience vote went to:

Team CeeLo - Vicci Martinez
Team Adam - Javier Colon

Those coaches were then put on the spot to pick one each. CeeLo made the no-brainer pick of Nakia. Adam picked Casey Weston in a surprise to me.

The rest of the telecast was the performances of the 8 remaining singers:
Team CeeLo - Vicci Martinez and Nakia
Team Adam - Javier Colon and Casey Weston
Team Christina - Beverly McClellan and Frenchie Davis
Team Blake - Dia Frampton and Xenia

Each did perform and the coaches were forced to split 100 points between their 2 singers and place it in an envelope to be opened next week. That will count for half of the final score. The other half will come from an audience vote, with the polls closed this morning.

I like Nakia, Javier, Frenchie and Xenia to make the finale. Next week will be the final performances by the selected 4 singers, with the results show the following night. 

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