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TBone - The Masked Singer

#1 Post by Ritterskoop » Sun Apr 18, 2021 10:38 am

TBone, I am sure this is not a show you do not watch (the guiltiest of guilty pleasures), but I vote you go back and see the three performances by The Russian Dolls. You'll love them, I promise.
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Re: TBone - The Masked Singer

#2 Post by T_Bone0806 » Mon Apr 19, 2021 9:26 am

Ritterskoop wrote:
Sun Apr 18, 2021 10:38 am
TBone, I am sure this is not a show you do not watch (the guiltiest of guilty pleasures), but I vote you go back and see the three performances by The Russian Dolls. You'll love them, I promise.
OK, for you I will see about checking it out.
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Re: TBone - The Masked Singer

#3 Post by Vandal » Mon Apr 19, 2021 9:32 am

Here I am thinking the subject title needed a spoiler.

To be clear, TBone isn't the Masked Singer, right?

I would watch that!
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Re: TBone - The Masked Singer

#4 Post by T_Bone0806 » Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:30 am

Vandal wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 9:32 am
Here I am thinking the subject title needed a spoiler.

To be clear, TBone isn't the Masked Singer, right?

I would watch that!
If it were me, it would be more like, The Mute-Buttoned Singer.
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Re: TBone - The Masked Singer

#5 Post by Ritterskoop » Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:18 am

This show has been my favorite guilty pleasure for the past few years. Past winners are mostly respected singers (see below) but you have to wade through some dreck to get there. I love the notion of evaluating talent based solely on the talent and not the looks of the person. Donny Osmond and Gladys Knight were some of my favorite non-winners.

I pointed out The Russian Dolls to T-Bone because we have a shared appreciation for this act.
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Re: TBone - The Masked Singer

#6 Post by T_Bone0806 » Tue Apr 20, 2021 12:49 pm

Ritterskoop wrote:
Sun Apr 18, 2021 10:38 am
TBone, I am sure this is not a show you do not watch (the guiltiest of guilty pleasures), but I vote you go back and see the three performances by The Russian Dolls. You'll love them, I promise.
yeah seems pretty clear cut to me. How quickly did you know? I can be pretty dense sometimes but definitely didn't take me long here.
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Re: TBone - The Masked Singer

#7 Post by Ritterskoop » Thu Apr 22, 2021 7:57 am

Anyone who has heard this group spotted them immediately. Last night, one of the "judges" finally said their name out loud. Of the panel, this one (Nichole Scherzinger) and Robin Thicke seem to me to have the most relevant comments, because they are musicians. The other two are there for comedy (Ken Jeung) and pop culture narrative (what's-her-name who is, to be fair, occasionally funny).

The Russian Dolls should win, in my opinion, but there is only one female singer left in the top six after last night, and she could win - Black Swan, who they all seem to think is Jojo, who I don't know who that is. This show works best when the narrative is about redemption/comebacks, or a previously unknown talent.
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Re: TBone - The Masked Singer

#8 Post by Ritterskoop » Thu Apr 22, 2021 7:59 am

The original group
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had three members, and this one on stage started with one and now is up to four, which is confusing the panel. But there is indeed a fourth
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brother, or one of their kids could be singing with them, or it could be someone who is not singing.
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#9 Post by Vandal » Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:21 am

These Hansons would definitely confuse the panel:
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Re: TBone - The Masked Singer

#10 Post by T_Bone0806 » Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:43 am

Ritterskoop wrote:
Thu Apr 22, 2021 7:57 am
Anyone who has heard this group spotted them immediately. Last night, one of the "judges" finally said their name out loud. Of the panel, this one (Nichole Scherzinger) and Robin Thicke seem to me to have the most relevant comments, because they are musicians. The other two are there for comedy (Ken Jeung) and pop culture narrative (what's-her-name who is, to be fair, occasionally funny).

The Russian Dolls should win, in my opinion, but there is only one female singer left in the top six after last night, and she could win - Black Swan, who they all seem to think is Jojo, who I don't know who that is. This show works best when the narrative is about redemption/comebacks, or a previously unknown talent.
I don't watch this show, but from what I saw in watching these clips, it seems like these "judges" deliberately come up with the most outlandish guesses they can imagine. Seriously, some of their guesses were completely asinine.
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Re: TBone - The Masked Singer

#11 Post by Ritterskoop » Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:27 pm

They have given up calling them judges, and now use words like "panel" and "detectives".
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Re: TBone - The Masked Singer

#12 Post by T_Bone0806 » Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:33 pm

Ritterskoop wrote:
Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:27 pm
They have given up calling them judges, and now use words like "panel" and "detectives".
:lol:

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