Fun & Famous

Catching up on The Voice in 14 points

Dingdong, here she is again. Your regular TV reviewer. Kiki's colleague and this week incredibly from farmer Bertie of course. of farmer Bertie of course. Last night I parked my butt in Carré, but this morning I immediately rewatched the episode for you. I hope you saw it too (you probably did, because The Voice ‘touched‘ again a generous 2.9 million viewers and was therefore at the top of the viewing figures top 25), because it's so nice to chat about. Shall we?

1. Jury, I understand that you are also asked not to hang like a dead fish in the chair and to provide a bit of spectacle, but tone it down a bit. I mean: that Nina, the first candidate sang quite nicely. My fellow bank members noted a seven in their little book, but to stand there all together and even dance for her... I would save that for when you really go wild. What would you do then? Flipping through the studio? Spraying champagne?

2. Do you sometimes get the feeling that the button only works if you press it Very Hard?

3. Last week I received a Facebook comment from someone wondering if Waylon had hemorrhoids because he stood up as soon as he could. So now I'm wondering if it's contagious and the whole jury is suffering from it.

4. Did you also forget that Waylon ‘knew Patricia Paay very well’? And were they seriously discussing her Playboy series and did Waylon really say that you should stay ‘very far’ away from that kind of people?

5. The joke of the evening was that Vanessa (you know, that sweet woman with the slightly sagging boots who sang The Carpenters so beautifully and who seriously spoke exactly like Quinty Trustfull but that's beside the point) said she lived in Muiderberg, near Almere. She asked if Ali ever came to lie on ‘their’ beach from Almere. “No,” said Waylon, “They rob your house empty while you're lying on the beach.”

6. What I thought of the outfit of the lady singing in French. You know, the high-waisted, fitted leather pants and the sleeveless crop top. Let's just say it's ‘daring’. And maybe refer to the advice on the garden suit from last week.

7. Don't you think Guus and Vanessa make an incredibly cute couple? It's just that Guus is already in traffic (because I suspect a single status for Vanessa), but otherwise... I hope for very good friends now.

8. Do you also want to spend the whole Sunday afternoon with grandma-who-looks-like-a-milf-Jane Delaney? A bit of rice table and jamming? Would she have enough for our 2.9 million?

9. Do you remember that whiner (me) who was upset about hats in indoor spaces? Suddenly I couldn't care less about Jacob Grey...

10. Did you also find it so awkward that Jacob forgot Ali for comments and Ali then held a long wobbly dissertation on why Jacob had to choose him while we all felt in our bones that Jacob would never choose Ali?

11. Did anyone actually choose Ali???

12. Do you also find it remarkable that musical is really a very bad thing in the world of The Voice? A past in prison is less bad, seriously. “Oops, I thought for a moment that I heard musical...” “Oh, well... I really did that twenty years ago.” Silence. “I hoped I had completely worked that out.” Well, she just got away with it.

13. Those mothers who die when their child is on stage. Thank goodness there is Martijn who is right there with a hug and the right word. And then you still hear such a mother mumbling that she finds it ‘so focking bad’ that her son didn't make it. Not very ‘old money’, but just exactly how I want it on a Friday night.

14. Is Waylon pressing at the very last moment?

That was it again, dear Voice friends. Same time same place next week.