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"We&amp;#039;re down to only six acts on The Voice and after tonight, we&amp;#039;ll lose another two - but which? It&amp;#039;s up to our finalists to prove they&amp;#039;ve got what it takes to be the next big star. Stick with Digital Spy live from 8/7c for all the action!  22:02And that&amp;#039;s it for tonight&amp;#039;s performance! Who&amp;#039;s going home tomorrow night? Well, we&amp;#039;ll find out then. We&amp;#039;ve also got Kelly Clarkson performing, so make sure you join us then! 22:01Adam is pumped that James - who is apparently sick - did such an amazing job even while he wasn&amp;#039;t at 100% health. Cee Lo feels that he embodies the rock opera and loves the way he confidently owned the stage without being overbearing and still seeming cool. 21:58Kill it he does! This song is a perfect pick for James and while it&amp;#039;s nothing mind-blowing, it just makes me smile. James is another great &amp;quot;musician&amp;#039;s musician&amp;quot; and I think he&amp;#039;s really underrated. This is great! His vocals are spot on, he&amp;#039;s totally into the spirit and drama of it... it&amp;#039;s a good way to close out the show, for sure. 21:56Closing out the show tonight is James Wolpert and he&amp;#039;s doing Meatloaf&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;I Would Do Anything For Love&amp;#039;. AWESOME! Who doesn&amp;#039;t love a little Meatloaf? James is a great vocalist, so I think he can absolutely kill this. 21:49That performance takes Christina back, and she thinks it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;special&amp;quot; to hear since they are so similar and they have so much in common and blah blah blah. She adds that it&amp;#039;s the most age appropriate song for her. Christina is proud of her for doing it and is happy to get to watch her all the time. 21:46Jacquie Lee is up next, and in a total ego trip (I have to choose my language carefully here - I have something much more colourful I&amp;#039;d prefer to go with), she&amp;#039;s singing her coach&amp;#039;s song &amp;#039;The Voice Within&amp;#039; since Christina inspired her to sing. Dear me, that&amp;#039;s not half evident with the vocal acrobatics. Again, the softer parts of the song are fantastic. Well, most of it is. The belting parts don&amp;#039;t grate as much as in some of her other performances, so I suppose that&amp;#039;s a victory. 21:39Adam loves the song - it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;the weirdest&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;so many things&amp;quot; that it can be hard to follow, but Will managed to figure it out and translate it so well. Blake loves the addition of the banjo and thought it was great. Well, that was some positive feedback? 21:36Adam has Will Champlin doing Avicii&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Hey Brother&amp;#039; this time around. Ah, Adam - always trying to bring UK artists to America. Isn&amp;#039;t that sweet? Will wanted to play banjo on this one, but Adam thought it would distract him, so that&amp;#039;s nearly nixed. Still, he manages to sing it really well and not get distracted by it. I have to say, Will has emerged as definitely the most likely to succeed amongst this batch, I think - I can see him doing an album after this, for sure. Love this performance - and it helps that I like Avicii, as well. 21:28Christina thinks it takes a great vocalist to embody all types of music and Matthew is the one person on the show who&amp;#039;s shown how much he can do more than anyone else. Uh... not so sure about that, but that is her contestant. She applauds him for digging deep and coming from a really emotional place. Blake calls it &amp;quot;as good as [he&amp;#039;s] ever heard&amp;quot; Matthew sing, which is a compliment, I suppose. 21:25Matthew Shuler is back on stage, and he&amp;#039;s doing &amp;#039;When a Man Loves a Woman&amp;#039;, which Christina hopes will be enough to get people to vote for him since he fell into the bottom last week. Oh, and because this can be his &amp;quot;soulful moment&amp;quot;. He kills it vocally, but he doesn&amp;#039;t really connect to it - at least not in my opinion. Maybe it&amp;#039;s just me who&amp;#039;s not connecting to it. Again, you can&amp;#039;t fault his performance, really. I just wanted something more from him. I&amp;#039;m not sure what, but SOMETHING. 21:16Adam admits that usually the coaches would worry about contestants performing at Katy Perry song because it hasn&amp;#039;t gone so well in the past, but that concern wasn&amp;#039;t there with Tessanne. He believes it shows range, considering her other song tonight was Bob Marley. Blake knows that she loves her Jamaican heritage, but he wants to talk about how she&amp;#039;s a world class vocalist and could sing with anyone on earth, which is what everyone should focus on. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never seen anything quite like you on this show. It&amp;#039;s amazing!&amp;quot; he adds. 21:13I think I spoke too soon. I love Katy and I love this song, but people should definitely not cover her stuff. Not even Tessanne, who does manage to get some great notes in there. There&amp;#039;s just something off about it, but maybe that&amp;#039;s just because I love the original (and it&amp;#039;s so current). She does kill it in her own way - you can&amp;#039;t fault her vocals whatsoever, so maybe I&amp;#039;ll just shut up. 21:11Oooh, Tesanne Chin is back and she&amp;#039;s dedicating Katy Perry&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Unconditionally&amp;#039; to her parents. I love me a bit of Katy Perry, so let&amp;#039;s do this thing. 21:06Blake jokes that he should have no problems getting the girl back before saying that his performing that song shows that he can really do it all and that he has some character and vulnerability. Cee Lo admits that it&amp;#039;s bittersweet since Cole was once his contestant. It&amp;#039;s great to see him grow and open himself up to the world, which makes him proud and reminds him that his ears, eye and heart works. Well, that&amp;#039;s special. Because it&amp;#039;s all about you, Cee Lo. 21:02Cole Vosbury&amp;#039;s second performance is of &amp;#039;Better Man&amp;#039;, a song he is dedicating to his first love. It may not have worked out, but she still makes him want to be a better man. Very slick move, Cole - she&amp;#039;ll probably see this (or someone will tell her it happened) and then she&amp;#039;ll get in touch with you and you can rekindle your love. I like where you&amp;#039;re at. There&amp;#039;s also nothing of note about this performance - it&amp;#039;s solid, as per usual. I&amp;#039;ve heard better from him, but it&amp;#039;s still pretty good. 20:57Christina wants everyone to know that Jacquie left her heart on the stage for the audience and praises her for her courage to go out and do what she does every week. We get it, Christina - you relate to her. Cee Lo thinks she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;truly amazing&amp;quot; and jokes that she must be a medium or a vessel for the spirit to flow through or whatever. Oh, and we have to mention her &amp;quot;very young age&amp;quot; (she&amp;#039;s only 16) and the fact that she&amp;#039;s done such a dynamic variety of song choices, which is miraculous for how young she is. Because she&amp;#039;s young, by the way. Did we mention how young Jacquie is? 20:53What kills me is that Jacquie is obviously talented and can sing, so why does Christina insist on giving her songs every single week that require her to scream every note? We know she can belt, and it&amp;#039;s great. The subtle parts of this song are fantastic - lovely tone, really pleasant to listen to. The rest? Dear God, what a racket. I know Janis Joplin screamed this, but that&amp;#039;s why it&amp;#039;s a terrible song choice. How much longer are we gonna have to listen to this girl shout every note of a song? I can&amp;#039;t take it much more. 20:50It&amp;#039;s time for another screamer to take the stage - Jacquie Lee. Her first song tonight is &amp;#039;Cry Baby&amp;#039; and oh man, her rehearsal is enough to give me a headache. The scream-singing is so beyond obnoxious at this time, I&amp;#039;m tempted to mute through her entire performance. 20:45Adam noticed that he lost it a bit in the middle, but it&amp;#039;s not really about that. Because there are two songs tonight, he wanted James to show what his voice could do without belting, and this was his chance to do so. He&amp;#039;s proud of him for doing it in a way that is uniquely his own. Blake is amazed that James always sings &amp;quot;on ten&amp;quot; even if the song is a quieter, more acoustic one. He thinks James&amp;#039; pitch was great. 20:43I really like James, but let it be known that I really don&amp;#039;t like this performance, probably because I don&amp;#039;t like the song. He sounds like he&amp;#039;s shouting and you can&amp;#039;t hear all the great intricacies of his voice. I know he&amp;#039;s gotta change it up, as they all do, but I consider this to be a downgrade. It&amp;#039;s all over the place. 20:40James Wolpert is singing the White Stripes track &amp;#039;Fell In Love with a Girl&amp;#039;, which he&amp;#039;s dedicating to... his dad. Uh, okay. Let&amp;#039;s just go with that. 20:36Adam thinks it&amp;#039;s cool how well Will can play his instruments and that he&amp;#039;s able to play the classics in such a new and interesting way, as well as putting across such real and genuine emotion in his performances. Cee Lo appreciates Will&amp;#039;s heart and soul but notes that sometimes he reaches a bit too much in the heat of the moment and loses it with his vocals. However, Will always pulls it back, which is to be commended. 20:32Will&amp;#039;s great - probably my favourite left in the competition - and he sounds great tonight. He&amp;#039;s all decked out in a fancy suit and isn&amp;#039;t behind a piano tonight, he&amp;#039;s just standing there and singing, which is what it&amp;#039;s all about. It&amp;#039;s a good song choice for him; he can pretty much do any kind of music, so it&amp;#039;s nice to see him continuing to broaden his horizons every week while still remaining consistent. 20:31Will Champlin is up next, and he&amp;#039;s doing a dedication, too. Sam Cooke&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;A Change Is Gonna Come&amp;#039; is dedicated to his wife and baby. Come on, Will! 20:24Christina loves the song choice and the way he made it his own and turned it into something special with his &amp;quot;modulation&amp;quot; inside of it, whatever that means. She believes that the stage suits him well and thanks him for &amp;quot;the experience&amp;quot;. Adam wasn&amp;#039;t really familiar with the song before but he loved it, adding that &amp;#039;Hallelujah&amp;#039; was his best performance ever so it&amp;#039;s kinda hard to surpass it. Still, it&amp;#039;s nice that he didn&amp;#039;t try to chase that success and Adam applauds him for just being mediocre, I suppose. 20:22I mean, it&amp;#039;s an okay performance. I like Matthew and think he&amp;#039;s really commercial, but the choir in this performance is carrying most of it, and he sorta seems like he&amp;#039;s screaming through it. Also, I wish people would keep their personal emo stuff out of competitions like this as if it&amp;#039;s going to buy them votes. Not because I don&amp;#039;t think he loves and is grateful for his family, but because that has nothing to do with anything. This is a singing competition. Just get up there and sing. 20:19We&amp;#039;ve got our first dedication of the night, and it&amp;#039;s from Matthew Schuler, who&amp;#039;s singing One Direction&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Story of My Life&amp;#039; for his family. Ugh, cornball (I kid! I have feelings!) 20:15Adam knows how important the song is to her and also knows it&amp;#039;s impossible to take ownership of the lyrics - but she managed to &amp;quot;carry that flag&amp;quot; in such an &amp;quot;unbelievable&amp;quot; way. He was immersed in song and believes Jamaica and the whole world will finally understand the &amp;quot;power and potency&amp;quot; of her voice. Christina is taken back to being on the beach in Jamaica and going horseback riding. Does this matter? Anyway, she thinks it was like a lovely lullaby. Well, okay. 20:12Listen, Tessanne&amp;#039;s voice sounds amazing. She&amp;#039;s a great singer with a ton of control and finesse with her vocals. That being said, I really kinda hate the acoustic ballad-y arrangement they&amp;#039;ve chosen here. It just does nothing for me/her/the song. Of course, I&amp;#039;m sure she&amp;#039;ll get through to next week because she&amp;#039;s better than this, I&amp;#039;d just hoped for more. 20:10Tessanne Chin is up next, and Adam has given her a &amp;quot;Jamaican anthem&amp;quot; this week: Bob Marley&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Redemption Song&amp;#039;. Well, yes, that&amp;#039;s a definite anthem. I like Tessanne a lot, so here&amp;#039;s hoping this works out. 20:08Blake is proud of him for &amp;quot;working so hard at this for such a long time&amp;quot; and believes he could go and record this song right now and release it as a single without changing anything at all and it would sell. Cee Lo is a fan of his and thinks it&amp;#039;s great that he&amp;#039;s still in the competition. Also, he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;invested in [him] emotionally&amp;quot; and considers Cole a great artist and friend. Adam loves listening to his voice every time he&amp;#039;s on stage, and he loves the song choice, too. 20:05This is another solid performance for Cole. He always comes out and gives it his all. Is he mind-blowingly good? Well, no, but he&amp;#039;s consistent and a definite &amp;quot;musician&amp;#039;s musician&amp;quot;, so I find it hard to hate him. I think we can all agree any one of these people can win and now that Caroline Pennell&amp;#039;s gone, that&amp;#039;s a-okay by me. 20:03Cole Vosbury is up first tonight, and Blake&amp;#039;s gifted him with a new guitar! But that&amp;#039;s sorta besides the point. He&amp;#039;s singing &amp;#039;Rich Girl&amp;#039; by Hall &amp;amp; Oates, which is a fantastic song choice - not just for him, but in general. I used to sing it a lot as a kid because it gave me an excuse to say &amp;quot;bitch&amp;quot; without getting in trouble. I&amp;#039;m very clever, as you can see. 20:02We&amp;#039;ve got a big night ahead of us - and by big I mean long. With only six acts left, you might think we&amp;#039;d be reducing to a one hour broadcast, but you&amp;#039;d be wrong! Instead, each of the finalists will sing twice. Blah. Let&amp;#039;s get this show on the road. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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