Big night for Adam Levine Tuesday.
First, Carson Daly announced Levine had been named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive, a designation about which he had very little to say.
Then at the end of the results episode of “The Voice,” he was also the only coach with all three of his acts still alive in the Top 8.
The two eliminated included one of the two bearded guys from Team Blake, Austin Jenckes, who sang the Outfield’s “Your Love” on Monday. Clearly there is a need for only one bearded guy and the one worn by Cole Vosbury, who sang Mr. Big last night, is much bigger.
The second person eliminated Tuesday was Kat Robichaud, the rocker chick from Cee Lo Green’s team, who sang Pat Benatar’s “We Belong” Monday, just as Rion Paige did last week on “The X Factor.” Hope Benatar is making some money from all of this.
Cee Lo, who was already down to two acts, had both of his remaining singers in the bottom three, leading to the possibility his team could be wiped out in one night. But Caroline Pennell, who sang the oldest song this week, the Peter Paul and Mary hit “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” was saved by tweets in one of the newest innovation on live singing shows. Live by the hashtag, die by the hashtag.
The long pauses and time killing in the hour-long episode meant there was no time for any reaction whatsoever from either the singer who was saved or the two who were cut. And now we won’t see them again until the finale, presumably.
But at least both got the chance earlier in the night to take part in one of the many group numbers of the night. Cole joined his coach Blake Shelton and the rest of his team for a sluggish version of ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man,” all of them wielding guitars but none of them apparently responsible for the main licks heard.
On another rock number, Kat had joined James Wolpert and Will Champlin, both of Team Adam, on Fall Out Boy’s “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down,” aping guitars as well.
Christina Aguilera was the other judge who didn’t lose any acts, but she was already down one from last week. So Christina began the show joining her two person team, Jacquie Lee, 16, the youngest singer in the competition, who seems like a possible finalist; and the possibly overrated Matthew Schuler. The three of them ran through a weird Michael Jackson medley.
The other musical number had the tweet-saved Caroline Pennell joining the formidable Tessanne Chin from Team Adam doing a version of Lorde’s “Royals,” which, I only learned this week, was supposedly inspired by the Kansas City Royals. Really.
So Cee Lo is down to one singer; Blake and Christina each have two, while Adam can now lord over the rest of them by being the only one with three. That and the whole Sexiest Man thing.