The Voice Recap: Which Singers Survived Night 2 of the Knockouts? If we didnât know I sucked at predictions before, we sure do now. As we ...
If we didnât know I sucked at predictions before, we sure do now. As we headed into Night 2 of The Voiceâs Season 15 Knockouts, five singers Iâd expected not to make it through had competed⦠and every last one of them had made it through! Mind you, the coaches had been making some straaange calls Monday. Particularly bewildering was Adam Levineâs insistence on keeping around Tyke Jamesâ lustrous mane â" and, unfortunately, Tyke with it! And who couldâve guessed that Katrina Cain would fall apart so disastrously? (Well, I suppose technically, we all couldâve guessed after her Battle went so poorly.) How many more of the contestants that I â" and perhaps you, too â" imagined would get cut, didnât get cut Tuesday? Read onâ¦
Team Jennifer: Franc West singing âCall Out My Nameâ (Grade: B) defeated Tyshawn Colquitt singing âPillowtalkâ (Grade: C) | After JHud explained that sheâd paired these two because she felt that they both had an old-school vibe, Mariah coached Franc on how to give his Weeknd cover a little Luther Vandross flavor. She then marveled at Tyshawnâs ability to hit nosebleed-high notes but advised him to start a little softer and build up â" in other words, make us lean in and then blow us away. On stage, Franc⦠I canât say that he slayed, but he was close. (Maimed?) I hadnât been nuts about him in the Blinds, but Iâve really come around and become a fan of his wild-man vocals. Here, he was passionate but never over the top, and I wondered whether over the top was w hat it would take for him to outshine Tyshawn. Speaking of whom⦠when he took his turn at the mic, he kinda blew it. (OK, so Franc didnât have to go over the top to beat him.) Tyshawn is a helluva performer, but the song was so tuneless, he didnât really manage to make an impression till he unleashed his falsetto near the end. It seemed to me like he didnât exactly know where to take the song, and as a result, it kinda went nowhere.
Team Kelly: Abby Cates singing âBecause of Youâ (Grade: B) defeated Claire DeJean singing âThereâs Nothing Holdinâ Me Backâ (Grade: D-) | In rehearsal, after Mariah kinda adorably gave Claireâs hair a touch-up, Abby got over her nervousness at singing a Kelly song in front of Kelly. At that point, it was sounding a little yelly to me. To her coach and adviser, too, maybe. They advised Abby to give the number a little room to breathe. (Kelly even rearranged the song a bit.) With Claire, Mariah suggested that the teen let the background singers take over for a while so that she could ad lib over them. On stage, Claire demonstrated why Kelly had been so on her to breathe, breathe, breathe â" she sounded like sheâd just finished running a 5K. She was also pitchy enough at tim es, she could have been a baseball player. Sweet girl, train-wreck performance. For Abby to lose after that, sheâd have had to fall off stage (screaming off-key as she did). Instead, she turned in a pretty powerful performance that went from soaring (pretty sure her biggest note chipped a klieg light hanging from the ceiling) to dazzlingly delicate. If I had a complaint about it, it was that occasionally on the choruses, she was so confident about the bigness of her voice that she threw away lines that could have and should have packed a bigger punch.
Team Blake: Dave Fenley singing âStuck On Youâ (Grade: B+) defeated Kameron Marlowe singing âI Shot the Sheriffâ (Grade: C+) â" Kameron stolen by Adam | After hearing Daveâs country-soul rendition of Lionel Richie in rehearsal, Mariah had nothing but praise for him. She sensed that he was singing from the heart (and since he had his wife in mind, youâd certainly hope he was). The slightly stunned expression on Mariahâs face when Kameron started practicing his Bob Marley cover said a lot about the wisdom of his song selection. Mariah thought he was strong vocally, but Blake sensed that even Kameron was unsure that heâd picked the right number for him. On stage, Daveâs cover worked spectacularly well. Thereâs such an earnest sweetness to his raspy singing that he even managed to de-cheese a ballad that had always kinda reeked of brie to me. (Bummer that the Knockouts arenât on iTunes this season â" Iâd buy that.) Second at the mic, dang. I really like Kameron. And his vocal here was fine â" sometimes even much better than fine. (Dig his big, growly notes.) But overall, this performance just felt forced. âPinchedâ is almost the word Iâd use. Or maybe that was just his facial expressions throughout. Whereas Dave succeeded in sounding entirely natural on âStuck On You,â Kameron failed to sound on âI Shot the Sheriffâ like anything but a good singer trying (hard, so hard) to fit himself into a song that wasnât quite right for him.
Did any of your favorites get the axe Tuesday? (Tyshawn for me⦠sigh.) Did any performance especially dazzle you? Vote in the poll below, then hit the comments.
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