Well kids, it's safe to say I haven't gotten one thing right this season. After many, many weeks of pre-taped episodes and live performances, American Idol alum Sundance Head has won Season 11 of The Voice. Team Blake has brought home yet another victory and Adam has to be wondering what possibly could have gone wrong with his totally different, rare, unique, special, one of a kind contestants. This was a jam packed two hour finale, but here are the highlights:
Guest Stars
Stevie Wonder, Arianna Grande and the Top 12 performed "Faith" from the new movie Sing and I'm not ashamed to admit I look forward to seeing that movie. Singing pigs and elephants? I'm in. Sting also took the stage tonight to perform his song "I Can't Stop Thinking About You." Dude still looks and sounds SO good. I was hoping he would somehow bust into "Roxanne," and least for one verse, but it was not meant to be. The Weekend was in the house as well, singing "Starboy" and Bruno Mars just about tore the roof off the place with his crazy awesome performance of "24K Magic."
The (Sometimes) Dreaded Final Four Pairings
John Legend teamed up with Wé to perform his single "Love Me Now" and the kid held her own for sure. Josh was lucky enough to duet with Cam on her song "Burning House." I was pleasantly surprised by how lovely his voice was in this performance. They complemented each other well. Kiss continued their singing competition finale tour and sang a combo of "Detroit Rock City" and "Rock and Roll All Nite" with Sundance. Remember when they did the same thing with Adam Lambert and Caleb Johnson on American Idol? Coincidence? Probably. Sundance looked like he was having the time of his life, but I honestly would have loved to see Miley up there with Gene Simmons doing that tongue thing. The duet I was most excited about going into the night (naturally) was Billy and Kelly Clarkson. I thought the choice of singing "It's Quiet Uptown" from Hamilton was odd considering 1) This really shouldn't be a duet and 2) Billy kinda ruined it. Whatever though. I got to see KC tonight and that always makes me happy.
The (Usually) Dreaded Bring Backs
Josh brought back Austin and Brendan to collaborate on Jason Aldean's "My Kind Of Party." The performance was all over the place but it was nice to see the guys have a good time. They jammed on their guitars and looked completely free of the pressure this show has put them under this season. Wé went with "Love Lockdown" and she brought back Aaron, Darby and Brendan. This seemed like a very strange combo but it mostly worked. Sundance brought back his fellow teammates Austin and Courtney to sing a kinda rousing rendition of "You Ain't Worth the Whiskey," but the best "bring back" of the night was Billy's very tall order of "Proud Mary." He brought back Ali (yay!), Christian, Courtney and Sa'Rayah. Dayyyum. That's a lot of huge voices on one stage but it was awesome. The ladies in particular were amazing.
Results! Josh finished in fourth place and Wé came in third. Bummer. It came down to Billy and Sundance and when the little cowboy's name was called, his reaction brought me to tears...well, his reaction and his dad's in the audience. He sang "Darlin' Don't Go" as the confetti rained down and Season 11 came to an end.
The Voice will return again in a few short months with Gwen Stefani back in the coaches' chair. Adam, Blake, and Alicia will join her as Miley takes a season off (she has signed on to coach again in Season 13). Until then, have a safe and happy holiday season and I'll look forward to catching up again in 2017!
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