The Blind Auditions are rolling on Season 27 of The Voice, presently airing on the 2025 TV schedule, and followers are loving Adam Levine’s massive return. It’s been six years because the Maroon 5 singer contributed to a few of the singing competitors’s wildest moments, however in a manner, Adam Levine has been again longer than we might have realized. That’s as a result of NBC has modified the best way seasons of The Voice are filmed, and John Legend’s clarification is fairly fascinating.
John Legend visited his outdated good friend and former coach of The Voice Kelly Clarkson on her discuss present to speak concerning the new crop of singers who he, Adam Levine, Kelsea Ballerini and Michael Bublé are preventing over. When she requested if he missed the present when he took Season 26 off, Legend made a stunning revelation concerning the filming schedule, saying:
The way in which we’re taping nowadays, we do two seasons per, like, summer season and early fall. So even once you’re away, you’re actually not away. So that they had been taping Season 26, after which I might go tape Season 27 the subsequent week. Again to again, so Michael was doing each, however the remainder of us had been solely doing one or the opposite.
John Legend coached on Seasons 24 and 25, so although he took 26 off, he mentioned on The Kelly Clarkson Present that he (and Adam Levine) principally returned to set final summer season similtaneously Reba McEntire, Snoop Dogg, Gwen Stefani and Michael Bublé. The Canadian crooner, in the meantime, is the one coach to seem on each seasons, so Bublé simply stayed put whereas the opposite coaches traded out their chairs.
The EGOT winner didn’t specify in the event that they filmed all of Season 26’s pre-recorded rounds earlier than beginning Season 27, or in the event that they did the Blind Auditions for every season earlier than transferring on to the Battles for every season, and many others., and that leaves me with so many questions.
As an example, 19-year-old Iris Herrera didn’t flip a chair in Season 26 however got here again to audition for 27 and received to hitch Kelsea Ballerini’s workforce. Have been her performances mere days other than one another? Weeks? Was this schedule a part of the explanation Reba McEntire was in a position to tape The Voice and Completely satisfied’s Place on the similar time, or was it a part of what difficult that course of?
Additionally, how grueling was that schedule for Michael Bublé, Carson Daly, the band and the remainder of the crew? John Legend admitted it was “loopy for producers,” however I assume taking an even bigger chunk of time to tape two seasons without delay frees up a while over the remainder of the 12 months. I’d additionally think about it’s fairly unusual for the Season 27 contestants to only now get to look at the auditions that occurred months in the past. How lengthy may have handed between after they auditioned and when the semifinalists return for reside episodes?
Clearly I’m simply in search of a “Making of The Voice” documentary, however I actually do suppose that is all so attention-grabbing. Till I get that doc, I shall merely quiet my thoughts with the tunes of the present contestants, the mild comedy of Michael Bublé and the thrill of Adam Levine bringing again one thing The Voice has been missing since Blake Shelton and Kelly Clarkson left.
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