MJS

Every year (with a few exceptions like seasons 1, 2, 5, 9, 12, 16) I jaw-drop watch as gifted singers get eliminated (mostly from "America votes" results) and others without a fraction of the talent and almost never that certain something would advance. And every year I vowed never to watch the show again because I didn't feel the results came close to representing what the show was purporting to be about. That "certain something" you hear every coach say every year is so vital, what they're looking for, and something that can't be taught. Yet every year, people get voted through who can't hold a candle to the people who should. And yet I still watch hoping that somehow the scales will right themselves, and they don't. I watched the 2020 season and I was really impressed by the way the producers and everyone handled the lives. I also thought this year, maybe this year, someone who really does have that unteachable something will win. I also thought that, because a toxic ingenuine judge left, it would different, and for that part it was. But that didn't affect a skewed outcome. When the unthinkable happened yet again, I grabbed the remote and smashed the off button for the last time. There were three very very clear top singers in that final five. They ALL had that unteachable something and were the only ones on that stage who did. And they were all magically, emotionally, and technically flawless and professional. And none of them won. I'm done, really done this time.