Is America Ready for ‘The Voice Kids USA’?
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Over the course of 23 seasons, The Voice has raised champion artists, young and old. Yet, America has not yet identified extremely powerful kid singers from America. For those who may not know, The Voice only accepts applicants aged 14 and above.
Is The Voice Kids USA Worth the Try?
In other countries with their own series franchise, they have explored not only the original version, but also the kids edition. Africa, Albania, Australia, Belgium, Philippines are nations among others who saw it fit to introduce The Voice Kids. Fair enough, viewers enjoyed this sort of spin-off, as proven by the edition’s repeated renewal of franchise.
Since The Voice USA premiered in 2011, the show hasn’t launched a spin-off series where only kids can participate. Be that as it may, The Voice is not deprived of young applicants. The show has Team Kelly’s Brynn Cartelli, its youngest winner to date. Cartelli, now 20, won when she was 15 years old. Team Gwen has its first win with Carter Rubin who was also 15 when he snatched the title.
Certainly, numerous competition series fans are not unmoved and nonchalant whenever kids grace talent shows. Nine-year-old Celine Tam captivated hearts when she powerfully sang on America’s Got Talent back in 2017. Furthermore, when nine-year-old Angelica Hale competed in the same series, fans agreed that it takes no specific age to impress a big crowd.
Indeed, it will be refreshing to witness talented kids from different cities of America get chair turns and pick the coach they want to be with throughout their journey. Until now though, The Voice USA seems uninterested in introducing a kids edition. Seemingly, NBC is more willing to keep on premiering the usual edition and introducing new coaches.
Fans Are Happy with The Show’s Original Version
Fans of The Voice have also expressed their opinion about the matter. One Reddit user opened a discussion titled “Why hasn’t “Voice kids USA” become a thing yet.”
“This should become a thing as people would root for children having extraordinary voices,” the user wrote. “Other countries have been successful with these shows.”
In the comment section however, some users believe that the network doesn’t need a kids edition anymore. One user primarily banked on the idea that a reality competition is not a place for kids.
“Seeing people who have worked hard to hone their craft is interesting,” a person wrote. “Watching human interest packages about kids who are trying to act far above their age is not.”
Meanwhile, one user stated that some reality series which attempted to launch a kids version failed to boom on television. The user opined that America is not too fond of kids.
“American Idol did a version called American Juniors and it was not a big success,” one user wrote. “Networks also do a lot of reality shows featuring kids and they are not very successful. Americans are just not into watching kids.”
There hasn’t been any news that NBC is considering The Voice Kids anytime soon. Nonetheless, a possibility will remain a possibility especially that international broadcasts of the same spin-off have made it materialize in the past years.
