[ Soft country music plays ]
♪♪
-♪ I lit a fire with the love you left behind ♪
-Pretty. -♪ And it burned wild ♪
♪ And crept up the mountainside ♪
♪ I followed your ashes into outer space ♪
-Come on, Blake. Blake. -Come on, buddy.
-♪ I can't look out the window ♪
♪ I can't look at this place ♪
♪ No, I can't look at the stars ♪
♪ They make me wonder where you are ♪
♪ Stars ♪
♪ Up on heaven's boulevard ♪
♪ And if I know you at all ♪
♪ I know you've gone too far ♪
♪ So I ♪
♪ I can't look at the stars ♪
[ Crowd cheering ]
♪ Stars ♪
♪ Up on heaven's boulevard ♪
♪ And if I know you at all ♪
♪ I know you've gone too ♪
♪ Far ♪ -Pretty!
-Pretty. Pretty, pretty, pretty. -♪ So I ♪
♪ I can't look at the stars ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Oh, my gosh.
-Who do we have here? What's your name?
-My name is Mary Kate Connor, I'm 17 years old,
and I'm from Ashburn, Virginia.
-Oh!
-The fact that you're 17, I mean, that is just nuts.
It was incredible to hear so much power, so much control.
And you're gonna be around here for a long time.
-Thank you so much. [ Crowd cheers ]
-Am I supposed to go -- I'm not --
-Go ahead, go for it. I don't even know
what I'm gonna say yet. Talk.
-Oh, you know what? Do you want a decisive coach
that knows what they're gonna say?
[ Laughter ] Um, then I'm the coach for you.
-She knows exactly what she's gonna say right now,
I promise you. There'll be a lot of it.
-I loved how beautiful and tender it was.
Usually, people slide into it to make it a bit easier
so they don't sound pitchy, and you just, like, nailed it,
like, dead on, like a younger Brandi Carlile.
I love this. Yeah, that's -- Yeah.
Please don't. Oh, my gosh! Thank you.
-I really want you on Team Kelly.
-Thank you so much. [ Cheers and applause ]
-I ran into Kelly Clarkson at a Brandi Carlile concert...
-We did. -...10 or 12 years ago,
and I was like, "What are you doing here?"
-It wasn't 'cause you were there.
[ Laughter ] I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
[ Laughter ]
-Your voice is very soft and angelic.
But also, it's funny, when you say North Carolina --
-It's Virginia. -I knew where you were from!
I'll listen. I'm the coach that listens.
Okay, calm down.
North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia --
there's a thing that happens up there,
and it's an Americana thing.
And you can hear it in your approach
because you do swing for the fence with that song.
Will you do your impersonation of me and give her my line?
-[ As Blake ] So, this is my last season of "The Voice,"
and I would be honored...
-[ Laughs ] That's spot-on. That was good.
-...if you were on my last-ever Team Blake.
-Oh, I like it when you do this right here.
That's good. I do that. I do that.
Yeah. North Carolina, Virginia, wherever it is,
it all ends here.
-[ Normal voice ] In California. [ Laughs ]
-Hey, Mary Kate. -Hi.
-I didn't turn just 'cause I figured
that you would fare very well with either Blake or Kelly.
Awesome song choice. Strong voice.
But now comes the hard part.
Who do you choose as your coach for "The Voice"?
-Mary Kate, come on! [ Audience shouting ]
♪♪
Let's do this, Mary Kate! Come on!
-This is so impossible.
♪♪
-Come on, Mary Kate.