The Voice

So my wife loves singing and she loves singing shows. We only very sporadically check in on Dancing With the Stars and that ilk but she does enjoy American Idol a great deal, we will watch America's Got Talent in the summer and now with The Voice she has found another show she is interested in.

Set up differently than Idol in that contestants are chosen before being viewed brings an interesting take on the game. The singers are good, although some of them are a little extreme for my tastes.

Four strong celebrity judges add to the appeal. Christina Aguilera continues her effort to rehabilitate her image from this past winters gaffes. Blake Shelton homophobic tweets ( I did not take them as such) offers a country slant, Adam Levine from Maroon 5 and CeeLo Green ( since when does non single make you an authority) round out the panel.

The show is interesting but it feels interesting in more of the it is summer we have to watch something appeal rather than the this is a great show we should watch. It will be interesting to see over the next few weeks to see if the show has more and more twists and tricks to get us to our finalists. I have seen a commercial which promises that singers will be singing the same song at the same time...a duel no less.

I hope that the show dos not try so hard to differentiate itself that it loses what could be its appeal. The idea of singing teams each being coached by a star shows promise.

While interesting this show is one we have yet to see the finished product and as yet cannot really be judged for any long term purposes.