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TV Show: The Voice (Discussion Thread)
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JAVIER COLON trending topic on Twitter
so amazing
he is the guy who sang Time After Time
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217. Time After Time (The Voice Performance) - Javier Colon
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This is my favorite new show right now. I loved it. I love the whole concept. This show is truly about the talent, not about the image and I'm glad to see Franchie Davis again.
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I absolutely loved the show. Christina is of course stealing the spotlight with her looks and charisma. She needs to tone down her mutual flirting with Adam, though lol
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Adam and Christina were budding heads too. Can't wait for next week. I'm liking this more than American Idol.
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Where can I find a downloadlink for episode 1?
Wanna know if this is as good as the Dutch version. I think it's better
Somehow I'm kinda proud a Dutch show is doing so well in the States and the rest of the world
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA this is Killing ME. I can't. I need to watch it. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa
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DEATH at Christina interrupting Adam! I wanna watch this online so bad!!
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Christina Aguilera brings magic to THE VOICE, Simon who?
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 4/26/2011 – “Can you say a few words about the show?” asks NBC executive Paul Telegdy to Christina Aguilera. “I think you’ve said it all,” says Aguilera, who is interrupting an exclusive press screening of THE VOICE at Universal Studios.
“I’m having the most amazing time on THE VOICE,” says Aguilera. “Root for my team on the show.” Aguilera has popped in on her way to talk about THE VOICE with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show. As one of the contestants exclaims on the show, being in the room next to the radiant Aguilera is like looking at the sun. Dazzling.
THE VOICE presents celebrity singing coaches Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton out to discover the best singers and have them compete to win the title of best singer, to be THE VOICE. NBC was the network that tried to define itself without having any shows, with it being all Jay Leno all the time. When that daring plan didn’t work, and the affiliates threatened revolt, the network had to re-invent itself quickly. Key to NBC’s plan is competing with hit “alternative” programming, notably Fox’s American Idol. Can NBC build an Idol-killer? Apparently, it can. THE VOICE has more heart and more touching family moments and is more fun.
“THE VOICE is a very positive show and hugely entertaining,” says Telegdy. “NBC is the most similar to the BBC of the American broadcasters. When it’s great, it’s searingly relevant with quality entertainment.” Telegdy came to NBC from the BBC, where he made his mark with the surprisingly entertaining car show Top Gear. Key to making that show work, one of the longest running reality series on the air, is the close yet competitive/comedic relationship between the show’s hosts. THE VOICE reveals a kittenish yet fiercely competitive Aguilera out to best her male co-hosts who aren’t going to give an inch. This adds an element of fun that goes beyond the music competition of the contestants.
NBC has derived recent success from shows like Celebrity Apprentice, produced by Mark Burnett. He’s also producing THE VOICE. “The reason these stars are sitting there is Mark,” says Telegdy. “They know they can trust him. I was buying a show in November and wanted it on the air in April. Mark was the only choice.
A show like this takes a lot of machines, a lot of editors. It goes to air completely wet. One pass and it’s off. The best editors come from shows like Celebrity Apprentice. They all work for Mark. It’s several dozen editors. Alan Carter, the director, does a lot for us. Really knows his stuff. Great live too.”
Telegdy began listening to country music when he moved to the United States. “In Britain we don’t really have country music.” Telegdy found that having a country star on THE VOICE not only gave it American relevance, but humor. “Blake Shelton is one of the funniest people to walk the Earth.”
While they wanted humor, Telegdy and Burnett didn’t want the show to ever be a farce. “We didn’t want to put a bad singer up there,” says Telegdy. “These artists are very busy. We weren’t going to f**k around with them. You saw Christina [at the screening]. She was here for like twelve seconds.” Because the auditions are blind, only the singer’s voice matters. That means the contestants are not limited by age or appearance. The show makes some surprising choices of contestants. The celebrities’ chairs spin around so they can see the singer only after they’ve chosen the singer to be on their team.
THE VOICE was shot initially at the L.A. Center, then moved as it grew. There are three different sets: the chairs, the boxing ring, and the live show arena. The arena set holds about 1,000 people. “Americas Got Talent has 600,” says Telegdy. “So imagine 400 more. The live shows start June 7th. Warner Brothers Stage 18 is 80,000 square feet on the lot. It’s huge. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s the feeling not of a TV show but an arena tour.”
Telegdy may not wake up Wednesday morning with the ratings of American Idol, but he can take satisfaction that NBC now has a show to compete or exceed Idol on all levels, with huge stars, amazing singers, and heartwarming stories. Telegdy says a show can’t be all about second chances like Susan Boyle of Britain’s Got Talent. Maybe not. However, THE VOICE is definitely a second chance for NBC. The series premieres on Tuesday, April 26th, at 9/8c.
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Viewers were also encouraged to “tweet along” with the host and judges using #thevoice hashtag. But that’s not all: NBC also brought on Alison Haislip (@alisonhaislip) from G4 TV as its “official social media guru” (um, have you seen her site?) A promo during the show invited viewers to tweet along with her, too. “Oh snap! There’s a certain blonde twitter-fiend on your tv right now!” she tweeted as the promo aired.
Meanwhile, the show’s official account, @NBCTheVoice, kept pace with all time zones. It’s best moment of the night: retweeting Idol winner @kelly_clarkson admitting she was “cheating on American Idol” and watching the show.
Of course, at the end of the night, it’s not whether you’re a trending topic on Twitter, but how The Voice fares in the Nielsen ratings. We’ll see…
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I just love it when Xtina was being messy! Blake was the messiest! TAKE YOUR PANTS OFF! lol
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I absolutely loved the show. Christina is of course stealing the spotlight with her looks and charisma. She needs to tone down her mutual flirting with Adam, though lol
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Hell no....Xtina and Adam need to bang each other!! Ditch Matt and become music's next hot power couple!
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From the chairs to the winnings, THR breaks down NBC’s new singing competition series.
As another ratings-plagued television season comes to a close, NBC brass is banking on The Voice to cut through.
Network executives were hopeful that its highly publicized singing competition series would fill a void created by viewers’ waning interest in a post-Simon Cowell American Idol. But the Fox juggernaut hasn’t stumbled, instead finding new life with judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez. Now NBC is optimistic that The Voice -- and its “coaches” Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton and Maroon 5 signer-guitarist Adam Levine, along with emcee Carson Daly -- can find its footing among an increasingly growing singing competition field. Produced by reality powerhouse Mark Burnett (Survivor) and adapted from The Voice of Holland, NBC’s entry into the field is as different from Idol as it is similar.
After getting an early look at the series, The Hollywood Reporter breaks down 10 things you need to know about The Voice.
1. Focus on quality: Instead of weeding through open auditions a la American Idol, The Voice’s A&R team went out looking for performers, upping the overall performance. While some of the auditions are challenging, there aren’t any colossal train wrecks like we’ve seen on Idol.
2. Traces of Survivor: Once contestants have joined a team, the Battle Round begins, where coaches select two of their own teammates to go head-to-head in a performance of the same song. Coaches then consult one another on each performer’s merit, offering feedback that could potentially sabotage each other. During the premiere, a rivalry between Levine and Aguilera is born as they go head-to-head for many of the same contestants. Blake, meanwhile, seems to stick to the country music genre for which he’s known, while Green is more of the risk-taker -- and flirt -- of the bunch.
3. More Paula Abdul, less Simon Cowell: While Idol has been known to be brutally honest, the format for The Voice celebrates the performers and is more Paula Abdul, less Simon Cowell. Aguilera cemented that, saying: “At the end of the day, that's what The Voice is really about -- emotion and touching people.” Banter between coaches is lively and funny, with Levine standing out as the class clown as he vies to land contestants in ties with his fellow coaches. And the coaches know their stuff: The four have 32 Grammy nominations and 11 wins between them.
4. Emcee Daly, meanwhile, told THR that his style is more in line with Hell’s Kitchen’s Gordon Ramsay than Ryan Seacrest and will cut right to the chase. “I watch a lot of Hell’s Kitchen and what I like about him is his honesty and the way he carries himself on camera,” he said. “Music is my cooking -- it’s what I’m passionate about -- and the artists are like my chefs. I thought a about what I enjoy when I watch him on TV, and I realized that it’s his no B.S. approach.
5. It tweets: Twitter is worked into the show with #TheVoice hash tag prominently displayed, as rivalry tweets between coaches and messages of support to both contestants and those who fail to make it regularly appearing on screen. Sibling network Comedy Central found success with the hash tag strategy last month with its Donald Trump roast.
6. Come one, come all: Duos, semi-professionals and former reality series contestants are all welcome. Season 2 American Idol contestant Frenchie Davis -- who was disqualified in 2003 after racy photos surfaced -- is among those featured in the premiere.
7. It takes advantage the Glee effect: All songs performed on the show are immediately available for purchase on Apple’s iTunes. Idol didn’t begin offering iTunes availability until Season 7, when only live performances and studio recordings were offered. Idol has since expanded its offerings and now includes weekly studio recordings and compilation albums after performance night.
8. Green turned down Cowell’s X Factor. The coach recently told reporters that he was “unfamiliar with the concept of The X Factor. I knew the name and I knew the parties involved, but as an enterprise, I didn’t know what made it distinctive enough. Quite honestly, I felt like American Idol and these other entities had run their course.”
9. Hot seats: The much-hyped Star Trek-like chairs only stick around for the first two episodes -- the time in which it takes the coaches to pick their team members. The large buttons attached to the desks signal when a coach wants to select the performer for his/her team and prompts the chair to turn and face the stage. “I love that I get to sit with my back turned away and use one sense alone: to hear these voices,” Aguilera said.
10. Less may be more: The winner will receive a $100,000 recording contract with Universal Republic. Cowell’s X Factor, meanwhile, will reward its winner with a $5 million deal.
The Voice’s two-hour premiere airs Tuesday at 9 p.m. on NBC.
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Back on top! Christina Aguilera shows she has The Voice as she joins fellow judges for stunning opening song
She's had a tough few months, with a series of stumbles an bumbles on stage.
But Christina Aguilera was back on top last night as she and her fellow judges/ coaches opened the show as The Voice premiere on U.S. television.
The 30-year-old singer sang an ensemble version of Gnarles Barkley’s Crazy, along with fellow performer Cee Lo Green, Marron 5's Adam Levine and country star Blake Shelton.
The foursome raised the roof with their performance, with Christina slipping into a black ensemble for the pre-recorded show.
Afterwards the four coaches took their seats as the 'blind auditions' commences, paving the way for a series of cheers and tears on stage.
Christina has had a few troubled performances of late, including stumbling on stage at the Grammys and messing up the lyrics when she performed the American National Anthem at the Super Bowl.
The NBC series offers a distinctive gimmick - contestants are initially heard but not seen by a panel of pop stars.
It's when Aguilera, Cee Lo, Adam and Blake spin around in their thronelike chairs that they glimpse the singer they backed or passed on.
The wannabes were wide ranging and included a 41-year-old shaven lesbian, a girl who lives in her car - and even a failed American Idol wannabe (Frenchie Davis).
Davis has already appeared on Broadway in Rent but says she still yearns for a recording career.
The first contestant, Tarralyn Ramsey, had Green and Aguilera vying to work with her after her roof-raising performance, with both coaches turning around.
Breaking down in tears, the 31-year-old picked to work with Christina, saying she was a huge fan and had all her records at home.
Christina told her: 'You started off shaky, but your confidence grew with every note that came out of your mouth.'
Next up was heartthrob Patrick Thomas, who Chose to work with country star Blake.
Christina didn't actually turn around during the performance, but upon seeing him afterwards she was clearly impressed, calling him a 'cutie pie'.
She asked him to take off his Stetson so she could get a better look before joking: 'Can you take off your pants too?'
Aguilera has revealed that she will open her heart about the pain of her divorce from Jordan Bratman during the course of the new talent show.
'We share with them the good, the bad, the pretty and the ugly of the business,' she told Jay Leno on his The Tonight Show yesterday while promoting the programme.
'I tell them everything, even the past year.
'Everyone will say going through a divorce is a hard time of your life, and for me, being in the spotlight, it's even more of a rollercoaster. I share all of that experience with them.'
Other contestants that impressed included pretty Kelsey Rey, who sang American Boy. With three judges offering to coach her, she picked Cee Lo.
The pros themselves will compete to assemble a team of would-be pop stars, with the goal of guiding one toward a record contract and a $100,000 prize.
No need to alert the Society for the Protection of Pretty People: The deck is stacked with some talented lookers.
Viewers may need to take a breath as they encounter unfamiliar terrain: The judges aren't judges. They're 'coaches' who also serve as hands-on mentors.
Each coach has to dump half of his or her team before the audience steps in to vote, starting in June. NBC late-night host Carson Daly is in charge.
More entertaining is the panel and its interplay. Shelton turns out to be a natural comic, Levine an avid competitor and Green a charmer.
Aguilera, whose recent stumbles include a mangled version of the national anthem, settles comfortably into the role of queen bee, sparring nicely with her male cohorts.
Executive producer Mark Burnett said it was a meal, on him, that fostered the group's camaraderie.
'My best move as a producer was saying to the coaches, 'Here's my credit card, go out to dinner, the four of you.'
It allowed them to know each other. In the end, it's chemistry that counts. If they're having fun, the audience has fun.'
But is there patience for yet another talent show? After American Idol folds its tent for the season in May, NBC's own summer series America's Got Talent starts up, and then Simon Cowell's The X Factor, based on his UK hit, debuts this autumn on Fox.
There's also Bravo's new songwriting contest, Platinum Hit, starting in May, and genre-oriented iterations such as CMT's Next Superstar.
NBC has heavily promoted The Voice and is also seeking an edge by ramping up the role of the Internet and social networks, employing a social media correspondent to entice viewers to engage with the show.
Burnett, whose hits include Survivor and The Apprentice, brushes aside the issue of market saturation.
'At this point, for Americans, X Factor is just a name. No one has seen it,' he said. Besides, he said, there's proof of the public's insatiable appetite for watching people strive on-camera for glory.
In Holland, home of the original 'The Voice,' the show became 'huge' despite existing franchises Holland's Got Talent and The X Factor.
That's in a country 'the size of Rhode Island,' Burnett said, adding cautiously, 'Who knows what will happen here.'
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Christina was definitely the best part of the coaching team. So impressed with her input! All four have great energy and charisma, but she stood out the most to me.
Also - it was great to see Frenchie again but WTF was that song choice? I guess she was trying to prove that she was mainstream but I thought I Kissed a Girl was a horrible song choice. She didn't get to show off any of her power or range!
But yea, the show's awesome!!!
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Does anyone have audience of the voice?
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