nbc news Gwen Stefani is known for being bubbly and bright when she's coaching on The Voice. So what had her looking super-serious on Tuesday night? It wasn't that she was still drained from her emotional
performance of new single "Used To Love You" the night before - it was that all the bad news was coming her way.
While seven of the Top 10 artists charted on iTunes after Monday night's performance show, two of the three members of Team Gwen weren't among them. Both Korin Bukowski's cover of Selena Gomez's "Same Old Love" and Braiden Sunshine's version of Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" underwhelmed, landing both of them in the bottom two during Tuesday's results show.
If you're doing the math, that meant Team Gwen was about to become a duo. Below are the results of this week's Twitter Instant Save:
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Truly, it wasn't a surprise that Korin was the one to get the axe. She had survived on Twitter saves for the past two weeks, and before that also had to be saved by Gwen to get past the first week of live playoffs. So despite being a favorite of her coach, she clearly wasn't getting the votes she needed from America.
Despite some strong performances early on, Gwen's eclectic mix of song choices may be catching up to Braiden. There doesn't seem to be a real through-line to what he's performing (his covering Bread comes to mind), and his trying to do something more modern with the Imagine Dragons cover just didn't click. He didn't have the edge needed for that song.
There was a lot of talk early on amongst both the coaches and the fans about Gwen having a shot to be the first female coach to win
The Voice this season. Unfortunately, she's now in with a shot to be the first coach eliminated from the season. She has two artists left in Braiden and Jeffery Austin, while Pharrell Williams has just Madi Davis. Meanwhile, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton still have their full complement of three singers apiece.
The best chance for Gwen to make her mark might be Jeffery, who has become one of those artists who quietly sneaks up on people in the live playoffs. He didn't make a ton of noise earlier in the season, but he just scored his second iTunes multiplier this week and he's putting out a stronger idea of the artist that he wants to be.
Audiences will have to wait and see how Gwen fares as the Top 9 take the stage for the semifinals next Monday at 8 PM ET/PT on NBC.
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