Rocsi: Tonight, unlikely singers from across america
get a second chance to reinvent themselves
and become the next generation superstar.
- ♪ whoa - what the what?
Using state of the art technology,
contestants will perform backstage
while their alter egos mimic every move...
- Yeah! - And sound they make...
( vocalizing )
...While the judges have no idea
of their true identities.
♪ ooh
I'm picturing all kinds of versions of what you may be, and they're all wrong.
♪ the sky is always open
for the first time in their lives,
they will be judged solely on their talent.
I have struggled with confidence my whole life.
In real life, I'm a very shy person.
This will give me an opportunity to show the world
how I would like to be seen.
Nick: These are people behind these alter egos,
and they're living their dream. You feel it.
This opportunity solidifies I am who I think I am,
and I don't have to be afraid.
They will compete for $100,000
and the chance to be mentored by our superstar judges.
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.
Yes!
Who will be the first digital superstar of our next generation?
Bring it, because if it ain't brought, it's forgot.
I'm wondering about the human behind this.
Nick: This is unlike how we've seen people perform ever
in the history of television.
Will.I.Am: This is freaking nutty nuts.
Welcome to "alter ego."
I'm your host rocsi diaz here with our judges.
The most sought-out music producer
in the business, will.I.Am.
Multiple grammy-winning music icon,
it's alanis morissette.
Genre-defying singer/producer and innovator, grimes!
Singer, actor, host,
multi-platinum selling artist--
it's nick lachey.
You guys ready to get the auditions started?
- Let's do it. - Let's go!
It's time to meet our first alter ego.
It's queen dynamite.
- Yeah! Let's go! - Yeah!
- What? - What the what? Look at this.
This is freaking nutty nuts.
- Queen dynamite. - Hey.
This is real time. Like, you're interacting
and moving and interacting with us in real time here.
- Wait, can you blink one eye-- - could you wink at us?
- Wow. - Give us the macaulay culkin--
wow.
What do you for a living when you're not in your alter ego?
Well, the thing that I do every day is being a mother.
That's what I do.
This is a second chance for me
because, you know, I always sung as a child,
and I remember being 18 years old,
and I became pregnant and I became a teenage mother.
And I kind of gave up on my dreams
to raise my child.
This is truly my chance. I believe that.
And I'm just thankful to be here.
We love that you're here.
Being young and having a child,
that was really one of the hardest obstacles I had to face.
I did everything on my own.
Her father was incarcerated.
I couldn't afford to buy diapers.
I couldn't afford to buy wipes or milk,
so we didn't have the resources to explore my singing.
♪ oh, they're trying to shoot down angels ♪
this show is giving me the chance
to spark my dreams back
and to prove to myself that I can do this.
My name is dasharra bridges, I am 31 years old,
and I am from rochester, new york.
♪ you can't stop the world from knowing ♪
♪ the truth will set you free
now that I have my alter ego,
she can be everything that I have always wanted to be.
Oh, my gosh. She is so beautiful. I love her.
So I asked my daughter, I said,
"what would you describe me as?"
and then she said, "you're so big, but in a small package."
so she was like, "dynamite."
and I was like, "queen dynamite."
♪ get hype, queen dynamite
when I see my avatar is doing everything I'm doing,
it was crazy!
It's nerve-wracking,
but queen dynamite, she doesn't feel that way.
Queen dynamite is ready to blow up the stage.
It's gotta be tough to go first.
This is crazy.
I can't even-even stop thinking about
- how freaking awesome this is. - It is. It is.
♪ hey
♪ yeah, yeah, yeah
what the hell?
♪ captured effortlessly
♪ that's the way it was
♪ happened so naturally
♪ did not know it was love
♪ the next thing I felt was you ♪
♪ holding me close
♪ what was I going to do?
♪ I let myself go
♪ and now we fly through the stars ♪
♪ I hope this night will last forever ♪
♪ oh, oh, oh, oh
♪ ain't nobody
♪ loves me better
♪ makes me happy
♪ makes me feel this way
♪ ain't nobody
♪ loves me better than you
yes!
♪ first you put your arms around me ♪
♪ then you put your charms around me ♪
♪ got a feeling most would treasure ♪
♪ and a love so deep we cannot measure ♪
♪ ain't nobody, come on
♪ makes me feel this way
♪ ain't nobody, come on
♪ loves me better
♪ makes me happy
♪ makes me feel this way
♪ feel this way
yeah!
Yeah!
I just believe there's somebody behind that screen singing.
- That's just crazy. - Yeah, it's just amazing.
Will, come on, that was boom, boom, boom, don't you think?
I mean, now I know why your name is queen dynamite, one.
Two, if you sang half as decent as you did,
I would still be blown away.
But the magic of what I'm watching,
you're looking freaking art and science coming together.
And if it was, like, here,
my head would still be, like, blown off head emoji.
My head is blown off head emoji
and, like, star eyes all at the same time.
And you know that's hard to do,
because the phone don't allow you to put both emojis at the same time.
I love your register. It was-- massive register.
Just the overall impression I got of you
and your alter ego was that of someone
who was born to be here.
If it wasn't for this alter ego,
I literally would probably really be nervous,
so scared my knees literally buckle, like, shaking.
But having an alter ego, it kinda helped me to gain the confidence
that I needed to be here.
Love that!
I thought that was incredible.
I never listen to that kind of music, so I really liked it.
I totally forgot that there was someone backstage singing.
I was just, like, enthralled by the performance.
I actually think your voice would suit well
in, like, all kinds of genres,
and I think that is, like, gonna be one of the qualities
that takes you really far in this competition.
Thank you.
Nick, what did you think of her audition?
How amazing was it?
Dyno-mite!
Thank you, thank you.
Queen dynamite, you look like a rock star.
- Like, you gave a rock star performance... - Thank you.
...Looking like a rock star.
It's crazy to see all that musical talent
combined with this mind-blowing technology
that we're all witnessing for the very first time.
So to see that on stage
happening in real time altogether was wild.
So here's the thing.
Since you are our first audition tonight, queen dynamite,
you will take the spot on the diamond.
- Yeah! - Okay.
Thank you.
If you can stay there until the end of the show,
you'll automatically advance to the next round.
But any of the next four alter egos can take your place,
so we'll see if you can keep that spot the entire show, okay?
Okay. Thank you.
There's so much more show left.
You just stay right there, 'cause we'll be right back.
Yo, this is crazy. This is dope-dope.
Yeah.
♪ I'm a little unsteady
when people hear me sing, they usually don't think it's me.
Will.I.Am: What the what?
This is earth-shattering stuff we're seeing here.
This means everything.
Rocsi: One of these alter egos will have to go home tonight
and reveal their true identity to our judges.
What?
Here we go. Places, everybody.
Coming to the top of the act in three, two, one.
Welcome back to "alter ego."
you've only seen one audition so far.
As the judges are well aware,
they do not get to know anything
about the real identities of these singers,
but you at home do.
So with that being said,
it's time for you guys to meet the next alter ego,
dipper scott.
Man: And marker.
This is definitely the first time I've done anything like this,
so I'm a little nervous because right now my health is questionable.
It was about eight years ago
that I first started noticing some issues in my gut.
I was just throwing up blood and couldn't keep any food down.
I was finally diagnosed with crohn's disease.
♪ sometimes
crohn's has basically held me back
from pursuing a career in music due to the pain.
I'm jake thompson, I'm 28,
and I'm from charlotte, north carolina.
♪ sometimes
onstage in real life,
if I'm in the middle of a flare-up,
they can definitely see that I'm in pain,
and I think that's something they won't notice
with the alter ego.
Do you think you could, like, make his tattoos move around?
- How's that? - That's dope.
♪ oh, I'm a wreck without you here ♪
dipper scott doesn't have crohn's disease.
He doesn't have any limitations.
I'm very tired and very hungry.
I'm hoping that people will see
a side of me that they might not see otherwise.
Maybe they'll see something in me that I don't even see in me.
♪ all along
♪ oh, I'm a wreck
♪ without you here
♪ yeah, I'm a wreck
♪ since you've been gone
- whoo! - Oh!
Yeah! Let's go.
- Yeah! - Hey, dipper scott. What's up?
- Hey. How's it going, grimes? - Good.
- This is, like, such a sick look. - Thanks.
Why do you feel like you need an alter ego?
And alter ego actually really helps me a lot in life.
What?
- Yo, do that again, bro. - What, this?
What? Wow, bro.
I wasn't even expecting that level of for realness.
So what does this alter ego give you
that offstage you have a hard time accessing?
This alter ego actually can do more than I can.
Yeah, I need this alter ego
more than anything in the world, honest.
So you ready to let it out?
- I think so. - Let's do it, man.
Let's go.
Rocsi: And now singing "unsteady,"
it's dipper scott.
♪ hold
♪ hold on
♪ hold on to me
♪ 'cause I'm a little unsteady
ooh, hoo, hoo.
♪ a little unsteady
♪ mama
♪ come here
♪ approach
♪ appear
♪ and daddy
♪ I'm alone
♪ and this house don't feel like home ♪
♪ but if you love me, don't let go ♪
♪ ooh
♪ oh, if you love me, don't let go ♪
♪ hold on
♪ hold on to me
♪ 'cause I'm a little unsteady
♪ a little unsteady
♪ and hold on
♪ hold on to me
♪ 'cause I'm a little unsteady
♪ a little unsteady
yeah!
Yeah!
Nick: I noticed something.
Were you tattoos moving during the performance?
- I believe so. - Oh!
What?
I think one of the things we're here to judge
is the synergy of the alter ego
and the voice,
and you made it seem effortless.
Thank you.
Your voice was really beautiful to behold.
Thank you so much.
And I felt every note you were hitting.
I could listen to your voice all day long.
Dipper scott, you really did an amazing job,
but was it enough to knock queen dynamite off the diamond?
Remember, the audience gets to save two alter egos tonight, too.
- Judges, it's time to vote. - Alanis?
Queen dynamite, I loved your performance.
Dipper, your flip and confidence in the hitting of the note,
your voice is so velvety,
I am going to put dipper on that diamond.
- Nick? - Yeah, queen dynamite!
You were awesome, amazing,
and you deserve to be on that diamond right now.
But, dipper scott, there was something that happened
in your performance that grabbed my heart strings
and yanked them out of my chest.
- Thank you. - So I'm gonna start to call you the big dipper,
because you need to be closer to the stars on that diamond up there.
So, dipper scott gets my vote.
Grimes, that's two votes for dipper scott.
I feel like you guys have both exhibited, like,
the two traits that I sort of value the most.
I don't know, queen dynamite, creatively, I dug it.
Dipper, that was really, really great.
I super love your moving tattoos.
I feel like that's kind of what I'm here for,
is, like, what can you be that your human self can't be?
I don't know. I'm sucked in.
I'm, like, buying into this entity,
so I'm gonna put dipper on the diamond.
Rocsi: That's three votes for dipper scott,
so you know what that means.
Dipper scott, you are knocking off queen dynamite
from that diamond.
Dipper scott, please take your place
on the diamond.
If you stay on the diamond,
you'll be through to the next round,
and the judges and the audience decide
which one of the remaining four will go home.
If those first two performances are any indication,
it's gonna be one hell of a season.
We've still got performances by three more alter egos tonight.
Stick around, and we'll be right back.
- I mean, he was kinda cute. - He was.
It feels like you guys hang,
and you're like, "all right, I'm gonna peace out
and I'm gonna go to the real world
and you're about to hop back into virtual land."
you're a part of the same world.
All right, load the next alter ego
- into the system. - Copy that.
Rocsi: Welcome back.
It's time to meet our next alter ego, bernie burns.
- What is happening? - Oh! I like the suspenders.
- Hi, bernie burns. - Hello.
How are you feeling right now?
I'm feeling great right now.
What brings you here?
Why was "alter ego" alluring to you?
In real life, I'm a very shy person.
I feel like this will give me an opportunity
to show the world how I would like to be seen.
Yeah, man.
Because I'm young and have a baby face,
people don't usually give me a chance.
I need this alter ego because I need people to take me seriously.
I'm erny, I'm an old soul,
I'm 17 years old, and I'm from new york city.
♪ work it out
I started getting into singing in ninth grade.
My father used to play all these records
of dean martin, frank sinatra,
and anyone in the '60s.
I'm very shy kid,
and so I feel that having this alter ego
would make me very confident in my abilities.
This is an opportunity to, you know,
show off how I really want to be seen.
My alter ego's name is bernie burns.
Honestly, the process of making the alter ego was so fun.
I got to pick different type of clothing, different shoes.
That looks awesome. I want to see more.
♪ oh, you know
I am quite frankly really excited
to portray myself in this type of way.
He's got a unique accent, huh?
Yeah, there's something going on.
I look forward to meeting him.
I can't tell if he's old or young.
♪ I'm not surprised
♪ not everything lasts
♪ broken my heart so many times I stopped keeping track ♪
♪ talk myself in, I talk myself out ♪
♪ I get all worked up and I let myself down ♪
♪ I tried so very hard not to lose it ♪
♪ came up with a million excuses ♪
♪ I thought I thought of every possibility ♪
♪ and I know some day it'll all turn out ♪
♪ you'll make me work so we can work to work it out ♪
- ♪ and I promise you, kid - wow.
♪ I'll give so much more than I get ♪
♪ I just haven't met you yet
♪ I might have to wait, I'll never give up ♪
♪ I guess it's half timing and the other half's luck ♪
♪ someday I know it'll all turn out ♪
♪ and I'll work to work it out ♪
♪ promise you, kid
- ♪ I'll give more than I get ♪ - yeah!
♪ than I get, than I get, than I get ♪
♪ oh you know it'll all turn out ♪
♪ and you'll make me work
♪ so we can work to work it out ♪
♪ and promise you, kid
♪ I'll give so much more than I get ♪
♪ yeah, I just haven't met you yet ♪
- what? - Bernie burns!
Real quick, I want to shout out adam blackstone
and the alter ego band for that arrangement.
Nick, what did you think?
I kinda feel like bernie could've been the fifth member of 98 degrees
with the flames and the...
I think the type of music that you're doing
lends itself to being a little bit, like, laid back,
and I felt like you could've done that a little more.
But all in all, man, bernie burns,
that performance was en fuego.
Ha-ha! You did it. You did it.
Okay?
Judges, was that audition diamond-worthy?
It's time to vote.
Will, was it enough to knock dipper scott off the diamond
and put him at risk of going home?
Bernie burns was awesome and entertaining.
I loved the retro fused with the futurism.
But I've been moved by dipper's performance,
so the dipper's gonna stay on the diamond.
Nick?
Bernie burns, what you did, it's hard to do,
to be that smooth, and it's in your whole persona, and you did great job.
But to me, dipper ain't dipping.
That's two votes for dipper.
Alanis?
I just really appreciated your performance,
and I love this style of music that you performed for us.
Dipper scott, your voice, your flip,
and your performance in general
was just really compelling to me,
so I'm gonna keep dipper up on that diamond.
That is three votes.
Dipper stays up there.
Bernie burns, I'm so sorry that your audition wasn't enough to get you on the diamond,
so now you are in jeopardy of going home.
The judges and audience will be sending one alter ego home at the end of the night.
Only two more performances tonight.
More "alter ego" coming up next.
Are you ready to show us what you got tonight?
- Born ready. - I love it!
This is "alter ego" on fox. I'm rocsi diaz.
It's time for you at home to learn all about
our next alter ego, misty rose.
I want an alter ego because it allows me to combine
my love for singing and my love for technology.
I'm a technology girl through and through,
and I would love to be the next generation's digital superstar.
My name is samaera, I'm 21 years old,
and I'm a singer.
I don't even remember the first time that I sang
because I practically came out the womb singing.
It's just where can I put all of my stress, my happiness, anything,
I can just put that into either my singing or my songwriting.
- ( crew chatter ) - oh, my god.
So this is her? She's sassy.
I wanted misty rose to be an extension of myself.
Can we try her with blue hair?
My favorite part of this process
was putting on the motion capture suit.
Like, I'm mad? Like, I'm mad.
I'm sad? I'm sad. I'm happy?
It translates from me onto her.
This is the future.
I'm totally here for it. I'm super excited.
Whoo!
Yeah!
- What's up, misty rose? - Hi, guys.
First question I have is why are you here?
I'm not ready to be a human pop star.
I'm a digital pop star.
Love it. Let's go.
Where does your name misty rose--
where did that conjure from?
The misty part, that is the name of my cat.
- The rose, that's 'cause I have layers. - And petals.
Misty are you ready to show us what you got tonight?
- Born ready. - I love it!
( crew chatter )
♪ hey, hey
♪ ah, no
♪ if you wanna run away with me ♪
♪ I know a galaxy and I can take you for a ride ♪
♪ I have a premonition that we fell into a rhythm ♪
♪ where the music don't stop for life ♪
♪ glitter in the sky, glitter in my eyes ♪
♪ shining just the way I like
♪ if you're looking like you need a little bit of company ♪
♪ you met me at the perfect time ♪
♪ you want me, I want you, baby ♪
♪ hey, I'm levitating
♪ yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ I got you, moonlight
♪ you're my starlight
♪ I need you, all night
♪ come on, dance with me
♪ I'm levitating
♪ yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ I need you, all night
- ♪ come on, dance with me - yeah!
♪ you can fly away with me tonight ♪
♪ baby, let me take you for a ride ♪
- ♪ ride - yeah!
Rocsi: Really, really good one.
I loved it. Alanis, what did you think?
I mean, the vocal performance was very olympian,
and that chord change that you just slipped into so effortlessly?
Could you sing it for us in dead space right now?
♪ I need you
♪ all night, come on dance with me ♪
♪ I'm levitating
♪ yeah, yeah, yeah
thank you, thank you, thank you.
Good on you, misty rose!
To be asked to do that on national television
- and just belt that out-- - can you do that, nick?
No!
You're probably the most distinctly modern
kinda contemporary performance I think we've seen,
and also the avatar presentation itself.
- And I love your bangs. - Girl, you know you're trying to steal my look.
That was amazing work,
but was it enough to knock dipper scott off of the diamond
and put him in jeopardy of going home?
Judges, it's time for your decision.
Misty, I can see you as a digital superstar,
I can see the fans, I can see the following,
I can see the whole picture.
There was something about what dipper did
that still-- it pulled on something in my soul,
so I vote to keep dipper on the diamond.
- Grimes? - Yeah, I think misty has so much commercial potential,
like, someone we would be down to do something with or work with.
But, again, dipper just gave, like,
a really earth-shattering performance.
So I'm gonna keep dipper on the diamond.
Two votes for dipper scott to stay on that diamond. Will?
I'm torn.
Dipper brought a layer
that is invisible but super powerful,
and how he's done that is mysterious.
But I also believe in misty rose,
and there's this thing about her key change
that was awesome as well.
And so, boom,
I'm with misty on the diamond.
Dipper scott currently has two votes.
Misty rose, one vote. Alanis?
Misty, I just love your vocal and the prowess.
There was so much animating energy
coming through you and your voice.
I would've liked to have seen a little bit more
owning that stage and moving around a tiny bit more.
So for me, I didn't feel
this emotional connection to the performance.
Dipper, I love your voice, so, basically,
I'm gonna put dipper scott up on the diamond.
Yep! Dipper scott stays on that diamond!
Which means misty rose could go home tonight.
There's only one more audition left tonight.
Will they be able to knock dipper scott off the diamond?
There's kinda no one been bad this whole time.
Pretty incredible across the board.
We'll have to be a little more ruthless.
Welcome back to "alter ego."
are you guys ready for the last performance?
Ooh, ooh!
All right, I wanna introduce you guys to seven.
Yeah! Seven!
Yo, your hair is, like, just wavy with it right now.
Yeah, I got the tentacles on my head top, you know?
That's dope. I ain't never seen no worm hair like that.
Do you feel by having an alter ego it empowers you?
It allows you to step out here
in a way that you haven't experienced before?
Absolutely, and I wanna be able
to stand here and show people you can be who you are
and being who you are is just enough.
You don't need to be anyone else. Yeah.
Growing up,
confidence was not something I had much of.
It was a little bit, you know,
because I sounded different.
I had a deep voice. People didn't understand it.
They would misgender and say that I was a boy.
And it was something that was so defining for me
as a little girl, so I need to be here
because I want to see who I really am
in a space where I'm not limited
by my every day.
My name kyara tetreault,
I am 28 years old, and I live in toronto, canada.
In school, I was bullied a lot for having a deep voice.
People would tease me and say,
"why don't you sound like the other girls?"
and it really stung
because I didn't know where I fit in,
because I didn't.
Oh, I look cute!
My alter ego is seven.
I love it.
Seven is confident
and not afraid to take chances.
I like that seven doesn't meet expectations.
That is the ultimate alter ego for me.
Can we take off the skirt?
Yeah, I like that.
♪ ooh
♪ you let your
seven has allowed me to really explore
more of those characteristics that I really do have
that I just really need to hone in more on and step into.
It's totally me, but not me. It's awesome.
- This is amazing. - I like this one.
Will.I.Am: Look at the freaking details.
- It just sucks you in. - Guys, we're rolling.
( crew chatter )
♪ my lover's got humor
♪ she's the giggle at a funeral ♪
♪ knows everybody's disapproval ♪
♪ I should've worshipped her sooner ♪
♪ if the heavens ever did speak ♪
♪ she's the last true mouthpiece ♪
♪ every Sunday's getting more bleak ♪
♪ a fresh poison each week
♪ I was born sick
♪ but I love it
♪ command me to be well
♪ a-amen
♪ amen, amen
♪ take me to church, I'll worship like a dog ♪
♪ at the shrine of your lies
♪ I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife ♪
♪ offer me that deathless death ♪
♪ good god, let me give you my life ♪
♪ take me to church
♪ I'll worship like a dog
♪ at the shrine of your lies
♪ I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife ♪
♪ offer me that deathless death ♪
♪ good god, let me give you my life ♪
♪ take me to church
♪ oh
yeah, your voice-- you're one of the most original voices I've heard.
It was, like, gorgeous.
Wow. Thank you.
Your voice is super original
and I think it could take you very far.
Thank you.
Seven, I seen the mic shaking.
Are you nervous right now?
Yeah, like, all the way.
Um...
This--
this opportunity to perform in front of you guys,
it means everything.
It just solidifies to me
that I am who I think I am
and I don't have to be afraid.
So thank you. I really appreciate it.
Thanks.
Crowd: Seven, seven, seven, seven, seven!
Nick: We're celebrating the marriage of music and technology,
but what you just said, seven, transcends all of that.
We all deserve to be who we are,
how we are, the way we want to be.
Man, I'm just so blessed to be a part of this moment, honestly.
So the burning question is
was seven's audition enough
to take that spot on the diamond
guaranteeing them a spot to the next round?
Or will dipper scott go on to the next round?
- Judges, it's time to decide. - Yikes.
( cheering )
I think maybe dipper's performance was a bit stronger,
but seven, to me, captured something truly unique.
So I'm gonna put seven on the diamond,
but I'll make fan pages for both of you.
- Thank you. - Alanis?
Dipper, your performance and the voice were off the charts for me,
so I'm gonna keep dipper up there.
Seven, your low register you probably felt was odd.
That oddity is freaking awesome.
Thank you.
And my decision does not reflect my belief your talent,
but I'm gonna keep dipper on the diamond.
This is a big decision right now, nick.
One more vote for dipper
and that keeps him on the diamond.
Another vote for seven,
and we go into a tiebreaker with the audience.
Whew!
I've been moved and inspired
by your performances tonight.
To me, that's what this is all about.
It's an opportunity to be who we are as artists
and share that artistry with the world,
and you guys have both done that tonight.
There's still something that dipper did
that touched something in me that I can't let go of,
and so I will also vote to keep dipper on that diamond.
Rocsi: Unfortunately, seven,
your audition wasn't enough to get that spot on the diamond,
which means you are in jeopardy of elimination.
The judges kept dipper scott on the diamond,
which means he will automatically move on
to the head-to-head round.
Congratulations, dipper scott.
And now, our in-studio audience
will vote their favorite alter ego.
Their top two picks will move on to the head-to-heads,
and it'll be up to the judges to decide
which one of the remaining two singers stays in the competition
and advances to the next round and which one goes home.
Find out who comes out on top
and who will reveal their true identity to the judges
and head home, after this.
He brought seven and the depth to a totally different level.
She's a woman.
- No. - But I love that we can't tell.
- Okay, so come on back. - Here we go. 3, 2...
- Yeah! - This is "alter ego,"
and I am your host rocsi diaz.
This has been such a huge night.
Dipper scott has gone through to the next round,
and four contestants remain.
Our in-studio audience votes have been counted,
and now I can reveal that the two alter egos
advancing to the next round are...
Queen dynamite.
- Yeah! - Yeah!
- Rocsi: And...
Seven!
Congratulations to you both.
We'll see you at the head-to-heads.
Unfortunately, that means bernie burns
and misty rose are in the bottom two.
It's in your hands, judges.
- Who stays and who goes home? - Oh, boy.
- Is she is the best one? - Will.I.Am: That was awesome.
- Everybody's tone is just, like-- - so great.
Nick: It's so much easier when someone has a bad performance
- and it just sticks out. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Grimes: This is why I loved bernie burns.
'cause you get these character singers--
yeah, it's not always about hitting the note for me.
I mean, it's nice when we do.
- I'm really torn. - Will.I.Am: That's deep.
Oy.
Rocsi: Judges, you have to decide
which one of these alter egos gets to stay in the competition
and which one will have to go home tonight
and reveal their true identity to you in the studio audience.
What is your decision?
Will.I.Am: At the end of the day,
we're looking for a star.
Bernie burns, I like the retro futurism.
Misty rose, you have a universal pop appeal.
The look of your alter ego is international.
The decision that the other judges and I made
is to put misty through to the next round.
♪ I need you all night
congratulations, misty rose. That is three votes.
We will see you at the head-to-head round.
I'm so sad to say this, bernie burns,
but we're gonna have to say goodbye to you tonight.
You were absolutely awesome.
But before you go,
we'd love for you to perform one last time
and for you to reveal your identity.
Let's do this.
♪ the best is yet to come
♪ and, babe, won't that be fine? ♪
♪ you might've seen the sun
♪ but you ain't seen it shine
♪ wait till you're locked in my embrace ♪
♪ wait till I draw you near
♪ and wait till you see that sunshine place ♪
♪ ain't nothing like it here
♪ the best is yet to come
♪ and, babe, won't it be fine? ♪
- ♪ yeah - yeah!
♪ the best is yet to come
♪ come the day you're mine
♪ and you're gonna be mine
yeah! Whoo, yes!
Yes!
Yeah!
Oh, my goodness.
That was sick!
Judges, this is erny, aka bernie burns.
- Erny! - What's up, erny?
- Hey. - What do you do for a living outside this alter ego?
- I'm 17. I, uh-- - you're 17?
- Erny: Yeah. - No way!
- What? - Beautiful, man.
I can't wipe the smile off my face.
I mean, it's so much fun to watch you do
what you clearly love to do.
And I think everyone in this room
loved watching you do it.
- Erny, how did that feel for you? - Very emotional experience.
I'm a very shy person, and so being bernie burns,
I felt that he was everything I wanted to be.
Which was what?
Well, he was cool,
he was, you know, handsome.
- You're handsome. - And you're cool.
You're cool and handsome, brother.
- Thank you. - Lots of love to you, erny.
Thank you so much. You did it.
Crowd: Erny, erny, erny, erny!
Join us tomorrow as five new alter egos hit the stage
for the second night of our two night premiere
after "the masked singer." good night.