The Masked Singer reveals its season 9 winner
Tonight The Macaw faced off against Medusa in The Masked Singer finale, with the latter welcoming the audience to the Black Parade
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It was finale time tonight for the only reality competition we know of where they uncrown you in victory, rather than the more expected opposite: Fox’s The Masked Singer. After 14 weeks of competition—also, roughly, the gestation period for the noble and speedy cheetah, in case you were curious—the show’s ninth season has come to a close, naming a winner, and revealing the identities of all participants in this grim little masquerade.
Last week’s semi-final winnowed the field down to just two, after it was revealed—shockingly—that the acapella-singing, heavily harmonizing five-person “California Roll” group was actually Pentatonix all along. Tonight’s final, then, saw The Macaw face off against The Medusa, with the gorgon triumphing over the endangered bird in the end with a breathy rendition of My Chemical Romance’s “Welcome To The Black Parade,” and with The Macaw forced to reveal themselves as singer David Archuleta.
And while we, personally, think it would be way more interesting if the prize for winning The Masked Singer was never, ever having to reveal that you were on The Masked Singer, the producers continue to refuse our calls. And so it was time to reveal Medusa, as well: Singer Bishop Briggs, who will now get to add to her various accolades the fact that she kicked the shit out of a 97-year-old Dick Van Dyke in a celebrity singing competition.
(Also, we don’t necessarily want to harp on this point, but isn’t it a little disappointing when someone does really well on this show and then, woo, they turn out to be a professional singer? If we were George Wendt, busting out Huey Lewis songs in a giant Moose costume, we might ask for some handicapping in that regard.)
Nevertheless: Briggs is the victor, and was gracious in victory, expressing her love for Archuleta and for the competition as a whole. And Ken Jeong was also there, because that’s how this show works.
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Who the hell is Bishop Briggs?
https://www.avclub.com/1850151283Called the reveal nearly 3 months ago. Glad she won, but was worried by her choice of that Sia song.
Bishop Briggs? I was hoping for the Senator:
I was hoping for Joe Bob Briggs
you couldve told me that was amy lee and i wouldve said ok. but she doesnt sound nearly as good as amy lee.
Singer Bishop BriggsThis seems really dumb to me to include professional singers in the mix. In a singing competition of celebrities who else do you think is going to win? Every single winner has been a singer in some part of their career, and yet the biggest surprises/entertainment of the show are the non-professional singers that sang incredibly well… and yet they don’t get to have the glory of winning in what seems like it’s supposed to be an “amateur” singing competition.It’d be like making a Masked Mechanic competition with a bunch of celebrities vs celebrity mechanics from reality tv car shows.
I think this is maybe putting too much weight in the “competition” aspect of the show instead of just recognizing it as entertainment. It’s not like there are any actual stakes involved in this beyond bragging rights. Celebs come on this show to have fun, and hopefully reach an audience that probably wouldn’t have cared who they were otherwise.
There’s never been any preconception going into this that these celebrities are amateurs or non-singers. The show’s pitch has always been about trying to figure out who the celebrities are, and having singing being the device that propels that concept forward. Seeing Dick Van Dyke unmasked was a delight, but I don’t feel cheated that he didn’t advance further.
“Professional singers” is the part of this show that seems dumb to you?That’s not even top 5.
Pentaholics have been losing their minds because they got voted out last round. And if the criteria were just the singing, then I would agree – they were easily the best singers left But upon reflection, I think they were eliminated because it was very obvious that they were Pentatonix, and there needs to be some mystery with the reveals.
And did the panel go “ape shit mind blown” when a professional singer won a singing contest?