starman9000

Yeah, I thought it was OK too. I didn't really care for when they made it blind for us, they just hammed those scenes up too much.

I didn't see all the singers, but Christina's team so far has no chance.

RDR

I watched this last night due to repeats being on CBS. Honestly, I went in thinking it was just going to be another fill-in show for me when repeats were on. I loved it. The best part for me is exactly one of the points Coladar brought up, no really bad singers. Having no William Hung or Sanjaya to listen to makes me want to watch this all the more.

RichC2

I also missed the promo blitz, and also enjoyed it.

JayDerek

I enjoyed it for the same reasons as listed above...including the fact that the contestants had been pre-screened for quality.

I'm really interested to see how the whole mentoring thing works...I'm afraid at some point this will turn into American Idol again...

Nausicaa

Tuned in for Parenthood, forgetting it was the season finale last week. Watched the Voice for a bit, but turned it off right after this scene. How hard it must be to live as a young hot girl!

And Carson Daly was just annoying. Dude has no charisma whatsoever. All of the follow up scenes with him were just awkward.

Patman

They should replace Carson with Haislip in those follow up segments.

Goat3001

I liked this. I like how Adam Levine just out sold the rest of the group and brought in the two top singers we've seen so far.

Other than that my favorite was the hot chick that was so disappointed because she always got judged by her looks.... yeah life must be hard being that pretty.

Timber

Wait, Carson Daly is involved? This show will fail on that alone.

starman9000

We all know the pop music industry hates attractive women.

DRG

He came off as disingenuous, easily the weakest part of the show, in my opinion. On the flipside, all of the judges came off as very likable and entertaining, and their camaraderie/competition was what really made this enjoyable for me.

RichC2

Well this pulled huge (for NBC and very good overall) ratings last night, I greatly anticipate The Voice: SVU being superior.

the_dude8

NBC should do a show about biggest Winner, bringing skinny people, and make them fat.

DJariya

Just finished watching all 2 hours.

There were a couple that I really liked. Javier, the black guy who sang Time after Time, and Tje, the dude with the huge Afro.

I didn't really like the hot chick Kelsey, who sang that Adele song. Thought her voice was really thin.

I remember Frenchie Davis from American Idol, but I honestly wasn't impressed with her this time around.

FantasticVSDoom

Just finished it and enjoyed it... Yeah its silly, but fun. The fact that Levine got Javier puts him in the lead so far. I find it interesting that Cee Lo and Levine seem to go for all the same guys almost immediately. I think Shelton has a good one in the 16 year old as her voice was pretty damn good.

DJariya

Bump

Blind Auditions Part 2 is tonight. 9pm-11pm

Goat3001

I don't know what Levine's strategy is by doing it but it seems that whenever he's interested in someone he watches everyone else and pushes the button as soon as someone else does. He did the same with Christina Aguilera too.

Odds on who's banging Christina? I got 2/1 odds on Levine, 5/1 on Sheldon, 8/1 that it's both, 10/1 that it's a contestant and 15/1 that it's Cee Lo. I wanted to go 25/1 on Cee Lo but he's black and we know she digs that.

Laertes

I know you don't mean the question seriously, but I'm not sure why you put such low odds on Cee Lo. Because he's short? Why that high on Levine? I don't think Levine has that much of a chance. I think Cee Lo has a better chance than Shelton.

Joeboo835

I didn't watch this, but my wife told me Tim Mahoney was on. I went to see him play a few dozen times back in my college days (15 years or so ago). I usually just went to hit on women, but he was a great musician. I have a few of his CDs. The guy is great live. From what I've heard from a lot of people, he's a really nice down to earth guy as well.

Hope he does well. I'll have to start watching now.

RichC2

I'd agree, mostly because Christina has kind of packed on the pounds and Levine is nailing:

SFW but to prevent any peering HR eyes



Shelton is with Miranda Lambert (eh), Cee-Lo is single. So odds are better for Lambert or Cee-Lo, as I don't think Levine wants to screw it up with his swimsuit model.

This is one of the things I really like about the show, it's less about finding new talent than helping existing talent mature.

Draven

He was on the very first episode of the talk show I produce and yes, he's a great guy. I'd rather support people that have actually done the work than those who show up at a cattle call with no experience.

starman9000

I cracked up when Mahoney showed up on this. I was not expecting that at all.

I liked this show last week, but I got bored in a hurry last night.

Goat3001

Of course I don't mean the question seriously as I didn't consider who each one was dating/engaged to. But let's be honest, it's not like it would be the first time a musician cheated on their significant other.

Because Cee-Lo is one ugly son of a bitch. I put Adam up high because you can tell by watching the show that she wants him.

RichC2

I was stating it in a joking fashion.

This show is crushing it in the ratings. It scored a 5.6 demo rating which is ridiculously high, especially at 10 pm, and about 12.3m viewers overall last night. That's a 10% increase from the debut, generally there's a slight drop off in the second ep.

Superman07

I watched a few clips (blind tests) from this and it's actually pretty good. I like the different take on the way contestants are picked. I've never been a fan of Idol or watched. To me that's been more about the drama leading up to it. This by contrast is more about the raw talent. I do think it would be improved by having the judges closer to the stage and having them be in a semi circle. It would also be fun if they judges couldn't see each other, or know when one of them has turned around. Sometimes their decisions seem to be influenced by the others.

DJariya

I kind of agree with you here. The last 30-40 minutes got boring especially when they ran out of talent and had to bring in people who were dropped to re-audition again.

There were a few really rough auditions specifically the Tattoo freak Emily Valentine and the 16-year old bubble gum princess Raquel.

I hope it gets more compelling now that they are moving to the coaching stage. Out of all the contestants so far, my pick is still Javier from Adam's team. Adam and Cee-Lo probably have the strongest teams talent-wise.