Before The Voice whittled down Season 22’s Top 13 to its Top 10 this week, I used to be all set to put in writing an article suggesting that Team John Legend’s Parijita Bastola was as unbeatable as, say, Season 21’s Girl Named Tom or Season 16’s Maelyn Jarmon. Because the sequence’ first Nepali-American contestant is simply. That. Flawless. (To date, the teenage Adele has by no means even earned a grade from me that wasn’t within the A variety — and also you know how grumpypants I could be!)
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But after Monday’s ear-popping performances — critically, I used to be giving out A’s like they have been celebration favors — I needed to chuck that principle. Parijita did superbly, as she at all times does. However, Team Camila Cabello’s Morgan Myles and Team Gwen Stefani’s Justin Aaron didn’t simply deliver it, they introduced additional “it” as in the event that they have been afraid that they may run out. Team Legend powerhouse Omar Jose Cardona reminded us of simply how flippin’ unimaginable he’s when he’s picked the fitting tune. (In different phrases, when he isn’t hopping across the stage to Imagine Dragons.) And Team Legend’s Kim Cruse delivered a rendition of “Always On My Mind” that was so stirring, it’s nonetheless on my thoughts.
Then, in fact, there was early frontrunner bodie from Team Blake Shelton. Dude reinvented “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” in a means that made The Proclaimers’ basic as heart-tugging and highly effective as the unique was peppy, in so doing making me remorse describing him as an early frontrunner — he’s a frontrunner, interval.
So it’s an actual tossup as to who will win Season 22, proper? I’d be proud of any of the above being named “the voice.” But my hunch at this level is that the victory goes to go to… Team Blake’s Bryce Leatherwood. I do know, I do know — he lacks the firepower of a Justin or an Omar. He lacks the finesse of a Parijita. He lacks the inventiveness of a bodie. But Bryce is a rustic man on a rustic star’s workforce in a singing contest that has a country-leaning viewers. And he’s not dangerous in any respect. He’s simply not the revelation {that a} Parijita or a bodie is.
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