Competing on The Voice is notoriously dehumanizing and exploitative experience. A copy of a contract leaked last year that revealed the show tells its contestants they must agree to be portrayed in ways that are “disparaging, defamatory, embarrassing (and) may expose [them] to public ridicule, humiliation or condemnation.”
They also have to agree to allow producers to portray them in a “false light.”
Are some people really so desperate to be “discovered” that they’d sign a contract that demands that of them? Really? (Looks around, realizes the answer is definitely “yes.”)
(Quote above from here.)