The Voice's Daniel Passino was eliminated twice during his time on the show and claims he predicted his ouster both times, suggesting there was some type of conspiracy going on.
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Daniel was first sent packing when he was on Christina Aguilera's team and had to go up against Alisan Porter in the Knockout Round. Daniel sang an excellent rendition of "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" but still didn't seem to stand a chance against Alisan, whom the coaches have dubbed a frontrunner from the start and potential winner of Season 10.
"The first elimination -- and [Pharrell Williams], he alluded to it a few times on the show but he just never made it very obvious -- there were so many things that were going on behind the scenes that I'm really not allowed to talk about. So I just knew that was how it was going to happen, immediately, because they changed the pairing the night before [my Knockout]. I knew that was coming," Daniel explained.
Pharrell later asked Daniel to re-enter the competition as his "Comeback Artist" for Season 10. Daniel then survived multiple weeks of performance shows, but his vocal of "I Don't Want To Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith Monday night -- which was gently panned for being pitchy by Pharrell and the other coaches -- landed him in the bottom two with Christina's team member Nick Hagelin
Daniel's survival song was "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, and while it was fun and entertaining, America decided to instantly save Nick instead.
"[On Tuesday] night, I knew that [elimination] was coming as well just because of the comments that I received Monday night and just because of how my own coach didn't really -- not that he didn't stuck up for me -- but he didn't... And I think that was evident too on Tuesday with the results show... My brother described it as a 'eulogy,'" Daniel vented.
Daniel was just surprised his Aerosmith performance was criticized so heavily because he said The Voice is "all about positivity" and "never about controversy."
Also during his interview, Daniel told reporters he took his second elimination really hard.
"I've been beating myself up over being eliminated last night, but the truth of the matter is, I've been sick for the last couple of weeks. Well, the last week I was pretty sick, and I don't think I could go on much longer anyway," Daniel revealed.
In fact, Daniel was so bad off he had to lower the key of both "I Don't Want To Miss a Thing" and "Uptown Funk" for his live performances.
"Yesterday, I was spent. Today I'm spent. I wasn't really feeling well and there's nothing I could have done more. The [survival] song was awesome and we tried our best," Daniel noted.
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