We’ve been watching them turn their chairs around for three years now as coaches on The Voice and now for the fourth season, the show is saying good-bye to Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green. But only temporarily, and in the meanwhile, there are some other pretty big voices filling those chairs.

The voices, and new coaching style, will be those of Usher and Shakira, who will join current coaches Adam Levine and Blake Shelton while Christina and Cee Lo venture off into different projects.

“We’re artists first,” said Christina recently when talking about leaving the show to promote her current album Lotus. “In order to remain great coaches and stay relevant, we have to go out and we have to still tour, see our fans one-on-one. I have to feel creatively fulfilled in order for me to do my job as a coach and be on that show.”

And be on that show she will again. The leave for both Christina and Cee Lo, who will be performing at Planet Hollywood, is just for a season. In the meantime, what does Christina think of Usher stepping in?

“I have all the faith in the world that he will do a great job,” she says.

But she also has some words of advice for both of her successors. “Get ready, get ready for a wild ride!”

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