{"id":119210,"date":"2025-02-04T00:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/04\/ahead-of-his-return-to-the-show-adam-levine-says-the-voice-isnt-a-competition-anymore\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T00:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:04:27","slug":"ahead-of-his-return-to-the-show-adam-levine-says-the-voice-isnt-a-competition-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/04\/ahead-of-his-return-to-the-show-adam-levine-says-the-voice-isnt-a-competition-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of his return to the show, Adam Levine says &#8216;The Voice&#8217; isn&#8217;t &#8216;a competition anymore&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-03\/M_TheVoiceSeason27_012925.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Art Streiber\/NBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"><em>The Voice<\/em> is a reality music competition, right?\u00a0Not according to coach <strong>Adam Levine<\/strong>, who makes his long-awaited return to the NBC show Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Speaking to<em> People,<\/em> the <strong>Maroon 5<\/strong> singer says, &#8220;I don&#8217;t really see it as a competition anymore, and I know they&#8217;re not going to like that, but that&#8217;s not what it is. It&#8217;s an opportunity for us to share our experiences with the people on the show. And it always has been that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">And even though the show does crown a winning contestant and coach each season, Adam says he doesn&#8217;t think that&#8217;s what the show is ultimately about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;I mean, you definitely get competitive that those juices flow for sure. But I don&#8217;t see it as a competition and I don&#8217;t think that I can bring anything other than what I have just from life and a career,&#8221; he tells <em>People<\/em>. &#8220;And I think that&#8217;s really valuable for the people on the show that are needing that experience, or that push that help. And that&#8217;s what I think we&#8217;re there for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Adam&#8217;s comments may come in reaction to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/the-voice-billboard-cover-story-gwen-stefani-adam-levine-pharrell-williams-blake-shelton-6251215\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>yearslong criticism<\/strong><\/a> over <em>The Voice<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/tvline.com\/news\/the-voice-singers-fans-relationship-season-15-949331\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>failing to produce<\/strong><\/a> chart-topping, Grammy-winning artists, despite the popularity of the show itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">As for why Adam returned to the show after leaving in season 16, he tells <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/adam-levine-says-stars-aligned-for-the-voice-return-exclusive-8784877\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>People<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, &#8220;I honestly feel like the stars aligned. It was one of those moments where we started talking about it and it felt right &#8230; and it hadn&#8217;t felt right until now.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Streiber\/NBC The Voice is a reality music competition, right?\u00a0Not according to coach Adam Levine, who makes his long-awaited return to the NBC show Monday night. Speaking to People, the Maroon 5 singer says, &#8220;I don&#8217;t really see it as a competition anymore, and I know they&#8217;re not going to<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/04\/ahead-of-his-return-to-the-show-adam-levine-says-the-voice-isnt-a-competition-anymore\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}