Idol Chatter & Voice Views

The last weekend of 2020 brought lots of great post-Voice music, including new releases from Kensington Moore, Madilyn Paige and Sydney Rhame.

Here’s a look at each of those releases.

As alsways, the links take you to the songs on Apple Music. Or you can check out the Spotify snippets below.

* Kensington Moore from Season 7 has released an impressive string of singles over the past two years and is back with one of her best — and one of the best post-Voice singles I’ve heard in a while. It’s called “Birthday,” dropped Friday and is about a woman missing a former lover as his birthday approaches and swearing it’s the “last time she’ll grieve.” Kensington delivers a vocal perfectly matching the mood of the song. On Thursday, she dropped the matching music video.

* Madilyn Paige from Season 5 of The Voice released “Bleed” on Friday, her first original single in three years. Madilyn also calls it a “very personal” song on Instagram. “Last year my family went through some very difficult times, and for a while, I felt alone and isolated,” she writes. “It felt as if no one understood what I was going through. I was overwhelmed with emotions — I constantly felt sad, but most people around me had no idea until I decided to reach out. I realized that I wasn’t alone. Know that you aren’t alone. Everyone goes through lows at times, and there is always someone to help.” It might be her first new single in three years, but Madilyn’s hardly been silent in the interim, releasing a series of impressive covers.

* Sydney Rhame from Season 10 released her third single of 2020 on Friday, a pop song called “17.” Writes Sydney on Instagram: “Wrote this song one night when I got home from working my retail job and I was feeling nostalgic. When you’re in high school you think of the real world as this idealized place where dreams come true and opportunity grows on trees right in front of you. You don’t envision the roadblocks because life’s a beautiful fantasy, shapeable by only you. And maybe you were right? But you were only 17.”