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Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys debut together — the chairs reset

The Reinvention

Season eleven brought two coaching debuts at once — Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys alongside Blake Shelton and Adam Levine. The dual arrivals gave the blind auditions different energy: four coaches with wider musical range than the show had assembled.

Filmed
Los Angeles
Los Angeles · Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys' joint coaching debut
Premiered
Sep 19, 2016
NBC · September 2016
Format
Blind audition competition
Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys debut as coaches
Cast size
4 players
Coaches: Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Miley Cyrus, Alicia Keys
Host
Carson Daly
Carson Daly — eleventh season at the helm
On this page5 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02The shape of the season
  3. 03Where it sits in the canon
  4. 04Adjacent in the canon
  5. 05Also appears in
01The take

The Reinvention.

Two new voices at the table — the coaching dynamic resets in a single season.
02The shape of the season

Fall slot, eleventh cycle steady.

Two coaching debuts in a single cycle is a reset the format doesn't manage often. Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys brought a genuinely different musical range to the chairs — pop and R&B instincts that pushed Blake Shelton and Adam Levine into a different competitive posture during the blind auditions. The recruiting phase had unpredictability the prior two seasons hadn't matched. A mid-run Voice season elevated by an unusually significant coaching shake-up.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #15 slot.

Slot #15 of 29 in the Voice Editor's Canon. Season eleven managed something the format doesn't often attempt: two coaching debuts in a single cycle. Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys arrived together, bringing pop and R&B instincts that pushed Blake Shelton and Adam Levine into a different competitive posture during the blind auditions. The recruiting phase had unpredictability the prior seasons hadn't matched — four coaches with wider musical range than the show had assembled in recent memory, genuinely competing for singers rather than running on familiar patterns. A mid-run Voice season elevated by an unusually significant coaching reset. Fifteenth slot, clearly ahead of the seasons that coasted on familiarity.

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05Also appears in

Cross-references.