[VIDEO] SNEAK PEEK: 'THE VOICE' SEASON 2, BATTLE ROUNDS

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[VIDEO] 'THE VOICE: SEASON 2' ADVISORS SNEAK PEEK

[NEWS] 'THE VOICE' NABS NE-YO, ROBIN THICKE, MIRANDA LAMBERT, 5 MORE AS ADVISORS

The Voice is ramping up for battle.

Lionel Richie, Kelly Clarkson, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Jewel, Miranda Lambert, Alanis Morissette, Ne-Yo and Robin Thicke will chime in as advisers during the battle rounds in Season 2 of NBC's singing competition series.

The network announced Friday that the group of eight will join coaches Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera for the battle round pitting two artists from each team against one another to sing a duet.

At the end of each battle round, each artists' respective coach will then decide who goes home and who moves forward to the live shows.

Each of the four coaches brought in a pair of advisers, with Shelton turning to his wife, Lambert, and Clarkson. Team Adam will feature Morissette and Thicke; Team Christina will feature Jewel and Richie; while Team Cee Lo will be joined by Edmonds and Ne-Yo.

“These renowned musicians will bring their unique and recognizable musical styles to the teams,” said Paul Telegdy, NBC president of late night and alternative programming. “They are well-respected singers whose invaluable experience will be a tremendous asset to Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton’s artists.”

The Voice premieres in the plumb post-Super Bowl time slot on Sunday, Feb. 5 at 10 p.m., and returns to its regular slot the following day on Monday, Feb. 6 at 8 p.m.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

[NEWS] 'TV GUIDE' ANNOUNCES THE ADVISORS FOR 'THE VOICE: SEASON 2'

[VIDEO] 'MICHAEL FOREVER - THE TRIBUTE CONCERT' COMMERCIAL

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[NEWS] 'THE VOICE' FINAL PERFORMANCE SHOW: 10 BEHIND THE SCENE SECRETS

This is what we love about attending The Voice every week: The fans. We know that sounds corny, but we really do. Here you have a group of journalists watching a show live and seeing some very talented current and possibly future music stars and we have to admit that we can get jaded. At The Voice, the live audience makes that tough to do.

So, here’s a huge thank you to the fans with their “Team [fill in your favorite]” t-shirts, their awesome coordinated group yells of “I love you, [fill in your beloved coach or performer]” even when the audience warm-up guy asks that they not do that.

Thanks for reminding us to have fun, especially when we ask you how long you’ve been at the studio and they say, “Four hours. But, it was great!” Because, really, it is.
But, let’s get to what you really came here for: Here are 10 secrets that you didn’t see on television.

1. Time waits for no one, but… The Voice. The audience is asked to arrive at 4 p.m. to load into the studio. So, basically, they sit for four hours for a two-hour show. But as we mentioned above, they don’t seem to mind.

2. The warm-up guy was not in a good mood. We bag on the audience warm-up guy every week, but this week we felt kind of bad for him. Just kind of. He seemed very frustrated about audience members who weren‘t participating (which means acting the fool whenever he needs you to). On the other hand, we stopped feeling so bad for him when he started bagging on last week’s audience and then asked the people yelling that they love so and so to stop it. Does he want excited fans or not? He can’t have it both ways.

3. Brad and Blake take two. We can’t stress enough that “live” shows pre-tape segments a lot. We’re sure it relieves some of the stress of timing the show. And in Brad Paisley’s case, why have him stick around for two hours if he doesn’t have to? Paisley and coach Blake Shelton shot their performance twice before the live show started. Later, the coaches also pre-taped their group Queen number. Again, no judgment. By the way, the coaches take full advantage of when the pre-taped segments play: They get their makeup touched up, but many times they’re on their cell phones. Probably tweeting…

4. Cee Lo flashes the audience. First, are you still reeling from Cee Lo Green’s oriental-style red robe outfit? Our grandma covets that robe. To be quite honest, we’re OK with, even a bit appreciative of, him having a some fun with his wardrobe. One memorable moment was when he walked out for his audience intro and he flashed us. He was dressed underneath it, people!

5. Time waits for no one, but The Voice and… Christina Aguilera. Aguilera is always last to join the other coaches for the opening of the show. They all seem to be able to sit in their chairs and mess around with each other with plenty of time to spare. Aguilera, on the other hand, loves to run in as the last minute ticks away. She must give the show’s director at least a couple panic attacks each week. We figure a girl needs more prep time.

6. About 400 people glowing in three minutes. Remember how the audience held glow sticks during Pitbull and Ne-Yo’s performance? The Voice’s production team had to pass out about 400 glow sticks in about three minutes during the preceding commercial break. Can you imagine? Trying to get the mashed potatoes down the table at Thanksgiving takes longer than three minutes. Kudos to the show’s production team.

7. The warm-up guy mentions Rihanna’s tour to Cee Lo. Awkward. Two items about the audience warm-up guy (Someday, we’ll ask what his name is)? This is his lucky week! During a break, he made small talk with the coaches. At one point, he asked Cee Lo if he needed to get over to the Rihanna concert right after the show. Um, hello, he dropped out of the tour last week. Cee Lo took it in stride and simply said something to the affect of “due to certain circumstances he wasn’t doing the tour anymore.” Oops. Google is our friend, warm up guy.

8. Adam asked us to go out with him. Yeah right. During that same mingling session as above, Adam took a moment to compliment the competitors saying, “We have some really talented performers.” He then ended with “Let’s get drunk!”http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

9. Pitbull's junk in the trunk dancers had Cee Lo at hello. We loved that Pitbull’s dancers had curves and then some. What we loved even more was watching the "Lady Killa," Cee Lo reach out to them longingly through out the performance. Down, Cee Lo, down.

10. The obligatory Carson Daly observation. The host was in a generally good mood during the show taping. Usually, he’s pretty calm, sometimes too calm. On Tuesday, he was loving life. And you know what else he loved? Paisley and Shelton’s performance. Did we really just watch Carson do a country jig? Why yes we did.
Watch the coaches' group number below.

Source: HollywoodReporter

[NEWS] 'THE VOICE' FINALS EPISODE 11: WHAT YOU DIDN'T SEE ON TV

Right before the start of Tuesday’s penultimate episode of The Voice, Adam Levine summed up the vibe of the amped-up crowd when he enthusiastically shouted “Let’s get drunk!” The hundreds and hundreds of Californians (not to mention a British couple who happened to sit by me and a bunch of Montana teens) who packed the 7th circle of Hell a very hot Studio 16 on the Warner Bros. lot seemed thrilled to see their idols perform live, and I’m not just talking about the ones in the red swivel chairs. Javier Colon, Dia Frampton,Vicci Martinez, and Beverly McClellan have already become downloaded stars in their own right, and the fact the finalists would be singing with their coaches made the whole thing a lot more fun to witness for pretty much everyone except Christina Aguilera. But more on her later.

All four contestants proved themselves worthy of the crown with their powerhouse performances, but guest star Brad Paisley and the four coaches were given some time to practice for their live moments, which were each performed twice before the show hit the east coast. The crowd was told to react in shock the second time Blake Shelton stood to serenade Aguilera, and was then semi-scolded when we didn’t cheer loud enough for her first ”Under Pressure” solo. Pitbull and Ne-Yo drew the short straw and performed totally live, and also had the honor of being the only performers to excite an otherwise aloof Aguilera.

But Voice fans will be happy to know that a lot more went down with the coaches – and it had nothing to do with their performances. For one thing, I can confirm that Green, Aguilera, and Shelton all spent a considerable amount of time either texting or Tweeting on their cell phones during the show. I can’t verify this obviously important information for Levine since I was sitting right behind his chair, but I did see all four coaches partake in the pre-show shot that EW noticed last week.

But all drinking and technology aside, we still had Green’s antics and personal hygiene issues, Aguilera’s nonchalant attitude, Levine’s adorability, and Shelton’s cell phone emergencies to deal with!

Green wins my award for the most engaging and most crowd-pleasing coach. Even though the fans screamed the loudest for “Team Adam” when prompted by the behind-the-scenes comic, it was Green who spent the most time physically and verbally interacting with them. From his generous high fives to his goofy jumping around, he seemed to have a lot of fun on Tuesday, even though his clamminess called for constant attention from a dedicated makeup team. At one point, Green proclaimed that his professional sweaty head-wiper was getting a raise next season, which prompted Levine to immediately kiss his iconically big bald head. See? Adorable. Green also told us that he ditched performing with Rihanna to be with us. If that isn’t love, I don’t know what is.

Levine was clearly the fangirl favorite of the night, and for very good reason—he’s a natural charmer. The Maroon 5 frontman didn’t clown around like Green, but he showed a lot of love to his contestant, Javier. The two showed their bromance when they high-fived and danced a little jig right before their live performance, and Levine was enthusiastically supportive of his main man during Javier’s solo act. The double fist pumps proved it!

Shelton’s contestant Dia seems to be a front-runner with the fans, so maybe that’s why the country crooner spent the 15 minutes before the show chatting on his cell phone. Could it have been an at-home emergency with his wife Miranda Lambert? Was he sounding off about his performance with Paisley? Either way, Shelton eventually found the time to join us, and seemed to put all of those homophobia rumors behind him when he kissed Carson Daly on the lips and later told the warm-up guy he was “damn good lookin.” When the warm-up guy asked if it was true that Lambert would be performing on Wednesday night, Blake assured the crowd that it was much more important that Dia would be performing. Aww.

Carson Daly spent most of his off-camera time rehearsing his upcoming lines behind the big silver fist closest to Levine’s chair, so there isn’t too much to be said about our dutifully dutiful host. Bravo for the dedication, Carson. It must be said that the former God of TRL put his hands on his belt and danced a little country jig when Paisley hit the stage, but he showed little to no response to the rest of the performances, and didn’t really interact with the coaches. He did give out fan high-fives and provided us with some witty banter, so I’ll give him some social brownie points for that.

Finally, there was Aguilera. Oh, Xtina, how badly I want to like you! She was appropriately supportive and enthusiastic when her progeny Beverly performed, but she spent the rest of the evening looking bored and distracted, and was definitely the worst cell phone offender. She even texted during Dia’s solo performance (which she then negatively critiqued, mind you). She refused to interact with the crowd, and kept oddly removing her spiky shoes as she relaxed, unmoving, in her chair. She also spent the most time backstage when the cameras weren’t rolling, but she definitely stayed around and cheered for Pitbull’s performance. She seemed to interact warmly between takes with her next-chair neighbor Green, but was cold and unapproachable to pretty much everybody else. Please learn to lighten up before next season hits, Aguilera.

Source: EW

Editor's Note:

I think it's unfair to critique Christina so harshly. Who says she has to exude an over-abundant amount of energy every single second? Furthermore, she's contractually obligated along with the other three star coaches to be on her phone throughout so give it up... I think that this author is just being too critical of her and is obviously paying the most attention to detail as it's clearly evident pointing out specific details about her 'oddly removing her spiky shoes as she relaxed' - I mean come on! Really? Give her a break! She's just getting comfortable for pete's sake. 'Refusing to interact with the crowd' is another absurd claim. Christina has always been introverted and this show, The Voice, has really pushed her outside of her comfort zone, and while we've all been genuinely pleased, excited, to see a new side to her, you have to realize she's still who she is through it all. We've only been so lucky to see her each and every single week and see her interacting in the social media world. Whenever she's backstage, I can personally attest to this since while I was at the Battle Rounds, I witnessed Christina doing interviews for the show backstage and whatnot. Please stop being so damn critical of her, and let her be. Afterall, she isn't going into your jobs giving you an unfair job evaluation. Also using the wording 'cold and unapproachable' is completely out of context. Christina is gracious to her fans that lend their support at each and every show whether she shows it or not. So get over it. - Joel

[VIDEO] 'THE VOICE' FINALS 'LIVE' EPISODE 11 [INTERNATIONAL]

[NEWS] 'THE VOICE' LIVE SHOW FEAT. PERFORMANCE OF 'YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT'

Pitbull and Ne-Yo will perform “Give Me Everything” from Pitbull’s new album “Planet Pit” during the live performance episode of The Voice on Tuesday. Brad Paisley will also stop by to sing “Don’t Drink the Water” with coach Blake Shelton. The song is from Paisley’s recently released album, “This is Country Music.”

In addition, Shelton will join fellow coaches Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, and Adam Levine in a performance of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” during Tuesday’s live show that’ll air from 9-11 p.m. The first season of The Voice ends Wednesday and will feature finalists Dia Frampton, Javier Colon, Beverly McClellan and Vicci Martinez.

Source: EW