We don’t know yet who Jazz McKenzie will choose to be her coach on Monday night’s (Sept. 19) The Voice season 28 premiere, but we know who she can’t choose, thanks to Reba McEntire‘s diabolical block.
The Birmingham, Alabama, singer got everyone on her side with a joyful rendition of Tina Turner‘s “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” a three-week No. 1 smash on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984. In fact, all four coaches turned their chairs for the blind audition — with McEntire the first to turn.
But while Snoop Dogg cluelessly sang along with McKenzie, what he didn’t realize was that McEntire had used her block to keep Snoop from landing the in-demand contestant.
“You are so sought-after, Jazz, that I believe Reba McEntire used her one and only block to stop Snoop Dogg from getting you,” fellow coach Michael Bublé informed the singer — and Snoop himself.
“He just realized that,” McEntire said of Snoop. “I kind of want a bigger response over me blocking you!”
“I’m sitting over here thinking that mine’s just red,” Snoop said of the words in front of his chair being lit in red, as the audience laughed. “I did not read it.”
Niall Horan helped his fellow coach decipher the message in front of him: “No, it says ‘B-L-O-C-K-E-D.’”
There were no hard feelings for Snoop, who said to McKenzie: “I’m just gonna give you a hug ’cause I can’t coach you. You deserve to be here.”
In addition to McEntire’s block, Bublé also pulled out all the stops by channeling “the luck of the Irish” with a troupe of Irish step dancers, who came out to dance to Bublé’s Adult Contemporary-charting 2003 cover of “Sway.”
But who will McKenzie choose in the end? You’ll have to tune in to the season 28 premiere of The Voice — airing at 8 p.m. ET Monday night on NBC and streaming on Peacock — to find out, but you can watch her audition below now.