'The Masked Singer' Eliminated Celeb on the State of the Music Industry: "No Substance""Everything that a 30-year-old woman can do, I'm still doing it," the latest celebrity eliminated from the Fox singing competition tells The Hollywood Reporter.
In addition to discussing her time on the show, the singer also touched on the state of the music industry today, which current singers are her favorite, and why she's never stopped touring.Every time I my son would ask me aboutI was hesitant. I said, "I'm not sure I could be in those costumes like that," and we kept going back and forth and I finally said, "OK, I'll do it.
Yes, I had watched it, with Gladys Knight and T Pain. When I said yes I couldn't even call Gladys and ask her what she thinks about all the costumes and all this stuff because she didn't know I was on the show. I was excited to do it. I mean, that's why I did say yes. And I said yes to the dress, too!Well, from what you see there's so many shows on and I think it's giving people different ways of seeing singers and hearing singers and hearing different music.
It surely is! I've been in it for how long? Sixty years performing, and I see changes all the time. I never know if we're going to ever go back to when real music wasmusic. Because a lot of things today, they're very — if a song, the title is "Get It Now" or something, you're going to hear "get it now" the whole record, no substance. So there's still some growth. And I hope that it goes back to substance.