'Working On A Miracle' was probably my favorite so far, stunning :wub: I voted for that (West Virginia), Shameless (Massachusetts), Plenty Love (Pennsylvania), DIY (Georgia) and De La Finikera (Arizona).

 

I won't complain about the jury selection for a change, really liked it even if it was predictable again. :lol: But I was already an Allen Stone fan so I'm kind of biased! The other frontrunner (Shameless) was terrific too so I wouldn't have minded that going through either.

1. Watch Me Now (Nevada) (10/10)

2. DIY (Georgia) (9/10)

3. Keys to the Kingdom (California) (9/10)

4. Wonderland (Oklahoma) (7.5/10)

5. The Difference (Alabama) (7/10)

6. Green Light (New York) (7/10)

7. Sparrow (Kentucky) (7/10)

8. Shameless (Massachusetts) (7/10)

9. Ready to Go (Minnesota) (7/10)

10. Tell Me (Kansas) (7/10)

11. Beautiful World (Connecticut) (7/10)

12. LOKO (Puerto Rico) (6/10)

13. I Don't Take Pictures Anymore (New Jersey) (6/10)

14. Can't Make You Love Me (North Dakota) (6/10)

15. Flirt (Florida) (6/10)

16. Full Circle (America Samoa) (6/10)

17. Working On A Miracle (West Virginia) (6/10)

18. It's Up (Maryland) (6/10)

19. Wonder (Iowa) (6/10)

20. MR. INDEPENDENT (Texas) (6/10)

21. Feel the Love (Colorado) (6/10)

22. From La Finikera (Arizona) (6/10)

23. Natalie (Michigan) (6/10)

24. Never Alone (Nebraska) (5/10)

25. Fire (Mississippi) (5/10)

26. Plenty Love (Pennsylvania) (5/10)

27. Lifeline (Illinois) (5/10)

28. Fly (New Hampshire) (5/10)

29. Million Dollar Smoothies (Oregon) (5/10)

30. Now You Do (Louisiana) (5/10)

31. Held On Too Long (Rhode Island) (5/10)

32. A Bit Of Both (Washington) (5/10)

33. Celebrando (U.S. Virgin Islands) (5/10)

34. Seventeen (Tennessee) (5/10)

35. Train (Delaware) (5/10)

36. Every Night (Ohio) (5/10)

37. Not Alone (South Carolina) (5/10)

38. Over You (Virginia) (5/10)

39. Sunsets and Seaturtles (Northern Mariana Islands) (5/10)

40. Sad Girl (Utah) (4/10)

41. Never Like This (Arkansas) (4/10)

42. Fire It Up (Montana) (4/10)

43. 4 You (Hawaii) (4/10)

44. Rollercoaster (Vermont) (4/10)

45. Steady Machine (Idaho) (4/10)

46. Feel Your Love (Wisconsin) (4/10)

47. The Story (Alaska) (4/10)

48. Right in the Middle (North Carolina) (4/10)

49. Bad Girl (South Dakota) (4/10)

50. Better Things (Missouri) (4/10)

51. Get Out Alive (Maine) (4/10)

52. Midnight (Guam) (3/10)

53. I Like It (Washington D.C.) (3/10)

54. Drop (New Mexico) (2/10)

55. New Boot Goofin' (Wyoming) (2/10)

56. Love In My City (Indiana) (0/10)

 

This heat is rather weak. Also Nevada NQ is a robbery.

Edited December 25, 20222 yr by uhsting

Great top 2 by the jury this week! Disappointing to see California lose the qualification at the last moment, but I'm hopeful they can still advance. I voted for California, American Samoa, New Mexico and North Carolina.

I only voted for Michigan and Massachusetts ('Natalie' and 'Shameless') this week, would've voted for Washington too if it hadn't won the jury again. More of my faves must have ended up in the next semifinal.

The 10 finalists are all revealed now!

 

Only one of my semi 2 faves made it through (YES Chloe!!), the other three (California, Kansas, North Carolina) were all 2nd-4th from the jury so I was actually more confident about those, so I'm disappointed about that. California was especially robbed! Actually I didn't realize the jury only picked 1 finalist per semi and the rest were entirely decided by public vote.

ahahahahah i see the juries tried to f*ck over OK/TX/CO but they couldn't do it

 

F*CK THE JURIES THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

 

lmao AleXa has more plays on Spotify than most of the other entries combined, despite it being her least streamed title track :lol: Imagine if she wins by televote power alone

fun fact: AleXa's televote tally was so large that she would have won with 0 jury points. WHO CALLED THAT SHIT

 

 

(from Twitter)

Wow at how out of touch the juries on this were. The audience wanted fun and pop, they wanted credible ballads.

 

Weird that after having so much of a say through the semi-finals the juries had like 20%? influence on the final result.

 

Great for Alexa, it was a clearly genuinely popular track and a polished superstar style performance. There were songs I liked more but she had the whole package and it is a good first (hopefully not only) winner for the contest.

 

Kudos to Michael Bolton for being the only big star to make it to the final too!

 

Surprised Seventeen was last, I liked it more than quite a few of the others. Sparrow was super cliched and bland and I’d not have had it anywhere near the top three.

Yeah it's crazy how the jury vote and public vote seemed like polar opposites. Even though I preferred the jury winner (Allen Stone), I'm glad the public vote had more weight, I'm sure our audience doesn't quite get the whole jury format and even if it had been more balanced I'm not sure it would've gone over well. Still, Seventeen being last was indeed a shock and seemed a bit harsh! The country vote seemed pretty strong in the first round with several qualifying for the semis, and then it just vanished.

 

I'm not holding out much hope for another season based on the ratings, pretty sure NBC will immediately want The Voice back in that timeslot, but I sure would love to be proved wrong!

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Edited May 12, 20223 yr by tommie