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When The Voice forgets what genre lane it is sitting in

If you're purporting to be Reality TV, don't go shutting out the viewers from your moments of drama.

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“I don’t know what to do,” Delta Goodrem said last night on The Voice.

“I wish I had a sister like you had a brother,” she told the Madden Brothers.

Goodrem was torn trying to decide the fate of Maryann Wright & Natasha Hoebrigs after their battle round singing “Memory,”

“I’ll be your sister girl,” said Jessie J. who proceeded to sit beside her to help Goodrem make a decision.

And at that point the producers turned their microphones off. Huh?

We heard nothing about the decision-making process from Goodrem, leaving us none the wiser as to what she was actually pent up about. Was one a better vocalist? Did one have more star potential? Was one easier to coach in rehearsal? Who knows…

Instead we were left to hear the small-talk punchlines of the Maddens with Ronan Keating.

“That performance was almost purr-fect,” said Benji Madden.

“It left me feline good,” Keating joked.

The Reality genre is supposed to be showing us the drama, when it’s tough for the contestants, when it’s tough for the coaches, when it’s tough for the audience. In an ideal world it is warts-and-all exposing television. While nobody is suggested the genre is actually “real” last night the show dropped the ball.

Viewers were denied the decision-making process when it was on the table. All they got was the outcome. Boo.

Let’s hope producers don’t make this a regular occurrence.

13 Responses

  1. It doesn’t really matter, In about 1 month when the Voice is over nobody will know, care or remember who won anyway. Unlike X Factor, Contestants on the Voice go nowhere. Can anybody remember who won last year?

  2. One thing which I don’t enjoy and leaves me confused is that they have someone host the show, yet the voice over is really the person who guides the show… why not just have one?

  4. Also @tim Tam – earlier in the blind auditions judges turned their chairs for a duo but because they wanted to split them up and only take one of them. How is was what happened tonight with the sisters really any different?

  5. I honestly didn’t care that we didn’t hear what they were saying. It added to the suspense of finding out who was getting through. And what the boys were saying while the girls talked was funny.
    @tim tam – it is not rigged. Jessie just decided to pair them up as duo instead of taking one through as a singular artist. Similar things have happened on others shows were they combine contestants to make a group. That’s how one direction got formed.

    2. It’s funny you mention similar things have happened on other shows because I knew I had seen Nada-Leigh Nasser before. She made the top 13 on TXF back in 2014 after the judges put her into their created girl group who later became XOX. They made it to week 5 before being eliminated. She must’ve been thinking not again.

  7. I don’t usually watch this show and much prefer X Factor however I watched this episode.

    To me it looks like Jessie J helped Delta go with Marianne because of her being more ‘open to the experience’ in Detas words. While the other girl was a better vocalist Delta bought Marianne was more teachable. That’s what Delta was saying before she asked Jessie J for assistance

  8. This show is so rigged so contrived tonight’s episode of the battle rounds Monday 30th may ,the rules state only one from each round gets picked to go through, not so tonight in one of the battle rounds they allowed both female contestants in the same battle round who happened to be sisters to go through.its just not right not fair on the other contestants.if it’s a rule of the show then it should apply to all contestants..it was so blatantly obvious that Jesse J was going to pick both sisters instead of the one of them. This show is so manufactured.

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