'...and DON'T *bleep* IT UP!' -- the RuPaul's Drag Race thread

WAS IT THO???

Untucked makes it seem like the sewing/crafty aspect is still part of the show ... just one that doesn't get included in the edit much anymore. (Alexis has talked about things she's sewn.)

I think this would have been an even better episode without Nina, any other queen in her place. I rooted for her right up until the begginning of this ep when she said she couldnt even take something from the lipsync victory, i was like BITCH, ENOUGH *flips table*

I didn't think it was her doubt informing that reaction so much as her feeling bad for sending Valentina home. Which is still bad TV and all but a crucial difference.

are you guys all onto the fact that Matthu Andersen *left the show* early this season & now Raven is doing Ru's face & Delta Work is doing Ru's hair.

I heard something about that. Curious.

Her hair and face look great as usual, it's her padding that seems oddly off this season.

her hair this season is a lot smaller and much more wig-looking than matthu's work. and her hairlines have not been great if you go back and look. not compared to the airbrushed wizardry of matthu's hairlines for ru that made every 3 foot high wig look like it was naturally growing out of her scalp.

sarge was hot that is all lol

agree! rizzo & duncan can get it also

Oh dear god has anyone seen this? It is baaaaaad

https://youtu.be/r0o0PK7AXFE

But I mean all of these tie-in songs are terrible tho, aren't they?

all except for katya's verse in "read you wrote you"

the rest... blech

an embed btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0o0PK7AXFE

let me investigate Read U Wrote U

oh right this!

My boyfriend and I met Shea Coulée, Bianca Del Rio, Kim Chi, Shangela and Detox on the street in Montréal last night!!! They were all completely drunk but super sweet and having a good time. Shea even tried to speak french with us :-)

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT

They were coming out of a strip club where they went after their show. Shangela was singing and dancing around with Detox and Bianca was laughing and talking very loud. We got hugs and kisses from everyone. Kim is very tall and has soft lips.

Okay, you win.

omg awesome

Oh and Bianca and Detox were wearing Valentina t-shirts and Shangela had her own portable selfie light that she pulled out just before we took a picture with her!

Pics!

^^^

I hope this works. I'm the one on the left. Sadly, we don't have Shea and Bianca because their crew came to get them before we had time to ask for a picture.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u23ikhjnzqils2k/Detox.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r16wvyhhsijuah2/Shangela.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tz0hv8vshnxjt5x/KimChi.jpg?dl=0

Ok let me try that again...

https://photos-5.dropbox.com/t/2/AACfqiGXO5SzcEyzp0_-N4PLSuxG3xx_ikYVzpG0NP04-w/12/363100339/jpeg/32x32/1/_/1/2/Detox.jpg/EMjGiO4CGJwhIAIoAg/WG3D21X91QG9gdFFSCnntXIgpmLJToclsEi9lmHxq8M?size=32x32&size_mode=5

https://photos-3.dropbox.com/t/2/AAAj1MWxs8jhwT044l34BpNgl0yy7KYtrkQKUSIb2EjwEw/12/363100339/jpeg/32x32/1/_/1/2/Shangela.jpg/EMjGiO4CGKAhIAIoAg/pwwFkfdz4dqnH5a9gU5cXpxk-2kv8iEv2odkGVzB8-E?size=1280x960&size_mode=3

https://photos-5.dropbox.com/t/2/AAA0uUzQEl-K_oL3Yvawy8wRivRnIILAyHwXl-y7964INg/12/363100339/jpeg/32x32/1/_/1/2/KimChi.jpg/EMjGiO4CGJ4hIAIoAg/GB2itWdjWLQu___PRxvLycaYPgF42x47Lb6KjYXmMck?size=1280x960&size_mode=3

Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Can you guys see them now?

https://image.ibb.co/nG0RLv/Detox.jpg

https://image.ibb.co/kODrna/Shangela.jpg

https://image.ibb.co/eoYkDF/KimChi.jpg

Yup!

omg those are great!!!!

So cool. What an excellent night out.

Awesome!

cute!!!

Amazing!

obviously it was a losing performance but i was honestly very into nina's morose bunny rendition of "cool for the summer." in a different context it would have been a really interesting spin on that song? like maybe she's playing the other half of the bi tryst and isn't ready for it to end. she was really serving like that sad gaze w/ the batting eyelashes.

DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD

(Okay maybe too harsh but *finally*.)

Also, surely that was the first time ever it was a male-sung song in the lip sync.

Native American outfit predictably on the nose & fucking terrible BYE BITCH

Peppermint lip-syncing - it's like she becomes a human ray of sunshine! I love watching her

I lolled so hard at Sasha's "Sexy Unicorn", it was so her = completely covered, not sexy, complete with medieval tapestry referent ❤️

I thought Peppermint's personality carried her through this week, because the silhouettes she wore for Village People and rainbow flag were identical. Her lipsync was so good, though. Neither of them really knew the words, but she knew the song. I liked her gawky walk bit.

Untucked this time was definitely a good portrait of someone trying to front, getting an emotional boost and then it allllll goes south.

(Also, 8 years trying for the show and that was your A-game?)

Alexis's VO in Untucked, walking miserably back to the workroom after her elimination: "I'm my own toughest critic."

Girl, wha?

In packing, she seemed somewhere between not too angry, not too crushed, and not too both feet on the ground.

Her mom and step dad are A+, at least.

So now it's a top 4 where...I'm fine with all of them? I *kinda* assume Peppermint won't make the final cut but I don't know; Trinity still irritates me a touch but she has skills. The other two, obvious slam dunks.

Yeah. It's a replay of last year where I like all of the top 4, and the least polished one with the kindest personality is the one that doesn't quite make it.

saw Shea perform & co-host a drag race viewing party last night

she said something about how she was terrified to meet Ru bc of what she had heard from season 7 queens but that Ru was really kind and friendly towards her. she said she thinks maybe Ru just hated the s7 queens lol

and obv she slayed the house down performing. she walked past me to get on stage & her perfume smelled amazing

ps Jasmine Masters also performed! she was good too though she didnt seem to care as much about the actual lipsync at times

Reminds me that I enjoyed these articles I found last night -- first, Shea and Sasha, from articles well before they were announced for season 9, so it's a nicely different perspective

http://design.newcity.com/2016/04/06/shea-coulee-her-life-in-drag/

http://forward.com/culture/art/318495/sasha-velours-talmud-of-drag/

And this one on Trinity, after the season had started, but a lot of background info

http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/03/trinity_taylor_rupauls_drag_ra.html

oh and: witnessed an amazing drag queen. Chevelle Boom Boom Brooks (found out after she is Jiggly's drag mom & Kennedy Davenport's drag sister - their drag mom is Kelexis)

She looked like millie jackson in a chaka khan wig. Literally threw herself around & headbanged to a medley of live Beyonce including Formation in this incredible sequined cape. She tore the mfing place DOWN holy fuck she was good.

ugh fuckin Alexis... she wasn't even that bad compared to some of the demons we've had in previous seasons, but the sense of like indignant and deluded entitlement really made me sad and uncomf, like "no, you don't understand, I worked hard so therefore this is good" and it's like bitch👏you👏have👏no👏taste👏

also acc to http://www.alextheatre.org/event/world-of-wonder-presents-rupauls-drag-race-s9-grand-finale the finale is taping next week but acc to VH1's tv listings, next week is another regular episode, so I guess we have YET ANOTHER season of horrible pre-taped faux-reaction from the winner, ugh, this is the worst worst finale setup of any reality competition show ever

Alexis deluded entitlement otm

Sasha & Shea are her biggest competition?
The skirt is like what you would buy at Saks after the runway show?
This will be the first of many trophies?
Maybe she'll wear that dress in All-Stars????

Like I understand putting on a brave face but GURL

Also what "many trophies"? Golf?

her taste is so BASIC but she thinks she's fuckin Linda Evangelista

I could not stop loling @ Sasha cracking up in Untucked