“The Voice” coaches duke it out over contestant's riveting Coldplay performance: 'Half my team is 4-chair turns'

The Voice has just kicked off a new season, but by Monday, the second night of the Blind Auditions, the gloves were off. Coaches Kelsea Ballerini, Michael Bublé, John Legend, and Adam Levine, went at it, never more than for a contestant who turned all of their chairs with his take on Coldplay's "Yellow."

Even before Britton Moore, a 21-year-old from San Antonio, had uttered the word "yellow," Levine slammed his buzzer. Legend and Ballerini followed, with Bublé joining him in the final notes of the song. So all four were hoping to get the contestant on the teams they're building to take into the competition on the NBC series. Uh-oh.

"When I turned around, way before everyone else," Levine said, taking a dig at the others before getting serious. "When I heard you go into your falsetto, I was like, 'Okay, I need to coach this guy.' Because there's definitely something in your voice that reminded me a little of how I do it. I just felt an instant connection, and I pushed really early, because I thought that, 'Man, this kid's gonna be special,' and I was right. You’re amazing, dude!"

Meanwhile, Legend praised him for his pitch. "Singing falsetto is actually really hard in a live setting," the "All of Me" singer said. "I always tell my artists, 'Your falsetto will betray you when you need it most.' And it did not betray you, and you sounded so effortless and you really took some creative leaps, I thought. I think nobody sounds like you on the show, and that will be exciting. And it would be so fun to coach you."

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Ballerini, who's in her first season as coach, quickly pointed out that she's more than a decade younger than the others in the big red chairs this season. Only she didn't use those words.

"Can I call you Britt? Perfect," the 31-year-old artist said during her evaluation. "We go way back. You're from Texas, I'm from Tennessee. Similar. You're 21, I respect my elders."

Bublé quipped that, "Kelsea Ballerini is coming today! Ouch!"

"In all seriousness," Ballerini continued, "you can tap into whatever genre you feel like, and that's what I'm looking for on my team. I know that I'm a country artist, but I want to continue to always evolve and be more than one thing, and I see that in you. I also just feel… I'm on TikTok. Have you guys heard of that?"

While Legend reassured Moore that he uses the social media app and gets "some good views on that," Levine faked a shaky, elderly voice: "I never heard of a TikTok."

But Ballerini was serious about wanting to add Moore to her roster of artists, and she hit her button to play a snippet of her singing "I'm calling dibs" from her song "Dibs" more than once.

Although Levine said he didn't understand what the button meant, he thought it was "awesome."

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Ultimately, Moore chose Levine as his coach. The Maroon 5 frontman remarked to the camera that, with that addition, "almost half my team is four-chair turns." He also noted that Ballerini's "learning curve is frightening."

Earlier in the show, Bublé and Legend had their own confrontation, after contestant Ari Camille, a 21-year-old from Chicago, belted out Brandy's "I Wanna Be Down."

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Bublé admitted he was at a disadvantage because he's in a different genre, but said his wife would love it if he were to have Camille's name tattooed on his arm beside the names of his children — surely something no other coach would offer.

"Would she?" Camille asked skeptically.

Still, Bublé rolled up his sleeve, presented his arm to her, and gave her a pen to scrawl her name on it. "At the very worst, I got your autograph before you hit it big," he said.

Camille went with Legend, who had pointed out that he had brought Brandy onto The Voice as a mentor to his team.

The Voice airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.

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