The Voice, one in every of my favourite competitors reveals, is premiering on the 2025 TV schedule subsequent week, and it’s bringing again an authentic coach. That’s proper, Adam Levine is again in a kind of huge swivel chairs, and whereas Blake Shelton received’t be again with him, in fact he talked about his longtime adversary and nice pal on the present.
Forward of the NBC sequence coming again this Monday, Adam Levine was requested about the way it feels to return to the present over 5 years after saying goodbye. Right here’s how Blake’s title got here up:
The perfect half about being again with The Voice Household is that I haven’t got to cope with Blake Shelton. I simply do not like him. So, it has been nice not having to be round him. He is a nasty pal…
Did anybody else see this a mile away? It feels such as you simply can’t have Adam Levine with out Blake Shelton. And whereas Season 27 will actually show that Adam Levine can coach with out his beloved frenemy, he couldn’t assist however poke enjoyable on the nation star as soon as once more. As he continued to Folks:
I am simply kidding. In fact, I like Blake. And I needed to open with a Blake joke as a result of he isn’t on the present anymore, but they nonetheless proceed.
It’s a stable method. Now that Adam Levine is on the present sans Blake, he has the mic, and Blake Shelton can’t defend himself or quip again. In fact, Adam and Blake’s jokes between each other have all the time been playful and constructed on their superb chemistry, so actually, it’s going to be bizarre at first to have the Maroon 5 singer with out his greatest competitors.
Adam Levine can be a coach alongside Kelsea Ballerini, Michael Bublé, and John Legend. It was introduced over the summer season that Levine would return for Season 27. The upcoming season is Ballerini’s first season as coach, Bublé’s second, and John Legend’s ninth season. (They also have a group chat collectively already!) Legend’s first season was truly Levine’s final earlier than Season 27 – so the pair have been coaches on the identical time earlier than.
When Levine spoke additional about his return to The Voice, he shared that it’s already “actually nice to be again” after he had a a lot wanted break. Levine had been on the present for sixteen seasons over eight years when he left and he’s loved spending extra time together with his household, occurring tour, and making music.
Levine has mentioned that he doesn’t see The Voice “as a contest anymore,” however reasonably an “alternative for us to share our experiences with the folks on the present,” so maybe we received’t see him as aggressive as he was on prior seasons.
The singer has received three seasons, which stacks fairly nicely subsequent to Legend’s sole win in Season 16 and Bublé’s sole win final season, however under no circumstances subsequent to Blake Shelton being The Voice champion with 9 wins over time. When Levine was requested if he’ll have one other adversary this season, he mentioned this:
There isn’t any changing [Shelton]… The factor that occurred with Blake and I, it was so natural, and it was primarily based on our friendship.
Levine additionally known as his chemistry with Shelton “unplanned” and “spontaneous”. In fact there’s rumors that Levine’s return to the present might deliver again Blake Shelton, however I’m simply excited to see this particular dynamic play out. I do know I can’t wait to observe on Mondays or stream the subsequent day with my Peacock subscription.