season1

 

BIAS, Mara, Ruby - Safe and Sound (ft The Civil Wars)

Huntley, Jacquie, Nini - Style

Jordan, Lila, Mac - Enchanted

 

 

Lila Forde - Blackbird (The Beatles) / Me and Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin)

Mac Royals - Jealous (Labrinth) / Stand By Me (Ben E. King)

 

 

BIAS - God Gave Me You (Blake Shelton) / I'll Fly Away (Alan Jackson version)
 

 

Huntley - Can't You See (The Marshall Tucker Band) / Dream On (Aerosmith)

Mara Justine - Gratitude (Brandon Lake) / Moon River (Audrey Hepburn)

Nini Iris - Zombies (The Cranberries) / Creep (Radiohead)

 

 

Jacquie Roar - Come Together (The Beatles) / Alone (Heart)

Jordan Rainer - Red Dirt Road (Brooks and Dunn) / Somebody (Reba McEntire)

Ruby Leigh - Bible and a 44 (Ashley McBryde) / Crazy (Patsy Cline)

 

 

TRIOS (Taylor Swift Songs):

BIAS, Mara, Ruby - Safe and Sound (ft The Civil Wars)
Huntley, Jacquie, Nini - Style
Jordan, Lila, Mac - Enchanted

 

4 hours ago, RTV said:

Apparently BIAS is a twin?

 

 

Yes. Brooks Bias is his twin brother.

 

 

 

EDIT:

 

Facebook post on their 22nd birthday (last year)

 

7 hours ago, Hamza Tufail said:

Add Me, please.

 

She has grown on me a lot. Her last two performances were one of my favorites of the night. Her PO in particular, was Fantastic! 

 

 

Added.

 

I'm glad that Mara keeps gaining fans as the season progresses.

15 hours ago, MILO JAY said:

just so you know, jarae did this in the blinds

 

Thanks. I'd go back to Creep for Nini then. Or Cranberries.

 

Top 9 Questions

 

1. Which 4 singers will be voted through by the public? (80 points)

- Ruby Leigh

- Huntley

- Mara Justine

- BIAS

 

2. Who will land in the Bottom 5? (100 points) 30 bonus points if you guess the order correctly.

- Mac Royals (will sing last)

- Lila Forde

- Nini Iris

- Jacquie Roar

- Jordan Rainer  (will sing first)

 

3. Who will win the Instant Save? (40 points)

- Mac Royals

 

4. Who will open the Top 9? (30 points)

- Jordan Rainer

 

5. Who will close the Top 9? (30 points)

- Mac Royals

 

6. Who will be the first person called safe by America? (30 points)

- Huntley

 

7. Which team will finish second on Monday night (finish = all members have performed)?

- Reba

 

8. Will someone pull the God card (singing gospel / CCM, songs with God in the title…) on Monday night? (30 points)

- Yes

 

9. Every team will be represented in the finale, yes or no? (20 points)

- Yes

 

10. How many contestants will use a mic stand during their performance? (20 points)

- 3

 

Bonus Questions

 

Who will be the third contestant interviewed by Carson Daly? (30 points)

- Mara Justine

 

 

Predict the song choice of one of the Top 9 contestants. You can only make one guess (if you get the artist right, 20 pts, if you get both song and artist, 40 pts) 

 

Mara Justine - Moon River (Audrey Hepburn)

 

Super Bonus Question

 

Can you guess the Top 9 trios? (30 points if you get one right, 60 points if you guess all 3)

 

- Huntley/Jacquie/Nini

- BIAS/Mara/Ruby

- Jordan/Lila/Mac

 

2 hours ago, Someone648 said:

Would love that, too! Definitely means we'd be getting power Jacquie, which is great!

 

Watch them sing a mellow, laid back song.

 

TPTB cue card: "We want to show a different side, show more vulnerability." 

 

 

2 hours ago, QueenCami said:

she would eat on wrecking ball or ball and chain, but i wouldn’t pick them for SF because i think she would wanna maximize demo appeal with song choice

 

That's one reason why I hope she is grouped with BIAS and Ruby if they have trios, and that she gets a demo-friendly song like Rainbow (or Somewhere over the Rainbow) or Gratitude.

I just came across this video of Danielle's The Voice Season 4 journey. I can't believe it's been more than 10 years since she won that season.

 

 

 

Road to the Finals - Danielle Bradbery

How cool is this? Mara singing to and with Jessie J during Jessie J's Philly concert 5 years ago. This girl has nerves of steel!

 

 

Local news reports

 

 

Before the Top 12 performance (with hometown supporters):

 

 

 

 

 

Before the results (with a short interview):

 

 

 

After the results:

 

 

 

Where are BIAS' and Jordan's KOs?

 

Spotify included Danielle's single, "A Special Place" on the Hot Country Best Country Songs of 2023 playlist.

 

 

 

 I found some of Mara's performances on American Idol S16 --

 

 

 

 

 

These trios are the most interesting groups for me --

 

Jacquie, Huntley, Nini 

BIAS, Mara, Ruby

Jordan, Lila, Mac

Google Trends only predicted 2 in the bottom 4 -- Azan and Kara. GT overestimated Jordan's support -- possibly due to negative attention skewing the search trends; this tends to happen to polarizing contestants. Tanner and Mac were switched and their trends were almost even.

 

Metrics that predicted 3 of the B4:

Facebook - Kara, Tanner, Azan [Lila and Jordan were practically even, with Jordan slightly ahead.]

TikTok - Azan, Tanner, Jordan [Kara at mid-pack and BIAS at bottom are big misses.]

YouTube Likes - Tanner, Azan, Jordan [Kara was ranked 7th, ahead of BIAS and Jacquie, with a small lead in likes].

YouTube Views (before results) - Jordan, Kara, Azan [Tanner was 4k ahead of BIAS in views, but tied in likes].

 

 

I rarely vote for IS when a favorite is not at risk. I voted for Bryce in S22 playoffs and Holly in S23 semis.

 

I sent a few votes (I'm a slow typist and my email addresses are long) to Kara. But she had to split Team Gwen votes with Tanner, and R&B votes with Azan, while Jordan had the country and Reba IS votes to herself.

 

I love Kara's Monday night performance but I didn't vote for her because I had to use my few emails for Mara and BIAS. I think she would have had a different outcome if the (overnight) votes were not limited to one per email. It seems she's the 2nd or 3rd favorite of many watchers/voters.

Alpha order --

 

Top 4: BIAS, Huntley, Mara, Ruby

Bottom 5: Jacquie, Jordan, Lila, Mac, Nini

 

IS winner: Mac

 

If TPTB wants Reba to win with Ruby, they'll help Nini win the IS, to further split the Team Niall votes. 

I hope she sings something like these:

 

 

How Great Thou Art

 

 

Oceans

 

 

Your Song

 

 

Since they nixed team performances this season --

 

Team Niall: Huntley, Mara, Nini

Team Reba: Jacquie, Jordan, Ruby

The Rest: BIAS, Lila, Mac

 

 

OR:

 

Girl Power! - Jacquie, Nini, Jordan

All the Guys - BIAS, Huntley, Mac

The Storytellers - Lila, Mara, Ruby

2 minutes ago, Tomd24 said:

I know this is random but I really hope she wins this whole thing!

 

I hope she wins this season too.

 

Glad that BIAS advanced to the semifinals.

 

Looking forward to his performance next week.

 Congratulations, Mara! Welcome to the semifinals.   

 

I love her reaction

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/stories/marajustine1/3251515714337482912/

 

 

 

 

9 minutes ago, dirActing said:

Please add me, thanks!  Haven't joined any fan thread yet this season, not even for my snowflake Nini, but I was genuinely surprised to see one for BIAS--I thought everyone on IDF disliked him LOL, so yeah, I would like to join because this is cool. TBH, country isn't quite my bag, rock/alt/indie/folk is (hence, Nini), but BIAS' brand of outlaw-preacher country with tinge of rock/soul edge, that I can get behind.  I also tend to like the more interesting/quirky artists, and say what you want about BIAS but he is certainly that.  I hope he makes it to the next round, because we haven't gotten a true campfire storytelling moment yet on the show, and with Alexa gone, I think that's now on someone like BIAS, if not Lila or Ruby.  Would like something starkly different though-- sit him on a stool, whip out the trusty six string, three chords/the truth, and tell us a story on a not-frenetic song where there's space for the notes and lyric to resonate and breathe.  Not country, maybe adjacent, maybe overdone(?), but I wonder whether a beloved classic like "Knocking on Heaven's Door" would work?  (Alright, alright, alright, not quite a "God" song, but at least there's heaven in there!)  The Johnny Cash song choice was very cool, btw.

 

 

Added.

 

He is quite a character and I hope he makes the semis and finale. He's one of the few that I find entertaining and full of energy.

GOOGLE TRENDS - PAST DAY

 

Chronological:

 

Performances 1-4 Peaks:

Jacquie - 20

Nini - 100

Kara - 10

Tanner - 38

 

Performances 5-8 Peaks:

Lila - 80

Ruby - 80

Huntley - 100

AZAN - 20

 

Performances 9-12 Peaks:

Jordan - 75

Mara - 100

Mac - 25

BIAS - 90

 

 

TOP/MIDDLE/BOTTOM:

 

Based on the peak values (see above) from the chronological trends, I compared the Top 4, Middle 4 and Bottom 4 contestants' trends:

 

 

Ranking by peak numbers --

 

TOP 4: 

1. Mara

2. BIAS

3. Nini

4. Huntley

 

MIDDLE 4:

5. Jordan

6. Ruby

7. Lila

8. Tanner

 

BOTTOM 4:

9. Mac

10. Jacquie

11. AZAN

12. Kara

 

 

When I added Tanner to the "bottom 4", he peaked higher than Mac.