Cassie Henderson

"Pompeii" - 7/10 - The clip starts with Mel's comment on Daniel not knowing what to do with Cassie. We see Cassie being the young girl that she is, getting really frustrated by the criticism. She goes for a mini golf game with Daniel. Daniel keeps showing he has no idea what to do with Cassie. This is yet another bad choice for her. In spite of that, Cassie did a wonderful job with the song, by Cassie standards of course. She sounded good for most of the performance and her tone was really lovely here and even her pitch issues didn't bother me much. That ending was gorgeous. It was indeed the best she's performed so far. So maybe the song wasn't that wrong after all? "Thank goodness that your attitude's come back and your personality's come back. When I look at you now I see a girl that has more balls than Miley Cyrus. I think that you are better than any of them. Saying that, it wasn't perfect but that's the happiest I've been watching you so far" (Mel) - VIDEO

"#thatPower" - 6/10 - From left to right: Rory, Jason, Marley and Brock - The guys went to St Paul's College this week. "We are pretty much going back to school" Rory says. They sing an acapella song, the best I've heard from them in ages. They want to change the world for the better. They said that if they made it to the Top 8 they'll do the reverse bungee. So we see the boys doing it, with Marley freaking out. That actually looks really fun dude! So Mel gave them the shittiest song she could find. They actually sound a lot better than they did in previous weeks yet the song is so awful that it doesn't really give them space to shine. They do some choreography which definitely got the girls excited. They aren't going anywhere any time soon. "That was so fierce. I feel like some of the other weeks you've been quite safe and quite nice and maybe appealed to the 13 y/o girls but now you are just proving that you can appeal to such a much broader audience" (Ruby)  - VIDEO

"Impossible" - 8,5/10 - He's getting his really short hair cut by his friend. He's doing the James Arthur version of the song. Ruby heard him singing it backstage and she was really moved. "I want Whenua to make me cry this week" she says. He wants NZ to get lost in the song with him. Whenua is one of the few contestants who's improving every week. He has once more topped his previous performance. There was such a raw emotion in his delivery, he made me believe everything he was doing. His voice was just phenomenal here. I got lost in this, just like he wanted. "My whole body was goosebumps. That was better than a whole other performances that we've had on this show. Every week man, you keep getting better" (Daniel) - VIDEO

"Radioactive" - 7,5/10 - She's been performing since she was a little girl. She did talent quest, movies, television, adverts, she released some singles, recorded music videos and recorded an album. She wants to do something fun to wash off last week. So she takes Stan for a motorcycle ride. He falls from the bike, as expected. Haha. Another great performance from Mrs Wilson, which will obviously tore apart by the judges. I think they are just jealous of her. Awesome vocals, magnificent delivery. I've to agree with the judges on one thing though, I've never seen something distinctive about her, she seems to adapt to every genre she sings. That's good but I wish she had something I could identify just with her. "I didn't. It felt put on. I didn't believe it for a minute. I know you are a bad girl on a motor cross course but I don't think you are a bad girl in real life and it just feels like you are playing dress up with that kind of look. I much prefer you from your first performance. I think you are better than this direction. Saying that, I still love your voice, I definitely think there's a place for you in the record industry, just not like this" (Mel) - VIDEO


"Lost" - 7,5/10 - The boys did a photo shoot with Ruby, in which they pretend to be gangsters. He was told he has the meerkat look which he thinks is interesting. The other boys are like brothers to him. This is a really interesting pick. I wouldn't have pictured him singing this song, in fact, if he wanted to sing a Frank Ocean tune, this was not it. That said, he actually sounded really good on this performance, the problem is that it was more of the same. I love everything Benny does but he needs to start bringing some more originality to his performances, some diversity. He so charming though! I'd definitely vote for him. "This is the most emotion I've ever see you give in a performance but I've to agree with Mel, you started from the top, you kinda have to maintain your spot and grow even more, just step it up another level next week. But I did love that performance" (Stan)    - VIDEO

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"Blurred Lines" - 4/10 - From left to right: Nica, Taiva, Alexandra, Hannah-Jane and Nicole - They had a surprise B3 visit last week. They were in shock because they didn't expect the outcome. "It was heartbreaking" Hannah says. We see the girls exercising, then singing. I give up on Mel, she sucks as a coach, she'll never change, period. Her girls almost left last week so what does Mel do? She gives them this joke of a song. This girl needs to grow a pair of balls, asap. Pick your own song for god's sake!  Such a disappointing performance! Nice choreography but the vocals were so atrocious and that's a weird thing cause the girls always sound so good. I wouldn't rule out a second B2 visit this week. "I love the visuals, I couldn't hear the words. I couldn't connect, I don't actually know what I really listened to.  I'm not sure if you guys were hitting the notes, I couldn't tell" (Daniel) - VIDEO