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  1. Holly got screwed by the one-vote format. They put her early in the order, so people probably forgot about her performance by the end of the show. I’m sure some people that voted for Grace would have also voted for Holly if they got two votes. It didn’t help that there was no Instant Save this time.
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    Worst format?

    S23. I already hated the PO pass, and the prerecorded Playoffs + 20 -> 8 cut, but now they also only let people vote for one contestant in Semis with a 5 minute window, which really put the early performers at a disadvantage. TPTB got way too much control this season, and I felt that the results would have been different had contestants performed in a different order.
  3. John is not perfect (I have disagreed with some of his prelive decisions), but at least he’s brought strong teams into the Lives in the most recent seasons. His team often has the big vocalists of their seasons as well. Plus I don’t know if he has had any seasons where he obliterated his team the way Chance did.
  4. Did Kelly tell Holly in advance that Reba was going to be coaching next season?
  5. I looked at what was on the next story posted and I saw a very familiar name
  6. Is she going to start using that in her pitches to country artists now that she won’t have to compete with him anymore?
  7. Was not expecting Gwen over Kelly but I expected the others. It’s especially weird to see Gwen without Blake. Glad to see Niall back, as he has shown promise this season, and John is a lot better than Chance
  8. I enjoyed Spensha in Prelives, but she didn’t have many performances I enjoyed in the Lives. I thought she struggled vocally in a lot of her live performances, and I couldn’t appreciate the beauty of her performances like in her Prelives. I understand why you wanted Wilkes saved over her, considering he had a great playoffs round. That said, I don’t think she deserved finale PV over Britton, especially given her performance compared to his
  9. Jackie F was one of the more enjoyable contestants for me in S14. I guess it’s that I really enjoyed her pop-rock style. Her audition was good but not quite a standout, her battle was one of the best at least after Season 10 (I preferred Jackie to DR, but both were great here). Her Knockout was good, though Mia was better that round. All 4 steals/saves may have been a bit surprising but I didn’t care, considering I wanted her to stay. I was not happy when she picked Alicia because that was a stacked team. However, she was one of the best performers in playoffs and she got voted through. Her T12 was rough, but I’m glad she avoided B2 solely because of her playoff showings. I remember the rest of her run being decent though. I would probably put her as my #3 favorite, and my favorite non-finalist
  10. I agree about Christiana. Her prelive performances were all really good, but she seemed to struggle in the Lives. I thought Ain’t No Sunshine was decent but I didn’t like her other performances, and I thought Umbrella was her worst performance.
  11. I was going to say 5 and 3, but it doesn’t really matter
  12. I’m curious to see your combined ranking of Idol and Voice finalists after tomorrow’s show
  13. I have barely watched Idol, but I know a lot about singers like that always making finale there. Minivan seems to be possibly even more powerful in terms of Idol voting
  14. Based on what I’ve heard, both of them would have made the finale on Idol if it were up to me.
  15. Megan became the first Voice Alum to made Idol finale, and Wé got eliminated
  16. Updates: -A lot has happened in my life the past week. I graduated with a Master’s Degree and I start my first job in about a week. -The bad news, my device where I had the writeups broke. I put production on hold because I was unsure whether or not to continue. Unfortunately, I was unable to recover the writeups, so I have to postpone the start date until at least next Sunday. I debated canceling the list, but my lack of motivation may have had to do with my focus on graduation. Since I have extra time on my hands this week, I can probably rewrite the writeups.
  17. It also helps that NOIVAS seems to be pimped the most, and he didn’t close in Knockouts or Playoffs
  18. Is Vienna the only Billy Joel song ever sung on the show nowadays? (It used to be NYSOM, but Vienna has been done so much in more recent seasons). He has had way more songs than that D. Smooth with Thinking Out Loud- Not a great song choice, especially this late in the game. This seems like it could be a bus. NOIVAS and Holly got big songs that could be moment type performances if they go well
  19. Exactly my thoughts on that performance. Unfortunately, I remember it more for the second half. He was good at flipping songs to suit his style, why didn’t he continue that in later rounds?
  20. I hated that playoff format (I didn’t like too many performances that round honestly). Too many performances and I didn’t think many of them were good. Reid was a victim of the U2 curse, and I do remember him struggling a bit there. Though he is the only contestant that didn’t get PV that I think would have gotten PV on one night playoffs. A lot of people flopped this round. Mia on Night 2 was the most surprising flop of the round. I didn’t expect her to survive, but I never expected her last performance to be that bad. Terrence’s playoffs, especially the second one, were very controversial. I was not surprised when he got eliminated. I thought Wilkes did really well this round (He was under the radar for that team, but he delivered this round). Probably the best out of the eliminated contestants this round. There aren’t many contestants I can really talk about from this season. It faded from my memory more than most seasons
  21. Also, I disagree with your thoughts on Sharane. I thought she was one of the better vocalists that season. Her tone reminded me of Brooke Simpson and she was one of my S13 favorites so of course I was going to like her As for KOs: Rayshun, Kelsea and Mia were all really good, and I liked Tish and Sharane as well out of the ones you mentioned. Jackie V never stood out to me but I wasn’t a huge fan of her tone, and I also preferred Drew even if the song choice wasn’t as good as his first two performances. Also wasn’t a fan of Terrence this round (so much falsetto). As for Wilkes, this was probably my least favorite from him, but it doesn’t help that I don’t usually care for performances of The Climb. And yes, Miya flopped hard here, and it was probably the worst song choice of the entire round. It was about Dave Moisan level bad for me
  22. Battles were the best part of this season. DR vs Jackie is one of my favorite battles of all time, but I also enjoyed battles such as Drew vs Miya and Britton vs Jaclyn
  23. My thoughts on auditions you mentioned I preferred Omar’s Blind Audition to Rayshun’s as well. I feel like Rayshun’s performance felt more exaggerated and high notes were more forced, and Omar gave a more natural performance. It’s very hard to do justice to Journey songs. Yeah, I overlooked Kelsea’s audition when it aired, but it was solid. She gave a good performance, but I think the song choice held her back a bit. I really enjoyed Justin’s audition and expected him to be a finalist, but he collapsed very quickly. His Knockout Yeah, Drew gave a good audition. I guess I really enjoyed him as an artist as well. I thought he was going to be in the Top 12 until playoffs. DR was okay, but this isn’t a song choice that usually works for contestants. One of the more forgettable auditions from the premiere I’m with you in not understanding the hype for Jaclyn’s audition. It was fine but it didn’t stand out to me. Reid Umstattd- I was happy to see a good Elton audition. I enjoyed his chest voice here, though he struggled with the falsetto here. I agree about Johnny giving the best Spanish audition of all time. I’m not a huge fan of many Spanish auditions, but I loved this. He has a big voice, and this song choice highlighted that. He seemed to get bad song choices in playoffs both here and later in La Voz that sent him home earlier. Terrence’s audition was very good and creative, but he really became very polarizing. At least he didn’t overuse his falsetto here unlike in later performances. Shana was fine as well. It wasn’t a favorite of mine, but she had a very unique tone Hopefully you’ll get into the auditions of T12 contestants later. I want to talk about the ones I liked
  24. That season actually had a couple of T13 contestants that were viewed as fodder. If your favorite is in the Instant Save early, hope for one of the Br boys to be with them
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