Oates’s costume was an anteater, which was a clever, punny shoutout to the Hall & Oates hit “Maneater.”
Oates explained why he did the show in an interview with ‘EW’ saying, “First of all, it’s fun and I want to do things — I’m in a point in my career where I can do anything I want, and it’s fun to do something different.”
He continued, “ … I thought it would be a great way for me to do something different where I could sing and not have my voice and my personality connected to my past, which I’m really at this point now in my life, I’m really making an effort to kind of leave my past in the past and move forward.”
Oates added, “I’ve got a lot of good things that are happening and I want to do that. So it was kind of a motivation to say, hey, you know what? I’m going to sing. No one’s going to know who I am, and we’ll see what happens.”
