Notes

THE VOICE U.S ....BETWEEN THE LAST PERFORMANCES AND THE WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT - SOME THOUGHTS ON FINAL 4:
This is kinda just a list - views expressed are, of course, all simply just mine... :D
JulietSimms: kinda have had her down for the winner since Roxanne. Great rasp always has instant impact and she knows how to vary her drama, which helps in the program format.
Weirdly enough I KINDA I hope she doesn’t win (sorry!). For me, her most heartfelt piece is still her audition and found her last performances kinda underwhelming. (I don’t it was just her flu, unfortunately.). Now, suddenly channelling Florence and the Machine for the Bird, she seemed bit upstaged by her clothing at times.
But seems her heart draws her towards the weirdness of the real :) Always a good thing...

Maybe since we viewed her on youtube (am in UK) directly after watching the Jermaine Paul performances in a row, that helped her to came across extra shrunk in size.

Which brings me to...

Jermaine Paul: a beautiful, beautiful presence in the last round. And ALL the Coaches seemed genuinely affected. LOL. I was. His performances from the night I can repeat watch. Even if I don’t find his voice really The Voice... but it says something I hate to say it. Because I think Christina was right: yesterday he shone like a super star, putting his heart on the line.

(A thought - outside those two performances, do think that too much sincerity alone can be limiting. Without some complexity/humour/irony/ugly, people will come to even a great performer for one kind of fix only.)

Jermaine Paul will go on to do things. That much soul &balls will have their sunshine.

TonyLucca : only performer that to us didn’t really jump up a gear for the Final. Comes across warm, interesting guy off stage, bit arsey on stage....? Not sure why. Technically great, nice voice. Didn’t really get much sense of anything beyond that. Could he surprise, win? Well, this is TV...
However, had to see his coach was the only dueter who didn't work hard to give to his "protégée" more of the lime light in the duet (not a giver, Adam, it seems). Strange vibe there.

ChrisMann: undeniably a Voice. For me, You Raise Me Up was the first time that I felt he was actually just letting us just get the song, the meaning. Some real beauty. Voice Within went from Disney to somewhere interesting, then back again. Must kinda kill live, on screen only, still bit stiff.

Out of the two I think ARE in the running, Mann is the one I think I’d like to see win. Seems he is a very honest performer...and he is already less into just enjoying the fact that he can finally do BIG (was understandable). Well, he has a HUGE voice, with more expressive colour and actual emotion to it than I had so far noticed.

Based on the last performances alone though, it would warm my heart if Jermaine Paul come forth in a surprise leap. ‘Cos what he did yesterday was emotionally fearless, to go all out. He just shook himself off and laid bare. No wonder Blake wants lessons... ;)

Very glad he is taking home the memory of a four Coach standing ovation from the last show. It was his RIGHT after what he pulled out of the bag.

So what do you needed in order to succeed on The Voice, at least this year...?

To be fairly ready commercial package, it seems (like Simms – and seems a little like NBC has pushed her to the fore accordingly, like Lucca, Adam seemed to hope). To have an arresting voice with enough lungs behind it (Duh! ).

...and to be lucky enough to survive some of the most random, anti-talent-nurturing, gladiatorial Talent Program processes known in the TV-land.

Turns out I find The Voice, as a format, enormously flawed. It DOES find genuine talent, due to the blind auditions... but then does much less with it than most other talent programmes.

A real pity. Much LUCK to all the REAL TALENT - on the night and FAR BEYOND.