Sunday, August 17, 2025

An interview with the singer who won Nathan Fielder's "Wings of Voice"

Long, interesting interview

I was very suspicious because, like, the logo is very suspicious. If you've seen American Idol, you know that that was the American Idol logo.

You thought that the Wings of Voice logo resembled American Idol? So you were wondering if this show was a rip-off of another show?

What my biggest fear was, if you've ever heard of WB Superstar, I was scared that's what I was going to be on.

Wow! That is a deep cut. For those who don't know what WB Superstar is, that was a show that was very similarly structured to American Idol. But then at the very end of the show, you find out, “We actually haven't been looking for the best singer. We've been looking for the worst.

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I went to sleep like four days later and all of a sudden at 4 a.m., exactly 4 a.m., I woke up in a cold sweat. I was like, “That was Nathan Fielder. That was Nathan Fielder that I spoke to!” And it clicked. I don't remember his name, but I was like, he's a comedian. I went and I started googling. I literally looked up “awkward comedians” because I knew, like, that was his thing, really awkward stuff. And so I looked up awkward comedians and Nathan showed up. He was like the first one. "And I was like, “That's him. That was the guy!”