As quickly because it was introduced that Adam Levine was returning for The Voice’s twenty seventh season on the 2025 TV schedule, it felt like John Legend can be a worthy adversary for the singer who appeared on every of the primary 16 seasons earlier than stepping away. That actually has come to fruition because the Blind Auditions are set to wrap up, and the EGOT winner had an amusing remark about their shared time on the singing competitors.
The present season (accessible to stream with a Peacock subscription) just isn’t the primary time Adam Levine and John Legend have labored collectively. They crossed paths briefly in 2019 and, throughout an interview on The Kelly Clarkson Present, Legend recalled a humorous rumor about his and Levine’s time on the present, saying:
So the final season he was on was Season 16, which was my first season, so some say I’m chargeable for eliminating him, nevertheless it wasn’t me. However he’s again, so we’re the OGs now.
It’s humorous to suppose that John Legend — who’s usually fairly soft-spoken, particularly compared to the opposite Voice coaches — would have had a hand in getting Adam Levine kicked off of The Voice, simply because the Maroon 5 singer was exiting simply as Legend made his debut.
Now, John Legend is in his tenth season on the present and, whereas followers are excited that Adam Levine is again, the “All of Me” singer could not love all of him. Legend has established a fame as one thing of a 4-Chair King, who’s in a position to win over artists who received all 4 coaches to show their chairs and are due to this fact ready to select from all 4 superstar mentors.
Nevertheless, Adam Levine possesses a legacy of profitable, boasting three wins over 16 seasons to John Legend’s sole victory. That’s a pretty high quality for the incoming Season 27 contestants, and of the seven 4-Chair Turns we’ve seen by the primary 4 nights of Blind Auditions, Levine has gotten 5 of them, with Legend taking the opposite two (one in all whom he needed to block Adam from).
The singers’ historical past on The Voice truly goes again even additional than Season 16, as John Legend served as an advisor for Staff Adam in Season 12. They talked about their historical past on the present and going up in opposition to Kelsea Ballerini and Michael Bublé within the video under:
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Adam Levine and John Legend’s pleasant rivalry will possible by no means attain the peaks that the Maroon 5 frontman noticed with Blake Shelton. Nevertheless, it’s a fairly unusual coincidence that Levine’s earlier last season was Legend’s first.
If you wish to see which one in all these 4 will safe the Season 27 bragging rights, tune in for brand new episodes at 8 p.m. ET Mondays on NBC. The Blind Auditions are set to wrap up March 3, with the Battle spherical kicking off March 10.