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i've never been a fan of singing based reality shows: i am completely tone deaf and could never make it through even one whole performance on idol.  why, then, am i infatuated with the voice? there's a lot of reasons:

1. i liked the blind auditions; and i liked how it put the choice back in the singer's hands.

2. i love the judges.  when i was 15 i fell in love with a band called kara's flowers.  i loved the singers falsetto, poppy voice.  7 years later i was meeting that singer, who had a new band called maroon 5.  even though he's kind of lame now, adam levine is such a crush of mine.

then:

 now:

3. the contestants are really talented and pretty diverse.

4. i've got sort of a connection to 2 of the contestants.  one (casey desmond) is from my hometown and we even saw her at comic con two weeks ago.  the other, dia frampton, on blake's team is a close friend of my brother's.  he managed her when she was in a band called meg&dia; she even spent a thanksgiving with us.  it makes watching much more fun.  i hope dia makes it so i can vote for her a million times. 

this is dia.

and casey: