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The second round of battles took place
Tuesday night. Like Monday’s episode, there were six battles that
took place, but with Tuesday’s show only being an hour long, we
only saw three complete battles. NBC showed only highlights from and
the coaches’ decisions on the other three battles. While I
completely understand the need to edit for space (or time when
dealing with television), I’m not sure how fair this is to the
artists who’s exposure is cut short.
Results and recaps ahead...
In the battles that were not shown in
completion, CeeLo paired Lupe Carroll against Cole Vosbury. We said
goodbye to Carroll as CeeLo declared Vosbury victorious.
E.G. Daily and Sam Cerniglia battled
for a spot on Team Blake. In the end, Daily stayed and Cerniglia was
sent home.
Adam chose to put Ashley Dubose up
against Justin Blake, and after the battle, Adam kept Ashley Dubose.
Team Xtina started off the Tuesday’s
show by preparing pop-rocker Jacob Poole and indie-pop artist Matthew
Shuler for the first battle of the evening. Matthew has the power, as
we saw when he had the fastest four chair turn in Voice
history during the Blind Auditions, but Jacob can give it just as
strong. Christina picked “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark”
to showcase the rock inspiration both Jacob and Matthew possess.
The battle started, and the dominating
stage presence of Matthew was evident. Jacob held his own vocally,
but he seemed a bit stiff on stage. Vocally they were almost even,
but Matthew took the performance that extra step, so my point goes to
Matthew. Christina also awarded the win to Matthew, and with no other
coach using a steal, Jacob’s journey on The Voice
ended.
CeeLo
added an interesting element to the battle rounds by pairing rocker
Kat Robichaud with gospel singer R. Anthony. Two very opposite styles
battled with “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.” During the
rehearsals, the gospel tone on Anthony was clearly evident. Robichaud
seemed to have had the advantage as her tone during practice
resembled that of nineties rock.
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The
battle began and Kat nailed the song mood perfectly from the first
note. I could hear inspiration from Cher, Aerosmith, and Heart...
inspiration, not imitation. Kat’s vocals were no one else’s but
her own, and she nailed it. R. Anthony, on the other hand, still had
a small amount of gospel coming through, and he didn’t match the
mood of the song choice. Although he is a powerful vocalist, Anthony's performance was mellowed by Kat’s energy and mere presence. Both
were amazing in their own way, but my point easily went to Kat. It
was no surprise when CeeLo gave her the win, and we said farewell to
R. Anthony.
Blake
chose to go the other way than CeeLo did and put up Monika Leigh and
Ray Boudreaux against each other—two strong bluesy singers. Blake
selected “Some Kind of Wonderful” for them to compete with. It
was a good song choice, as it forced Monika and Ray to push
themselves to make it work. Before the battle, we could see that
Ray’s range was limited, and he was going to have push himself for any chance of winning.
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When
the battle started, Ray proved himself as being able to grow. He came
out with a very strong start. Monika, however, seemed to struggle a
bit with nerves in the beginning, shifting to a surprising country
tone. By the second verse, though, Monika found her groove and killed
it with some very powerful and well placed riffs. By the end, Ray and
Monika were almost equally matched, but it was Ray’s consistent
strength that forced me to award him the point. Blake declared Ray
the winner of the battle, but deservedly CeeLo used his first steal
to grab Monika for his team... a good steal for CeeLo.
See you next week for the third part of The Battle Rounds.
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