Cassadee Pope had a “actually good” expertise on The Voice — other than one “bizarre” second with producers behind the scenes.
The 33-year-old, who gained season 3 of the NBC singing competitors in 2012, mirrored on her time as a member of coach Blake Shelton’s crew throughout the Monday, August 7, episode of the “Maintain My Hair?” podcast. “They deal with their artists so nicely,” Pope gushed of the manufacturing, including that her prior expertise because the lead singer of Hey Monday might need been the rationale she didn’t “crumble” on the TV present.
All through the competitors, Pope relied on these round her for assist. “Somebody was all the time there to have a pep discuss and it all the time helped,” she stated of PAs and different staffers who virtually appeared “educated to be counselors.”
Not like different singing competitions — which Pope has heard might be “actually brutal” for performers — the Voice crew prioritizes the artists over exterior drama. “It’s a actuality singing competitors present, but it surely’s not a actuality present. … They don’t wish to make a spectacle out of all people,” she stated.
There was one second, nevertheless, the place Pope was caught off guard by producers. “They obtained me on an additional susceptible, sleep disadvantaged day they usually obtained me to speak about my relationship with my dad, which I want I hadn’t performed … but it surely was such a susceptible time for me that I simply let it out,” she recalled, noting that even coach Christina Aguilera had “associated” to her story.
Cassadee Pope Tyler Golden/NBC
Pope defined on the podcast that when she was on The Voice, she hadn’t spoken to her father in a yr. “I didn’t go into why … and this wasn’t one of the best factor [the show] did,” she continued. “They obtained in contact with [my dad] and the way in which that they introduced it to me was type of hilarious. They had been like, ‘We discovered your father.’ And I used to be like, ‘I didn’t lose my father.’ I’ve his quantity.”
Pope claimed that producers approached her with the concept to have an on-camera reunion along with her dad — however she shut them down. “I genuinely felt like they noticed me open up, they noticed America react so strongly to me opening up about my story that they had been like, ‘We all know it will assist her,’” she stated. “They had been, like, attempting to assist me do higher within the competitors, which I appreciated.”
Acting on TV was an “intense, overwhelming expertise” general, however Pope continues to be grateful for the bond she fashioned with Shelton, 47. She completely informed Us Weekly in October 2021 that she and Shelton keep up a correspondence “a bit bit right here and there.”
“He’s a busy man,” she stated. “However … you already know, he’s been tremendous supportive, he had me premiere my album [Stages] at an album launch occasion a pair years in the past at Ole Crimson downtown [in Nashville] and he let me use his venue for that. … I’m certain I’ll run into him in some unspecified time in the future.”
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Shelton was an authentic coach on the sequence, making his debut in 2011. Whereas a number of artists have spun their purple chairs round — from Nick Jonas to Kelly Clarkson — Shelton remained a relentless presence till season 23.
