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Ten Things That Happened on “The Voice” Last Night: Blind Auditions, Day Four

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Posted by Andrew Unterberger on 02/21/2012 at 12:00 PM News

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More than halfway through our blind auditions now on The Voice, and teams are starting to get filled out like woah, with only a couple slots remaining for each of the coaches’ teams. Almost time for the next stage of competition, where each coach’s team re-records the entirety of Adele’s 21 and whoever volunteers to sing “Rolling in the Deep” is instantly kicked off for their cowardice, but last night, moooooore blind auditions for the boys and girls. Here are ten of the things that happened, none of which involve Marilyn Monroe or Jeremy Lin.

1. A guy named Ducky had a handelbar moustache. And Carson Daly totally tried to blow up his spot by needling him about not having proposed to his girlfriend, then exclaiming “That’s why they call you Ducky, ‘coz you duck the question!” The coaches were not terribly impressed with his performance of The Black Keys’ “Tighten Up,” but they were impressed with his “sweet moustache,” Blake Shelton even comparing him to “Doc Holliday in Tombstone.” Carson was more impressed, however, and predicted that “tomorrow morning when we wake up, there’s gonna be a big internet buzz, it’s gonna be like the ‘What the heck happened to Ducky?’ movement.” (As of posting, there were a total of seven tweets containing since last night contianing the phrase “What the heck happened to Ducky?” Does seven count as a movement?)

2. LORAX ALERT. The title creature of the upcoming animated Dr. Seuss adaptation appeared in a commercial for next week’s episode, sitting in one of the swivel chairs, slamming on the button and ultimately getting himself tossed from it. “Next Monday: THE LORAX on The Voice,” threatened the commercial. Maybe we’ll get some Vampire Weekend out of it, anyway.

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3. A guy who really sounds like Usher sang Usher. “I thought that was a prank,” claimed Cee Lo Green after Jonathas’ performance of “U Got it Bad.” “I thought that was actually Usher.” Nope—despite sounding like a carbon copy of Mr. Raymond, and despite having the sweet dance moves to rival the ATL triple-threat, Jonathas was actually an immigrant from Rio De Janeiro that looks like a cross between Adam Lambert and T. Mills. Usher or no, the fine performance whipped the female portions of the crowd into a frenzy, including Christina Aguilera, whose unfortunate use of the word “package” resulted in a snickering comment from Cee Lo. Look out for this guy in the rounds to come.

4. Blake paid Christina quite the compliment. “Even though Christina and I wanna kill each other sometimes,” testified the country star about his rival coach, “I still think she’s hands down the best female vocalist of our generation.” Awwwww! It must have been six days after Valentine’s Day. (And don’t worry, Miranda—Christina was born in ’80, you were ’83. Totes different generations.)

5. A contestant gave Cee Lo a taste of his own creepy medicine. “I pushed my button for you!” Cee Lo accurately boasted to hippie street musician Naia Kete after her performance of Bruno Mars’ “The Lazy Song.” “Cee Lo, you push all my buttons,” Kete replied. WOAH DERE—did a contestant actually beat Cee Lo to the lecherous, lascivious punch? “That’s the first time I’ve heard that overt flirtation coming from the other person!” exclaimed an incredulous Adam Levine. Despite the advance, however, Blake’s impassioned pitch to Kete to join his team won the singer over, and Cee Lo was left out in the cold. And let me tell you—Purrfect the Cat looked fuckin’ pissed about it.

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6. A contestant named after a Cure song got the four-coach turnaround. Actually, according to her Wikipedia page—and really, there should be a No Contestants Who Already Have Wikipedia Pages rule on shows like this—Charlotte Sometimes is named after the Childrens’ book and not the goth-rock classic, but we’ll continue to believe what makes sense, and Charlotte just looks like a Cure song to us. Anyway, her Regina Spektor-ish rendition of OneRepublic’s “Apologize” was a hit with all four coaches, though Christina eventually won out. Lindsey Pavao, you have your competition cut out for you.

7. Cee Lo is very OK with letting others use his house as a den of iniquity. While discussing CharTimes, Adam and Christina were bickering as they always do—”I liked that it was simple,” “I didn’t think it was simple!,” etc. “You guys should get a room,” Cee Lo suggested to the crowd’s delight, before taking it a step further—always a step further—by chipperly adding “You can use my place!” Beware, Adam and Christina, for there are cameras. Many, many cameras.

8. Sickness, Sickness, Sickness. It seemed like every contestant on The Voice this week had some horrific physical malady haunting their past or the past of a loved one. Pneumonia! Breast cancer! Mysterious jaw disease with a name we can’t understand well enough to Google! (“Conjular absorption”? Is that a thing?) Great to see all the triumphing over medical adversity and/or voodoo curses, but don’t they ever have contestants on these shows that are just, like, a dude? “Bryan, a 17-year-old from Pasadena, has lived a fairly comfortable and uneventful life, and said that he wants to win The Voice because ‘It’ll look good on [his] college resume’”? Now there’s a backstory we can all relate to.

9. A big white guy who sings “classic soul” performed a Hall & Oates song. And all four coaches agreed that Eric Tipton’s version of “You Make My Dreams” wasn’t worthy enough of the great Darryl & John to merit his advancing. “It’s one of my favorite songs—I’m back here doing the other [Oates] part,” admitted Cee Lo. “It’s so hard to divorce yourself from that original version,” agreed Adam. Don’t sweat it, Eric—even a professional rocker like Joseph Gordon-Levitt decided that the best thing he could do for that song was to dance along to it wordlessly.

Photo: Mitchell Haaseth/NBC

10. We have our first “This Is Who I Am, Mom and Dad!!” Contestant. And, typical to the show’s nature, even though Mathai’s parents wanted her to go into medicine like the rest of the family, they were still pretty cool with her doing the whole frivolous singing thing. “I want her to be happy, want her to do what’s in her,” said her proud father. “And I think that singing is what she really enjoys doing.” And indeed, she was pretty good at it, and her performance of “Rumour Has It” (Adele Count: 2) was perhaps the biggest hit of the night, with Blake proclaiming “Attention: We are looking at a star here.” (She chose Adam instead anyway, prompting a good old-fashioned “Kiss my ass!” from Blake.) Bad vibes: Not really The Voice‘s M.O.

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