{"id":2448791,"date":"2019-09-16T13:39:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=885437"},"modified":"2019-09-16T13:39:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:39:21","slug":"taylor-swift-returns-to-the-voice-as-a-mega-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/taylor-swift-returns-to-the-voice-as-a-mega-mentor\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Returns to \u2018The Voice\u2019 as a \u2018Mega Mentor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/TaylorSwift.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/taylor-swift\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a> will join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-voice\/\"><em>The Voice<\/em><\/a> this coming season as a \u201cMega Mentor,\u201d the show announced on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2eiikpnccp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> Monday. The singer will help mentor contestants on Season 17 of the NBC show alongside its current lineup of coaches, Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarkson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/john-legend\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-legend\" data-tag=\"john-legend\">John Legend<\/a> and Blake Shelton.<\/p>\n<p>Legend and Shelton helped make the announcement with a teaser video, in which the two coaches wonder who the Mega Mentor will be. \u201cI think the person\u2019s one of the most successful people in music,\u201d Legend says, prompting Shelton to quip, \u201cYeah, but I can\u2019t be because I\u2019m a coach.\u201d At that point, Swift walks out of a trailer and casually greets the two musicians, and only after she\u2019s walked away do Legend and Shelton piece the puzzle together.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2eiikpnccp\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-6.1477832512315\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Swift previously served as a Mega Mentor on <em>The Voice<\/em> in 2014, during its seventh season. As it was back then, her role on Season 17 will be to prepare artists for Knockout Rounds, which begin airing in late October. The show itself is set to return September 23rd. Swift last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-brendon-urie-me-the-voice-838604\/\">appeared on <em>The Voice<\/em> in May<\/a> to perform her single \u201cME!\u201d with Panic! at the Disco\u2019s Brendon Urie during the show\u2019s Season 16 finale.<\/p>\n<p>Swift released her most recent album,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/taylor-swift-lover-875442\/\"><em>Lover<\/em><\/a>, at the end of August. The album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charts-taylor-swift-lover-albums-879502\/\">debuted atop<\/a> the <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> Top 200 Albums chart, topping out close to a million with 991,800 album units for the week of August 23rd to August 29th.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-the-voice-mega-mentor-2019-885437\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift will join The Voice this coming season as a \u201cMega Mentor,\u201d the show announced on Instagram Monday. The singer will help mentor contestants on Season 17 of the NBC show alongside its current lineup of coaches, Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarkson, John Legend and Blake Shelton. Legend and Shelton helped make the announcement with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 21:35:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}