Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Maroon 5 performs on The Voice during a Season 13 results show. (NBC Photo)

I get tired of writing this blog.

But I’ll keep writing it until something changes on The Voice.

Tuesday night will mark the first results show for Season 14, which means there will be time for special performances.

Wouldn’t that be a great opportunity for the show to showcase new music from past contestants?

I mean, just this week, past standouts Xenia (Season 1), Barrett Baber (Season 9) and Brooke Simpson (Season 13) released new singles. Every one would be worthy of airtime.

Red Marlow from Season 13 recently dropped a great new album. Amanda Brown (Season 3) has two new songs out and is about to do the same.

Sawyer Fredericks (Season 8) also has a fine new album out, one he wrote and produced! Then there’s Cassadee Pope’s catchy new single, her first as an independent artist.

The list, folks, goes on and on and on. Put simply, there’s no shortage of new music from past contestants that I’m pretty sure Voice fans would love to hear.

Instead, on Tuesday night we’ll get Maroon 5 performing a new single called “Wait.” Yep, Adam Levine’s Maroon 5. The same Adam Levine who’s the first one to bitch and moan at the end of every season about how Republic Records doesn’t do enough to promote Voice winners.

Well, there’s truth in that.

Season 12 winner Sundance Head just did another interview in which he talked about his record deal with Republic fizzling. He joins Jermaine Paul, Josh Kaufman, Craig Wayne Boyd and Alisan Porter on a list of Voice winners who didn’t even get to release a major label debut album as part of their “prize” for winning the show.

But The Voice bears responsibility too. The show has a pitiful record when it comes to featuring former contestants in its guest spots.

At least Adam and Maroon 5 have a connection to the show. It’s more infuriating when the show invites in guest artists with new music to hawk but absolutely no connection to the show. And without an iota of proof that those guests do anything to boost ratings.

But how cool would it be if Adam looked Voice producers in the eye and said something along the lines of: “Look, I get tons of publicity and make lots of money doing the show. How about we let (insert name of past contestant here) come on and sing (insert name of great new song here).”

Pretty cool, right?

Instead, I’ll probably keep writing this blog.

Season after season.