"The Voice" Goes Live

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After weeks of blind auditions and battle rounds, The Voice finally reached the part of the season where things really start heating up: the live shows. Monday night’s show pitted Team Christina and Team Blake against their own, each contestant hoping to move on to be their coach’s final five.

Unlike other singing competition shows, the live rounds of The Voice pull out all the stops, making each performance an awards show-caliber number. That means dancers, mimes, lasers and fog machines are all fair game. All of that included, though, Monday night’s performances still left something to be desired. Was it nerves, or just lackluster vocals? It’s hard to tell. Some people were straight-up awful (we can’t wait to see RaeLynn get the boot), and others just seemed terrified to be on live TV (Lindsay Paveo looked ready to puke).

In the end, we thought only three artists out of the twelve truly stood out. We were particularly impressed with the energy of Jermaine Paul on “Livin’ on a Prayer,” the emotional performance of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” by Chris Mann and the smooth sounds of Jesse Campbell on “What A Wonderful World.” Watch Jermaine’s performance in the player below and tune in to NBC tonight at 9PM to see which two artists will be eliminated.