Opening up the night, Al-Saadi sang his cover of Cream’s “White Room”. And I really did enjoy my last performance. I think it is a pretty close race. As Adam Levine said, “That was the coolest thing we’ve ever had on The Voice”.
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Al-Saadi is not supposed to be in the finals.
Alisan Porter, 34, of Agoura Hills, Calif. (Team Christina) – Porter has been this season’s wire-to-wire frontrunner, and pseudo-celebrity as she starred in the film “Curly Sue” as a child. Porter’s performance was emotional and vocally impressive. His team holds the most successful record on The Voice, having won four seasons. It’s the name of the game, after all. “I’m kind of the brie cheese, if you will, of The Voice”, agrees Laith, affably.
Adam Wakefield teamed up with his coach, Blake, for a duet of “The Conversation” by Hank Williams, Jr. and Waylon Jennings. It was a fun duet, and they sounded good together.
“That performance was packed with solos everywhere”, says Pharrell. What she’s doing on the show …
“People across this country know what you just did with an iconic Vince Gill song”, says Blake. Al-Saadi and Levine, finally, will sing for the victory with a medley of tunes by The Beatles that includes Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, and The End. Both shined as musicians but not really as singers.
The duets continued, with Aguilera and Porter singing “You’ve Got A Friend In Me”. Again, it was fine. The artists and their original songs are as follows: Al-Saadi, Morning Light; Huston, I Call the Shots; Porter, Down that Road; and Wakefield, Lonesome Broken and Blue. Unsurprisingly, Wakefield is an impressive songwriter. She called the shots and a hit was made.
Country music sensation Blake Shelton has also been with the show since the very beginning.
Alisan delivered the last performance of the night, singing “Somewhere”.
Hurston did her dark rendition of The Police’s classic, “Every Breath You Take”. Speculations and predictions are running rampant and it seems to be a tough competition out there. Maybe he was thinking of bleu cheese. Most of the judges said how they were anxious about her changing the song but said she did an awesome job. Wakefield had a lot of momentum going into the finale, and he performed well tonight, capping off a slew of solid country performances with this cover. Adam Levine praised him for making the best creative choices of all the finalists. “You just blew the roof off of this place”.
In addition, Adam jumped right to the top of the iTunes charts with his original song as soon as part one of the finale ended.
Watch her performance on the video below.
A West Side Story song assignment tailored seemingly perfectly to her Broadway-trained strengths, the producers set this up for her. If she doesn’t pump out a showstopper Monday night that folks are willing to buy immediately afterward, she could be in trouble. This is a great example of the type of artist she’ll be after the competition. The song resembled Porter and Aguilera’s friendship.
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In short, yes. Despite being an obvious favorite all season, Porter is no lock for the season 10 crown.
