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It really is depressing how few performances Voice contestants get these days as opposed to Idol contestants. If the problem is that NBC won’t give them any more episodes than they do, they can at least speed up the Battle and KO rounds so that the contestants will have more opportunities to perform later in the season.    Some ideas:   If they insist on pre-taped Playoffs, maybe get rid of the rehearsals and just squeeze all 20 contestants in (y’all have done it before), eliminating one from each team. Then, next week we get a Playoffs Pt. 2 where the Top 16 perform and another contestant is eliminated from each Team.   Then, when we finally get to the Lives, at least let the contestants who get called safe on results night do a little “victory song” like they do on Idol. Just so that results night isn’t an hour of filler with an Instant Save at the end.

I don't get the hate she sometimes receives online and from some WNBA seniors. In the real world, she's selling out arenas, and bringing eyes to female basketball. I wouldn't have ever tried to watch female basketball if it wasn't for her.   I posted it here because most of the sports threads are a ghost town.

Let's go through every season where a male & female country singer each made the top 12 & see who placed highest (I'm going to start at season 3 because the 1-2 lives format is weird) I'll skip every season where there wasn't either a male or female country singer in that top 12. Season 4: The Swon Brothers vs. Danielle Bradburry Season 6: Jake Worthington vs. Kristen Merlin Season 8: Corey Kent White vs. Meghan Linsey Season 9: Barrett Baber vs. Emily Ann Roberts Season 10: Adam Wakefield vs. Mary Sarah Season 13: Red Marlow vs. Keisha Renee Season 14: Pryor Baird vs. Spensha Baker Season 15: Chris Kroeze vs. Chevel Shepherd Season 17: Jake Hoot vs. Marybeth Byrd (the fact that I'm even counting this is a stretch considering Marybeth became a pop singer after her battle) Season 19: Jim Ranger vs. Bailey Rae Season 22: Bryce Leatherwood vs. Morgan Myles Season 24: BIAS vs. Ruby Leigh   12 matchups, 6 male winners & 6 female winners. And if you're putting an asterisk behind every woman there because they're either a teenager or because of what team they're on I can also put an asterisk behind pretty much every man that made it far over a woman. (Kristen was literally on team Shakira, Bailey was on team John, Morgan was on team Camila, etc.) I'm not denying that minivan is to some extent more likely to gravitate towards a male country singer than a female counterpart but Karen's style of country & song choices are just more in the wheelhouse of the voting audience.   I also don't think we need to be getting so caught up into trying to fit this season's artists into archetypes & history of winners past & just focus on the information available to us. Karen is seemingly more popular with the audience right now & that matters to me more than anything.  

Team D+S is definitely surviving next week right?

5   Jana Wosnitza & Vadim Garbuzov - “Felicitá” (Charleston): 12 Detlef Soost & Ekaterina Leonova - “Caruso” (Contemporary): 7 Stefano Zarrella & Mariia Maksina - “Via con me” (Charleston): 14 Gabriel Kelly & Malika Dzumaev - “Italodisco” (Cha-Cha-Cha): 75 Lulu Lewe & Massimo Sinató - “Voglio ballare con te” (Samba): 2   + Gabriel & Malika - Lulu & Massimo