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'The Voice' Battle Round 3: Weren't they cute?
Anyone else feel like they need to brush and floss after the sweetness that was "The Voice's" Round 3 of battle rounds?
The coaches set up some rather cutesy pairings in this round. We by no means want to discount the performers' talent in Round 3, but there did come a point where we were starving for some edge.
Let's do a quick review of the rounds:
Team Christina Aguilera: Raquel Castro beats Julia Easton
Granted Raquel is only 16, but we kind of feel that she's the type who's just happy when people are looking at her. She sort of always says the right things even though we know they can't totally be true. For example, how could she say she has wanted to sing forever, but only started training professionally a few months before (surprise!) "The Voice" auditions. On this episode, she informed Christina that she's a dancer, as well. Of course, she is. For our money, we wanted Julia to move on. She's a smoother singer and has a much nicer voice than Raquel. Plus, we feel Julia is really all about the singing and not just being a star by any means necessary.
Team Blake Shelton: Dia Frampton beats SeraBee
We have to admit as we heard Blake announce this pairing and then push them off to sing together, we felt a little hate for the country singer. It just seemed like a very mean-spirited thing to do. Here we have SeraBee who believes she's God's gift to the "daughter of a preacher man" style of vocals going against a folksy gal whose style is much more melodic and understated. We were fully prepared to announce Blake Shelton a d-bag, but then he surprised us by picking Dia. Serves us right for getting all judgmental on him.
Team Adam Levine: Devon Barley beats Rebecca Loebe
This may be the biggest travesty of the night for us. No. 1, how could Devon not know Radiohead's "Creep"? Unforgivable. And second, Rebecca clearly sang that song her own way and with a style that really pulled us in. Devon hit us as stiff and mechanical throughout the performance. Plus, how could Adam send that poor, talented girl back to sleep in her car?
Team Cee Lo Green: Tori and Taylor Thompson beat Kelsey Rey
Honestly, we could care less about this group of singers. They're like new sneakers - way too clean and right out of the box. We were initially surprised that Cee Lo didn't go with Kelsey, though, especially after hearing him compliment her on holding her own up there. After some thought, we began to understand Cee Lo's choice better. We think he went with the sisters, because they rose to the occasion and showed something new in their performance that we didn't see in their bubbly blind audition. And Cee Lo seems to like surprises when it comes to his performers. Kelsey may be a bit of a (excuse the pun) one note.
What were your thoughts on the coaches' decisions this week?
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I agree that Julia should have been chosen over Raquel. Raquel seemed like a cute little joke, trying to be an adult but being ghetto.
Well, of course Raquel is "acting" ghetto, since she actually is a former child actress (Jersey Girl, with Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler, as well as a really stupid episode of SVU). The fact that I've noticed at least four has-beens from movies and other venues tells me that this show is catering more to second chancers than ones for whom music has been their life goal. In other words, more sob stories, less talent (although, granted, the singing on The Voice is lightyears better than the first few weeks of any season of American Idol).
The Thompson girls were annoying on America's Most Talented Kids, and they're annoying here. They shouldn't have won. Raquel was a better actress than she is a singer (which isn't saying much, really), so she should be going home, as well. I'm sure there are some backstage machinations going on to make the later match-ups seem more interesting than they'll actually be, but come on, producers...do you really think that your viewers aren't paying attention?
Totally agree that Rebecca was better than Devon. What was Adam thinking??
I didn't care for any of last night's singers except Dia-- Devon and Rabecca were the best pairing, but neither of them would have made it far in the live shows I think. Devon needs more tome. The poor woman on Adam's t6eam who has to go against Jeff Jenkins next week though. He shoulda put Jeff up against one of these two. Xtina's team other than Frenchie is the least interesting to me. Bev shouts and is arrogant (as least by appearances) and Raquel-- star wannabe, doesn't care about singing as much as fame. Do feel sorry for rebecca going back to her car. Hope the twins leave early-- annoyed by them.
I wanted Rebecca Loebe to win that round!!! =(
Racquel was much better than the other girl, and she had stage presence--so Christina did make the right choice. So far, I don't like any of Blake's picks.
The girls won American Jr. Idol in 2003, get the facts straight.. Far from annoying, talented and beautiful