may not have been crowned the newest champion of , but he’s leaving with some from the judges. “Just the confidence of them kind of encouraging me to do what I do as an artist. It’s tough in Nashville ’cause you watch people climb the charts and you’re like, ‘I want that to be me.
Should I be doing something that they’re doing?’” Blocker, 25, exclusively told at CMA Fest on Saturday, June 8. “And over and over they’re just like, ‘Hey, do what you do well. Do what makes you unique.
Even if it’s weird facial expressions by the end of it. But just lean into that and be you as an artist.’” He continued, “And so I’ve just taken that and kind of ran with it for the show.
Really believed it more than ever. So yeah, it’s been cool.” Blocker noted that he and judge are “close” now — and even called her Their bond, however, was “definitely not” what he was expecting when he left the room for the first time because he thought they didn’t get off “on the right foot.
” “Once we got to LA and the shows were live and she’d come up after a show and she’d kind of gimme a look, like, ‘What are you doing?’” he said. “And then at the end ..
. she came up to me and she was like, ‘What happens if you win this thing?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know. I have no idea.
I haven’t gotten that far yet.’” Blocker placed second runner-up during the of the reality singing competition in May. Speaking with , he noted that the love he�.
