Like I’ve predicted, I was too lazy to religiously recap season seven’s The Voice twice a week. The main reason is merely lack of motivation. However, it feels irresponsible to give up what I’ve started without at least trying my best to finish it. So here I am, attempting to give the show I used to passionately following, a proper treatment.
As I’m typing this, Blind Auditions is behind us after being aired for three weeks. Each team consists of 12 hopefuls who are ready to pit against their team mates on the bloody Battle Rounds.
Despite the irregular recap, I’m actually excited to have at least one favorite talent in every team. Let me tell you who they are, ranging from the most likeable to the least one.
1. Amanda Lee Peers (Team Gwen)
She’s the third lesbian contestant of The Voice I have rooted for after season one’s Vicci Martinez and season five’s Michelle Chamuel. I’m not sure what, why and how, but there’s something about their kinds that instantly caught my attention right after I finished watching their battle (Vicci) or first live performance (Michelle). One thing for sure, these ladies rocked the stage. The moment Vicci sang her last part of Pink’s F**king Perfect on battle against Nikki Dawson, and Michelle on Cyndi Lauper’s True Color (and later, Taylor Swift’s I Knew You Were Trouble), on live show, I was totally sold.
That’s what happened with Amanda. This rock chick definetely owned the stage with her cover of ZZ Ward’s Put The Gun Down. Both her song choice and performance is bad-freaking-ass. She chosing ZZ Ward’s song didn’t only show that she had a good taste. It also made me curious enough to google the singer and glad to know that her music is worth listening.
It’s a shame, though, that her performance only managed to turn one chair. This easily makes me put the rookie Gwen Stefani on a top of my favorite coach for this season, not only because she’s indeed Queen of Awesome, but because she’s the only one who makes sense.
Also, her original song, Song of Freedom, is seriously awesome.
Still from Team Gwen:
- second best: Taylor John Williams. He’s the one who stepping onto the stage with a guitar, cute face, a fedora hat and a not-so-creative cover of Kanye West’s Heartless. To see him pitted against Amanda in the sneak peak of Team Gwen’s upcoming battle is upsetting.
- Third best: Menlik Zergabachev. He’s auditioning with reggae version of Sublime’s Santeria, a kickass dreadlocks and a bad-boy-kind-of cuteness that made Gwen scream “OMG he’s so cuteee” ecstaticly.
2. Matt McAndrew (Team Adam)
I’m easily smitten over singer-songwriter kind of performer with a guitar in their hands. Most of my favorite male singing contestants fall into this category. Matt is no exception. Let see. A guitar, check. A great voice, check. A cool song choice, not so much, since I’m not a fan of Christina Perri’s A Thousand Years. But he managed to make the song his own with simple yet stunning twists. A cuteness, oh-yes-check, with flowy, shiny hair as a bonus. A big plus: this four-eyed tattoo enthusiast is way hotter with wet hair and glasses off.
3. Reagan James (Team Blake)
She’s a (then) sixteen-year-old cool-looking girl with poise, awesome voice/style but terrible fashion sense. If her Blind Audition outfit is picked by The Voice people, she really should’ve not let them. How she dresses makes her looks way, way older than her age. Her rendition of Ed Sheeran’s Give Me Love left me in awe, though. Team Blake — with his army of country proteges — is lucky to have her. I just hope that Papa Blake knows what to do with her indie, coffee shop approach, remembering he’s known to give up artist whose genre outside his comfort zone (Charlotte Sometimes, Lex Leland). But the lovely Dia Frampton won’t be Dia as we know today if it’s partly not because of him. So let’s just give him and Reagan a hope.
4. Taylor Phelan (Team Pharrel)
Another singer-songwriter kind of hopeful with a guitar that stole my attention on Blinds by singing The Neighbourhood’s Sweater Weather and killed it with his adorable silly feet. I don’t know who the hell The Neighbourhood is or what Sweater Wearher sounds like before, but he made it sound cool. His performance is a world-class act as well.
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