What to remember from the semi-final of "The Voice All Stars"

• The semi-final of

  The Voice All Stars

  , broadcast Saturday on TF1, saw MB14, Amalya, Anne Sila, Manon, Terrence James and Louis Delort qualify for the final.

• If three talents of Florent Pagny's team won their ticket to the final, the three talents of Zazie's team were eliminated.

• The three-hour show was marked by many astonishing covers and re-orchestrations.

The semi-final of

, broadcast live Saturday night on TF1, it was tough.

Only six of the fifteen talents still competing could hope to qualify for the final on October 23 - viewers were responsible for deciding them.

In other words, nine artists remained on the floor at the end of these three hours of show.

Here are the essentials to remember from these battle songs.

• Six qualified ...

The mechanics envisaged for this semi-final gave hope for a lot of suspense. The promise has been kept. One could thus fear to see darlings and darlings leaving the telecrochet prematurely. The fears were confirmed. The fifteen talents were divided, before the live, into five pools of three. The one who, in each group, came first in the votes of the public, won his ticket directly for the final. The five who qualified are:

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against Louis Delort and Paul

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against Dominique Magloire and Victoria

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against Flo Malley and Gjon's Tears (if there was a "group of death", bringing together three big favorites for the final victory, it was this one)

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facing Anthony Touma and Demi-Mondaine

-

facing Antoine Galey and Will Barber

At the end of the program, a second round of voting allowed viewers to pick one of the ten eliminated: the lucky winner is

.

• Team Pagny on top, team Zazie on the flop

If we look at these results in detail, we note that three talents of the Florent Pagny team (MB14, Anne Sila and Manon) will be in contention in the final.

Mika, Jenifer and Patrick Fiori will each have a racing talent - Terrence James, Amalya and Louis Delort respectively.

On the other hand, all the talents of the Zazie team have been eliminated.

Gjon's Tears, Demi-Mondaine and Will Barber, however serious contenders for a place in the final, were not sufficiently supported by the voters.

The protagonists repeated it several times during the semi-final: "the public is always right".

We do not quite agree ... But we will not repeat the match: their eliminations - as well as that of Flo Malley and Dominique Magloire, among others - illustrate the harsh law of this group system.

• "The fragility of direct"

Anthony Touma sang

Michael Jackson's

. His performance seemed very monotonous and the dancers were very still when, after a minute, Nikos Aliagas burst onto the stage and Mika went to stop the singer in the middle of a verse. “There was a small technical problem,” explained the host. It happens, we are live and it's magnificent because it is the fragility and the power of live. What was magnificent was especially to note that when Anthony Touma started again his song, his performance was much more spectacular and that once all the orchestration in place, the dancers were able to carry out their choreography. Mika rightly praised the professionalism of the singer who, despite the technical problem, had started without showing anything.

• Amazing covers

If Manon and Amalya have remained relatively faithful to the original versions of the songs they have covered -

and

, the other three qualified directly for the final have in common to have revisited their titles to better inhabit them.

Even if it means peeling off the wallpaper, repainting the walls and changing the floor.

Terrence James thus proposed an astonishing re-orchestration of

, far from

and closer to the credits of a "James Bond".

Whitney Houston, do we have a problem?

Anne Sila, she remained relatively faithful to

by Johnny Hallyday but at times she took the song along side roads to imbue it with her sensitivity. MB14, him, integrated a dose of lyric and a part of rap in

of Led Zeppelin. A mixture which made Zazie say: "There are several in her head, there are M, B, 13 and 14".

Re-orchestrating a hit was not, however, the miracle recipe for becoming a finalist.

The proof with Flo Malley who took over

of Clara Luciani in

mode

and in force.

A proposal against the lightness of the original version which resorted precisely to a light and dancing melody to counterbalance the text, the story of a rupture.

Demi-Mondaine, she rubbed shoulders

with Edith Piaf's

by slightly modifying the lyrics in order to speak of her "lover".

Unfortunately, its intensity did not pay off.

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