The Voice Finale Part 2: You Got It

This is it! After many months of performances, questionable decisions, social media nightmares and shoe throwing, The Voice has crowned its Season 13 winner. Chloe Kohanski emerged victorious in part 2 of the finale, giving Team Blake yet another win and leaving Miley probably a little regretful that she let Chloe go (only to be stolen) earlier in the season. Here are the highlights from the two hour finale...

Guest Performers

• Charlie Puth performed "How Long" and I had no idea this dude could do an uptempo song. This was a very pleasant surprise. 
• Kelly Clarkson took the stage with her incredible voice to perform "Medicine" from her new album and as you know, I just adore her. Love her. Need us to be friends someday. I've met her a couple of times...but somehow she didn't have the same "let's go buy bff necklaces!" idea that I did. Weird. 
• Chris Blue was ready to share his new music with us and he debuted his single "Blue Blood Blues." I had almost forgot how ridiculous his voice is. I'm not 100% sure how I feel about the song, but it was great to see him. 
• Demi Moore Lovato crushed her performance of "Tell Me You Love Me." This was the first time I'd heard the song and she sounded amazing. I loved this so much, I easily forgave her for trying to rhyme "the day" with "happy." I feel like that had to have come from the NSYNC playbook. 
• N.E.R.D. treated us to "Lemon," another song I didn't know, and I must really be getting old. One person did an array of dances that were printed on posters behind her...and I've never heard of any of them. Gone are the days of the Electric Slide and Boot Scootin' Boogie, I guess.  
• Sia rounded out the guest performances with "Snowman." She was in a giant present surrounded by other giant presents, and I was really digging the red and green hair. Maybe if Brooke had rocked that wig yesterday during "O Holy Night" she might have attracted a whole new group of voters and won the competition. 

Contestants Return

• Keisha and Adam joined Bebe Rexha for a rousing rendition of "Meant To Be" complete with an array of backup singers and plenty of bopping up and down near Bebe's fur coat. This thing was so massive I thought another Season 13 artist would just pop out...but alas, we weren't that lucky. 
• Noah collaborated with Bastille on "World Gone Mad" and Noah held his own...even with Dan Smith's crazy good falsetto.  
• Chris Weaver, dressed in his fabulous Nedra Belle drag ensemble, was all sass on stage with Jessie J. They performed "Bang Bang" and while that song was overplayed when it first came out and got a little tiresome, I loved hearing it tonight. So did J-Hud and Miley -- they were working it in the chair area and then there was an abundance of shoe throwing when the song ended. 
• Jessie J returned to the stage later to sing "Not My Ex" with Davon, who struggled a bit in the beginning. He figured it out though and there were times where the combination of their voices had me looking for shoes myself. 

Final Four Duets

• Addison was paired with Norah Jones and their collaboration on "Don't Know Why" was lovely. Normally this is a song that makes me sleepy (at no fault of the artist) but the duet definitely held my attention. 
• Brooke joined Sia and Sia's hair on stage for an AWESOME rendition of "Titanium." The two women complimented each other perfectly and this was my favorite duet of the night for sure. 
• Chloe held on tight to the season long "cover songs from the 1980s" theme as her duet partner was Billy Idol. They performed "White Wedding" and it was great...I just would have loved to see her perform a song from the 2000s with another kickass female performer. 
• Red rounded out the final four duets as he collaborated with Vince Gill on "When I Call Your Name." This was a really good pairing and I swayed with a smile on my face for several minutes. 

Results! Red finished in 4th place and Brooke came in 3rd. Addison and Chloe had to apply an extreme amount of patience as it took Carson forEVER to announce the winner, and ultimately the confetti shower rained down upon Chloe. The show strangely ended there though and we didn't get the usual teary performance of the winner's first single. Maybe if Carson hadn't taken 8 years to declare the winner, we may have gotten to see that. Anyway, I'm very happy with the results and hope Chloe becomes the iconic superstar Blake thinks she is. I'm also hoping that Miley keeps pushing Brooke toward stardom because that powerful voice is something I really want to hear on my radio next year.

The Voice returns in a couple of months (you read that right) and Miley and J-Hud will rotate out while Blake and Adam stay put...again. Man it would be nice to switch it up with those guys. Alicia Keys will return to coach and the show will welcome KELLY CLARKSON to round out the teams. I'll do my best to tone down my inevitable bias toward Team Kelly, but it's going to be a struggle. We'll see how she fares as a first time coach when the show returns in 2018. Til then, happy holidays!