AMERICAN IDOL...Season 12 & The Voice...Season 4

Renee, sending positive thoughts for your Mom's surgery tomorrow.  Can't wait to see your take on tonight's The Voice.

I don't have a horse in the race anymore.  My guess is that Danielle wins over the majority of voters, but even if she doesn't go the distance, as Blake commented last night, "a star is born."

The singing was all decent this week and so for me (and probably the rest of America) it is going to come down to personal, nit-picky things.  I did not like the staging (complete w/bar floozies) for The Swon's first song, and "Okie From Muskogee" was just too dated for me.  Amber, songing "Crazy," didn't feel as dated but it felt loungy to me, and the little touches that she inserted to kind of update the song took away from the Patsy original.  On Danielle's first song, her choreographed movement was exactly the same as last week on the "Grandpa" song.  Sit for the first verse, get up and meander forward for the rest of the song.  Ho-hum, visually.  Sasha never sounded authentic on the Carrie Underwood song.  She did better on the Aretha song, but I just have a problem with her timbre and her vibratto.  She can really sing, but I just don't like it.

Strangely, nothing really bothered me about Holly this week.  I don't know if she was memorable enough, and she probably won't get the most downloads.  If she had a bigger personality, she'd have a chance.  Michelle...I have to say I liked how she avoided her now standard crouch, and showed the softer side of her voice on her first song.  I also liked her cover of Taylor Swift's song.  What she needs now, is for someone to get her out of her 1978 punk rock suit just for one song. 

I know I am picking the nits this week, but like I said, I don't think anyone was truly bad.  I can't even guess who America will send home.

sorry ladies I couldn't shrik it... don't know how

WOW Renee and the winner of The Voice is.....

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I thought it would come down to Amber and Holly standing there, I have to say I want the next save to be the Swon Brothers, Holly will make it in Christian Music.

Holly going home was no surprise.  What was surprising was the first duo of the night sang a nearly 30 year old Madonna dance club hit.  I don't know that the version was so fabulous, but it made me happy just to hear it after all these years.  It was great fun to dance to back in the day.  Good times.  Also enjoyed seeing the clips of the hurricane relief concert because I did not watch when that was televised.  Did they mention why Sasha did not go along to that?  Maybe she took the time to go to her kids.