Up second, Keisha might have benefited from a little restraint as well. A little restraint in her case might do a lot of good. On stage, Kathrina gave it all she had but oddly didn’t wow the way that she had when practicing. But Keisha didn’t just sing, she erupted. Team Blake: Keisha Renee singing “I Hope You Dance” (Grade: B) defeated Kathrina Feigh singing “Girl on Fire” (Grade: B-) | Kathrina was sounding better in rehearsal on her Alicia Keys cover than I remembered her sounding during her Battle. And he sure as hell knew how to work his boy-band hair like he was a rock god. There was too much vibrato for my taste at the start, but when he dove down into his lower register, then rose up into his big notes, he was pretty impressive.
Going second, Noah would have had to have sung as badly as I do to have lost. There was no amount of “sexy” squinting that he could do to make up for the fact that he was pitchier than the guy on the mound at a baseball game. Going first on stage, Jeremiah earned himself the prize for Worst Wannabe Teen Heartthrob Since Mark Isaiah. Team Jennifer: Noah Mac singing “Hold Back the River” (Grade: B) defeated Jeremiah Miller singing “Sorry” (Grade: D) | In rehearsal, Noah reduced Kelly to tears - which suggested that he’d soon be reducing Jeremiah to tears, too, albeit in a whole different way.
