The first season of The Voice of America started in 2011, and I first watched the fourth season in 2014, and the first season in 2020 after many years. After watching the fourth season and then watching the first season, compared with the fourth season, the level of the players has dropped a lot. Many domestic talent shows such as "The Voice of China" are the peak of the first season, and the level of the next season is not as good as the next season, while "The Voice of America" is just a test of the water in the first season, and the second season has been strengthened. Seasons three, four and five are the real peak seasons.
The first season has many special features. First of all, there are only eight students per mentor, which is the least in all seasons. Almost all other seasons have 12 mentors per mentor (16th in the third season, 10th in the eighteenth and nineteenth seasons). The first season is also among all seasons. The only season has a resurrection match in the blind selection session (all other seasons are eliminated by blind selection in this season, and can only come back in the next season), and it is also the only season in the ring match session, and the mentor will sit on the scene. Watch and comment on the performances of the students (in other seasons, the mentors will only appear in the sessions where the mentors teach and rehearse).
Although the overall strength of the students in the first season is weak and cannot be compared with the peak of the third, fourth and fifth seasons, there are also some outstanding players who are eye-catching. For example, Vicci Martinez, who appeared third in the first episode, stomped and sang in a wide-open and inspiring manner; the last one to appear, Bai Shitai Beverly's "Piece of My Heart", was also of a very high level of singing. And then there's Dia Frampton, the third-to-last appearance in the second episode of the blind selection.
The arena battle is divided into four episodes, and each episode has only four groups of arenas. I'm pretty convinced by the results of most of the ring matches, but there are two groups that I think are unfair. One is Kelsey Rey of Team Ceelo vs. The Thompson Sisters. In this group, I think the three players are evenly matched, but they need to be Speaking of personal characteristics, Keysey left me with a significantly stronger personality, and Ceelo chose the latter, which is somewhat incomprehensible to me. The second is Emily Valentine and Curtis Grimes, who are also Ceelo. This group of Ceelo arranged a country song "Need You Now" for them, and finally chose country singer Curtis to advance. I think it is hard to deny that as a The unfairness of pop-rocker Emily, this obviously biased selection, resulted in a disgraceful win for Curtis and a disgraceful loss for Emily.
In the seventh episode of the live broadcast, the Bears' Final Four and the Grizzlies' Final Four, Dia sang Kayne West's "Heartless" in this episode, which I think is the best performance of the entire season. Dia sits in front of the piano and sings softly, with ease, sometimes with powerful anger, sometimes gentle and sad, showing the super strength of an excellent singer. The eighth live match is the Sao Dang team and the Xilou team. My favorite this time is Vicci's "Jolene". These two live broadcasts finally decided the quarterfinals of this season. I think the results of the village husband team, the west building team and the wipe mother team are fair and reasonable. The saucy Casey Weston made the cut, which surprised me a bit. I think There's nothing wrong with picking Jeff Jenkins.
The ninth period and the tenth period are the semi-finals. Interestingly, half of the quarter-finals are LGBT singers, Vicci and Beverly are lesbians, Nakia is gay, and Franchie is bisexual. These two episodes were relatively dull, and there were no surprises in the semi-finals decided by each team. The last two episodes were finals, with Sao Dang's Javier Colon winning the "Voice of America" title for the first season of The Voice.
The 24 students who were eliminated before the semi-finals this season, I don’t think they will pass the arena in the next four or five seasons. The runners-up in the group are slightly stronger, and they may end up in the Live Playoffs). The runner-up Beverly and the third runner-up Vicci will also be eliminated or 7-12 in the Live Playoffs in the third, fourth and fifth seasons. The four mentors in this season are still fledgling, and the interaction between the mentors is obviously unfamiliar, not as interesting and fun as the third, fourth and fifth seasons. The language and strategies used in grabbing people are obviously not as full of gunpowder as the later seasons. So the first season can really only be regarded as a test of the water.
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