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I have been less than active on my blog lately so I am going to try to give it a little revamp.

I need to confess my obsession with The Voice. Yes, I was one of the 2.5 million Australians watching the reality TV program last night and I feel that in my own intellectual defence, it needs to be known that this is the only reality TV I watch. And last night as I followed the Twitter feed and the various live blogs circulating on the show, I worked out why I loved it so much – it created such a positive movement in the Australian public that is so rarely seen today.

Every contestant seemed genuinely happy for each other that they had made it so far and although at times the ‘shooting star’ analogies and ‘I believed you’ moments made me want to flick the switch off the show, their positivity was heart-warming.

What The Voice did and what is incredibly remarkable, is ignite the Australian public to unite in a show and share optimism with each other through social networks. There were countless social commentators who were busy snapping remarks about the credibility of the show and one radio presenter even went as far as accusing The Voice as forcing previous contestants to “suck corporate cock”. Tom Ballard, the contestant you referred to is sixteen so please be thoughtful of the face that she has a mother and a father and who can blame a girl to choose a prime time television ad spot to showcase her amazing talent?

The negatives aside, I think The Voice was a generally up lifting show and as I said last night, between The Voice and the Olympics, this year really is Nine2012.