The Voice Top 20 Results Recap: Did The Right Singers Advance?
This just in: The flagrant sadist who's been styling Christina Aguilera this season on The Voice has apparently taken control of the pop star's major decisions on the show.
How else to explain the "Dirrty" singer's ridiculous choice to send home her most entertaining team member on Thursday's Season 3 Playoffs results telecast? The troweled-on makeup and see-through Lycra we can tolerate, but this latest blunder simply will not stand.
Part of me wants to believe the elimination of uni-monikered De'Borah was pure theater — that next Monday Carson Daly will announce that the coaches pow-wowed over the weekend and decided that Season 3 couldn't proceed without the fabulous soul sister, and therefore had changed the Top 12 into a Top 13. But no, this is not The X Factor. (You can tell because the stage lighting is not set to "seizure-inducing," and the requisite tattered t-shirt is worn by an American hottie, not a cranky Brit with a baffling haircut.)
Anyhow, enough of my griping...let's talk results:
TEAM ADAMVoted Through by America
Amanda Brown (Adam's right — if we had to declare the Season 3 champ today, it'd be her)
Bryan Keith
Adam's Save
Melanie Martinez (lose the hair bow, girl!)
Eliminated
Loren Allred
Joeslyn Rivera
TEAM BLAKEVoted Through by America
Terry McDermott
Cassadee Pope (what is America buying that I'm not seeing, aside from an empty bottle of Hype?)
Blake's Save
Michaela Page (YES!!!!)
Eliminated
Liz Davis
Julio Cesar Castillo
TEAM XTINAVoted Through by America
Dez Duron (way to choose the "cute" guy with the average voice, teen robots!)
Sylvia Yacoub (did her side cornrows look super painful or what?)
Xtina's Save
Adriana Louise (over Dez, sure! over De'Borah, blasphemy!)
Eliminated
De'Borah (noooooooo!!!!!)
Devyn Deloera
TEAM CEE LOVoted Through by America
Trevin Hunte (of course!)
Nicholas David
Cee Lo's Save
Cody Belew (YESSS!)
Eliminated
Mackenzie Bourg
Diego Val (I hope he got paid enough that he can afford socks now)
Interspersed among the results we had a pair of "too many contestants spoil the music" group perofrmances, a Maroon 5 jam, and a visit from Season 2 champ Jermaine Paul, there to plug his not-very-memorable debut single "I Believe in This Life." (Still better than "I Believe I Can Fly", though). I could talk about them at length, or you could go to NBC's Voice web site and watch them again. (Why would either of us want to do those things?)
And now it's your turn: What did you think of this week's results? Whose ouster made you maddest? Sound off in the comments, and for all my reality TV news, interviews, and recaps, follow me on Twitter @MichaelSlezakTV!
p.s. Due to Hurricane Sandy leaving me without cable and internet for six days, there'll be no new Reality Check till next Monday. Last week's kick-awesome episode, however, is embedded below!