1   ------------------------------ House 1 (Tiffany Mitchell, Will Kirby, Cirie Fields, Da'Vonne Rogers, Vanessa Rousso, Danielle Reyes) - Alex, Chris House 2 (Sarah Hanlon, Olivia Riemer, Betty Yirsaw, Cassandra Shahinfar, Sabrina Abbate) - Chris, Diana  House 3 (Claire Rehfuss, Jordan Lloyd, Dan Gheesling, Allison Irwin, Janelle Pierzina, Britney Haynes, Felicia Cannon) - Diana, Gigi, Corey House 4 (Nicole Franzel-Arroyo, Rachel Reilly, Taylor Hale, Keesha Smith, Jun Song) - Sola, Corey, Akshar House 5 (Ika Wong, Neda Kalantar, Karen Singbell, Claudia Campbell, Gary Levy) -    House 4   ROUND RULES (Please copy with your vote): 5 votes per day, 1 hour apart. For each vote, you can vote for 1 house to be safe.  Once a house has votes from four people it can be moved above the line, this indicates the house as safe for the round. Please write which house you are saving in addition to moving them if it's eligible. Please check for skipped votes and fix if necessary. The last two houses remaining will be facing eviction.

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176. James Dupré (Season 9) "Let Her Cry" by Hootie & the Blowfish     As we start to approach the territory of C+/B- grade auditions for this series – yes, we’re already past the “bad” ones! – some of you loyal readers may notice the write-ups for these contestants begin to err on the shorter side. Truth be told, this isn’t just a case of burnout – in truth, we’re beginning to enter a part of the ranking where I haven’t got a whole lot to say about the auditions themselves. A lot of the next couple of batches, you’ll be seeing plenty of auditions that are just… kinda whatever, at least in my book.   Speaking of auditions that were kinda just whatever, James Dupré! He’s a bit more of an obscure (read: forgettable) Knockouts cut from Season 9 who made waves during the Blinds when he, a dedicated country artist, made the choice to join Team Adam, rather than defer to Blake as so many others had before him. Of course, Shelby Brown would not only go on to immediately do the same thing a few episodes later, but then go on to eliminate him in the Knockouts. Brutal.   Unfortunately, that’s about the most thing I’ve got to say when it comes to James, because, frankly, this audition is maybe the least memorable in the entire series. Muddling his delivery of a song about a man whose wife is struggling with alcoholism is an indistinct tone, a flatlining sense of dynamics, and a clear difficulty with figuring out what exactly to do with his hands. The matchup of no vocal strength + no emotional strength is a trying combination, and the lack of… really any momentum behind his performance makes me wonder if the coaches were just really fighting to fill a country quota that season (it wouldn’t be the first time). I truly wish there was more to say other than a resounding “eh”, but… eh.   Clue Breakdown 176. Has more to do with one of Idol's ex-judges than their own coach. James' claim to fame before auditioning for The Voice was an appearance on The Ellen Show way back in 2010. Probably a better gig than being goaded into choosing a coach who would drop you before you could even sing for America's votes... Point: @Someone648   175. Adriana Louise (Season 3) "Domino" by Jessie J     At a point in The Voice history where a lot of Blind Auditions were a little on the scrappier side (especially at a time where post-production studio sweetening was all but absent), Adriana Louise was a really interesting example of someone who was able to make the most of a song choice that would leave most contestants in modern seasons dead on arrival. Of course, this was achieved in a pretty unusual way, given that the missteps within this performance were most definitely not the kinds you’d see from artists of recent seasons, ones who’d sing the song with absolutely zero conviction while only occasionally whiffing a note or two.   Yes, while its pretty refreshing to see someone not only tackle Jessie J, but to do so with reckless abandon, this, of course, comes at the cost of an audition with a few too many sharp lines – note that I say lines, not notes – to match the energy she was able to conjure. Adriana definitely brought out a couple of moments of brilliance from within her – she’s got a breathy falsetto paired with a really crisp chest voice, and some of her higher notes were really clear – but some of the moments in the song that should’ve been highlights ended up tripping on its own feet in the pursuit of stage presence. The rough glory note after the bridge kinda seals the deal for an audition that is otherwise delivered with passion and, unfortunately, not much else to match it.   Clue Breakdown 175. And the award for "most jarring transition from backstory to audition by virtue of song choice" goes to... Introduced herself with a harrowing anecdote about being held at gunpoint during a robbery in her childhood... only to immediately segue into an uptempo Jessie J song. Never change, Adriana. Point: @Someone648   174. Troy Ramey (Season 12) "Wild World" by Cat Stevens     If one were to ever ask me to nominate a contestant for the honor of “Weirdest Contestant to Make It Past the Playoffs”, I’d sit them down, play them a video of Troy’s audition, and let them come to a decision from there, because… sorry to contradict myself so quickly, but there is a lot to unpack with this one. Perhaps Season 12’s most confusing four chair turn from purely a vocal standpoint, Troy’s audition functions as sort of a checklist of things most performers on The Voice would shy away from. Let’s see…   Sleepy song choice? Check. Singing like he’s swallowing the mic? Check. A tone so husky it sounds like he’s singing through a mouthful of peanut butter? Check. Inconsistent breath control? Check. Middling precision upon the song’s higher notes? Check… Weird hand singing? Check.   Truth to tell, my ranking was locked in from the moment this thread went online – I’m not going back and changing any rankings from here – but, in retrospect, this one probably should’ve been somewhere in the previous batch. It’s not as though Troy, like Adriana, doesn’t show flashes of potential, especially when he breaks out the rasp for the song’s last verse, but, even then, the way he throws out the phrasings of “oh, baby, baby, it’s a wild world” without specificity, emotionally OR vocally, leaves me feeling… cold, honestly. Between the distracting visual and the lethargic delivery, there just isn’t a whole lot of appeal here, at least for me.   Clue Breakdown   174. I hope their arm doesn't hurt from how long they had been holding that torch. After recruiting Troy to her team, Gwen would have to wait, kid you not, twelve seasons before she'd win over another artist who turned all four chairs – for those wondering, we've got Chechi Sarai to thank for breaking this curse. Point: @Adam Bruce   173. Andrew Igbokidi (Season 22) "when the party's over" by Billie Eilish     Sigh. This was an audition I really, really wanted to be better. While keeping up with spoilers before the season aired, Andrew was a contestant who intrigued me a great deal, especially after hearing a strong tone and envisioning it being paired with a (yet unidentified) Billie Eilish number to earn him four chairs during the auditions. It sounded like a recipe for a moment of moments, especially with him joining Camila’s team in the end.   Needless to say, what we ended up getting was… let’s be honest, kind of a disappointment even without the hype I may have harbored leading up to the airing of his audition. When we, as The Voice fans, have heard so many good renditions of “when the party’s over” – everyone wave hello to Max Boyle, Roderick Chambers and Joanna Serenko, Ryleigh Modig, Ryley Tate-Wilson, and, of course, Jesse Teinaki from The Voice Australia – there’s a lot to live up to by default. This, of course, meant that, when Andrew delivered a rendition of “when the party’s over” with as little falsetto as necessary and a cavalcade of overembellishments, I can’t say I was impressed. Again, there were moments where I could see his potential shining through, especially when his tone sounded so great on the first verse, but things started getting out of control the more he carried on.   It’s especially troubling when it becomes obvious that he’s got next to no strength to his head voice, something that a guy kinda needs if he wants to take on this song without messing with the arrangement too much. There was a little tinkering, to be sure, but, admittedly, it felt as though this was only to the audition’s detriment, as the insistence upon stuffing as much as he could justify including in his ninety seconds ended up sacrificing the song’s emotional core upon the altar of acrobatics. All in all, Andrew simultaneously bled the song dry while turning it into an exercise of excess; for that, even beyond my excitement for the audition beforehand, he’s got to be one of the biggest disappointments of the list.   Clue Breakdown 173. Walked so that Kylee Dayne could run. Don't you know this clue's got nothing to do with singing? Both Andrew and Kylee chose music over med school. Hope they're making the most of this change in career paths, at least. Point: @Someone648   172. James Irwin (Season 5) "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M.     Remember how I said there’d be a few contestants where I’d have just… next to nothing to say about? Well, turns out that this rule only applies to the Jameses of the world. Kind of a weird curse to have been inflicted upon me, but, hey, I can roll with the punches either way.   Jokes aside, James Irwin was a bit of a footnote in one of the strongest seasons of The Voice’s American run, best known for being the first artist to ever turn four chairs after failing to turn a chair in a previous season and absolutely nothing else. He wouldn’t be the last, no doubt – hell, we’ve got two of them as of the airing of this current season – but, hey, good for him. Credit where credit’s due, his punk rock-esque reimagining of the song’s arc definitely worked in places, especially when he really had to start bringing some power into the vocal, but, unfortunately, I think a lot of what makes the original song great got lost in the shuffle a bit. It almost feels as though he’s shying away from the maturity of the original lyric in an attempt to let loose and rock out. It’s not as though his approach was ineffectual, but I think it ended up being a little messier than he might’ve wanted it to be.   Ultimately, the cost of pulling out all of the stops was a bit of the original song’s spirit, and it was one he paid for in unmemorability and, ultimately, an elimination before he could even make an attempt at winning America over. Probably doesn’t help that he was on maybe the most stacked iteration of Team Adam in all sixteen seasons he was a coach, but hey, you win some, you lose some, right?   Clue Breakdown 172. I'd call it zero to a hundred if "a hundred" wasn't such a massive exaggeration. As already mentioned, James was the first artist to turn all four chairs after failing to turn even one when he last auditioned. He definitely wasn't the last! Point: @Dai

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Plastique Tiara - been on my dream list forever. Angeria Paris VanMichaels - have a feeling she will shine with this format. Vanjie - my chaotic queen. Shannel - excited to see her back. Roxxxy Andrews - clearly not as big of a fan like others in this thread but i am sure she will do good. Nina West - I am intrigued to see how her time on Hairspray inspired her run Jorgeous - unsure what she has to show that she hasn't shown yet Gottmik - thank you next.