TVLINE | I know you’ve been asked about this a lot — and I know you probably don’t want to dwell on negativity and drama — but what went through your mind when Christina indirectly inserted you into her feud with Adam Levine and his contestant, Tony Lucca, by pointing to you and saying, “This is a real man right here.” It was pretty obvious that her statement was making a comparison to Tony’s rendition of “99 Problems,” and the possible implication from Adam and Tony that she’s a bitch.

It was just really, really disappointing that all of this media attention [on the Xtina-Adam feud] has taken away from the whole point of the show, especially having done three inspirational songs that I couldn’t have been prouder of. I believe [the feud] really affected where I placed, I think it was completely related to this media frenzy. I don’t blame Christina, because Christina was baited, and I think that’s what has been a little frustrating to me, is how she has taken all of this blame and criticism when Tony and Adam blatantly were calling her a bitch. And I think it happened 13 times in the song, but yet somehow, nobody acknowledges this. It’s so strange. All she said was, “I don’t appreciate it, and that’s derogatory.” And then that caused this huge frenzy and people didn’t vote for me because of it, which is unfortunate. However, I couldn’t have performed any better, and I’m not resentful about it, and I really didn’t think that she did anything crazy. I think she just stood up for herself, which is what she always does.

Tony and Adam were very disrespectful. I used to be a M5 fan.

He's right that Tony and Adam were disrespectful and the feud wasn't just Christina's fault... but I don't think he really lost votes because of it. At best he was robbed of 3rd place (out of those 4).

What Tony and Adam did was disrespectful. Christina definitely has an attitude problem, but I think people treat her unfairly sometimes. She's like the media's favorite punching bag. lol

She is.

It's a shame if they did it out of hate. (I haven't seen the performance but doing that song aimed at her isn't nice) but then again it's a competition and you do what you have to to win.. But neither of them won so who really cares?

What they did was out of line and so unprofessional on Adam's part.

Source?

Mann Fans!!

Disagree. Adam and Tony weren't in the wrong. They had been baited.

Adam is a huge douchebag and he deserves to flop.

What happened?

Exactly and I think it even hurt Adam' singer too.

You somehow always manage to.find yourself into a Christina thread... If you're not an undercover fan, then you must be pressed, stressed, and obsessed over Xtina

Oh puh-leaase

Christina was simply being honest, as she always is callin him one dimensional (which he is)..

Then he goes on to play a Britney song, then "how do you like me now", then "99 problems" which was aimed at her... Christina was baited.

I don't agree with this though

the other judges seem to feel the same way to Adam

Christina had already been rude to him and Chris should look at the fact that she said more than once that "Chris was a real man". If she was just trying to respond then she could have said it once. If people didn't vote for Chris because of that Im sure her continuing to discuss it indirectly in that episode had alot to do with it. Her over talking Adam and repeatedly drawing attention to her low opinion of Tony on that episode can't be overlooked.

How did the feud actually start? Because there was obviously tension before that performance.

when Tony Lucca performing 99 Problems I guess