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Xboy971 wrote: RedWhaley14 wrote:

Joseph Allen - That song was pretty damn good. The lyrics flowed into each other nicely, and the rhymes didn't feel to forced like some other songwriters' do. His voice is also pretty pleasing to the ear. However, I feel as if a Golden Buzzer wasn't really appropriate here. The Golden Buzzer is for the best of the best, and though he was the obvious choice for the Golden Buzzer of the episode, he doesn't really fit the Golden Buzzer quota in my opinion. Still, he's likable, and he'll probably win America over for that.

No act really stood out too much this episode to me. My personal favorite was actually Jonathan Burns, which says something.

'''Also Joseph Allen is better than Grace VanderWaal in almost every way lol. Never was a real fan of hers.''' There's no rule for the Singer's Buzzer to be only for the best of the best. The judges can use it for any act they want and Joseph Allen might of not been the best but he is still a good choice. The thing is, the Golden Buzzer is basically used to give someone a stamp of excellence nowadays. There certainly isn't a rule about it, but there's kind of an unspoken rule about Golden Buzzers being used for the best of the best, since Golden Buzzers are held in the highest regard. Most people believe (myself included) that the Golden Buzzers for the Auditions are used for what the judges think are the "Best of the Best". Giving a Golden Buzzer in the Auditions means that an act is apparently so good that you don't need to see it in Judge Cuts to know it'll make it to Quarterfinals, which also gives an act more time to prepare, so it's safe to assume that an act must be of a higher quality than most of the other acts in the episode in order to get a Golden Buzzer. Joseph was definitely the only Golden Buzzer choice in the episode, so him being given the Golden Buzzer made sense, and even if it didn't, it's outside of our control, but personally I don't see him among the best of the best (Well, not yet anyways. He has some time to grow on me some more). Not really challenging the fact that Joseph wasn't a good choice btw.