Shortly afore his new NBC absoluteness show, The Voice, debuted in April, ambassador Mark Burnett capital his four superstar mentor-judges to bond. So he gave Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Maroon 5's Adam Levine and country hitmaker Blake Shelton his acclaim agenda and beatific them to Los Angeles' Soho House for a blast dinner. The next day, Levine alleged Burnett: "Big mistake. I can't delay for you to see this bill. We just dead your fucking acclaim card."
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"But you apperceive what?" Burnett tells Rolling Stone. "It was account it."
In its April 26th debut, The Voice accursed to Amount One with 11.8 million viewers. It's become a certified smash, consistently assault Glee in the ratings and accepting best up for a additional season. The basal abstraction is simple: The celebrities sit in ample red chairs, their backs angry to the contestants – such as aboriginal admired Javier Colon, barbate bluesman Nakia and bald, tattooed Beverly McClellan – so they apprehend them after seeing them. (The rules become added complicated as the appearance goes on, with anniversary adjudicator acrimonious a aggregation of singers, fantasy-sports-style, afresh training them for head-to-head onstage battles.) "Ninety-seven percent of the time I apparently would never accept advised annihilation like this," says Levine. "But just because it was such a weird, air-conditioned idea, I was absolutely interested appropriate off the bat."
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While the contestants are accomplished and charismatic, the a lot of absorbing aspect of the appearance is watching the celebrity-panel associates collaborate – and aggravate anniversary other. "We're not judges, we're coaches," adds Levine. "And we're just as invested as any of the contestants."
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Burnett, architect of accident absoluteness shows such as Survivor and The Celebrity Apprentice, had been alive with NBC on a agnate abstraction for six months if a arrangement controlling alerted him to the accepted Dutch appearance The Voice of Holland. Rather than archetype it, Burnett contacted the producers and arrive them to aggregation up for an American launch.
For mentors, he approved accepted stars with "credibility" – and already Aguilera, Green, Levine and Shelton active on, longtime Survivor casting administrator Michelle McNulty and her agents began alive with artisan managers, almanac labels and club bookers to acquisition able contestants. "The architecture is so apple-pie and so agreeable and focuses on actual acceptable talent," Burnett says. "There's annihilation on the appearance area we accompany in a actual bad accompanist and accept our coaches try to accomplish ball out of how bad they are."
Musically, the appearance has created standout moments, such as the aperture amount – in which the four board belted Cee Lo's Gnarls Barkley accident "Crazy" together. (Burnett predicts the four will accomplish afresh by the time this division ends in backward June.) Alive with above characterization Universal Republic, The Voice has been able to agilely capitalize on buzz, absolution songs performed on the appearance at the aforementioned time they air – an access that helped advance Colon's awning of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" to Amount 17 on iTunes. "What I didn't wish to do was be on the couch watching a absolute moment action and not accept something be up for sale," says Tom Mackay, Universal Republic's controlling carnality admiral of A&R. "And I didn't wish that moment or achievement on the appearance to about-face into humans e-mailing a YouTube blow of it."
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In a TV division if prime time is arranged with music – from Glee to Dancing With the Stars, which afresh hosted a achievement by Stevie Nicks – The Voice stands out as the quirky, tattooed another to American Idol's able pop machine. (Idol is still the a lot of accepted appearance on TV, though, cartoon about 23 million admirers per episode.) Burnett insists his appearance isn't aggressive with Idol – "I'm a huge fan, I've watched it every season, as has my family," he says – but Levine, during the additional episode, told a alone contestant, "The humans that we're not axis about our chairs for could win American Idol. We're searching for that added affair – that unbelievable, mind-blowing, amazing thing."
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Which is why Cee Lo has fabricated a point on the appearance of alive with singers with anarchistic looks and singing styles – and has been abundantly afraid to apprentice his adolescent board accept agnate agendas. "Initially, I had planned on getting a misfit a part of Adam, Christina and Blake," says the Atlanta-based singer. "But together, we're all a bandage of blessed misfits out there."
From The Archives Affair 1132: June 9, 2011
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