IYC: Masked Singer S5 over

[Bob Jersey]

Nope, I won't... https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/the-masked-singer-finale-season-5-recap-piglet-black-swan-chameleon-1234982718/ (link)

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[Kevin M.]

I admit I don’t understand the appeal of this show, but I thought one of the gimmicks was they cast people not known for singing? And yet the final three were all professional singers? 

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 6:10 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Nope, I won't... https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/the-masked-singer-finale-season-5-recap-piglet-black-swan-chameleon-1234982718/ (link)

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[David Bruggeman]

The final three of *every season* in the US version have been professional singers.  Some of them may have been better known for something else, but the show quickly moved away from anyone who really couldn't sing.

David

[Kevin M.]

So, why not just have a show where professional singers sing? 

I’m not trying to be a curmudgeon, but I don’t understand the added value in the costumes and the “suspense” of not knowing who is singing. It’s about as dramatic as a game of Three Card Monty. Why does the gimmick get ratings? And why would it continue getting ratings if, time and time again, the secret singers always turn out to be professional singers? I thought the hook was learning that it was someone like Ken Jeong? I guess I just don’t understand.

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[David Bruggeman]

I know way too much about this nonsense....I actually watched the first four seasons for reasons that might be best explained by being too tired to watch stuff that required brain activity.

I think that the hook was just not knowing who was singing, rather than not knowing if it was a professional or amateur behind the mask.

For better or for worse, the U.S. has 1) lots of people making a living singing and 2) a lot of people who had a flash in the pan with respect to fame, but a years-long career singing that did not gather widespread attention, leading to much nostalgia value (though the nostalgia is often for the last decade).

It looks like the South Korean version of the show, which spawned all this stuff, had mostly singers as contestants.  Most of the other international versions of the show have a lot of professional singers perform, though occasionally someone not known for their singing places in the top 3.

David