Queen Latifah is learning rather quickly how difficult it is to pick a winner of The Voice’s battle rounds.
In Us’ exclusive sneak peek of the Monday, October 12, episode of NBC’s singing competition series, contestants Alt Bloom and Morgan Lett quickly wow the coaches when they perform a special rendition of Lauryn Hill’s “Ex-Factor.”
“You all just crushed Lauryn Hill on national television!” Kelly Clarkson shares in the preview. “I’m going to be honest. I was worried for you. People should generally not cover Lauryn Hill. That was so good.”
Soon after the performance, Queen, 56, prepares to make “the toughest decision of my life.”
“You’re both winners to me,” she says. “You’re both in my top. Wow, this is wild.”
Before a decision is made, Queen’s fellow coaches offer some encouragement and feedback about the soulful rendition.
“It’s going to be extremely difficult to top how fun that was for everybody. … I don’t know how you pick one of these,” Riley Green says. “Maybe Morgan? You had so much energy the whole performance.”
Meanwhile, Kelly, 44, praised Alt, 36, and compared his vocal range to fellow coach and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine.
“Alt, you were the surprise for me,” she shares. “I’m leaning a little towards you because that was such a tall order.”
Adam, 47, replies, “Alt, you stuck out because of your range. Yo, I got range, but you got more, almost. I was like, ‘Damn.’ It’s going to boil down to taste and what Queen wants to go with. You both are amazing.”
With the blind auditions now in the rearview mirror, The Voice season 30 is heading to the battles as artists from the same team perform together. Only one singer, however, per battle will move on to the next round of competition.
Patti LaBelle will serve as an advisor for Team Queen while Carly Pearce helps on Team Riley. Alex Warren will share his wisdom for Team Adam as Ariana DeBose helps out Team Kelly.
“I’m emotional over here because you were so good,” Queen tells her two team members before host Carson Daly asks her to reveal the winner. “Watching you all sing together has been so beautiful because this arrangement of this song? Nobody has ever done this arrangement.”
Find out who she picks when The Voice airs on NBC Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET. Stream episodes the next day on Peacock.
