*Viewers of “The Voice” may be puzzled at times as to why the judges boot contestants that appear to be far better singers than the contestants they keep around.
This question, at some point, exists for all of the various singing competition shows, but “The Voice” may be the first to offer some kind of explanation.
As season two goes into its live semi-final eliminations tonight, Cee Lo Green says he believes in judging “for what is possible,” and that aspect, according to the cat-stroking singer, makes “The Voice” the most positive of its kind on television – not just for the contestants, but for him and his fellow mentor/judges Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera and Adam Levine as well.
“It’s more positive than anything else,” he told reporters during a recent press day for the show. “And I’m hoping that everybody appreciates the opportunity as we [judges] do, because we’re artists as well, and this is quite a vehicle for exposure and carrying on with our careers. So we can only hope the contestants share that same winning positive optimistic attitude. And if they do not, you’ll be able to see that and that may have some effect on your [judge/contestant] relationship, because it does get personal.”
Below, Cee Lo further explains how his voting decisions are based on a contestant’s promise of longevity.
That seems a like a really ignorant statement to me becuae if you can sing you can sing and that is IT why should you put someone through who may have to be put on auto tune go for years to vocal coaches and still can’t carry a tune in a bag OK. All the old school singer could/can sing and sang so for me the explaination just does not hold water nor make sense. And also the the stupid way they pit what is supposed to be the best singers against each other in the beginning is what makes me lose interest in this show (besides the fact that the judges seem to be tone deaf and music challenged) And I don’t care if they have sold millions of records OK I know these people want to sing all the new music but some of it is just crap IMO and it does NOT showcase the talent. And some of this so called NEW talent is a joke