Welcome back to The Voice kiddies… let's watch some people cry and stuff. I am far less moved by the contestants this time around and also less impressed with the beginning of the second round of auditions as a whole. Don't get me wrong, my love affair with The Voice is still going strong. The bickering, the mistaken genders, Blake Shelton's ego, people singing… it's all the recipe for an entertaining Tuesday night, trust me, but something has changed because we can't always be newlyweds, at some point, things have to get real and The Voice has gotten real, for better or worse…
This article appears in May 5-11, 2011.