![]() There seems to be no rules in the Max and Ruby house and if there are they are Never enforced, Ever. Max is not taught or corrected when he does something wrong like making a mess, not listening or something else that is just simply not right. However the show stops there at what I like. So, whose performance really blew you away Monday? And whose efforts left you thinking they were going to be led away? Vote in the poll below, then hit the comments.I like that Ruby is very very very patient. It also usually feels like, if he was a stereo, his volume control would indicate that he could go up to 11, but in reality, his voice stops at 7 or 8. I just can’t get past the cheese factor of his performance(s). Let’s bring back the real Mac with the swagger and the bedroom voice!īIAS (Team Gwen), “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” - Grade: B- | On his Johnny Cash cover, BIAS’ vocal was all fire and brimstone - well above average, at least for him. But was it enough to get him to the Semi-Finals? Questionable. Trouble was, the spin that he put on it was kinda boring. And everybody knows the song so well, it left a lot of room for Mac to put his own spin on it. ![]() Mac Royals (Team Legend), “I Can’t Make You Love Me” - Grade: B- | Ha - smart: Song selection doesn’t get much safer than Bonnie Raitt’s ballad. There had been no one before her, and there would be no one after her.” Stunning. The way she embodied the song, it was like, “Whoa. Mara Justine (Team Niall), “Lose Control” - Grade: A+ | On Teddy Swims’ viral smash, the 21-year-old Jersey girl killed, absolutely killed, navigating a hella-tricky verse melody and turning loose the voice of a woman possessed on the choruses. My one criticism? Much as I love Jordan’s sunglasses as part of her persona, I do wish she’d ditch them so we could see the fire in her eyes as well as hear the fire in her voice. She gave a tangy performance of Ronnie Milsap’s oldie that really packed a punch. Jordan Rainer (Team Reba), “Stranger in My House” - Grade: A- | Since Ruby stumbled Monday, Reba’s country lane was wide open for Jordan - and she did not stumble. I just wondered whether the song was going to resonate with the Voice audience, which tends to be pretty middle-of-the-road in its musical preferences. ![]() Her coach cheered on the radiance for which his Super Save contestant is known. Her vocal was spot on, too - gorgeous, nuanced and saturated with emotion. Also, we’ve gotta give him bonus points for working so hard to follow Niall and Chance’s instructions and keep his eyes open.Īzán (Team Legend), “Ex-Factor” - Grade: A | OK, can we talk about feeling a number? ‘Cause Azán was 100% into her Lauryn Hill cover. Now there’s a guy that the band couldn’t drown out if it tried! He was so into it, so passionate, so tastefully screechy, I wanted to give him a lozenge when he was done. Huntley (Team Niall), “With a Little Help From My Friends” - Grade: A | Huntley’s massive voice + The Beatles’ golden oldie = a winning formula. (Reba disagreed, but then, we’d expect her to, wouldn’t we?) On top of that, perhaps owing to her age, she didn’t seem to connect to the emotion of the song. Maybe nerves got to the youngster, but she ran into more pitch issues than we’re used to hearing from her. Ruby Leigh (Team Reba), “You Lie” - Grade: C | “She does it better than me!” Ruby’s coach marveled after hearing the 16-year-old in rehearsal. Her coach further praised Lila as the first artist of the night to really bring us into their own world. Predictably, her take on the Indigo Girls’ hit was magnificent to the nth. Lila Forde (Team Legend), “Closer to Fine” - Grade: A+ | At this point, Lila has become for me what Maelyn Jarmon was back in Season 16 - a singer so superlative that it hardly even seems like a competition anymore. Tanner’s cover wasn’t a train wreck, but when he wasn’t being drowned out by the band, he mostly sounded like he’d bitten off a bigger number than he could chew. “Umm… is there another option?” I thought to myself. Tanner Massey (Team Gwen), “Thnks fr th Mmrs” - Grade: C | In rehearsal, the 19-year-old said that Fallout Boy’s rocker embodied everything that he wanted to be as an artist. That, combined with some pitch issues here and there on her rendition of Keyshia Cole’s ballad, were going to leave her in the danger zone Tuesday. But while her voice was full of emotion, her face just… wasn’t. Kara Tenae (Team Gwen), “Love” - Grade: B- | On Mega Mentor Chance the Rapper’s favorite song, Kara poured her whole heart out.
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