-Congratulations on your first season
as a judge on "The Voice."
Last time we saw you, you were just about to start.
-Yes. -And are you enjoying it?
-I am having too much fun.
-Too much fun. -Too much fun.
-That´s great. -It´s amazing.
-Do you have a strategy? Have you developed a strategy?
-[ Sighs ] Yes, I have.
But I don´t want to give it away,
´cause I know Adam and Blake both are watching.
-Yeah. [ Light laughter ]
You think like -- So, now, you think...
[ Laughter ]
...they´re so -- they´re so set on winning
that they´re following your every move.
They´re watching tape on you.
They´re saying, "If we can find out anything" -- Yeah.
-They might want to watch J-Hud, you know,
´cause everybody wants to win.
And then you cannot forget -- they´re -- they are the vets.
They´re the bookends of the show.
-Yeah.
-So they´re a bit ahead of the game.
And I´m playing catchup.
And when I do, oh, they better look out.
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
Oh, interesting.
-[ Chuckles ] -Interesting.
Do you -- Did -- Now, is someone like Blake --
He´s a very kind person. -He really is.
-He´s been here,
so I know he´s desperate to win, but, also, very kind.
Does he gave you any advice on the coaching side?
-Yeah, he told me once that I didn´t pitch hard enough.
He´s like, "You got to -- You got to fight, like, battle."
And I´m, like, one minute, I think I´m coach--
I think I´m pitching,
and I think I´m, like, battling it out.
And he´s like, "Jennifer, you´re not pitching hard enough.
You´ve got to go harder."
And I´m like, "I´m not doing enough?"
Because Miley -- she doesn´t stop.
-Yeah.
-Like, that girl is a firecracker, y´all.
-Yeah. -Like, she goes on and on.
And I´ll say my piece, I´ll say two cents, and I think I´m done.
And Blake is like, "Jennifer, keep pitching.
You´re not pitching hard enough."
And I´m like... And she´s still going.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
Well, that´s very -- I mean, that´s exhausting.
Trying to keep up with Miley must be exhausting.
-[ Chuckling ] It is. -She is --
-She can talk! -She is --
-I can talk, too, but she can really talk.
-She can really talk. She has boundless energy...
-Yes. Yes.
-...in my experiences with Miley.
You had met her years ago... -Uh-huh.
-...at Pharrell´s birthday party.
-[ Chuckles ] Yes.
-By the way, that is where I want all cool people to meet.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Like, that -- that´s the best place to meet anyone.
-It is, because Pharrell is cool.
-Yeah, he is the coolest. -Yeah, she was twerking, though.
-She was twerking. -She was twerking.
-And how -- when you saw her twerking, was your --
Did you think, "Oh, I should go twerk with her?"
Did you think --
-I tried it. -You did?
-But that is not for me. -It didn´t work out?
[ Laughter ] -It did not work out.
-Interesting.
-I will leave it to Miley. -Whoa.
-But she had it down. She was on the floor, everything.
-Gotcha. [ Laughter ]
How quickly -- -Sorry, Miley.
-How quickly into your twerking did you think,
"Oh, this is not for me"?
-I gave it up quite fast, because nothing moved.
-Okay.
-My knee. -Your knee moved?
-Y´all don´t want me to get up and try to twerk.
I don´t even know what that is.
But, no, it didn´t work out for me.
-I think, yeah, if your knee is the only thing moving,
you´re doing it wrong. -That was the only thing moving.
-And I know very -- I know very little about twerking.
[ Laughter ]
But I know enough to know that´s not great.
Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-I want to see you twerk. Okay.
-Oh, no, you don´t want to see me twerk.
If you see me twerk, I will have to get my ACL replacement.
[ Laughter ]
You did something on the show that I get --
I will be honest -- you -- you -- you threw your shoe.
This is a photo of you.
Someone was singing. They finished their song.
I believe it was "Try a Little Tenderness."
Was that the song? -Yes.
-Which is -- was incredibly well sung.
And then you threw your shoe, which -- I will be honest --
if I was onstage and a shoe came up...
[ Laughter ]
...I´d think that was an unsatisfied customer.
-No! -Okay, interesting.
-It is a compliment. -It is a compliment.
-Well, at J-Hud Productions, it´s a compliment.
-Gotcha. -Come on, now.
[ Cheers and applause ]
If you move me enough
that I remove my shoe to throw it at you,
you have done something just amazing.
-That´s fanta--
-Like, it´s equivalent to a standing ovation.
-Interesting. -Yeah.
-Has this been your --
Has anyone ever thrown a shoe at you?
-Oh, yes. -Okay.
-I did -- I had an audition for a tour with Barry Manilow,
like, I don´t know how many years ago that was.
And I sang a song.
And the people who I was auditioning in front of --
they literally threw everything at me off of the desk.
-Wow! [ Light laughter ]
-And I was just standing there like, "Oh, my God."
It was shoes. It was notebooks. It was pens and everything.
They was like, "Girl, you better sing!"
[ Laughter ] -That´s great.
-So when somebody´s singing for me...
-You get -- yeah. -...you might catch a shoe.
And if I could get this boot off right now...
-Yeah, well, that´s -- [ Laughter ]
Now, this is interesting,
because was noticing your boots as you came in.
It would seem -- Now, do you ever think before a night,
"Hey, I might see something I really like.
I should wear shoes that are easy to get off"?
[ Laughter and applause ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
I mean, I´ll say this.
If I -- If I -- the next time I go to see you live,
I´m just gonna wear Crocs,
´cause I want to get them -- get them off.
[ Laughter ] They´re soft.
If I should accidentally hit you in the head, you´ll be fine.
-Maybe I should carry one in my purse.
-[ Laughing ] Yeah, exactly. Well, that would be great.
A purse shoe -- that´s what you need.
[ Laughter ] -A purse shoe.
-And then people will say, "Did Jennifer like you?"
And they´ll say, "Well, she threw a shoe,
but it was in her purse." -"She threw a shoe."
Right, right. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ] -But I would bring one.
But, no, I don´t, because it´s --
it comes from, like -- music is so moving and powerful to me...
-Uh-huh.
-...that it literally dictates my every emotion.
And I don´t even know I threw my shoe at you.
-Oh, really?
-And if you´re close enough, you might get hit.
But it´s a compliment.
-Oh, so you´re like --
You, like, have a moment where you are out of body.
-I am out of body. -Yeah.
-Like the time when I threatened Blake and Adam on the show
and I told them, "Don´t you turn around."
-[ Laughs ] -Like, that --
It was like an out-of-body experience.
Like, "I´m so sorry. I didn´t mean to hit you.
I didn´t mean to threaten you. I didn´t mean to throw a shoe."
[ Laughter ]
But it´s just how the song moves me, music --
Y´all might understand -- the band.
-Yeah. Yeah. -Like, music moves me
in a unique, special way. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Well --
-But it´s all out of passion and love.
-And I can say, of the times that
I´ve been lucky enough to see you sing live,
there is no one who is as moving when they sing as you.
-Thank you.
-And so, it is just such a pleasure as always to see you.