~~~The Voice Final 12 Live Show~~~

It's a busy week for the four finalists, their superstar coaches and The Voice team as we gear up for the LIVE FINALS on Saturday. As well as rehearsing, Christina, Sally, Jermain and Jamie will be appearing on various other TV shows throughout week...

On Wednesday they will be singing live on The One Show...

On Thursday they will be up early to appear on BBC Breakfast on BBC1...

On Friday the acts will be up early again (!) and chatting with Nick Grimshaw AND their coaches on Grimmy's breakfast show on Radio 1...

We hope they manage to fit in some early nights!

PLUS Ricky will be with Chris Evans on his breakfast show on BBC Radio 2, chatting about his experience of being a coach on The Voice and also performing with his band, The Kaiser Chiefs.

Tellymix Poll

The Voice 2014: Who will win?
Christina Marie (39%, 494 Votes)
Sally Barker (32%, 404 Votes)
Jermain Jackman (17%, 208 Votes)
Jamie Johnson (12%, 152 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,258

DS Forum Poll
View Poll Results: Who do you want to win The Voice 2014?
Sally Barker        74    35.41%
Christina Marie        62    29.67%
Jermain Jackman        37    17.70%
Jamie Johnson        36    17.22%

Daily Mirror Poll

Who do you think will win The Voice?

Jermain Jackman - 24%
Sally Barker - 35%
Jamie Johnson - 13%
Christina Marie - 28%

DS Headlines Poll


Who do you want to win The Voice?
Sally Barker
24.79%
Christina Marie
41.78%
Jamie Johnson
16.36%
Jermain Jackman
17.06%

Here's an interesting one:

TVPolls final poll

      Who do you want to Win The Voice 2013?

ANDREA BEGLEY (Team Danny)     18% ████████████████                                   
LEAH MCFALL (Team will.i.am)     44% █████████████████████████�...           
MIKE WARD (Team Tom)             30% █████████████████████████�...                       
MATT HENRY (Team Jessie)     8%  ████████

Andrea was also the "LEAST Favourite Act" (oddly, as she beat Matt above).

I miss tvpolls

Still the best poll we had. It shows how cr@p polls are in this short format
fwiw I don't even buy into the idea that Christina is TCO. Why give her that cr@p song last week if she was.
I suspect they wanted Sophie in the final and would have pushed her if she'd made it through.

I have Christina a poor fourth but struggle to believe it. It will all be about the night itself and then motivation to vote. Christina is her own worst enemy. Im seeing signs of sally's bubble bursting but she has a big loyal core vote. Interesting one to call.

It wouldn't amaze me if she was 1st out. Though Jermain looks destined for that position with the song they've given him

jermaines best poll amongst mirror readers

what a surprise !!!

TM not a mirror reader then?

Song choices for Saturday known so far.....

Sally

New Song ~~ Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
Duet.        ~~ Walking In Memphis (Marc Cohn)
Fav Song ~~ Dear Darling (Ollie Murs)

Jamie

Fav Song ~~ Sex On Fire (Kings of Leon)

Christina

Fav Song ~~ Power Of Love (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)

Jermain

New Song ~~ Wrecking Ball  (Miley Cyrus)
Fav Song ~~ And I'm Telling You (Jennifer Hudson)

There’s a Mirror poll that puts Sally ahead but annoyingly it asks “Who do you think will win The Voice?” and not “Who do you want…”

Christina gets a lot of internet hate but that’s irrelevant because she also scores very highly on the positive side as well, as per likes and the polls above. The little One Show snippet reminded me that she has the best voice.

Jermaine’s One Show clip was also impressive and he has some momentum on net comments etc. I missed Jamie's bit which was at the beginning

Last night’s “Louder” told us that Sally will be back to her comfort zone on Saturday, after last Saturday’s travesty. Hopefully she’ll use her guitar for Both Sides Now. It looks like a simple guitar piece.

“Louder” also told us that the Voice judges are allowed to do the best for their acts and are not instructed to undermine them as in XF. And I don’t think the Voice use undermining staging, I’ve not noticed it anyway.

I probably like Christina the most, In the final I'm sure one of the judges will tell her she was great, to which she can reply "yes I was"

I think for every person that has a go at Christina online (and there's no negative vote) there are a hundred who find her quite an inspirational young girl. And they have 4 free votes each online.

The standard of the final 4 is higher than recent XFs. As a Sally backer I'm largely relying on her back story. It's not nearly as clear cut as with Sam Bailey on vocal quality alone. There's a good chance they'll show Sally's two sympathetic sons in the audience, she'll use her guitar with Both Sides Now, and say how it reminds her of her dead husband, and her Walking In Memphis duet will be the most sympathetic. (And I'm hoping she doesn't make Dear Darling "her own".)

I think you can virtually ignore online indicators on this show and go with your instincts. Mine say Christina can't win and could even be 1st out, but they haven't been great of late

I'm rather more cautious after using that very tactic with CBB Charlotte

surely kylies act will be out first

who is he ?

I think H is spot on....Christina divides opinion sharply going by online indicators.The question is,is the pro brigade enough to get her the win?

In a 4 way final,it may be as little as 35% of the vote is required for victory,especially as all the contestants are likely to receive a fair size proportion of vote.Is Christina's marmite support equal or more than 35/65 ? That's the conundrum IMO.

Christina is 18% v 82% marmite. H2H with Sally its 80v20 Sally. Christina's only hope seems to be the online voting.

Why would online voting help her cause GB2 ?

Because she seems to have more support on twitter which usually means jack sh1t but its possible the twitterati might actually get off their arses and use their four votes. Just can't see the GBP picking up the phone for her in an ygreat numbers. But like you say in a pretty close four way who knows. I still think Sally who I have ahead has the most motivated vote. The intelligentsia view is lets pick a winner with some "potential" but voting is a visceral not an intellectual thing imo.

Nope, I don't agree with that George. A typical Christina FB post will have a comment "She is full of herself" getting 35 thumbs up but the post itself will get 2,000 likes. It's the people who like her that count. And there are a lot of them.

* "I don't agree" with the "18% v 82% marmite"

You could well be right Henry. I have posted elsewhere that my findings don't really go with my gut instinct. Not been looking at FB but she was doing well on twitter last time I looked. I am in two minds about just settling for a decent all green of about £1k or letting it ride.

"I still think Sally who I have ahead has the most motivated vote. The intelligentsia view is lets pick a winner with some "potential" but voting is a visceral not an intellectual thing imo."

That I agree with.

She's pulled clear on the TM poll,and virtually drawn level on the DS poll and her YouTube views from last weekend are not bettered.The online support is certainly there,although equally there seems to be quite a lot of animosity towards her going by Facebook comments and DS.

Seems like viewers fall into one of two camps.....Best vocalist in the competition,or screaming,shouting Bighead.The biggest thing in her favour perhaps is the spread of support for her 3 rivals,even allowing for Sally being more popular perhaps than the two boys.She would certainly lose a H2H against all three rivals.

My marmite stats have been pretty accurate in the past on things like CBB but there is this real middle england v interweb split with Christina that makes it a hard one.

Re H2H do we know re phone lines opening and closing on the night? I may well be in a no wifi situation on Saturday so need to make a book decision before then.

AFAIK Lines open up to first elimination,then re-opened for final 3 until just before the result.

Thanks. I think £1k is being optimistic given my current book.

Sally +£1764
Jamie +£523
Christina +£190
Jermain -£242

What to do?

Let it ride.

Maybe lay Jamie to 0

thanks

I have Jermain just ahead of Jamie but will BBC viewer racism kick in?

Off topic but anyone had a dental implant?

Christina - Fix You

Christina's going to fix GB2's dental implant?

I'm sure she'd give it a go

2 good songs for her tbf

the power of love and fix you

2 jollies not stitched up.Wrecking Ball a strange choice for Jermain,and Jamie reprising Sex On Fire rather than his Semi-Final song.

As much as the Joni Mitchell song is perfect for Sally's style,I do have a doubt about whether the majority of the audience will know it,and therefore connect with it.

I'd be surprised if more than 2 or 3% of the audience will know it

The Power of Love:

Frankie Goes to Hollywood (and Gabrielle Aplin)

or

Jennifer Rush (and Céline Dion)?

Yes, better vote magnets for Christina in the song choices.

OK I've caught up, it's Frankie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAz8_Hjx0vI

Jeez I hate Christina's rendition. Still, the judges and public seem to like it.

The small bit of Fix You sounded awful too

P of L is great until she starts shouting.

That's all she knows how to do. Imagine a whole album of her
The worst singer in the final

Very positive comments for Power of Love and she gets: Like 442; Dislike 2. You don't see that ratio often.

For me it's like women with tattoos, it seems vulgarity is in fashion.

Sam Bailey is a powerful singer but has far more to her voice and connects. I don't think Christina does

SamB sings it straight; CM warbles or screeches off in all sorts of directions with unnecessary vocal gymnastics.

I thought Christina's vocal in TPOL was the best this series.

I thought it was horrible

For the reason squares mentions

I'm playing Cider's contrarian role this series

Someone needs to as we're mostly against her on here

Couple of points:

Being pretty much all-in on Sally, I`ve been closely watching for signs of her being TCO. When there were no clear signs, I lazily assumed Christina was TCO. Yesterday, fll suggested not, and I realised he was right, there is no obvious TCO

I`d be amazed if less than 90% of the voters (as opposed to viewers),  know Sally`s song.

I`ve got a mouthful of implants, what do you want to know?

Can you whistle?

I play a few instruments and, when I was young, my band released 7 singles (total sales of about 217, nearly all to my Mum!), but I can`t whistle. Or sing.

I`d be amazed if less than 90% of the voters (as opposed to viewers),  know Sally`s song.

You been on the wacky backy again tim?

Re Christina,I think she's similar in singing style to Leanne Mitchell,but far better.Against that she's far less likable than Leanne,and faces far stiffer competition than Leanne did in the final.

The bare facts are she leads the latest Tellymix poll quite easily,having never been in the lead before,and leads YouTube views of the latest songs.Whilst we all have differing opinions of how relevant these measures are,I do find it strange that some on here are happy to rule her out of the running.It may turn out that they prove to be correct,and she doesn't win (indeed it's more likely she loses rather than wins) but to write her chances off because of a singing style that isn't liked by the majority on here (me included) and a questionable personality is IMO dangerous,given other measures are telling us she's a viable contender.

hemsby 03 Apr 14 19:07 
As much as the Joni Mitchell song is perfect for Sally's style,I do have a doubt about whether the majority of the audience will know it,and therefore connect with it.

five leaves left 03 Apr 14 19:08 
I'd be surprised if more than 2 or 3% of the audience will know it


Well, I disagreed with your first post, hemsby, and spluttered into my tea when I read fll`s follow-up. I don`t think I`ve ever disagreed with him as much. It`s an absolute standard, which 90%+ of the actual voters will know. You lot all know it, why wouldn`t the GBP?

Tim although I think Sally will do a great job with Both Sides Now I really think Christina's songs are vastly better known.

It's very late 60s in style whilst Christina's are very modern.

Dear Darlin' is modern and popular though.

joni mitchell has been hidden from the masses but was brilliant

it seems an almost perfect choice except perhaps to joni mitchell fans ,

and i doubt many watch the voice

i bet sally has sung it a million times ......

I think you overestimate the musical knowledge of the GBP, tim

I don't listen to much music but even i knew 'Both sides now' instantly

oh lol

Probably because it was in the film 'Love Actually'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y-8vxObugM

I've never seen the film

Probably too busy watching 'The Graduate' and getting a boner over the old gal

I do love the Graduate. One of my favourite films

Can't say im shocked

Driving Miss Daisy must rate as XXX porn for you

I thought the daughter was hot who he ended up with. 'Mrs Robinson' looked pretty good too tho

Decent soundtrack, not 1 of my favourite films though

No facial hair?

Probably. The film would have been so much better if Grizzly Adams had the lead role

Hoffman had some facial hair in Midnight Cowboy. Another one of my favourite films

A film about a young man who heads for New York to become a male prostitute

Why did you move to Brighton again Fig

Born here

File update

Midnight Cowboy one of my all-time favs as well.

ps I'm not writing CM off at all, she's just the total opposite to everything I like musically (and personality) although that probably bodes well to her succeeding in this.

Tbf looking at it from a music industry POV I think they are 4 desperately poor finalists.  I appreciate Sally as an engaging singer, but the others are just bland.

total opposite OF* even

On the other hand its easily the best quality final we have had on the voice and better than most XF finals.

My first time betting on The Voice and I agree with most of your thoughts about CM.
Can't decide if I'd be best to lay of my stake on Sally and have a free green on her or let it run!
Any way Good luck!

Money in market seems to be favouring Sally so I'm guessing she goes goes odds on at some point. My green is nearly £2k as I forgot about top coach bets which are the same thing as o/r now.

That's a lovely green to have on her George

There is no indication that Sally will go odds on or even be favorite in the final outside of the exchange bubble, on the HS 10 books have CM as fav to only 4 books with Sally as fav, with 3 books J/F.
laying Sally @2.3 on the exchange is good business if you can get matched. you can always reinvest on the HS

I don't think Both Sides Now is a particularly well known by the younger generation, but are they going to be voting for Sally anyway?  It's perfect for her voting base.  She has Dear Darlin' which younger viewers obviously do know.

Do we not know what CM's duet is yet?

Jamie's songs choices revealed tonight I assume.

Jamie's new song = John Waite Missing You

can't wait

what did they say the duet was?  Annie Lennox?

Sounded very difficult for Kylie's ropey vocals whatever it was.

yep, heard right

There Must Be An Angel

tough song

Talking to yourself Squares? 

obviously

Terrible song for Jamie but good for this audience. Good duet song but Kylie could struggle

Kylie sang the song on tour so should be ok.