The Same Page is a blog; currently dedicated to reviewing Season 4 of NBC’s The Voice. Written by friends for life Giselle Carrington and Tonia Holder, this blog puts together all their thoughts while watching episodes of The Voice. This Blog is a bit different from your average review blog between friends, mainly because Giselle is in Grenada and Tonia is in Trinidad ! They converse over Whatsapp on Mondays and Tuesdays and DRAMATICALLY express their views on the happenings of the episodes. They now wish to share their comical analyses with the world at large!
The Voice: Top 5
Performances
Tonz: I’m still
pretty upset over the loss of both Judith and Sarah and I do not forgive
America! However I have an obligation to review the rest of the season because
I know that you guys look forward to reading Gis’ and my witty banter about the
coaches and their competitors. So it is with duress and a heavy heart that I
continue and review the top 5 performers and their performances. *moment of
silence for the loss of my girls* At least I still have my girl Sasha. I’m
reviewing the first 5 set of performances as all artists had to perform twice.
Giz: I believe
I’ve gotten over the loss of Judith now. I’m still upset, but, not upset enough
to not want to blog this week. Last week, Tonz and I did not want to watch or
blog, hence the any entry of the top 6 performances and eliminations. Sorry to
see Holly go though, I liked her. Tonz and I are definitely on the same page
when it comes to how we feel right now. I think she has some choice words for a
lot of people lol. I’ll be reviewing the final 5 performances of the night.
Tonia
Zach is a really strong singer, no wonder he sings the
majority of the verses when the brothers perform. Colton played the hell out of
that guitar though lol and of course he harmonized perfectly with his brother.
This was a good performance by the brothers, nice and strong. They really have
grown as performers and you can see this every week when they perform. The last
note that Zach hit and held on to for dear life gave me chills. Wow, what a way
to end their performance, especially with all the pyrotechnics that went off
emphasising the note and I guess the strong end of the song. I like them and
America seems to like them as well. And we all know it is America that has the
power in this show so we’ll wait and see what they decide.
Need I say that I love this girl, no I don’t think so, I
think you all know this by now. But she started off a bit shaky with this song;
the notes weren’t what I would have liked to hear. Please note thought that
this is a really REALLY hard song to sing. I don’t know why this was chosen for
her to perform, probably because the faith in her pulling it off was and is strong.
As she continued to sing, she really brought out all the stops by hitting the
notes and maintaining them. For me her broad way vocal training really was
illustrated. I absolutely loved that she was able to h it the main high note
that the song is known for. It wasn’t her best performance for the season but
it wasn’t her worst, it was pretty solid. I ain’t got nothing but love for
Sasha.
Now I have really grown to love this bug eyed, squatting
nerd of a girl Michelle. She totally surprised me by reaching this far, but
then again America votes and not I. She had a bit of vocal shakiness as she
started off, at points her voice was breaking on some notes and at times she
was a bit inaudible. But as always she soared on her strong points, i.e
swatting to make the high notes come out and boy did they. Again it was not her
best performance; I guess it was mainly because of the song selection. But I
love her energy and her voice nonetheless.
This little girl I knew from the start was going to make it
to the end of the competition. She has a great, strong voice for her age and as
Blake once commented, her voice has a level of maturity that is beyond her age.
There was still the flatness on some notes, but i enjoyed the song. She really
does need to learn to move on stage without looking so stiff and she has to
learn to actually perform a song. Because as it stands right now, she just
sings them, she sings them really well, great even but her overall performance
always lacks for me. No doubt in my mind though that America will take this
country sweet heart all the way to the end.
The last standing of Adam’s Angels, I look to her
performance with enthusiasm. However the notes as she starts to sing were just
wrong. She was a bit in audible, she was breathy and it sounded like if she was
having trouble singing the song. However she came back on track on the high
notes as she always does. The song was relatively bland, she countrified it and
i guess that was great because she made it her own. Amber honestly didn’t move
me to goose bumps as I would have liked. But it was a good performance.
Giselle
Straight into the 2nd half we go.
The Swonnies as I so affectionately call them were given
their coach’s choice of Danny’s Song by Loggins and Messina. That’s a very
passionate, deep song. I was glad to see them put down the guitars and just use
Zach on the piano. As always, Zach was the main voice. This is something I
would have liked to see changed at this stage. Colton came in for the harmonies
as usual, but his harmonies were masked by what I think was the background
singers. I really thought that by now, they’d try to have both brothers singing
equally. I was disappointed there. Colton sang one line solo, which the ladies
in the audience myself included, responded to. Setting aside the lack of Colton
singing solo and not being able to hear him, the performance was generally
good, as they usually are. Not semi final good, in my opinion, but good enough.
We await America’s votes, cause let’s face it, you guys are the ones making the
decision anyway.
Shakira gave Sasha Donna Summers’ Bad Girls. It’s a song a
little out of Sasha’s comfort zone, but something easily attainable by her. She
came out in all her glory. I was shocked, because as you know, Sasha doesn’t
really impress me too much. Vocally, it was the usual Sasha stuff, but on
stage, man Sasha had a hell of a time. Giselle = impressed. We haven’t seen
many performances by Sasha that made her use the stage. She even danced, with
back up dancers! So, maybe that didn’t work out too well, but I mean, she
brought something different. Vocally though, it was the same as always, really
good. Overall, it was a pretty good performance. Was I moved? Not any more than
usual, but she really did make me glad by stepping up her performance game.
Great job!
Blake, in all his wisdom, chose Who I am by Jessica Andrews
for young Danielle to sing. To be perfectly honest, I don’t think any song was
more perfectly picked. The lyrics really rang true when you thought about it
from Danielle’s point of view. I really loved this performance. Again, I keep
hearing little flatness from her every once in a while, but they were few and
further between on this rendition. I especially loved when she walked up to her
family. Yes, she looked a bit uncomfortable, but again, we did mention, at
least Tonz did, that her interaction needed a boost. All in all, I loved this
song choice and I enjoyed the performance. Hopefully America did too!
Adam gave Amber Maroon 5’s Sad. First of all, I just want to
congratulate Amber on making it this far. Yes, that is because we share the
same last name. So somewhere down the long line of Carringtons, we’re related.
Secondly, Sad is probably my favourite song from Maroon 5’s Overexposed album.
I’ve always said that if I had to audition for one of these shows, one of my
songs to choose from would be Sad. Anyway, when Amber started, my ears perked
upward. The melody she used wasn’t the same for the first few lines of the
verses. I didn’t warm up to it at all. But when she passed those lines, she
really owned the song. I was calm and beautiful. I loved it. Especially near
the end where she played with the falsettos and belted out notes. She’s really
mastering that. I totally enjoyed it. I hope America sees what I saw in that
performance.
Michelle was given the timeless classic of Time After Time
by Cyndi Lauper (see what I did there?). Michelle is one up my top 10
favorites. I just love her energy and her uniqueness. She came out, very
uncharacteristically and started the rendition calmly. It was very much unlike
her. I heard a few vocal falters here and there. Then, very close to then end,
the beat dropped and Michelle came out. The entire mood of the song changed. It
made me smile, ‘cause I was missing the Michelle-ness. Whilst I didn’t like the
calm part, because it left too much room to hear errors, the last part, with
the switcheroo caught me and I like it. It was a pretty good performance, she
could have done a bit better in the first two verses, but overall it rocked. I
expect nothing less from Michelle. #4EyesOnThePrize!
Tonz: There ends
the night. I would have thought though that all the artists would have brought
out all the stops to impress and make a strong impression on Americas minds as
they are in the habit of eliminating strong people that we thought would have
made it to the end. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens in the
eliminations. I am not making any predictions out of fear of having my heart
broken again. But I do feel Sasha should fare well to the end.
Giz: Same Page
Tonz! I didn’t think these were Semi Finals performances. They were good, but
as Tonia said, I would have thought they’d leave some sort of mark. It didn’t
happen for me at all. I’m not making any predictions either. America’s votes
have a way of making come close to a heart attack! We’ll just wait to see.
The Voice: Top 5
Eliminations
Giselle
I’ll be very honest with you. I am writing under duress.
The top 5 artistes were brought down to 3 finalists last
night. I watched, because I blog and because I was giving the voters a chance
to redeem themselves. Also, because Tonz kept telling me I’m slacking off. So I
sat and I watched. I was so afraid because after checking iTunes, I was sure
due to the votes for Danielle and the
Swonnies, Amber and Michelle would go home. Come’on son! Who would send Sasha
home?
Well, I was wrong. Michelle was the first to be saved! If
only you know how relieved I was. So happy! The next save was Danielle. That
was not a shocker at all.
The bottom 3 artistes were the Swonnies, Sasha and my girl
Amber. Well America, once again you done messed up!!! Amber and…SASHA ALLEN
were sent home.
Let me tell you this. I am about to rant, so hold on to your
underpants. Votes really do water down the true essence of this show. I’m not
saying that any one of these artistes don’t belong in the finals, but let’s be
real for just one moment. It is not about the song choice, it is about the
execution. It is not mainly about the performance, the premise is THE VOICE. It
should not be a publicity race. Amber’s semi finals performances were not her
best vocally so I totally understand her not being voted in. I can be real.
That says a lot, cause I’m Team Adam all day every day. But Sasha had one of
the strongest voices in the competition. To vote her off was ridiculous. I can’t
say that the Swonnies were any better vocally than Sasha on that night.
Seriously! And this is saying a lot because Sasha was far from my favourite. All
I’m saying is, let America vote, but let the coaches do the judging for the
semi’s or something. GOSH!!!
Let me also say, Tonia is so upset. She cursed and turned
off the TV immediately. No more to be said.
This is the reason we did not watch last week. Tonia doesn’t
even care who wins, but I know for sure Michelle is my choice. To Sasha and
Amber we say, we totally enjoyed you. You guys were so awesome. We wish you
well in the future and I’m sure to cop your albums when they come out! To
Michelle and Danielle, all the best next week! To the Swonnies, I like you
guys, good luck. To Usher, I’m on your team. To Blake, you’re fans a hella
loyal to you, I hope you love them as much as they love you. I personally think
you’re super cool though.
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Till Next time
Giz & Tonz