Cassadee Pope had a “in reality good” experience on The Voice — apart from one “bizarre” moment with producers in the back of the scenes.
The 33-year-old, who won season Three of the NBC singing competition in 2012, reflected on her time as a member of trainer Blake Shelton’s group all the way through the Monday, August 7, episode of the “Hold My Hair?” podcast. “They treat their artists so well,” Pope gushed of the production, adding that her prior experience as the lead singer of Hey Monday would possibly were the rationale she didn’t “collapse” at the TV show.
Throughout the contest, Pope depended on those around her for strengthen. “Someone was once always there to have a pep communicate and it all the time helped,” she mentioned of PAs and different staffers who nearly appeared “educated to be counselors.”
Unlike different making a song competitions — which Pope has heard can be “really brutal” for performers — the Voice staff prioritizes the artists over out of doors drama. “It’s a truth making a song pageant show, nevertheless it’s now not a reality show. … They don’t want to make a spectacle out of everybody,” she mentioned.
There used to be one second, on the other hand, where Pope was once caught off guard via producers. “They got me on an extra susceptible, sleep disadvantaged day they usually got me to talk about my relationship with my dad, which I wish I hadn’t executed … but it was this type of susceptible time for me that I simply let it out,” she recalled, noting that even coach Christina Aguilera had “similar” to her tale.
Pope defined at the podcast that when she was once on The Voice, she hadn’t spoken to her father in a yr. “I didn’t move into why … and this wasn’t the most efficient thing [the show] did,” she persisted. “They were given in touch with [my dad] and the way in which that they brought it to me was once kind of hilarious. They were like, ‘We discovered your father.’ And I was like, ‘I didn’t lose my father.’ I've his quantity.”
Pope claimed that producers approached her with the theory to have an on-camera reunion with her dad — but she shut them down. “I essentially felt like they noticed me open up, they noticed America react so strongly to me opening up about my tale that they were like, ‘We know this may occasionally assist her,’” she said. “They had been, like, trying to help me do better in the pageant, which I liked.”
Performing on TV was once an “intense, overwhelming experience” overall, but Pope is still grateful for the bond she formed with Shelton, 47. She completely told Us Weekly in October 2021 that she and Shelton keep up a correspondence “a little bit bit right here and there.”
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“He’s a hectic guy,” she mentioned. “But … , he’s been super supportive, he had me premiere my album [Stages] at an album free up celebration a couple years in the past at Ole Red downtown [in Nashville] and he let me use his venue for that. … I’m certain I’ll run into him sooner or later.”
Shelton was an authentic coach at the collection, making his debut in 2011. While several artists have spun their red chairs round — from Nick Jonas to Kelly Clarkson — Shelton remained a constant presence till season 23.
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