Last night, the first Live Playoffs episode of "The Voice" Season 3 aired, with Team Adam and Team Blake's contestants competing for coveted spots in the top 12. And this coming Thursday--after Team Xtina and Team Cee Lo compete on Wednesday night, and after tonight's "Voice"-free election coverage, of course--six of these 10 contestants will advance. And honestly, my "The Day After" co-host, Matt Whitfield, and I have no idea which six will make the cut. So many of Monday's performances were so strong, it's almost a shame to see any of these singers go home. Almost.

Check out the video below to see us debate, discuss, and attempt to predict the outcome of last night's Playoffs.

photo: NBC"Tonight, there are no bells and whistles. It is stripped down, so you can focus on what matters--the voice," host Carson Daly announced at the start of Monday's first live competitive "Voice" show of Season 3, in what kinda/sorta seemed like a dig at rival show "The X Factor's" wild kitchen-sink approach. Of course, "The Voice's" directors, particularly those directing Team Cee Lo's performances, haven't always shied away from over-the-top theatrics either. But suffice to say, this evening's scaling-back would ensure that no Season 3 contestants would get Mussolini/The Wall-style dictator sets, creepy kabuki-masked backup dancers, or Egyptian carriages, like some singers got last season.

But that might all change when Cee Lo Green's contestants perform later this week, on Wednesday. Considering that Cee Lo attended Monday's "Voice" taping in a ruffle-shirted, Afro-topped getup that made him look like the illegitimate lovechild of Pam Grier and Prince, anything's possible when the Playoffs return for episode two.

Nicki Minaj's new warts-and-all, day-in-the-life reality miniseries, "My Truth," premiered Sunday night on E!...and the truth is, she came across as extremely unpleasant on the show. She made Madonna in Truth Or Dare and Elton John in Tantrums & Tiaras look positively low-maintenance. She claimed she can "see the future." She claimed her Pink Friday fragrance is a "milestone for hip-hop." And so on.

Sheesh. I am beginning to feel really sorry for Mariah Carey, Keith Urban, and Randy Jackson, who'll have to sit next to Nicki's giant...ego on the "American Idol" panel in Season 12.