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Jamison Puckett sings faithfully in Blinds on Season 26 of The Voice

Jamison Puckett sings faithfully in Blinds on Season 26 of The Voice

Every trainer on The voice has his own methods of getting artists on his side. Some simply use their own reputation as artists, others talk about their famous friends, others speak from the heart and try to establish a deeper connection with potential team members. Then there is the new coach Michael Bublé, who follows a completely different tactic and which came to a head in the fourth episode of the 26th season.

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In his first season as Agree When talking to singers, coach Bublé has developed an interesting tic that is actually quite simple: he lies. It's not really about important things, but Bublé has a tendency to make up stories about his life at blind auditions and upset everyone.

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So far this season, Bublé has mentioned that he was there Titanic; he claimed it was his anniversary when it wasn't; he claimed he had a toupee; and he dropped strange little lies so often that even host Carson Daly stepped in to ask him what was going on. It's a strange tendency, and it led one trainer to reveal an entirely new button during Memphis native Jamison Puckett's blind audition Tuesday night.

Meanwhile, watch Jamison Puckett's performance of Journey's “Faithfully.” The voice Season 26 Blind Auditions

Puckett, a 34-year-old singer who got his start in the church and is now married with his first child on the way, began his blind audition with a soulful, stripped-down cover of the Journey classic “Faithfully.” By the end of the song, he had earned two chair turns from Bublé and Reba McEntire. During the post-song interview, Gwen Stefani praised his potential and praised Bublé's willingness to take a risk on the singer.

“I didn’t push, but when you pushed, it made me so happy,” Stefani told Bublé. “I like the way you taste.”

When it was Bublé's turn to respond to Puckett's performance, he took a different approach.

“I'm not happy, I'm deeply unhappy because Reba turned around too and I'm so sick of it,” Bublé joked. “I really am.”

Bublé then began a strange story that turned out to be nothing more than reciting a version of the 1999 film's plot Fight clubwith Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.

“When I was a kid, I don’t know, 20, 21, I moved to LA to get my big break,” Bublé began. “I was in this underground club where we fought. You weren't allowed to talk about it, that was rule number one. And now, after this life and struggles…”

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Then McEntire pressed a button somewhere in her chair and interrupted Bublé with an excerpt from her 1990 hit single “You Lie.” The entire coaching group burst into laughter, and Bublé in particular laughed to the point of tears. We don't yet know how McEntire got her own button to target Bublé specifically, but chances are it will come up again because Bublé shows no signs of abandoning his tactics.

Meanwhile, the segment ended with a happy ending as Puckett named Bublé his trainer, adding another singer to Team Michael.

“There’s a big difference between a lie and a lie,” Bublé explained. “And besides, you know what? It's humor. I just throw everything out there and see what works. I’m having too much fun.”

McEntire's explanation for the new button? She tries to upset Bublé with a little tactic of her own.

“You can't trust anything he says, so I hit the 'You're lying' button,” she said.

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