'The Voice' Top 12 Results: The Edge of Glory

The first results show of "The Voice" Season 6 took place Tuesday, and it aired uneventfully, with no real surprises. Perhaps the only mild shocker was the fact that two Team Shakira contestants were in the bottom three, since Shakira had seemed to have such a strong team going into the top 12.

So the bottom three comprised Team Shakira's Tess Boyer and Dani Moz, and Team Usher's T.J. Wilkins. The low iTunes sales for T.J. and Dani — the only two contestants that didn't even crack the iTunes top 200 this Monday — obviously sealed/foretold their fates. As for Tess, who I'd predicted would be up for elimination this week, her odd song assignment, Bon Jovi's "I'll Be There for You," did her no favors; it didn't define the type of artist she is, nor did it tap into any sort of fun '80s nostalgia. Tess was the third-lowest iTunes-charter of the week, at number 176.

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Anyway, the "Voice" results shows have a new gimmick twist this season, taking a page from the "American Idol"/"X Factor"/"So You Think You Can Dance" playbooks and making the bottom three perform for their lives — before fans (well, East Coast fans, that is) can insta-vote via Twitter to save one of them. So this Tuesday, each contestant had one last chance to make a lasting — or just plain last — impression.

T.J. sang Edwin McCain's "I'll Be." Seriously? This done-to-death, snoozy, totally unsoulful song was what T.J. thought could keep him from going home in 12th place? Mistake. Dani fared much better. Although she too went with an overdone artist, Adele, her performance of Adele's lesser-covered "Turning Tables" was a tour de force, reminding viewers of the promise she'd shown during last week's fantastic "Edge of Glory" performance — that time when she temporarily went from fodder to frontrunner.

Tess Boyer's Kelly Clarkson song, "Dark Side," was a better fit for her than Bon Jovi, but she hit one wonky note that, in my opinion, put her second behind Dani, who'd delivered a near-flawless vocal. But apparently the majority of Twitter users didn't share that opinion. The #VoiceSave hashtags went flying, and since real-time results were shown during the supposed-to-be-suspenseful commercial break, everyone could see that Tess was way in the lead.

Yes, it was the end of the line for T.J. Wilkins and Dani Moz. Those two only made it to the edge of glory, as it were.

Interestingly, this means popular original coaches Adam Levine and Blake Shelton still have intact teams, while relative newbies Usher and Shakira are down one contestant each. Is this already an early pattern? Will there be a gloating Adam or Blake in the winner's circle again, in four weeks' time? Maybe, but a lot could happen between now and then, so we'll just have to keep watching to find out.

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