Now I know the show ended several weeks ago and this post is kind of late to talk about this, especially with how the internet considers something that happened more than 12 hours ago old news. Originally I was just going to let this whole thing pass and get over it after my immense disappointment from the results. But still these feelings stayed in my mind
For those of you who aren't familiar with the show, basically it takes out the superficial things that influence the coach's decisions- looks, stage presence, nudity (who couldn't fall for a 300 pound cow showin' some leg?). The way they do this is by having a singer up on stage with the coach's chairs turned. Then once they hear someone they like, they turn around and try to fight with the other coaches to see who's team that singer will go to. But unfortunately, the show's authenticity and credibility kind of ends there, as by this point now they've obviously seen what the person looks like and how they behave on stage. Their little brains begin making comparisons to other members of their team of singers on who they like, and who they don't.
After this point, it only gets worse. The coaches begin "coaching" their vocalist team and teaming them up with other people on their team to do duets. After rehearsing and their final performance, the coach votes one of them to go home. Now there are several problems at this point:
1. The coaches choose the songs. This completely takes out the point of music being about expression, and completely works against a person's strengths a lot of times. For example, giving a person a deep voice a vocal part that is very high so obviously he fails, or giving a country singer an R&B song. Most of the times in the battle rounds, one person would be the favored singer because it would be their style they always sing, then the competitor would be a singer who never even thought about singing that genre.
2. The coaches have now already seen the people who are on their team so they know the fatties, the hotties, the socially awkwards, etc. These people are human too, and they feel the tension with these people just like we do when we meet someone who just really doesn't seem to understand how people talk.
One of the things that surprised me for the whole duration of the show was just the horrible tastes these coaches had and what they looked for. A few common themes that they seemed to like were screaming and keeping it loud the entire song (Jermaine, Jamar, Sara Hill), girls that can't project their voices and sing like untrained indy artists (Lindsey Pavao, Naia Kete), voices that put you to sleep (Katrina Parker, Johnathis), or just the voices that are terrible and try to pronounce things funny (Mathai, Erin Martin). I think the biggest shock from all of it though was that they pretended like these people were unique and they never heard anything like them before. It just shows that even being in the music industry, they've sunk their heads so far in the sand that they never even heard of bands where the singer sounds exactly like them (Lindsey Pavao sounds like the Yeah yeah yeahs, Naia Kete Leila Brussard).
In order to try to balance the power, the show let America choose to save artists at some points, but other points it was just up to the judges. Unfortunately, because of their naivete and taste many artists went home way before they should have, and even objectively the best singer went home because of it. During the show, there was a 19 year old singer named Pip who wore a bow tie, and this kid blew pretty much all of the competition out of the water. He was sent home at the final four and it just seemed like his coach Adam Levine of Maroon 5 didn't give a shit that he was America's favorite or that he was objectively the best on his team. The only singer who was close to him in talent was this shaved head ex Broadway star Tony Vincent. Both of these singers went home around the mid to late points in the competition in favor of vocalists that couldn't enunciate clearly, couldn't project their voices, or in Pip's case sent home because Adam just didn't like the kid.
So who won? The guy that won is the reason I'm writing this article, friends. There were 36 contestants on the show, and the guy that won would've been about the 32nd best. His vocal style is very over the top exaggerated with the Backstreet Boys style of improv thrown in for good measure, very boring and generally at one constant volume. His voice is the type of voice that whenever companies are too cheap to want to spend money to get the rights to a real song for a commercial or whatever, they hire some scrubby studio musician like this guy to sing Rock You Like A Hurricane or some other very literal song that the words directly correlate to you wanting to buy their product. He's got that tryhard voice of a singer on one of the Guitar Hero's singing a shitty cover of some Aerosmith song or Rollingstones. The point is his voice is the exact opposite of unique, and the epitome of vocal diarrhea mist.
So now that it's over, am I going to watch next season? Maybe, because there's still that little boy inside me that wants to believe the world is good and just, and that talent and skill will equate to something in life. But I just hope to God that next year my favorite doesn't get voted off just because the coach doesn't like him. Hell if you don't believe me America loved him, just check the youtube comments for Pip's videos.
2 weeks ago 55 
omg i love pip so much. i did not watch an episode of the voice since Adam sent him home. this song is so beutiful, and he made it even more beutiful. WHY ADAM... WHY?
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