![]() So if you want to be accurate and sound good and sound like the song, you’re going to have the vocal effects. I mean, there’s certain songs, especially nowadays, every song has auto tune it. So the choices that a lot of the acts get to make with their songs kind of lend themselves to it. “You gave a good example about the song ‘I Gotta Feeling.’ If you listen to the original version, the way it was produced, it has a lot of auto tune and a lot of effects in it. That’s when Nick Cannon stepped in and basically said, yes, the performances are enhanced: Plestis was asked a second time if any vocal effects were used, and he avoided the question by mentioning background singers. But, as Craig was saying, they all sung live and they had one shot at it.” We had a lot of audio testing that we did with the masks beforehand. If there was a big mistake that happened, you’re going to hear it on the stage, you know, in the TV show itself.”Įxecutive producer Izzie Pick Ibarra said that putting mics in the masks was a challenge: “Some of the masks were very echoey, so we would have to put foam inside so the sound didn’t sound so echoey. And what you hear, a lot of it is what they got. So it really was all about singing live on the stage. It was really difficult designing the masks and getting that great audio level. So it really was a monumental feat for everyone to do this and with the masks. “The great thing about the show: everyone had to sing live, and they only had one take each. When asked if there were any vocal effects or auto-tune applied to the performances, executive producer Craig Plestis said, Yes, according to the producers-though it’s enhanced. ![]() “Everyone above us and very senior members of the FOX organization didn’t want to know,” Wade said, “because they were terrified that they would give it away.” Only three executives know the singers’ identity: the alternative entertainment team of Wade, Corie Henson, and Claire O’Donohoe. Did people at Fox know who the singers were?įox reality TV executive Rob Wade said that “literally a very small number of us knew, and it was incredibly difficult and still is actually incredibly difficult to keep secret because there’s obviously a few people to still be revealed.” If a singer had an entourage-friends, family, staff members-those people were also covered up, so that no one could recognize them. And there was really little interaction, only on the show day, when I would maybe see the Bee from far away, but I did not ever come close.” It was in the summer, and I had to wear this giant hoodie, you know, with the visor, and we would go right into my little honey wagon area, and I would stay there. The minute I got close to the studio, I was covered. When I arrived, they didn’t know what I was going to. “The car that would pick me up, they did not know my name. That secrecy was maintained through an elaborate process, Ricki explained: I’d love to get in touch with Margaret Cho. But, no, I have not been in touch with anybody. I’m such an open book my entire career that for me to have to be, like, private and secret and in disguise, it was a fun task for me. They were diligent about making sure we had the hoods and the visors and the whole thing.Īnd, again, I’m so open. We were sequestered for the most part, and whenever we were in the same vicinity, we were completely covered. “I haven’t had any contact with anyone, and I did not know who anybody else was. Ricki Lake, who was unmasked as Raven this week, said: ![]() Did the masked singers know who the others were? Thanks to Fox’s willingness to put its producers, judges, and the most recently unmasked singer (who’s identified in this piece) on stage for a press conference, we now have a lot of answers. Many of the show’s choices have frustrated me, but it’s so easy to get swept into the moment, and the unmasking-whether it’s exactly the person you thought it would be, or someone completely different-is a thrill.īut I do have questions, and so did the room of critics, and so do many of you. In my coverage of the show, I perhaps have not mentioned enough how fun The Masked Singer can be. Even in that room-a ballroom of critics who’ve seen all the shows and heard all the hopes/dreams/lies about the shows-the reveal elicited some visible reactions. Fox showed the episode a few hours early so critics could interview the unmasked singer. I watched Wednesday’s episode of The Masked Singer with perhaps the most critical audience possible: the Television Critics Association.
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