'The Voice'...

Now that are down to the Top 8, of which it will be down to the Top 4 after Tuesday's (May 16th 2017) results, here is how i see things playing out...

if you want my pick for who i think is going to win it's... Lauren Duskie as i been saying she's going to win for at least 2-3 weeks now as you can just tell her voice tone stands out more than your typical decent singer on the show and she seems to just 'have it'.

Who i personally WANT to make the Top 4 on Tuesday's (May 16th) results show...

1.Lauren Duskie
2.Brennley Brown
3.Tsoul
4.Hunter Plake (alternative... Chris Blue. earlier in the season i might have had Jesse Larson in there but he's been slipping lately overall.)

Who i THINK will make the Top 4 on Tuesday's (May 16th) results show...

-Lauren Duskie (she's a given as if she does not make the Top 4 ill be straight up shocked. if i was betting on who i think is going to win it's definitely her as i been saying she's going to win for at least 2-3 weeks now as you can just tell she stands out from the pack as almost no one else can challenger her overall voice tone etc.)

-Brennley Brown (she's a given. if she don't make it ill be quite surprised.)

so that only leaves two spots left out of the six remaining contestants and my best guess here would be, two of the following three contestants...

-Tsoul (he better make the Top 4 but i think there is a chance he might not)

-Hunter Plake (with him he's a bit harder to gauge as i think he's also one of those contestants who have a good chance to make the Top 4 but i won't be surprised if he does not make it. but i am guessing he's fairly popular because he's a bit different from the others and seems like that type of music a fair amount like etc.)

-Chris Blue (personally i think he's overrated as he's a solid performer but i think purely vocally (like his overall voice tone etc) he's not as good as they make him out to be as i think Tsoul has a better overall singing voice. but being Chris Blue is humble and a good performer that's why i think his chances are good to make the Top 4)

so being i mentioned 5 out of the 8 contestants above the remaining three i pretty much expect to go home which are...

-Aliyah Moulden (she's my second choice who i don't think has much of a chance at being in the Top 4 as you already got Brennley who's got to be more popular and i can't see both of the young singers making the Top 4 when you got quite a few other solid singers still there)

-Vanessa Ferguson (i am confident she's not making the Top 4 as she's probably the one i am most confident on claiming will NOT make the Top 4)

-Jesse Larson (he's kinda hard to gauge as a while ago i thought he was going to be around for a while but lately he's been slipping but bounced back a little on Monday)


with all of that said... while ill probably be mostly correct (or in the general ball park) on my predictions there will likely be something playing out differently from what i think will happen. but ill be a little surprised if Vanessa or Aliyah makes it into the Top 4 as those are the two i am most confident will not make the Top 4.

NOTE: since i only narrowed it down to five contestants above who i think will be in the Top 4, if your FORCING me to take a guess on who i THINK will make the Top 4 in Tuesday's results show ill say... Lauren Duski/Brennley Brown/Chris Blue/Hunter Plake. i am most confident on saying Lauren/Brennley will be there as if they are not ill be surprised/shocked as if i am wrong on those four predictions it's going to be Chris or Hunter that i am wrong on. but my best prediction is ill probably get 3 out of 4 correct but possibly 4 out of 4 correct as if i don't get at least 2 out of the 4 correct ill be quite surprised.

p.s. i don't consider myself a fan of country music in general but you can just tell those two are superior singers to the rest, pretty much, especially Lauren Duskie who just seems like she's already made it as she's basically more polished than Brennley Brown as i think there is about a 10 year age gap between the two and it shows.

Well after seeing the show hours ago here is what we now know given the results show...

1.Lauren Duski
-.Chris Blue
-.Aliyah Moulden

4.Jesse Larson (going by the 'instant save' percentages... Jesse would be 4th, Hunter 5th, Brennley 6th)
-.Hunter Plake
-.Brennley Brown

7.TSoul (my guess is he was most likely 7th given Vanessa was in the bottom before and he was not and she finished likely 8th place)
-.Vanessa Ferguson

but here is who made the finale next week...

-Lauren Duski
-Chris Blue
-Aliyah Moulden
-Jesse Larson

that's also the order i think it will be in the finale's results show as Lauren Duski should win in my mind as she's clearly the all around best of those four in my mind in terms of most all around appealing voice and consistency on the show.

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but given the results... Jesse finished between 4th-6th place as it makes me wonder even though he won the 'instant save' if the actual voting results played out the same or not being the actual votes might vary a bit from that instant save which i imagine is more dominated by younger people etc. but i guess it's something we will never know for sure simply because they don't release that info to the public. but if the instant save represents the actual voting then we know he was in 4th place of the 8 people.

with all of that said... in my predictions pretty much the only ones i was CLEARLY wrong on was Brennley/Aliyah as it was pretty much the opposite of what i thought it would be (like i thought Brennley was in the Top 3 and Aliyah in the Bottom 3(i.e. 6th-8th) and it was the opposite of that) and i did not see TSoul finishing 7th-8th place (most likely 7th) like he did. i basically overestimated Brennley and underestimated Aliyah, quite a bit. but there is still no way Aliyah takes out the clearly superior Lauren Duski who i think has to be the favorite right now with the only chance of a upset being Chris Blue for his likability/performing abilities on stage. so it's basically Lauren vs Chris for the #1 spot in my mind with Aliyah in 3rd and, being we know he finished lower than Aliyah with todays results, Jesse in 4th.

RiP, IMDb

early on i thought Jesse Larson was solid but as time went on he fizzled a bit as it makes me wonder if Adam was picking some weaker songs for him in a attempt to push Lilly ahead of him. but luckily he improved here recently and got a spot in the Top 4.

Here is how i THINK it will play out...

1.Lauren Duski (i been saying she's going to win for a while now and i still don't see that changing as i think the only one who has a chance at beating her is Chris Blue given my comments on Chris Blue below.)

2.Chris Blue (his only real chance to take out Lauren is two key areas... he's likable/humble and preforms well on stage. but purely vocally i think Lauren clearly has a more appealing voice tone as Chris does not stand out here if you ask me. but being people seem to like those who preform well on stage and have that likability/humble personality i think he's got a reasonable chance to win.)

3.Aliyah Moulden (she should definitely not have made it this far as she was pretty much easily on the weaker half of the eight contestants in my mind. she's not a bad singer, just forgettable. for me personally she should have never finished any higher than 6th place out of the 8 contestants left but i am thinking more towards a 7th place finish.)

4.Jesse Larson (sadly, he will finish lower than Aliyah because we already know the Top 3 in the voting results are the three i listed above as the only thing we don't know is their exact order)

Here is how i WANT it to play out...

1.Lauren Duski
2.Jesse Larson
-.Chris Blue
4.Aliyah Moulden (she should never had been here as she should have finished 7th place, maybe 6th at best, if you ask me.)

basically... if Jesse gets a good song that suits him i think he's better than Chris Blue but if not, then Chris Blue would probably be a safer choice for me because of him having fun on stage etc.

I still think it's going to play out how i predicted in my post above which is...

1.Lauren (i thought she was going to be the winner for a while now and after her three performances last night i think she was the overall best and that should raise her chances of winning i would think. but i guess by the Top 4 people are pretty much locked into who they are voting for i would imagine.)
2.Chris (he's got a chance to win though but if anyone else wins it will be straight up BS.)
3.Aliyah (Brennley should be here instead as she's easily all around better in my mind. but even if it was not her you could have damn near took your pick amongst the Top 8 over her)
4.Jesse (i hope he passes Aliyah as she should not even be in the Top 4 but given what we know from the voting results in the past it seems unlikely he will place higher than Aliyah)

but even strictly as far as the performances last night... i thought Aliyah was easily the overall weak link out of the 2-3 performances each person did as none of hers were up to a certain standard of quality where as the others had at least one song that was decent enough but i thought Lauren was the overall best of the night and should win but the main reason i am not counting Chris out is because of his general story/likability and stage presence which people seem to be a sucker for even though i think purely listening to Lauren vs Chris i think Lauren is definitely the overall better singer with a more appealing overall voice tone. but i think Chris really only had one worth mentioning which was the song made for him and if you count the duet thing that was decent to but the song he sang last (that Janet Jackson song) was the overall worst of the three amongst his songs in my mind.

also, another thing i think is a bit different is that the original songs for the artists, outside of Aliyah, where pretty much better than the typical songs they sing that are already known from last night.

here is my preference of the songs from each person...

Lauren's songs...

1.original song
2.duet
3.cover song (while her overall weakest performance of the three it still beat almost everything from everyone else with 'maybe' the exception a handful of the others (Jesse original/Chris original/Chris duet))

Chris songs...

1.original song
2.duet
3.cover song

Jesse songs... his original song was his overall best of the three he did. the one he did with Adam was mostly sold by the fun they had doing it.

Aliyah songs... all forgettable. but strictly as far as she goes i would say her duet was probably her all around best bet even though that did not work for Blake as they kinda clashed together.

so basically i would say, for the most part, out of all twelve performances on the night the only ones up to a certain standard... all three of Laurens, Chris original song, Jesse original song. so five out of the twelve total performances.

RiP, IMDb



given your post it seems like you voted for Jesse/Chris, right?

i hope Jesse takes out Aliyah who should have never been in the Top 4 as she was 6th place AT BEST (but probably more towards 7th or 8th) in my mind amongst the Top 8.