Week after week, the Masked Singer judges praise the celebrity contestants for baring their hearts and souls out on the stage while performing under giant masks that prevent any of their facial emotions from seeing the light of day. In fact, just last week, judge Jenny McCarthy wept while listening to Piglet (who is most definitely Nick Lachey) perform Lukas Graham’s “7 Years,” a song she claims to have never heard before despite it playing on loop at every radio station, shopping center, and yoga class for the past six years.
[Details discussing the April 14 episode of The Masked Singer discussed below.]
On tonight’s episode of the Fox reality singing competition, season five’s first “Wild Card” contestant, Orca, shared a story about his father before performing Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.” “Last time I had to really pull out all the stops as the first ever Wild Card, it was a lot of pressure,” Orca said during his clue package of singing Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” “But I channeled my hero, my father, and the nerves washed away. I always looked up my dad, and when I told him I was going to be a dad too, it brought him so much joy. Even though his health was deteriorating, he became laser focused on the babies’ baptism. And he hung on just long enough to see the ceremony. Days later he passed. I felt rudderless in an ocean of tears. But I’ll never forget his last words. He said he was proud of me for being a dad above all else. And it brings so much joy to know his spirit will now live on for generations.”
After that annecdote and the “Every Rose” performance, judge Nicole Scherziner was in tears, and fellow panelist Robin Thicke was moved to share his own dad story. “You know, I lost my father a few years ago. He was my hero, my idol. And so I totally connected with your story. And I feel what you’re trying to say with that song. [It was a] really, really heartfelt and a beautiful, beautiful performance,” Thicke said, bringing McCarthy to tears. Not to be left out, Orca began crying (or at least we assume, since we couldn’t see his face): “Yeah, you know, Robin, I just really appreciate your your words…. To choose this song in celebration of my dad…. Now I’m a dad of 10-year-old twins and…. The last thing I ever thought…I’d be crying in a giant orca costume. That was for my Pops, man.”
“I think we all got that tingly feeling inside from that performance,” Nick Cannon, finally back after his COVID-19 diagnosis, told Orca before the judges made guesses of his identity ranging from Fred Durst to Jeremy Renner to Billie Joe Armstrong.
But that “tingly feeling” was apparently not a good one, and the judges and “America”—which we’ve now been told by sources is actually a small group of fans watching the performances via Zoom—voted Orca out over the Russian Dolls; Seashell; Robopine; and the new Wild Card, Yeti. (Or, a conspiracy theorist would ponder that Orca was sent home because he, overcome with emotion, unintentionally gave away that extra clue about having 10-year-old twins.)
Before revealing Orca’s identity, Cannon reminded the judges of their First Impression guesses and asked them for one final guess. Here are those guesses:
Jenny McCarthy: Dave Grohl / Kelly Slater
Nicole Scherzinger: Dave Grohl / Dave Grohl
Robin Thicke: Billie Joe Armstrong / Billie Joe Armstrong
Ken Jeong: Jon Bon Jovi / Billie Joe Armstrong
Ultimately, they were all wrong and Orca was revealed to be Mark McGrath, who was also shocked he was compared to those rock legends.
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I mean, I’m her age and I’ve never even HEARD of the song or artist. And I kind of keep up on pop (well, Euro dance pop mostly). She’s probably like my wife and does the streaming thing, which doesn’t really broaden your horizons music wise.
Lukas Graham’s “7 Years,” a song she claims to have never heard before
despite it playing on loop at every radio station, shopping center, and
yoga class for the past six years.
I don’t know it either, but I don’t listen to radio stations, go to shopping centers or go to yoga classes, so it’s not that surprising. What is shocking is that people listen to music during yoga classes. When did that become a thing?
When white women started getting into yoga.
Accurate
I’m not sure what they meant by that line. The song was hugely popular on SoCal radio for like, three months… 6 years ago. I haven’t heard it since.
Crying seems like a perfectly reasonable response to the realization that your life has brought you to the point of competing on (or indeed, watching) the Masked Singer.
Mark McGrath has always been one of those people who’s happily been upfront about being willing to sell out in order to achieve fame and money.
His face looks like a Michael Myers mask stuffed with dry leaves and cocaine.
Sugar Ray/McGrath have long been a popular punching bag, but I appreciate that McGrath seems to have (or has developed over time) a sense of humor. He was willing to play himself on the Access Hollywood/Entertainment Tonight weirdo [adult swim] parody Hot Package, and then after “Mark McGrath” was killed during an in-show hostage situation he continued to play a glitch-y Mark McGrath hologram. That’s enough for me to forgive the endless radio play of “Every Morning” when I was younger.
Anybody who thinks this is going to revive their career only needs to think back to season one when Motown legend Gladys Knight dressed up in a stupid bee costume and didn’t even win.
Ugh.
Wait, that was her in the Blind Melons?!
Or how T-Pain won singing with his real voice only to release more vocoder crap because that’s what he’s known for.
I have never heard of Lucas Graham or the song “7 Years”Some of us are over 29 years old.
Had nothing better to do in 2020 than widen my musical horizons a bit….Went from a playlist of maybe two dozen songs I liked growing up to making MP3 player shuffle mode cry. So I googled “7 years”…….to see if it is you know, as wide spread as you say.Lukas Graham’s “7 Years” is not on my playlist……And after listening to it, I really don’t think it ever will be.Sort of like Masked Singer in the same way I like the “Got Talent” shows. A lot of misses but every now and then someone hits it out of the park. Really hitting it out of the park however means more than just doing a Karaoke run at it. An artist I like Seal did some covers of old Sinatra era tracks…really gorgeous stuff.
Good on you for broadening your horizons. I have been lately making playlists for my niece and nephew, both 12, because they said they never heard of Bob Dylan. There is no Dylan on any of the playlists (I am a Dylan fan, it should be noted) because I wanted to keep the music grounded in what they may be used to. So far my niece likes Cocteau Twins and my nephew likes Robyn.
Yeah……honestly youtube, amazon, and half price books. laughterTook my “going to the movies budget” and used it to buy used cd’s of anything and everything that tickled my fancy off youtube 2020.
Dylan is good, I’m currently running Sinatra, Dean Martin, Johnny Cash, and oddly the Fallout OST’s which are just a terrific pop sampler.
Weirdest thing….a lot of super bands my brother loves sound better now. I honestly think it might have something to do with keeping the volume below his childhood physically painful headbanger levels. Still trying to wrap my head around Pink Floyd actually sounding good.
I really started to expand my horizons around 2014/2015. I use Spotify, and you may use something different, but I’ve found that it’s been fairly easy to find new music. I’ll look up an artist I know, listen to some of the other artist recommendations and go from there. They also have some awesome premade lists like Discover Weekly made for you that you can grab songs from.I now make a new dedicated playlist for my main genres… electronic, rap, alternative, and reggae each year, consisting of 100-300 songs in each playlist. It’s a cool way to catalog what I was listening to during a certain period.
(cough) Billie Joe Armstrong (cough)
These judges are so dumb. The banter makes me want to stick a fork in my balls. I’m sure Dave Grohl and Billie Joe Armstrong are so happy to be compared to Fred Durst and Mark McGrath.
“When asked how he it felt to be compared to Limp Bizkit Grohl, reputed to be the chillest man on earth, killed our interviewer with his bare hands and vanished howling into the night.”
Hilarious
They were not hired for their “smarts”.
I have never watched but do these “judges” seriously believe that Grohl, Armstrong or Bon Jovi would actually appear on this??
For the few episodes I’ve watched, the singer lists are pretty eclectic, ranging from “who?” to “geez, I would’ve figured that they were too big to be on this show.” So they do a pretty good job mixing up the contestants, I assume that by mixing up the participants, you cover a bunch of different age groups.Like, I have no idea who Billie Jo Armstrong is, but over time they have a bunch of artists on that peaked during “my era” of music when Bon Jovi or Dave Grohl peaked so I wouldn’t be surprised if they did showed up.
If your era of music was when Dave Grohl peaked (since that’s also my era of music), you definitely know Billie Jo Armstrong… or, at least his band. I wish there was some sort of online search tool that we could use to find this information easily…
Oh, okay. Green Day. Sure. I know Green Day, I guess I didn’t follow them enough to know who the band members are.
Yeah, no one that famous was ever on here. I looked at the list. The only real singer on that could be seen as currently (somewhat) famous is Jackie Evanko, and she is more known for opera and being a fantastic kid singer. Past singers are all way on the “reality circuit” or waaaaaayy past their primes, like Donny Osmond, Bret Michaels and Paul Anka (!). Bon Jovi still sells out stadiums and Green Day are first tier famous. That is not even counting the Paul Schaeffers and Kermit the frogs. They would have to kidnap them to get them to appear on this
Both Gladys Knight and Patti Labelle have been on this show.
Both maybe beloved, but waayyy past their primes. Yeah, Poison was really famous back in the day too, but are not selling out stadiums anymore and have not had a hit in thirty years. My argument is not that no famous people are on it, but no A list people are and it was funny they were picking huge stars
I responded to “no one famous has ever been on this show.” I agree with your point.
Right? I’ve never seen this show – but I’m irrationally angry right now that they would guess Dave Grohl. I’m not really a big Foo Fighters fan even – it just makes me mad that they would pretend they get real celebrities.
Now I’m just picturing every episode the judges being like: “oh without a that, that’s Sir Paul McCartney” “Nope, that’s definitely Lebron James.” Y’all are nuts – that’s definitely my boy Robert Downey Junior.” *Masked singer takes off hood* – “oh it’s Dr. Drew.”
Also I looked up the list of past singers – and they had Sarah Palin on – so double fuck them.
lol yeah I know right
Do you seriously believe that Jon Bon Jovi wouldn’t?
Because there’s no crying in masked singing! Everyone knows that.
Correction – “baring” not “bearing” their hearts and souls. Better copy editors required.
This piece opens with a number of errors. Baring not bearing, nobody knows the song 7 Years or the name Lucas Whoever, and the Poison song is not pluralized.
Is she still an anti-vaxxer? If so, I definitely approve of her being in tears.
Seriously, I can’t believe anyone’s giving her a platform at all, seeing as how her dumbfuckery contributed indirectly to (for example) the girl who was my lab partner in 9th grade science class believing, sincerely, that a Facebook post of a screenshot of a Tweeted link to an OAN article is definitive proof that DARPA has unveiled the intended purpose of the microchips that are being injected with every COVID vaccine dose (it’s a diagnostic nanobot, for the record, which is actually pretty dope, if you ask me.)
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playing on loop at every radio station, shopping center, and yoga class for the past six years.I can see Jenny McCarthy not stepping foot in any of those places in the past six years.
Billie Joe ArmstrongHave these people never listened to Green Day? That sounds nothing like BJA.
The most hilarious thing about this whole article was the end when these “judges” picked ridiculously A list stars. The judges are D List, everything about this is cheesy. Why not pick Paul McCartney, Bono and Bob Dylan next time? I am sure they all are screaming to dress in an Orca suit and sing old poison songs! Testament to denial. It is like a couple of bums having a dinner and wishing the Queen of England will come
I fervently hate 99.99% of this show, but I’d be slightly curious about a fashion design competition show where they showed us how the costumes get made. They’re very silly, but they’re also the only redeemable thing in this whole concept.
Well, the fact that Jenny Mccarthy cried after hearing the song proves that she’s never heard of it before. Because if she had heard other renditions of the song before, she would have built up an resistance to its effects.