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Kelly Clarkson & Riley Green Have a Double-Steal Showdown After Kayleigh Mathews & Lillie Kolich Smash ‘Girl Crush’ on ‘The Voice’

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Kayleigh Mathews and Lillie Kolich proved that there is definitely no such thing as too good a thing during Monday night’s (Oct.

12) latest Battle Round on The Voice .

Tucson country singer Mathews — who earned a four-chair turn in her blind audition during the early rounds of season 30 — and Albuquerque native Kolich went head-to-head on the episode with a stirring duet on Little Big Town ‘s 2015 Billboard Hot Country Songs chart No.

1 smash “Girl Crush,” and it left the show’s coaches in a bind.

The Team Queen members gave it their all from the top, with Mathews opening the battle with a clear, confident run through the song’s first few lines, and Kolich picking up the second half of the opening verse, trading her partner’s twang for pop polish that made coach Kelly Clarkson purse her lips and quietly exclaim “whooo!” They then kept trading lines, teaming up on the song’s “I got a girl crush” refrain, intently singing face-to-face, showcasing their vocal prowess without obviously trying to upstage one another in a tour de force that got coach Queen Latifah on her feet shouting “Come on!” They ended by crooning “I’ve got a heart rush/ It ain’t slowin’ down” in perfect harmony as they sang to each other, and the coaches, with almost no distance between them.

The performance ended with an excited full-force hug and both women jumping up and down excitedly as all four coaches gave them props.

“Well that was fun,” Riley Green said, wondering how they came up with choreography that initially had them “mean-muggin'” each other before “falling in love” as the song went on.

Kolich joked “we fought before this actually.” Riley gave props to Mathews for her “awesome” performance and “big voice,” while giving Kolich positive notes on the “unique stuff” she did with the low end of her voice, wishing Latifah luck in picking one over the other.

“It’s not going to be fun, Queen,” he teased.

“That’s the problem when you get every four-chair turn on your team, you’ve got really talented people going against each other.

So this is on you.

If you want everybody during the blinds, you have to deal with this now.” Clarkson said she’s heard many different versions of the song, dubbing the night’s duet her favorite to date.

“Kayleigh, you just have such a huge presence, but your range is incredible.

It was like a master-class, man,” Clarkson told them.

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