TooFab spoke to Boyz II Males after they clenched the title for his or her flip as The Buffalos Wednesday, making them the primary group win within the present’s 12 seasons. And whereas it was an emotional run for the group, they initially wished to make it quick and candy, telling TooFab the decision to seem on the present got here throughout their two-week break from touring.

“It labored out so far as time is anxious, besides it was on our two weeks off. We did not like that an excessive amount of, so we went into it as a possibility to make the most of the platform, and present ourselves as, you realize, characters. And we had been going to attempt to sing not our greatest or attempt to sing in order that they knew who we had been in order that we are able to truly be kicked off,” Wanya Morris shared. “That was the plan. As a result of we wished our break day. We had been working and dealing and dealing. So we had been like, ‘Yo, man, that is going to be crap for our break day. After which as quickly as we end, we obtained to return on the highway?!’ So we actually had been like, ‘Let’s get kicked off.’”

However when issues shortly modified for the Philadelphia born and bred trio, who had been enchanted by the power of the present and determined to alter their tune — they had been going to remain and win.

“We noticed the power and we noticed how skilled and the way superb the crew was and the way they handled us and the way lovely, simply the entire ambiance was. We had been identical to, ‘ what? We would as nicely keep and win,’” Wayna continued.

As for the costumes, which the group mentioned “actually match” their persona, the Buffalo matches did present a little bit of a problem for Boyz II Males, who mentioned they encountered a number of obstacles earlier than attending to the end line.

“It was all of that after which some. It was sweaty. It was just a little claustrophobic. We did not very have a lot line of sight. So we needed to transfer our heads loads to see individuals or see objects or issues. The toes had been large. So generally we’d step on one another’s toes. Thank God we did not do it in any of the performances or else that might have been embarrassing,” Shawn Stockman quipped. “However aside from that, it was time. We had enjoyable. It was a problem.”

He continued, “However we rose to the problem. And I feel that was why we really feel so proud about this victory, as a result of there have been so many simply obstacles that we aren’t used to going through in terms of, usually we simply go on stage and seize microphones and sing. However we needed to do it with large helmets, buffalo heads on. So all of these issues introduced totally different challenges for us as vocalists. And we do not again down from a problem.”

Whereas the buffalo costumes offered a little bit of problem on stage, additionally they allowed the group to have a degree of anonymity they have not skilled of their decades-long profession.

“It was nice. ‘Trigger I imply, we’re very music oriented, which means that we stretch lots of totally different genres in our — what we take heed to as three people, the place you most likely would by no means even know — all of the songs that you simply heard are songs that we take heed to, had been songs that we sang earlier than as mates that we like to carry out. However we by no means, such as you mentioned, carry out them stay. However they’re a part of our musical repertoire,” Nathan Morris defined.

“So it was enjoyable to strive to have the ability to carry out them and at last let individuals hear one thing totally different from Boyz II Males aside from what they count on,” he continued. “And the truth that we had been in Buffalo fits, there have been no expectations on, ‘OK, nicely, Boyz II Males.’ So then you definitely immediately take into consideration what you have to hear. No one had any expectations. So it was nice.”

What made it so “liberating,” Shawn mentioned was what it introduced the group again to the explanation they began making music — a realization that introduced the singer to tears on stage after belting out their final music on Wednesday’s finale.

“It allowed us to reconnect with why we sing within the first place. This music business tends to inundate you with a bunch of different aspects of it that makes you distracted and it makes you suppose that the business is one factor. However the reality is, there can be no business with out the music. And once we first obtained collectively, our complete concept was to sing as a result of we like to do it. We like to sing, interval,” Shawn shared. “And being in these masks and folks not understanding who we’re and folks loving simply the music for the music, and never due to a picture or as a result of they’re seeing their favourite no matter, made it liberating. And it additionally made it nostalgic.”

“For this reason we do what we do. And for this reason the bond that we had simply obtained stronger, as a result of there’s a world, imagine it or not, that folks will nonetheless take pleasure in and admire music for the fitting causes and never one thing contrived or pushed on you,” he added. “All will not be misplaced. And I feel that is why we felt we obtained as emotional as we did as a result of it felt nice to only go on stage and folks simply favored my voice. That is it. It had nothing to do with the rest.”

Whereas they saved issues tightly below wraps whereas competing no the present, they had been anxious their cowl can be blown early on thanks to guage Jenny McCarthy, who Boyz II Males had a particular connection to after touring along with her husband, Donnie Wahlberg‘s goup, New Youngsters on the Block.

“Effectively, Jenny and us, we’ve got a longstanding historical past. We had been on the New Youngsters on the Block tour, and when Donnie truly met her, he did the late night time Jenny McCarthy present. And that is when he met her. And he got here again and was like, ‘Yo, dude, I feel I like her.’ And so when he launched me to her, we frolicked, like actually frolicked for lots throughout that tour,” Wayna recalled. “And so I type of was afraid that she would not know who — particularly my mannerisms as a result of I am at all times turned up — I am at all times a Buffalo. However she truly did, she is aware of all of us. So, our mannerisms –we could not conceal them from her.”

As for the opposite judges, Wayna mentioned he thinks they knew who was below these Buffalo masks, however did not wish to blow the shock too early.

“I feel they knew who we had been, however I feel they had been attempting to really masks it in order that they provide it just a little bit extra of a, you realize — like Ken, I feel he type of knew who he had been already. That is why he would preserve saying, ‘I at all times wished Boyz II Males,’ know what I am saying? In order that was his means of claiming, ‘I do know. I do know who it’s.’”

To listen to how Boyz II Males suppose the judges did when it got here to guessing who they had been, and what they’ve coming subsequent, watch the video beneath.

The Masked Singer shall be again for Season 13 on Wednesday, February 12 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.