If you’d asked me as recently as Monday which coach had the weakest team on The Voice Season 9, I would have said Adam Levine. Night after night, he shamelessly begged contestants to join Team Adam, and night after night, those contestants ignored his desperate pleas and signed up with Teams Blake, Pharrell, or Gwen instead. But what a difference an episode makes! This Tuesday, on the fourth Blind Auditions installment of this season, Adam scooped up three frontrunners and got back in the game. I should never have doubted someone as hyper-competitive as him.

Viktor Kiraly was probably Adam’s standout recruit of the night. This Viktor definitely has what it takes to be a Voice victor. He’s already an established pop star in his parents’ homeland of Hungary; he convinced DMC (yes, of Run-DMC) to rap on one of his international singles; and he’s got a slick Robin Thicke vibe going on, minus the post-“Blurred Lines” douchery. With the Thicke similarities, he seemed a natural fit for Pharrell Williams, and when Pharrell astutely noted that Viktor had performed the Donny Hathaway version of “What’s Going On,” and Viktor revealed that he has a Hathaway tattoo on his back, it seemed like a done deal. (Pharrell/tattoo connections was a recurring theme this Tuesday, as you’ll see later.) But shockingly, Viktor picked Adam, because “he seemed so excited.” Adam may be on his way to a third Voice victory with this guy. So can we please invite DMC to guest on the Season 9 finale?

(yahoo.com/music)