The Voice Australia – And We Have Our First Winner
Well Joel Madden and co won’t be swinging the US Presidential election result this year, as it appears with the whole “will their social media clout swing the result” scandal turned out to be bollocks as Sarah De Bono was the first of the contestants to be eliminated and favourite Karise Eden took out the title.
Will people take the time to vote for someone they don’t know. Obviously not. This was the same as the DWTS finale last night. Danielle Spencer husband Russell Crowe has huge twitter followers but she did not win. Probably not helped that Zoe Crammond and her were splitting their voting demographic as they are so similar.
There were no surprises on The Voice tonight, Lady Gaga didn’t turn up, and just when I was wondering why Prinnie and Mahalia Barnes were the only two out of the remaining twenty to sing along popped out Jimmy Barnes. One of the shows highlights was Keith Urban was grooving away on guitar with them. This was on top of his duet with Darren which was lovely.
Seeing Mahalia looking very sexy must have made Joel regret his decision to dump her ahead of Prinnie who never connected with the audience. Not only does Mahalia have a great rack under those mui mui’s but she is also a life saver, with Darren Percival giving her a shout out for saving his life. Not sure what the story was there.
Sarah De Bono was the first eliminated, then Rachael Leahcar. There was some tension on who would win and for once I hoped there would be some crazy tie, but as expected as her songs were at the top of the iTune charts she won.
Karise’s interesting back story captivated the nation, and hopefully she will have a successful career managed by supportive people. Her foster mum and mother were in the audience tonight. It was her foster parents that nurtured her talent and gave her the first guitar.
She now signs with Universal, and I expect three of the four to be signed as well. However the runner ups won’t go home empty handed, Sarah will get $10,000, Rachael $20,000 and Darren $30,000 according to the SMH.
The final will have rated extraordinarily well and they announced auditions for Season 2. Go here to apply.
The official NINE Press Release outlines what Karise can expect of her immediate future:
As The Voice of Australia, Karise wins a recording contract with Universal Music Australia, $100,000 and a Ford Focus. Karise performed her debut single, You Won’t Let Me, for the first time tonight. The single, penned specifically for Karise, will be available on iTunes from tonight and launched to the Australian media at the same time.
Karise Eden’s debut album, My Journey, will be released on Tuesday, June 26. It is a collection of the songs she performed on the show, the winner’s single, as well as newly recorded tracks. PRE-ORDER NOW @ www.kariseeden.com.au.
Her new single, You Won’t Let Me, will be available physically in stores this Thursday, June 21.
To celebrate the release of her debut album and to meet her fans, Woolworthspresents Karise Eden live at Westfield shopping centres nationally. Karise will be performing and signing copies of her new album, plus T-shirts and posters. See full dates below and more details at www.westfield.com.au.
It was a great first season of The Voice and Channel NINE must have been thrilled how it captured Australia’s imagination, however as I looked at the final 24 on stage I did think how lucky that all these people had good looks and a voice.
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Pretty good finale. I was surprised how good (most of) the duets were. Deserved winner. Miles better than Altiyan Childs…
Mahalia Barnes -just one Janet Jackson malfunction away from a serious trend on Titter(tm) Who was that old grey haired koala that crawled over the drum riser? Couldn’t open his eyes – Jimmy Barnes. He used to be shipping steel – but these days it’s just cheese.
I thought Darren Percival was pissed -hence the embarrasing bawling out to Mahalia Barnes.
Tonight I saw the most talented Australian female we’ve seen for years -Black Caviar on Australian Story.
Karise – Congratulations. I think she deserved to win. Good on her. I’m interested to hear what she comes out with after the show. I wonder if she’ll produce hits as good as how she slayed iTunes.
Darren – I was never a fan. He has that air about him when he sings but I was never sold. At some point in the finale, he became embarrassing when he was talking – yelling – in the microphone.
Rachael – Disappointed with her performance with Delta. It was not on her part but Delta with her dramatic hand gestures while Rachael seemed more genuine.
Sarah – I knew she was not going to win but I was rooting for her to be quite honest. She has whole package and I think she would do well in the music industry. Also looking forward to her future works.
Honestly, could they have come up with anything more lame for an album title than “My Journey”. Errggh! I mean “journey” has to be the most irritatingly, fingers down the chalkboard, cringey, overused/abused term to have come out of reality tv EVER.
On a happier note, nice work Karise. What a relief it didn’t turn out to be the shallow red-head’s night. All that talk from Joel had me a teensy bit worried for a while there. Although I will admit to feeling for Sarah when, as it turned out, she was nowhere even near stealing the crown. It must have felt like a LONG way to come crashing down.
The duets were kinda interesting although I looked at Seal down on his knee with Karise and for a moment there I was filled with horror that all his professions of love were indeed true and that he was about to ask her for her hand in marriage. Phew, maybe just an overactive imagination on my part?
Thought poor little Rachael was totally outsung by Delta who seemed determined to make the duet all about herself no matter how tiny, as well as literally tiny, it made Rachael look in comparison.
Mahalia Barnes managed to show us what we missed out on and I can’t help thinking she would have had a good run against Karise in the end. Dumb-ass choice, Joel. On a sidenote, was anyone in the room or on tv not checking out the rack on Mahalia? Holy crap.
Yes indeed , the producers must have been on fire to come up with “My Journey”. How do they do it?
A think tank of chimpanzees could blow them out of the water.
Just finished watching and loved it. Congratulations Karise, my fave from blind auditions!
Interestingly RR, your poll shows in correct order…..
Loved the duets (not so much Darren/Keith) and loved Delta’s dress and her voice – quite magical (haven’t heard her sing much) Sadly, Rachael was just drowned out as she would be with anyone in a duet I think.
Thank goodness all that bunk over Sarah to win regarding Joel’s 629,000 followers and wife Nicoles’ 2 million, wasn’t true
Great to see all the contestants back – and them all the best. Great exposure for them all (Emma-Louise sings the Monday Tues etc) promo for Woolies
FF’d thru Mahalia’s screeching – don’t know that any of the judges could have worked with her range as it seems on one level. The judges/mentors were really hands on and did a great job with all of them. Just a shame about the song choices throughout the series, mostly.
Don’t really care who won TV. I only watched 30 minutes between MC and Revenge. Saw Karise’s abominable outfit, the Delta and Rachael ‘solo-et’ and the end of Keith/Darren ‘duet’ – not necessarily in that order.
I’ve only ever watched bits and pieces like this, but I’d swear Rachael always has the same white angel dress on? Anyway, Delta sure let her angel shine last night – not!
There were only 23 competitors on stage when they were all together. Carmen Smith never got an invite, so the fact she was on Guy Sebastian’s video was obviusly more than just an “unfair advantage”
But that aside I thought it was a great show and series. Some people are so picky and love to dig but for people that really enjoy a wide variety of music I don’t think you could do much better with a talent competition.
Best of luck to all of the contestants, they all had talent even those that were not to my taste.
We also reviewed the show at http://www.oztvreviews.com/ if you would like to check it out.
No thanks – I’d be punching above my weight.
Although poaching is pretty low!
My thoughts during last night’s finale:
Red Head and Rocker duet: Wow. So clear how -far- that woman is from being as good as Joel.
Seal and Karise duet: Yay she can sing when she wants to. Also kudos to Seal for only using the ear thingy to get the first note then removing it. He doesn’t need a frigging backing track to help sing live.
Delta and Rachael duet: Heyyy they got the blind girl to sing the blind guy’s part while Delta tries to be Celine Dion. That’s pretty funny. Also, Delta (who couldn’t hold the longer notes in one breath) was more the star there with Rachael being a backup singer. :/
Darren and Keith: That was awesome. No need for fireworks or smoke or hell, even a band. Just 2 guys and a guitar, totally the best in the competition for me. You guys are winners man. Winners.
Mahalia/Prinnie/Jimmy: Ohhh so that’s why the host kept saying this was a “performance” and not a duet. Too bad I missed most of it but it sounded like yelling.
Ad for Underbelly: Ow ow ow ow ow. WTF? Who is murdering the Hallelujah song? Oh, its Karise’s version. Blech. So many people on youtube have done better covers.
Random ad for Woolworths: Heyyy thats Emma Louise Birdsall! And singing that cute song. I love big band stuff. Good to see her getting some work. Wow, goes on for a bit huh? That must have cost woolies some moneys.
Judges final comments: Usual complimentary stuff. Lots of the word “celebration”. Kudos to Keith for being the only one to acknowledge the hard working band. Cmon guys, DWTS acknowledges Choong Lim and his orchestra every week. Surely you can do the same next time for … whats his name? See I don’t know because you only fricking thanked them ONCE.
Announcing winners: Oh come on, I don’t give a rats ass about their “Journey”. They started on that stage and guess what? THEY’RE STILL THERE. Nice cash prizes though. The blog on RR even has the correct order they were selected!
Lol @ host trying to thank judges randomly running about the stage. Oh nice work, you make Karise sing now? Good thing she managed to pull it together after the first few bars.
Congrats Karise, hope your fans and friendly family continue to support you. PS – don’t fall for the trap of your evil real family or scummy friends trying to scab money from you. Let em burn.
I’m still not gonna purchase any of your songs though.
@Georgie/OzTvReviews – re: poaching, Hey I reviewed the ep on my blog too! You should take a look!
Haha just kidding, the only thing you’ll find there is stuff no one reads. Why do you think I spend most of my time over here? ;P
Totally agree about Delta! That was excruciating to see her towering over her mini-me and making it all about her. Why go on about minimising their height difference then to have them stand like that? Put Rachael on a platform maybe, since it should be about her. Those hand gestures looked so forced too.
Well done to Karise; I bet it wasn’t even close. Hope her mum suddenly being in the picture won’t mean a whole new world of hurt for her.
Oz TV reviews- thanks but no thanks,those ads on the website about being able to sing with perfect pitch in ten minutes are clearly fraudulent. Were it true,we would have all been on The Voice this year. Georgie and myself can do an awesome “Hallelujah”.
Furthermore, reading that drab deconstruction/review of what happened last night was like watching paint dry.
Just a heads up, I got curious after BDD’s comments so I clicked OzTVReviews link and got a virus warning. Probably not a safe link to follow guys and gals.
@Fides – yeah, I don’t think it was close either. Makes it a little pointless to watch the announcement if Itunes rankings pretty much dictate the results. Maybe they’ll fix this next time?
I forgot to update my ****ing virus checker…”too late” ,she cried. I didn’t get no warning. Thanks anyway, Joseph.
Carmen is in Perth on tour with Guy, who would want to go back on a show you got dismissed from.
I do hope they let Rachael sang the blind guy part purely because of her laryngitis that caused her not being able to hit the high note.
Love Seal & Karise duet. Seal let her shined during the performance & I guess that’s what the coaches we’re supposed to do instead of stealing the show from the contestants (yes, I am talking about you, Delta).
Great summary RR. No poacher gonna lure me away.
Good on you, Karise. Can someone tell me who was riding piggyback on whom at the end? I had been to the eye specialist and had those nasty drops in my eyes so I could only see things through a haze, but I did see a praying mantis throwing its arms around at one stage – I’m told it was Delta singing.
One thing I did see quite clearly were Mahalia’s bazookas. See Joel, she could have won. Loved her even when she wore an old lady’s kaftan. I know she encouraged Mr Percival to sign on for the show. Maybe that’s what his comment related to? Who knows.
Georgie – you are hilarious. Love your comments.
BDD – checked out Luke Dickens’ website. I had forgotten just how ugly he really is. I wish those drops hadn’t worn off now. He’s tossed aside Joe Cocker to become country. He finally won a talent quest, too – a singing one, not a shearing one. Yee-ha ! Thanks for the tip. I might even buy his new CD for you. I KNOW you want, don’t you???
Thanks Ruby, it’ll make a lovely drink coaster. Then again I could hang it in the peach tree to scare the parrots away next summer.
The parrots might be attracted to that profile. Gives new meaning to the word craggy
@Ruby – it was Joel piggy-back riding Seal at the end, after Karise sang her last song. Funny stuff.
Hee hee. Thanks Joseph. I love that laid back style of the show and Joel was perfect for it. I am shocked that Seal was involved. My husband said that he thought it was Keith so he must have eye sight issues, too
Maybe he thought that Seal was off chasing around after poor Fatai again. The way he would slobber over that poor girl was truly creepy.
Joseph Skyrim There are no viruses on the Oz Tv Reviews web site. After I read the post that said there was I immediately checked it with the AVG ThreatLabs web scanner. You can check it yourself if you like, the link and report I got from there are below.
http://www.avg.com.au/resources/web-page-scanner/
30-day site report for: oztvreviews.com
Currently Safe
No active threats were reported recently by users anywhere on this domain. (updated Jun 18, 2012 GMT)
“Carmen is in Perth on tour with Guy, who would want to go back on a show you got dismissed from.”
Joan, I wish Carmen the best of luck. I really didn’t think that she would be back on the show, but I didn’t want her to be forgotten, she is really talented. And I still think there were more underhand things about her dismissal from the show.
Brain dead dave you certainly have the right name. How could you possibly know that the ads on my site about being able to sing with perfect pitch in ten minutes are fraudulent unless you had tried them?
FYI they come from a US vendor where fraudulent advertising is banned by new legislation for the web, brought in earlier this year. They also come with a money back guarantee, so no one loses. However being able to sing with perfect pitch is a start, but alone it does not make you a great singer, there is so much more to it than that.
You may think our review is drab, but I think your comments here are negative and cynical and that sort of thinking will get you exactly where you are in life.
You are welcome to those views, but we prefer to accentuate the positive eliminate the negative and forget about everything in between.
BTW I am not trying to poach anyone from here, just offering another view. I have heard from Emma Ashton directly and she has welcomed my posts, as I would welcome anyone with a TV review site to post a link on my site.
Joseph Skyrim – I just went and checked out your blog – Is is ALL about Zombies/fantasy? Is that you are interested in. Are you watching Game of Thrones? Though what I have heard about it, it is like fantasy soft porn.
Daze – My poll is accurate for once. Yippee.
BDD – Got to agree that My Journey is not the most inspiring title for an album. Hope there is Janis Joplin cover on it.
Oz TV Review – I am happy for you to put a link in occasionally but I certainly don’t appreciate you being rude to my regular readers who were commenting on your site.
RR- I read that she will be doing a cover of Move Over, so you should me happy. Me? Not so much – it’s one of my favourite Janis songs so I am being a bit precious about it. Love your blog.
Lol – sorry to laugh but bdd isn’t the only one to think Oz TV Review’s write-up is drab! I just went to the site (not via the link though) and it’s still – ‘Comments: 0′
Sorry Emma, I do not believe that I was being rude to anyone, just defending the accusations of being fraudulent and drab. If people prefer cynical and negative comments then obviously my blog is not for them. Not that I am saying yours is.
And Georgie as for the zero comments, my blog does not get anywhere near the traffic that this one does for a number of reasons, too much to go into here. But if zero comments is the cost of remaining positive, then so be it. But I don’t believe so, it is just a matter of building an audience.
Stay positive mate – things will pick up.
Oz TV Reviews,
You are messing with the wrong people.
This site is run by RR, her pitbull BDD and Chihuahua Georgie.
RR dooesn’t appreciate you being rude to her regular readers (aka BDD and Georgie) but she is ok with BDD being rude to anyone who doesn’t agree with him or RR.
You can’t win on this site, good luck with yours!
I have to admit the Chihuahua is not my favourite breed, couldn’t I be a Staffy or a Boxer?
Another Adelaide Bogan – This blog is run by me. As I said I am happy for Oz TV Review to put a link to his blog in some of his comments to promote his site, and not every other blog allows that BTW. Also AAB each comment you have made on this site has been rude so maybe lead by example hey?
Oz TV Review – for the first year I had the blog only people on reality shows who googled their names read it. It is a lot of hard work and at times a few years back I thought “why am I bothering”. But I have had a bit of luck and even though the blog can be polarising because of the way I write, it is popular with readers as well as within the media industry.
RR – I have no criticism of your site or your posts. But I checked the other comments of the people who criticised mine and found that they were in the main posting negative comments. For example BDD stated that the race horse Black Caviar was more talented than the girls on The Voice. The horse may be better at running around a track, eating hay or crapping while it’s walking, but I would like to see it singing a soulful classic in two languages.
Be assured I would not dream of spamming your site with links to mine. I have only posted a link twice and must have made 10 or more comments by now. I do not believe that is unreasonable and I am glad that you see it that way. Others that do not allow links in their comments are trying to defend themselves from spam and I understand that, but you have to share with others in your field.
You have done very well in getting promotion for your blog. I discovered it through seeing you on TV and have read about your other off line efforts. That’s maybe good luck, but you make your own luck by working hard and smart.
Finally I just wanted to say that on my site reality TV is the exception rather than the rule, but I enjoyed The Voice so much I ended up reviewing every episode and read many of yours too. Best of luck with the site
AAD thanks for your support, but it is misguided, I believe us bloggers should stick together and support one another.
Georgie- You can be a boxer anytime. I mean the real boxer with gloves on
RR, my point is this:
1. You classify something as rude based on who is saying it and not what is being said. The feedback from Georgie and BDD to Oz TV Review was very negative and not constructive in any way.
In my view that was rude!
2. BDD is a complete joke.
He said about Oz TV reviews’ website:
“- thanks but no thanks,those ads on the website about being able to sing with perfect pitch in ten minutes are clearly fraudulent. ”
And guess what?
Exactly the same ad appears on the RR website together with many other dodgy promotions.
But no word from BDD on this. No chance.
Double standards!
Oh for God’s sake AAB, take your crayons and go back to your desk before teacher comes.
Georgie, was there anything incorrect in my comments or are you not coping well with hearing the truth?
Actually I couldn’t care less about your gripe, I was just pointing out another truth – that you’re a big sook. If you want to clean up the Internet start with some of the sites exploiting children, don’t waste your skills and energy on a bunch of RTV bloggers
You couldn’t care less but rather than providing specific feedback on my comments you come up with nonsensical and irrelevant statements. Surely that must be a waste of your energy….
Another Adelaide Bogan – The only comments you make are negative about BDD, and Georgie. Never about the shows. Sure BDD is polarising and he pisses off people and they piss him off. Hell he even pisses me off at times. But the majority of his comments are quite amusing and his analysis at times is great. But he also takes the piss out of himself as well as reality TV.
Circle the wagons ,Georgie.
Fraudulent ads maybe, but the recaps are not drab here.
Also ADD one of the skills as a blogger that Oz TV Review will need to learn is how to handle vexatious commenters. God knows I have had enough of them over the years.
Another ‘polarising’ contribution from BDD.
Any feedback on the ads on this website?
ADD – sorry pressed too soon. As a blogger you have to be able to handle criticism and respond to it or ignore it.
AAB – why would I waste my time providing you with specific feedback about your comments when I don’t care about them dude?
Lol bdd – that’s one wagon, Blazing Saddles style!
Another Adelaide Bogan – Seriously I don’t get why you read the blog if it irks you so much. But then people are watching Being Lara Bingle whilst tweeting about how much they hate it.
RR, there are some enjoyable contributions on here that I don’t mind reading.
Some people are trying to dominate this site but if any criticism is directed towards them or the RR website they become defensive and respond with irrelevant statements (attempting to be funny) rather than specific feedback.
Not a good enough reason to avoid this site completely so I prefer to make the occasional comment instead.
AAB – well you are always welcome to comment on the actual shows and blog posts as well….
Lol AAB, you sound just like a kid telling on someone. Tattletale.
That’s ok Georgie. You still sound like a Chihuahua so I think we picked the right breed there.
According to Dr. Harry ill tempered Chihuahuas can be easily provoked to attack which might explain why you get on so well with Pitbull BDD.
Just a thought….
Meany, meany!
RR You are probably right, I had to look up vexatious. But I still feel I had to defend the accusations of being fraudulent and my site being a host for viruses. Both of which I consider defamatory.
I’m sorry it started all of this squabbling on here as a result.
On another subject I am just listening to some of Darren Percival’s earlier material from before the voice and I think I know why he struggled for a larger audience. Some of it is kind of hard going, but there is a track called Sometimes I Wonder that a lot of people would like you can find it on MySpace under Mr Percival
Good night Betty.
I’ve just heard another new track called Naked Soul with Karise’s beautiful singing voice. Its by a guy named Roni Francois. I’m loving this full-on ballsy dance track. This girl is a Diva! Check it out on Youtube
Go Karise !
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