[Spoiler alert: This story contains the identity of the eliminated singer on Wednesday night’s (April 5) episode of The Masked Singer.]
The contestants on The Masked Singer paid tribute to the silver display screen on Wednesday’s “WB Film Night time”-themed episode. And one statuesque singer, Doll, stood tall above all of them. The facility singer who impressed the judges with stable covers of Duran Duran’s “Hungry Just like the Wolf” and Easy Minds’ “Don’t You (Overlook About Me)” final week, was again in a groove with a raspy, rocking tackle Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock.”
With Dandelion taking up Judy Garland’s “Over the Rainbow” and Mantis sliding by Bob Seger’s “Outdated Time Rock & Roll,” the competitors was fierce. The judges had been as soon as once more impressed by Doll’s chops, with Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg fairly positive it was punk icon Iggy Pop and Robin Thicke feeling good about KISS’ Gene Simmons given the singer’s peak and professional stage strikes.
Ken Jeong wasn’t even shut with a guess of Elvis star Austin Butler, however Nicole Scherzinger was at the least within the wheelhouse along with her guesses that it was both Weapons N’ Roses’ Slash or Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach.
When the pinnacle got here off, although, it was none aside from Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider, who tells Billboard that he was fairly positive he was going to win all of it. In a chat earlier than his elimination, Snider talks about his wild journey on the Doll aspect and why his least favourite physique half might have given him away.
As a man who spent years coated in garish girls’s make-up and fishnet gloves, why the Doll? Appears a bit on-the-nose, no?
After they introduced it to me, they had been very enthusiastic in regards to the costume. I believed it was nice, however yeah, a bit too on-the-nose. Isn’t {that a} Twisted Sister by definition? And you would inform as a result of lots of people on social media guessed precisely that it was me, and Las Vegas had me because the No. 1 selection. That they had me prime three for profitable. I’m not afraid of a pair of heels.
I don’t imply to right you, however as you instructed the judges: They had been pumps, not heels.
Proper! Pumps are far more tough!
The costume actually confirmed off your legs and, as a man who’s already over 6 ft tall, it made you appear like you had been 7 ft tall.
With that head and heels, I used to be! I used to be gigantic, and I believe my legs gave me away. Really, Nicole mentioned she acknowledged me due to these “bony kneecaps.” I imply, thanks for nothing, Nicole! That was an inexpensive shot, going for my weakest characteristic, my kneecaps. I used to put on these form of sneakers onstage for years, however the head piece was an actual recreation changer. Once I wore make-up onstage, I might at the least look down and see the place I used to be going. However within the masks, my imaginative and prescient was distorted and really restricted and it was a bit scary, really.
Your “Jailhouse Rock” was a bit raspier and extra bluesy than we’re used to from you. What had been you making an attempt to do with that one?
It was film evening, and I’ve sung “Jailhouse” many instances. Folks don’t comprehend it, however the quantity of instances it’s a must to sing these songs time and again — in rehearsal, technical checks — you’re burning your voice out, and fairly actually, it was raspier than I needed it to be. It was the sixth or seventh time I sang it. I don’t sing a lot professionally anymore. … It’s not what I do now, so my voice will not be in form to deal with that.
Nicely, your innate showmanship got here by. You had the group clapping and singing together with you.
I believed that I had the group! After they mentioned I used to be going house, I used to be like, what? My preliminary response was, “My spouse goes to Hawaii, now I can go along with her.” However I didn’t get to see the opposite performers. … I heard them and I wasn’t impressed. I don’t know who they had been, however wow, they will need to have actually introduced it! Even after I sang “We’re Not Gonna Take It” in protest,the group joined me. Possibly they only didn’t like my kneecaps.
You’re a rock star, you’ve been on Movie star Apprentice, Rising up Twisted and Movie star Spouse Swap. However is it secure to say that is the weirdest actuality present you’ve ever completed?
Yeah. I’ve completed an excessive amount of actuality TV. That they had a roast for me a number of years in the past and [Ozzy Osbourne guitarist] Zakk Wylde mentioned, “Dee, you’ve gotta cease. This isn’t a roast, it’s an intervention!” This was positively the toughest. It was sensory deprivation on each stage.
The guesses had been in every single place, from Gene Simmons to Iggy Pop, Austin Butler, Slash, Sebastian Bach and David Lee Roth. Had been you offended, impressed, upset?
I believed they had been circling round in that world of Gene and Sebastian and David Lee. They had been homing in on these huge canines on the market. If I used to be on yet another present, they might’ve gotten it.
You probably did Easy Minds and Duran Duran final week, which had been a bit out of your musical wheelhouse, however you actually nailed them. What had been you making an attempt to indicate with these performances?
I used to be making an attempt to remain away kind [wails] going into that vary and that model so individuals wouldn’t know my voice instantly. “Don’t You Overlook” is a responsible pleasure. As a metallic man, I might by no means say I actually like that music, and apparently they weren’t capable of get permission to make use of it prior till they tried to get it for me. I used to be honored they let me do it.
