Line #4 YMMV/TheVoice


1	* AccidentalInnuendo:
2	** Christina telling a contestant she wants to play with them.
3	** [=CeeLo=] telling a contestant he can put her in different positions.
4	** Gwen telling a contestant he turns her on.
5	** Pharrell telling a contestant her voice is seductive.
6	** Blake telling a contestant his voice is [[RougeAnglesOfSatin saxy]].
7	** Adam praising a contestant's balls.
8	** Adam telling a contestant he has a dirty voice.
9	** Adam mentioning Blake and Gwen [[ExactWords going at it]].
10	* AudienceAlienatingEra:
11	** Season 2 was criticized for squandering the talent pool with team quotas.
12	** Season 4 was criticized for having too many country acts. Individually no one really minded any of them, but because there were so many of them and they lasted for so long (4 of the top 6 acts were country) some people got bored of listening to so much country when previous seasons had been defined by the variety of contestants.
13	** Season 6 is widely seen as this as well. Popular aspects of the show such as the knockouts were removed, voting was delayed by a week and the talent pool was widely criticized as bland and uninteresting (some speculate these changes were improvised on the fly for the sole purpose of making frontrunner Music/ChristinaGrimmie the winner; she ultimately finished in third place). Fortunately the producers appear to have learned their lesson, as subsequent seasons fixed these mistakes.
14	* BrokenBase:
15	** There are a ''lot'' of fans of this show who absolutely stop watching the moment the performers hit the live shows. The reason is because at that point, the show stops being about "the voice" and starts being about who the audience likes the most. Since the former is the entire selling point of the show, this could double as a BrokenAesop.
16	** It has been noted, several times, that singers who are "special" somehow (such as the blind contestants Rachael Leahcar and Andrea Begley, the aboriginal ZK and the stuttering Harrison Craig) got special consideration for their "courage" rather than their musical talent. In addition, the older, fatter, less attractive contestants often seem to be VotedOffTheIsland first, [[SarcasmMode for some mysterious reason]].
17	** There's a fairly large broken base over which panel is the best (see also AudienceAlienatingEra).
18	** Did Craig Wayne Boyd deserve to win Season 7?
19	** Judging by some comments on Website/YouTube, season 11's Billy Gilman seems to be this, to a degree. While no one is debating his talent, some feel that the show should feature inexperienced singers only, and he should not be allowed to compete since he's had a career already, and a Grammy-nominated one, at that. The rules, as of this writing, allow singers who have had professional experience to compete, but should they win, a record contract will not be part of the prize.
20	** Marc Amacher from German version. Can he really sing or is he just screaming?
21	** Is Kelly Clarkson funny or annoying?
22	* CreatorsPet: Some people felt that Cassadee Pope from Season 3 was this due to her having received constant praise by all judges, coming in with an already existing fanbase (she was the frontwoman of the pop-punk band Hey Monday), and outlasting several fan favorites.
23	* EliminationHoudini:
24	** Rachael Leachar, Andrea Begley, and Harrison Craig were gushed over for their "courage" and their "nobility" because they were disabled more than they were for being talented singers.
25	** Season 7's Ryan Sill was widely panned for his amateurish vocals and blatant favoritism by his coach Gwen.
26	** Despite reaching the Season 9 semifinals, Braiden Sunshine was universally panned by viewers for his mediocre vocals, lackluster song choices, total lack of stage presence, cocky attitude and overreliance on the teenage voting demographic. This was exacerbated by the fact that he knocked out singers who were generally regarded as far superior.
27	** Season 10's Nick Hagelin and Daniel Passino were originally eliminated in the knockouts, but they were brought back for the live shows. Many felt that they shouldn't have been coach comebacks in the first place, let alone be voted into the top 12.
28	** Josh Gallagher was widely panned for winning the Instant Save instead of Ali Caldwell or Christian Cuevas during the Season 11 semifinals. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8AM3AuhNeY Check out this video's like to dislike ratio.]]
29	* {{Glurge}}:
30	** How many times must we hear about [[{{Jerkass}} Trevin Hunte's music teacher]] putting him down?[[note]]His tendency to bring up his music teacher did drop eventually.[[/note]]
31	** Or how many times singers like Harrison Craig, Rachael Leachar, and Andrea Begley are "courageous" or have "overcome great odds" or "are showing such determination for coming on the show despite being physically impaired" somehow.
32	** The saccharine sob stories of tragedy were almost wall-to-wall during the first two series of the Australian version.
33	* HilariousInHindsight: At one point in Season 3, Adam, in a surprising move, called contestant [=MacKenzie=] Bourg an "Series/AmericanIdol". Flash-forward to 2016…
34	* HoYay:
35	** Christ on a cracker, Adam and Blake. Hell, you could make a DrinkingGame out of the number of times those two flirt! Even Usher commented on it after Adam stole a country artist from Blake's clutches. The word "therapy" was used somewhere. It's become a RunningGag for the comedic season finale montages to feature one about Blake's HoYay. In the second season, it was about his and Adam's "bromance". The season three montage focused on how he seemed to flirt with everyone, regardless of gender; complimenting the attractiveness of women, men, and [[DistractedByMyOwnSexy himself]]. And season four went with how Blake/Adam seemed to turn sour (which sometimes came off as BelligerentSexualTension) and was possibly threatened by Blake/Usher.
36	** From the German version: Coach Samu Haber giving an '''male''' auditionee a lap dance to get him on his team. It worked.
37	** [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Blake kissing Terry McDermott.]]
38	-->'''Terry [=McDermott=]''': [[IKnewIt I knew it!]] I knew I'd get a kiss!
39	** In season 13, Jennifer and Adam were talking about how attractive Miley's mother is. Blake jumps in saying he thinks her father is attractive, too.
40	** This little moment between Adam and Michael Schiavello as they perform an acoustic cover of his hit "She Will Be Loved". Followed by Christina Aguilera smiling at them:
41	-->'''Adam Levine''': It's really romantic to do this with you.
42	-->'''Michael Schiavello''': I really like that.
43	** Tate Brusa smiling and pointing at coach Nick Jonas while singing his blind audition song choice "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran (specifically the lyrics "and you look perfect tonight"). Followed by Nick Jonas saying to him if they picked him to be his coach: "We could do great things together".
44	* HypeBacklash: Trevin Hunte again. Initially, he was praised for having a powerful "gift" of a voice after doing a couple of "emotional" ballads and was marked as the frontrunner for the competition. So, he sang another ballad… and another one… and another… ''and '''another'''''… Considering that other contestants such as Cassadee Pope and Amanda Brown really stepped it up later on in the competition and evolved their styles while Hunte kept doing big ballads over and over again to win over voters, some reality TV reviewers on the Internet have become sick of Hunte making it through week after week with his ballads, especially after his former teammate Amanda Brown was eliminated from the competition. Also, some non-NBC polls on viewers' favorite ''The Voice'' contestant to win have consistently put Trevin at dead last on who they're rooting for. [[http://cartermatt.com/43131/nbcs-the-voice-review-cassadee-pope-terry-mcdermott-fight-to-be-in-finale/ Here's one example of both review and poll backlash.]][[note]]You have to vote in order to see the poll results.[[/note]] Just to clarify, he has done more uptempo songs such as "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves and "Scream" by Music/{{Usher}} in order to change things up, but reviewers have also said that he falters on those performances. Thus, he was ''very'' reliant on the ballads. He was eventually eliminated in the semifinals, so it did seem like the public got tired of all his ballads.
45	* JustHereForGodzilla: Many just watch the show because they're fans of one or more of the coaches. Some seem to only watch for the blind auditions (often the only post-audition episode to rate as high as the auditions is the finale, and sometimes not even then).
46	* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: Whenever you see someone in the auditions and you know and root for them... and then when they're singing the judges press their buttons. Best sound ever.
47	* {{Narm}}:
48	** Some countries' version of the theme song had a pause at the end of the line "This is the voice… of Country X", which sounds pretty hilarious. Sadly, a number of them wised up after the first season and changed it to the generic guitar riff instead.
49	** ''The Voice Australia'' had an awful habit of exclusively focusing on sob stories and tragic events in the players' past.
50	* ScrappyMechanic: Adam Levine doesn't seem to like how the Instant Save was handled in Season Six, given that it was used to pick from the bottom 4 of 8 and the bottom 3 of 5.
51	* SeasonalRot: While the show has had its ups and downs (like the poorly-received sixth season), the general consensus is that it started going downhill around the tenth season due to an increased emphasis on the coaches’ antics instead of the actual contestants, increasingly obvious outcomes and an over-reliance on gimmicks like the coach comeback.
52	* ShockingElimination: The most infamous example is Judith Hill and Sarah Simmons in Season 4 (sparking Adam's infamous "I hate this country!" comment).

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