Is "The Voice" Your New Vice?

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<p>ALL FOUR MUSICIAN COACHES OF NBC’S ‘The Voice’ TO RETURN FOR NEW SEASON OF HIT VOCAL COMPETITION SERIES
Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton Set to Resume Series in Mid-season</p>

<p>UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – June 30, 2011 – All four musician coaches of NBC’s “The Voice” – Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton – will return next season when the vocal competition series resumes in mid-season on Mondays (8-10 p.m. ET). The announcement was made by Paul Telegdy, Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, NBC and Universal Media Studios.</p>

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<p>Haha. I’d say that he was a lot more well-known that Adam Levine. But, yes, country music remains an acquired taste. :)</p>

<p>Shelton, the reigning CMA Male Vocalist of the Year, is currently #1 on the Billboard Country chart for the third week in a row with his smash hit “Honey Bee” off “Red River Blue,” coming out July 12. “Honey Bee” is off his eighth studio album and tops the chart with nearly one million in digital single sales, holding the record for the fastest-selling digital single to be certified gold by the R.I.A.A. by a country male. “Honey Bee” marks Shelton’s fourth consecutive #1 hit following “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking,” “All About Tonight” and “Hillbilly Bone.” His CD, “LOADED: The Best of Blake Shelton,” debuted in the Top 10 on the country charts, adding Shelton into an elite group of artists who have charted three records in one year. Shelton has nine #1 hits and has not had a single peak outside the Top Ten since 2007.</p>

<p>Shelton made his debut with the single “Austin,” released from his self-titled first album that later became gold-certified. The song occupied the top spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs charts for five weeks. Shelton’s second album, “The Dreamer,” and his third, “Blake Shelton’s Barn & Grill,” also were certified gold.</p>

<p>Shelton’s other popular albums include “Pure BS,” “Startin’ Fires,” “Hillbilly Bone,” “All About Tonight” and “Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton” (his first compilation album). The albums yielded such hit singles as “Ol’ Red” (considered Shelton’s signature song), “All Over Me,” “The Baby,” “Some Beach,” “Goodbye Time,” “Nobody But Me” (which appeared on the television movie “The Christmas Blessing”), “Home,” “The More I Drink,” “Don’t Make Me,” “She Wouldn’t Be Gone,” “I’ll Just Hold On,” “Hillbilly Bone,” “All About Tonight,” and more recently, “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking.” In addition, Shelton’s duet with Trace Adkins, “Hillbilly Bone,” reached #1 last year and won every country collaboration award from the CMA Awards, ACM Awards, CMT Awards and ACA Award shows. He also collaborated with his Grammy-winning wife, Miranda Lambert, for their #1 hit single “Home.” This year he scored the most CMT Award wins with “Male Video of the Year” and “Best Web Video of the Year.”</p>

<p>Last fall, Shelton won six awards, one of which was the prestigious Male Vocalist of the Year at the “44th Annual CMA Awards.” He also won awards for Vocal Event of the Year from the ACM Awards, Musical Event of the Year from the CMA Awards, Collaborative Video of the Year (with Adkins) from the CMT Awards, Music Video of the Year from the ACA Awards and Music Video: Male from the ACA Awards. He also is a Grammy nominee and was inducted into the prestigious Grand Ole Opry.</p>

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<p>Sorry…just don’t follow country music at all…although I have a passing acquaintance with some country stars that grace the cover of People Magazine.</p>

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<p>I gamely just tried to listen to “Honeybee”, but couldn’t last past 15 seconds. I’m sure this could be said about every genre of music, but most country songs sound alike to me, too simplistic in tune and lyric and too repetitious to be interesting, and all the country singers sound the same to me too (how is it they all sing with that same accent?). Still, Blake is one good looking man. He can come on over and not sing for me anytime.</p>

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<p>Oh, MommaJ…you scamp! I did like his video of Honeybee…he was so cute in it.</p>

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<p>I do like the idea of Nick Cannon, but if we can’t get him, Mariah would be interesting. In some sense I’m glad the same 4 judges have re-signed, but Christina better re-read feedback on her boobs, legs, and trashy comments. (Sorry, a broken record, I know.)
Javstwtr just told me on Twitter that he is now #1 on iTunes. Yay. He is so deserving of success and good things. Now I have to go stalk LilyElise to see what she is going to do next.</p>

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<p>^Snowflake, it WAS Mariah I was suggesting to replace Christina, but I can see how it sounded like I was suggesting Nick Cannon in my post. It also doesn’t sound like Christina is going anywhere anytime soon, however. </p>

<p>I actually LIKED Christina’s antics and attire (male perspective)!</p>

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<p>Seriously? Mutton dressed as lamb.</p>

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<p>jshain, so funny. My eyes read only what I want to see. I still prefer Nick over Mariah, but Alicia Keyes would be pretty cool, as someone above suggested. And if you liked Christina’s look and antics, then I guess she found her audience, because it sure isn’t a middle-aged woman’s preference! Cheers, Happy 4th to all.</p>

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<p>^I’m experiencing an acute case of MC (mid-life crisis). Just because I like her doesn’t necessarily mean she is in good taste or I’d want to bring her home to meet mom. I “like” her for her entertainment value!</p>

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<p>AI seems to have part of Jennifer Lopez re-starting her career after a lull. Maybe The Voice will give Christina Aguilera a shot in the arm. Because that movie, Burlesque, didn’t do the trick…</p>

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<p>Apologies if this was said in the thread before, but while I liked this show a lot, I felt all the judges commentary was so boring and uselessly positive. Too much ‘faux love’ going around with empty positive platitudes. Gag-worthy. </p>

<p>I’m not looking for Simon Cowell nastiness, but some honest, specific, pointed pros and cons would be really nice and interesting. But if they are just going to say “wow man, I really love you”, “you are so amazing!”, “I think you are going to be a star! I love you!” four times in a row, every damn song…I just feel like changing the channel.</p>

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<p>Agree with you Starbright. The show really slowed down when we had to run the gauntlet of judges’ comments…no entertainment value at all added. I wouldn’t have minded seeing more of the mentoring aspect of the show.</p>

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<p>Popping this back up for the new season. I’m not liking the extended version with back stories of way too many people, too much talking among the judges, and the judges kind of taunting each other pretending to press the button and then backing off. Wasn’t this faster moving last year, with more singing and less filler?</p>

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<p>Wonder how many backstories get done and how they decide which to show? Have the judges already seen the back stories in advance? Seems odd to me that so many with back stories get chosen?</p>

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<p>Kathie, I agree. The show should be about the contestant’s VOICE. …. not about how the contestant looks or his/her particular life story. I tune in to hear the singing. Is it my imagination or are the contestants not as good as the ones last season? Even last season’s rejects sounded better to my untrained ears.</p>

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<p>I agree about the quality of the singers, but I also have an untrained ear, so who knows. I stopped watched American Idol because there was too much filler and now they are doing that to this show. grumble, grumble. :(</p>

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<p>The Battle Rounds in the upcoming weeks should be really interesting. I’m glad that the coaches have to make the decisions on those. I remember from last year, some of the duets were so good and so close…</p>

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<p>How did the Shields Brothers make it through? I thought they were terrible. Surprised that Cee Lo picked them.</p>

<p>Loved the “impromptu” duet that Sera (the last singer to be chosen) and Christina did together to end tonight’s show.</p>

<p>I remember last season’s battle rounds to be sort of “rigged” for the most part. They seemed to pit a judge’s favorite against a weaker opponent using a song that was better suited for their favorite from a given pairing. With few exceptions, the judge’s already knew ahead of time who they wanted to go through from each pairing. I thought what made it interesting was that some of the underdogs had a lot of unexpected fight in them. Last year, didn’t one (or two) of the eliminated singers from each group get to compete against each other in a “loser’s bracket” for a chance to get reinstated? For some reason (other than the obvious reason… the onset of dementia), I cannot remember how that worked.</p>

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<p>Agree the Shields bros. were not great. Also thought the dark haired jazz singer in the purple dress w/ white flower in her hair …her name escapes me…was not good and was shocked that three judges turned around for her. I think they were sorry they did and were each hoping she didn’t chose them. I predict she will lose out in the battle rounds early on.</p>

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<p>I was surprised that none of the judges picked the kind of strange looking guy that was billed as being multi-talented. He had a really good range, although I think his song choice wasn’t the best and if you only have one shot, that’s really important.</p>

<p>Also agree about the Shield brothers and the dark haired jazz singer. My husband and I both thought she hit some clunker notes, and was not as good as others.</p>

<p>I was able to read a good chunk of my book during that show by only paying full attention to when they were singing.</p>