The male rapper’s unexpected appearance in the cow costume startled both the judges and the crowd and was sure to cause a lot of confusion.
In an interview after winning the show, the rapper explained why he ultimately selected the unusual female outfit rather than continuing with a more conventional one.
He claimed that it was a purposeful action to make it harder for people to identify him, and as seen, he pulled it off successfully.
Ne-Yo on The Masked Singer Season 10 discusses his decision to wear a cow costume
Ne-Yo, who had previously appeared on the British version of The Masked Singer, disclosed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he had always anticipated several changes as a result of his participation in the American version of the show.
He was initially given an easy choice by the showrunners of The Masked Singer, but ultimately, he decided to go with the cow costume.
View this post on Instagram“It was totally done in an attempt to throw them off. I have a million speaking voices. I can change it, I can do accents, I can do different inflections and everything with my speaking voice. My singing voice kind of is what it is, though. There’s no way around it. So I knew that as far as talking and whatnot, I might be able to throw the judges off that way.”
Ne-Yo declared that he was certain the judges would recognize him as soon as he began to perform. Being a gifted artist, he nonetheless asserted that he was aware of his ability to startle people in a variety of ways.
Ne-Yo eventually resorted to employing accents, altering his vocal style, and a variety of other “inflections” to conceal his identity. The Grammy winner managed to triumph as well, deceiving the judges until the very end of the performance.
Could Ne-Yo have chosen to put on a male costume?
Ne-Yo had the choice of choosing a male cow costume to stay true to his gender on The Masked Singer. However, he was desperate enough to win the show and ended up deciding to stick with the female costume.
Regardless, with his experiment proving handsomely successful, Ne-Yo ended up winning, after only finishing as the second runner-up during his The Masked Singer Britain appearance.
All episodes of season 10 of The Masked Singer are now available on Fox, along with a range of streaming platforms.
Ne-Yo shocked everyone on The Masked Singer by hiding his identity by dressing like a female cow. He intended to mislead the judges and audience by speaking in a loud voice.
Despite knowing that his singing voice would reveal him, he was able to remain undetected until the very end.
Despite making an unorthodox decision, his approach paid off, and he won the competition, demonstrating on the show that occasionally taking a chance can result in unanticipated success.
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