"The Voice" and "The X Factor" connected apace endure week...and added than ever, it was abundantly accessible just how altered the two singing shows absolutely are. Over on "The Voice," it was all happyfuntimes, accumulation hugs, and active aggregation spirit, while on "The X Factor," it was all about that series' accepted banal in trade: "shocking" eliminations, disgusting adjudicator infighting, bogus drama, and just apparent old bad vibes. Oh, Simon Cowell, will you anytime change?
So endure anniversary was Diva Anniversary on "The X Factor," but ironically, the two better divas of the absolute appearance were voted off on Thursday. No, Jason Brock was not a part of them--he went home the antecedent week, sadly. This time, it was the awesomely eyepatched Lyric Da Queen and her leash Lyric 145--potential superstars who basically defined "X factor"--and Jennel Garcia, possibly THE best changeable accompanist in the top 12, who went home. And back it was a double-elimination week, we didn't even get to see Lyric 145, who'd placed asleep last, accomplish for their lives--an befalling that at atomic Jason got the anniversary before. This was a shame, because win, lose, or deadlock, I know my fair Queen would accept brought it.
Conspiracy theorists (myself a part of them) can now brainstorm if Lyric 145 were set up for failure. They'd been affected to change their song at the endure minute for abstruse reasons, and the mashup they were still aggravating to rehearse in the wings alone account afore their Wednesday performance, of Katy Perry's "E.T." and Queen's "We Will Rock You," was added of a mess-up. At the time, Britney Spears, in a attenuate moment of insight, told Lyric 145's mentor, Simon: "I anticipate they're a hip-hop group, and they should be accomplishing hip-hop tracks." Interestingly, if adage goodbye on the appearance endure Thursday, Lyric stated: "I feel like we didn't get the befalling to appearance what we had. We had a hip-hop song--that got snatched from us." Hmmmm...
But you know, maybe "X Factor" admirers just don't like hip-hop. While this appearance has never carefully authentic itself as just a singing competition, abounding admirers in the accomplished accept complained that rappers accept no business aggressive adjoin "legitimate" vocalists--Season 1's Astro got the aforementioned flak. And admitting Simon's affirmation that "The X Factor" is somehow the youngest, freshest, and edgiest of all aptitude shows, the actuality that cute, grandma-approved kids like Carly Rose Sonenclar and earlier contestants like Tate Stevens and Vino Alan abide to top Division 2's leaderboard indicates otherwise. (Tate, Carly, and Vino appropriately captivated assimilate their leaderboard rankings in spots 1, 2, and 3 endure week.) Hip-hop admirers artlessly don't assume to be watching--or at atomic voting for--"The X Factor" in droves.
As for the added two contestants in the bottom, who did get to participate in a sing-off, they were Demi Lovato's Jennel Garcia and Paige Thomas--not her added aggregation member, the ever-polarizing CeCe Frey, who I'd absolutely affected was a goner. (Judging from the attending of absolute shock on CeCe's face if she begin out she was safe, she'd affected she was a goner too.) †For their sing-off, Jennel belted out a bathetic but admirable awning of Hoobastank's "The Reason," and although Paige's awning of Coldplay's "Paradise" was her best achievement back her aboriginal audition, it was still absolutely bright that Jennel was the above diva of the two. But bizarrely, L.A. Reid, Britney Spears, and Simon Cowell all voted to forward home...Jennel.
Um, WHAT? This is how Britney earns her $15 actor paycheck? This is how L.A. and Simon became two of the better moguls in the music business? At atomic Demi had some faculty to try and forward Paige home; she was just outvoted. Eek. That's traveling to accomplish Demi's rehearsals with Paige boss awkward this week...
Things on "The Voice" were a lot calmer, thankfully (there's alone so abundant TV-related accent I can handle in one week), admitting the actuality that for the aboriginal time this season--and in actuality for the aboriginal time in "Voice" history--team quotas did not administer if it came to the eliminations, and the accommodation was absolutely in America's hands. The two everyman vote-getters, behindhand of drillmaster amalgamation and afterwards any drillmaster intervention, got the cossack endure week, and although I would accept adopted to see anyone abroad go home instead of Aggregation Blake's Michaela Paige (that crazy kid had spunk, and she had absolute potential), all-embracing I was at accord with viewers' accommodation to forward home Michaela and Aggregation Xtina's Adriana Louise. Thank gawd that Britney Spears, L.A. Reid, and Simon Cowell didn't accept a say on this show, because you know they would accept messed up these after-effects as well.
Although last week's "Voice" featured several standout performances by the contestants--most conspicuously by Scottish rocker Terry McDermott, Southern showman Cody Belew, and R&B wunderkind Trevin Hunte--the accurate showstopping performances were by the baroque coaches. Christina Aguilera, abutting by Cee Lo Green, did her best Madonna-vogueing-at-the-1990-VMAs impression, afresh a abandoned Cee Lo, assisted by his blue team, did his best Disco Stu consequence for a fun and abominable awning of "Stayin' Alive." So not abundant has afflicted on "The Voice," either, I suppose: The coaches generally end up upstaging the absolute contestants on this show, and, arise to anticipate of it, the coaches end up getting the alone "Voice" casting associates that advertise any records.
But conceivably I am speaking to anon about those almanac sales. Endure week, Christina arise her "comeback" effort, Lotus--her aboriginal anthology back abutting "The Voice," and her aboriginal back her massive 2010 bomb Bionic--and this week, the album's sales are projected to be decidedly low. Lotus is accepted to admission at amount five, with first-week sales of about 75,000 (about 35,000 beneath than Bionic awash in its aboriginal week). This is abnormally absorbing because endure week's sales abstracts for addition acclaimed aptitude appearance judge, Steven Tyler--who afresh larboard "American Idol" afterwards two seasons to refocus on Aerosmith, alone to see Aerosmith's own "comeback" album, Music From Addition Dimension!, advertise a black 63,000 copies in its aboriginal week. To put this in perspective, "Idol" Division 10 champ Scotty McCreery awash 197,000 copies of his anthology in its absolution week, and that season's runner-up, Lauren Alaina, debuted with 69,000 in sales. So basically, Steven bootless to advertise as abundant as two newbie contestants he already judged. Now we will delay and see if the a lot of contempo "Idol" champ that was advised by Steven, Division 11's Phillip Phillips, outsells Aerosmith (or Christina) if his debut album, The World From The Side Of The Moon, comes out this week.
While "Voice" drillmaster Adam Levine continues to about-face jillions of units with Maroon 5; Adam's appropriately unstoppable co-star Blake Shelton just won the CMA Award for Entertainer Of The Year; and "The X Factor's" Demi Lovato currently has a hit on her easily with "Give Your Heart A Break," the low sales numbers for Steven Tyler and Christina Aguilera do accomplish me admiration if, in the actual abreast future, big-name musicians will anticipate alert afore signing on to adjudicator aptitude shows, acumen that the TV acknowledgment in no way guarantees almanac sales and may in actuality hurt their career believability in the continued run. This would be accomplished by me, back I've been advocating a acknowledgment to non-celebrity, industry-insider judges for some time now. Will Mariah Carey, Keith Urban, and Nicki Minaj anon affliction abutting "American Idol" (if they aren't already)? Watch this space...
However, at the moment, there's still no curtailment of pop stars lining up to arise on these shows in one way or another, and the latest to do so is Jennifer Hudson, who will be a bedfellow drillmaster on "The Voice" this week--following in the footsteps of addition "Idol" superstar, Kelly Clarkson, who mentored Blake Shelton's "Voice" aggregation endure season. Meanwhile, this anniversary "The X Factor" will attack to disengage some of its bad amulet with an adorning "What I Am Grateful For" affair in account of Thanksgiving...but if the alternation affectedness its bizarrely-not-preempted top 10 after-effects appearance ACTUALLY ON THANKSGIVING NIGHT, it apparently will not feel so celebratory--especially back it looks acceptable that the emotionally brittle and far-from-spontaneous Britney Spears will be affected to accept amid her two adolescent aggregation members, Beatrice Miller and Arin Ray (who accumulate landing at the basal of the leaderboard). There will be tears. And that's just the way we all wish to absorb Thanksgiving, right? Watching some jailbait sob berserk and inconsolably, while we all acquaintance Rachel Crow flashbacks? Oof. Worst. Thanksgiving. Ever. Consider this Mother England's animus for all that Mayflower business, accomplished by none added than awful Brit Simon Cowell.
But let's end things on a blessed note, shall we? Speaking of Kelly Clarkson, this accomplished weekend on the American Music Awards, the Original Idol performed a beauteous assortment of just a few of her abounding accident singles--"Miss Independent," "Since U Been Gone," and "Stronger," forth with her airy new tune, "Catch My Breath." As the aboriginal "Idol" best to absolution a greatest-hits compilation, and still one of the a lot of acknowledged Idols anytime a abounding decade afterwards her Division 1 victory, Kelly already afresh reminded us all that sometimes these singing shows absolutely do create bona fide stars. "The Voice" and "The X Factor" would be advantageous to one day acquisition addition Kelly...and I still haven't absent achievement that one day, they will.
Parker out.
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