{"id":424924,"date":"2024-11-29T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=424924"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"The-Masked-Singer-Royal-Knight-Reveals-Last-Minute-Song-Change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/The-Masked-Singer-Royal-Knight-Reveals-Last-Minute-Song-Change\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Masked Singer\u2019: Royal Knight Reveals Last-Minute Song Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for\u00a0<em>The Masked Singer<\/em> Season 12 Episode 9 \u201cGroup C Finals: A Peanuts Thanksgiving.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving with the family than by watching a show that everyone can enjoy? An episode of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/the-masked-singer\/\"><em>The Masked Singer<\/em><\/a> aired on the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>In the Group C Finals, two celebrities were eliminated and unmasked: Actress and singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/jana-kramer\/\">Jana Kramer<\/a> was Royal Knight, and baseball player Bronson Arroyo was Sherlock Hound. Below, Kramer opens up about her experience on the show, a last-second song change, and more.<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>What made you say yes to doing <em>The Masked Singer<\/em>? Did you have any hesitations?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Jana Kramer:<\/strong> No, I didn\u2019t have any. It was a show that I\u2019ve always watched as a fan, and my kids love the show as well, so I think they screamed louder than I did, but I was so excited. I remember sitting on the couch getting a text from the casting director and the producer asking if I wanted to do the show, and I got up and screamed and my husband was like, wait, what show is it? He had never seen it, but me and the kids love it.<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Talk about that costume and the appeal of it. You talked a bit in your clue package about your reaction to it, but also looked like it may have been not as difficult to move in, I imagine, as others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think any of those costumes are hard to move in. Mine was definitely easier to move in, but you can\u2019t see anything out of those masks, so you\u2019re looking through a coffee filter lens, so it\u2019s definitely hard to see. But the costume designers do a really good job of trying to make you as comfortable as you can be for alterations and stuff. But I loved the message behind the Knight, just with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1139056\/gaslit-by-my-husband-jana-kramer-austin-nichols-lifetime-movie\/\">everything that I\u2019ve been through<\/a> in my life. So it\u2019s just that part fit at least to the storyline.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AyPw2cBlCtU?si=DZw_OmT_aN4iKUtO\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Were there any major alterations that had to be made to the costume for your performances?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">No, I mean, they had all my measurements. They kept adding on things last minute. But no, I mean, they\u2019re so talented, that team. So I mean, they had it down to, by the time I got to Los Angeles for the wardrobe fitting, it was just minor things they had to kind of fix. And then the ponytail was a bit heavy, so they had to just kind of adjust that in the mask.<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>What went into your song choices?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Honestly, that was one of the hardest parts because you\u2019re not allowed to repeat songs. So there\u2019s a lot of songs and I\u2019m like, oh, I want to sing this song and that song, and I couldn\u2019t because they had already been sung before. So that definitely made it a little bit challenging. But again, the song supervisor producer on the show, he was fantastic with a kind of finding songs that fit well with my voice, and I was like, there are certain ranges I definitely can\u2019t do. So I mean, the whole experience was so just easy and everyone was just wanted you to enjoy your time and that was what it was. But for the songs, I wanted to come out with an upbeat one, and I love Lady Gaga, that version. And then for Miley Cyrus Night, \u201cWhen I Look at You\u201d was not a song that I was familiar of, but now it\u2019s one of my favorite songs.<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>And then \u201cHoliday\u201d by Madonna. I like how you said that the performance was for your kids. That was really sweet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, I mean, they\u2019re the best. And so I knew how excited they would be if they got a little shout-out.<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Talk about the panelists\u2019 guesses and listening to them because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/jenny-mccarthy\/\">Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg<\/a> did figure you out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">She did. It\u2019s so crazy though. There\u2019s so many people that slid into my DMs after the first episode I was in aired, and they were like, oh my gosh, we knew you\u2019re the Royal Knight. And obviously I couldn\u2019t say anything, but I was actually surprised how many people guessed me. I don\u2019t know. But I guess if they\u2019ve listened to my music before, they saw any of my shows, I mean, I guess that\u2019s how they figured it out. But I\u2019m quite shocked. I mean, the people that are diehards for <em>The Masked Singer<\/em>, too, I mean, they were also saying it was me, too. So I mean, they do some great guesses, but I also think, yeah, Jenny eventually got me for sure, but they had some other good guesses in there too with the clue package.<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Had you come into this expecting anyone from the panel to figure you out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had a feeling Jenny would just because she was just on my podcast and we had a lot of conversations about relationships and hardships, and so I had a feeling once they did that podcast clue that Jenny was going to get me for sure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-callout\">\n<div class=\"inline-callout-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1162897\/the-masked-singer-drake-bell-ice-king-season-12\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"156\" width=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/the-masked-singer-1208-ice-king-234x155.jpg\" alt=\"&#039;The Masked Singer&#039;: Ice King Talks Stepping Out of His Comfort Zone\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-callout-label\">Related<\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1162897\/the-masked-singer-drake-bell-ice-king-season-12\/\">&#8216;The Masked Singer&#8217;: Ice King Talks Stepping Out of His Comfort Zone<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>You talked about people DMing you, but have you been hearing from friends, family, co-stars about you recognizing it was you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah. So you sign an NDA and all that stuff, and to not say anything and not tell anybody. So truly the only people that knew was my husband, my kids, obviously my ex-husband, because I was FaceTiming with the kids when I was on the show and he was like, what are you doing and why are you dressed up like that? So those are the only people that knew. And then my husband\u2019s son. But besides that, I mean it\u2019s funny because I got a text message from my sister-in-law and she\u2019s like, Hey, were you going to tell me you had an alter ego named the Knight, the Royal Knight? And I was like, oh s**t, sorry, I forgot to tell you. Yeah, that that\u2019s me. Yeah, so it was funny. They had no idea.<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>What are you going to take away from the entire experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think just the fact that you could really\u2014I just went out there and I had so much fun, and I think sometimes we take things a little bit too seriously at times, and I think with that show, it\u2019s just a reminder to have fun and not take everything so serious and to just have a good time with things.<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>What surprised you the most about being on the show?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Probably how much I just enjoyed going out on stage, not worrying so much. I feel like when I go on stage other times and I\u2019m not masked, I\u2019m more cautious. I\u2019m more worried about what people think about me or if my voice sounds okay. And on the show, I just really just went out and had fun and it didn\u2019t matter who I was or who was under the mask, it was just that I put on a good show, and I think that was something that I definitely am taking with me.<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Did you have a genre of music that you would\u2019ve liked to tackle if you had continued on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I really wanted to do a Lauren Daigle song. I wanted to do \u201cRescue\u201d by Lauren Daigle. That was something that I thought was going to be cool because the whole Knight thing. But no, I mean, honestly, just the ones that would connect with the fans. We actually had a last-second change. I was supposed to be doing an Ariana Grande song this Thanksgiving episode, but we changed it just because we just weren\u2019t vibing on the song. So that last episode was a last-second change. I was learning, even though I knew the \u201cHoliday\u201d lyrics. I mean, it was pretty much the day of we changed the song.<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Which Ariana Grande song?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was one of her new ones. I honestly didn\u2019t even know it at all. 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