

That said, it was an easy win for her, as Karrasch tanked pretty badly on Lil Wayne’s “How to Love.” It was upbeat and energetic, and you can just tell Chamuel will hold nothing back during the upcoming live rounds. The bespectacled, self-proclaimed geek hopped her way through Pink’s “Raise Your Glass” as if she had just “won the lottery,” as Blake put it. Jojo & Wo TBA (Lil Wayne) No chair turns. The instrumental MP3 of Knockout as made famous by Lil Wayne & Nicki Minaj is not available. Surprisingly, the best performance of the night was by nerd-rocker Chamuel, whom Usher chose to keep over Audrey Karrasch. Bubba How Am I Supposed to Live Without You (Michael Bolton) No chair turns. Despite the other coaches giving Kellner a slight edge and Blake calling Hawley “calculated,” Usher bucked the trend and picked Hawley – probably because of his chiseled good looks. At worst, his vocals were garbled and his stage presence stiff. But Hawley’s choice of Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black,” on which he played guitar, was odd at best. The recording was disrupted by guitarist Jo Callis reaching through an open. Granted, neither one of them did a bang-up job. Phil Oakey recorded his vocals for Dont You Want Me in the studio bathroom. (With Tucker, fellow teammate Danielle Bradbery and Adam’s Carrington all making it through, there are three fair-haired country girls in the competition.)Īnother questionable choice came with Usher’s ousting of lilting-voiced Jess Kellner in order to keep male model Josiah Hawley. Adam even went up to Blake after the choice was made, telling him he made a mistake. Tucker was the obvious choice for Blake to pick, considering she walked right into his wheelhouse with Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying.” But Edgemon’s unique arrangement of Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” had both Shakira and Adam crying foul when he was cut. Take the match-up between Blake’s Holly Tucker and Luke Edgemon, whom Shelton stole from Shakira during the battle rounds. (Blake himself referred to his foursome as “100 percent down-home, knee-slappin’, tobacco-spittin’, horse-ridin’ country singers.”)īut like Adam choosing cutesy country girl Amber Carrington over hipster duo Midas Whale, several interesting contestants were put out to pasture as generic artists prevailed. With a career spanning more then 20 years in the industry Shortyo has worked with multi platinum artists like Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Rick Ross and more. Who also produces and writes hiphop/r&b records. In fact, Team Blake is packed with potential winners, considering they’re all country acts, which have a tendency to do well in these sorts of competitions. Shortyo is a grammy-nominated, multi-platinum mix engineer.
