‘The Voice’ Recap: Miley Said Knock You Out
Last Friday, it was announced that Miley Cyrus would be a new Voice coach in Season 11 – prompting a stream of smoke from the nostrils of irate viewers (and irate journalists who had to cover the news on a Friday night; thanks, NBC!), and a stream of Miley hate in the Reality Rocks comments section. But when the Artist Formerly Known As Hannah Montana served as this 10th season’s key advisor during the Knockout Rounds this Monday – wearing an incredible rainbow pantsuit, I might add – she just may have turned some haters into Smilers.
“Miley relates to every genre of music, and she has a working knowledge of all of those things. She’s performed pop music, she came from country roots, and she can share that knowledge with all these artists,” Blake Shelton declared in the show’s opening, which was basically an unofficial infomercial for Miley’s future Voice run. But you know what? The man had a point. He wasn’t just saying that because there was (probably) vodka in his on-set Starbucks cup.
This Monday, Miley gave actionable, actually intelligent advice – none of which involved posing nude for Terry Richardson, twerking on Robin Thicke, straddling wrecking balls, licking hammers, or collaborating with Wayne Coyne. (Although I would have been OK with that last pointer, had she suggested it.) She seemed to take her job seriously, and she didn’t look out of place in her spinning red chair. If this is how Miley acts once she’s a permanent panelist this fall, she may give her fellow new castmate, the more conservative and classy Alicia Keys, some stiff competition.
(Side note: I still recall with a chuckle, back in Season 6, when Adam Levine temporarily went platinum-blond and Blake kept calling him “Miley.” Well, this Monday, Adam sported a day-after-Easter pastel pink ‘do. I’d like to think I gave him the idea, as evidenced by
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