Before the World Series got started, Nicole Scherzinger sang the Star-Spangled Banner. Or should I say shee sannng Tthhheeee Ssssttttttaaaaarrrrr-SSSpppppannngggggllllleeeedddddd Bbaaannneerrrrrrrrrrr.
Meaning she over-enunciated every word towards the end of the National Anthem. While she sounded great, people just wanted the game to get started already. The fans were taking a knee. Not to protest anything, they were doing it because their feet were hurting from standing so long.
Do you like what she did with the song or were you like get it over with already?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-bDsx04jdE
Tonight at 9p, The Masked Singer will grace the airwaves on Fox. It is the strangest singing competition you have ever seen. Yet it is actually really enjoyable.
It is not full of people vying for a record contract. It is not celebrities singing as other singers. It is not celebrities trying to pretend they can sing when they can’t. It is twelve celebrities in full-body costumes and we have to guess who they are. They are Grammy winners, Emmy winners and pro-athletes. That is all we know about them.
Each week they will compete and we get a new clue to who they are under all of that fabric that covers their bodies from head to toe. They will perform, in groups of 2, a song in front of a live audience and panelists, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke, and host Nick Cannon. After they are done, the panelists will ask them some questions to see if maybe they can guess what is their identity.
After each group of 2 performs, the audience and the panelists decide who they want to keep around. At the end of the night, the bottom person of each group will face another vote and the lowest scoring person goes home. This will keep on going until there is one.
Fox is so secretive about who is on the show, that they even blurred and bleeped out the losing contestants face and name on the two screener episodes they sent out. Thus, I don’t even know who they are. I think the person eliminated next week might be Tracy Morgan, but who knows, it can be anyone.
Although, wait until you hear the A-list celebrities they think are under the suits. They actually believe that Barack Obama might be one of the singers. Seriously, that is what he is going to do with his spare time? I think I am more on point when I tell you I think that La Toya Jackson is one of the competitors. That makes more sense, right?
Like I said, this is a show unlike any other. It so out there, that is truly enjoyable. It is like what did I smoke and can I have more of it. Who doesn’t need more of that these days?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oode4PFfhG4&feature=youtu.be
We have seen singing competitions where the judges did not know what the singer looked like until they turned their chairs around. There have been other ones with celebrity competitors. And now Fox is combining both of those elements for their show The Masked Singer that debuts in January. Take that American, what is it called again?
Anyways each week, several celebrities will skip hair and makeup and wear a costume from head to head, hiding their true identity host Nick Cannon, the audience and the judges. The judges, Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke, will have to try to guess who they are. Then at the end of the episode, one singer will go home and we will find out who that masked singer is.
Who are these masked singers? According to Fox, “Between all of the celebrity competitors on the show, they’ve amassed 65 Grammy nominations, 16 multi-Platinum albums, 16 Emmy nominations, nine Broadway shows, four stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and four Super Bowl titles.”
Not bad. Too bad we have to wait 5 months to see it. Can’t they switch it up for another show because I want to watch it now!
Nicole Scherzinger got to try a Pilates reformer for the first time and she is natural. She did an upside down split on it and it showed off every muscle in a body. It does not look like she has any body fat on her. Which makes me want to try one. But if I got into that position, I would have to call 9-1-1 to get me out of it,
We know that Nicole Scherzinger can sing, but did you know that The Pussycat Doll can also do impressions of other singers too. Yesterday, when she was on The Real and the hosts wanted to see her voice box do its magic! Magical is the best way to describe it!
First, she sang Jack & Jill as Shakira and I went up that hill with her. You Outta Know the ABCs as Alanis Morissette because it deserves a 10. Finally, she proved why she is a star as she sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as Britney Spears.
You know what, someone needs to give her a residency where not only does she sing her own songs, she also sings the songs of other as those singers. Don’t cha think it would be a hoot?
