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

lol otm

Finale Reaction video (Pep & Sasha) <3

https://youtu.be/Zql6qRPOBGY

Ah, very nice. That's always been the bit I like the most.

Also, this is good news

https://deadline.com/2017/06/rupauls-drag-race-season-9-finale-season-ratings-vh1-1202120297/

Whole lotta articles summing up the season/talking about wider impacts, but this Vox one (yes, I know) is a really deep and interesting one.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/26/15845792/rupauls-drag-race-season-9-teen-fanbase

Sasha, music nerd! Great read and selections here:

https://www.yahoo.com/music/rupauls-drag-race-winner-sasha-velour-unveils-emotional-pride-playlist-230929013.html

o m g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-cgMtSSjMY

omg that was so gooooooooooooooooood fuck

her song choices are so theatrical and awesome

that Wuthering Heights lipsync was gr8

I really appreciate Sasha more now that I've seen her lipsync. I also noticed the Annie Lennox influence during the finale performances.

yeah i feel like we only got half her steez in the show now that i've seen how good she is at the lipsync

Rupaul looked like a dirty protest.

Sharing this

https://www.out.com/popnography/2017/7/05/andrew-garfield-comes-out-gay-just-without-physical-act

Because...

Hollywood heartthrob Andrew Garfield has come out of the closet—sort of. The English actor currently stars in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America as Lewis Ironside, a man who struggles between his Jewish faith and homosexuality. During a recent panel discussion about his role, Garfield admitted preparation included watching past seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

“Every Sunday I would have eight friends over and we would just watch Ru," the actor said. "I mean every single series of RuPaul’s Drag Race. I mean every series. This is my life outside of this play. I am a gay man right now just without the physical act—that’s all."

Cue flashbacks to Brett Anderson 25 years ago.

Cue me and everyone around me not caring.

(About AG's PR statement, I mean. Not your contributions itt, Ned.)

so brave :/

http://68.media.tumblr.com/45fe663f575d75bb10f72c7e8fd03447/tumblr_inline_osdq8tbHPk1sh82zd_500.jpg

https://www.pride.com/rupaulsdragrace/2017/7/07/ranking-drag-races-season-9-lip-syncs?utm_source=OUTFB&utm_medium=ORG

I one-thousand percent agree with their #1 choice.

This article argues that the lip syncs in the finale shouldn't even have happened and I judge this writer to have defective ideas.

yeah wtf

I only argue that there should've been more lip syncs I the finale. They should've each lip synced against the other three individually and then tallied up points.

ooh yeah

I just binge-rewatched season 3 over the weekend on Netflix and I might have to vote for that one. Then again I just like Raja a hell of a lot, so.

I'm doing this at the moment, but am reminded of how much I disliked the cliqueyness of season 3. And that it featured my two least favourite queens of all time: Mimi Imfurst and Delta Work.

yeah i was not a fan of the cliqueyness at all

i like raven's s2 with tyra drama

s5 contains multitudes - rolaskatox, roxxy/jinx, coco/alyssa, i always forget how much goes down in that season

It seemed to come from a similar place: older queen who's been in the business for a long time feels like younger queen is unprepared and shouldn't be there, but Raven didn't try to stoke the fires in the same way (or at least it wasn't edited like that).

Although I do love Raja. Her Marie Antoinette wig is one of the greatest thing I've ever seen on Drag Race.

The way season 3 used race bothered me a lot, and I also hated the cliqueyness. Funny thing is that Shangela is one of my favorite alumna, even though she stirred up a lot of the clique drama.

i love raja's runways looks so much

I still have yet to watch the first 3 seasons

They're rough around the edges. (The show really came into its own with S4 and S5.) But they've got lots of fan favorites in the mix.

Season three is the one where "drag is not a contact sport" comes from, but yes, it's got a long way to go. Still a lot of workroom stuff, and I think it might be the last season to have footage of the queens in their little hotel rooms before coming to the workroom each day. Also, no big workroom entrances (missus!) and Ru still sits in on all the video directing stuff, which he no longer does (which I think is greatly to the detriment of the show, but hey, I guess he's just too busy these days).

first two seasons look very different from the rest of the series, esp the runway - lots of soft focus and there's very little in the way of set dressing

the reunion for season 1 is must-see tv. Ru lets Tammie Brown HAVE it in a way that I don't think anyone's really seen Ru do before or since. She came close with Pearl but Ru put Tammy on face-melting blast.

but there's some great contestants in the first 2 seasons - nina flowers, bebe zahara benet, ongina, raven, jujubee, morgan mcmichaels etc etc all legendary

Nicole Paige Brooks

YES

and Tatianna of course

I genuinely think that it's interesting to watch each successive season how the quality of the show overall improves in inverse proportion to the depth of the talent bench. OK, that's maybe a bit harsh, but I do think the days of having slates like S4 and S5 had are probably in the past.

I think the point about a younger generation coming up having grown up ON the show is an unavoidable issue, though.

Season three is the one where "drag is not a contact sport" comes from, but yes, it's got a long way to go. Still a lot of workroom stuff, and I think it might be the last season to have footage of the queens in their little hotel rooms before coming to the workroom each day.

I remember that season 4 showed a very brief montage of the queens doing their morning preparation, specifically the Princess doing some yoga.

the Untuckeds for S2 and S3 are the BEST

mystique's "breakdown" omg. "i do not want this TAPED!!!!"

clouds otm

Shante, You Stay! Polling The Greatest 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Queens

Well, yes.

http://www.thefader.com/2017/08/23/taylor-swift-alaska-snake-emoji

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/37206/1/bjork-new-album-interview

She’s recently taken this attitude with her to New York City, where she and her daughter Isadora live when they’re not in Iceland. Just a few days before our interview, she was spotted DJing, unannounced, at a RuPaul’s Drag Race afterparty in Bushwick. “I DJed with Robin Carolan from Tri Angle Records. I’d play one song, he’d play one song, back and forth. It’s the same energy as when I go out in Reykjavik – we’re just trying to make it really casual, so it’s not like people are staring at you and you’re on a pedestal.”

In previous interviews, Björk has been vocal about her love of Drag Race. As she explains, watching it has become something of an event with her daughter. The love goes both ways, too, with one contestant impersonating Volta-era Björk for a segment on the show. With the latest season’s finale taking place a week after our interview, I ask her who she’d like to win. “I’m going to get in trouble if I say,” she laughs, covering her mouth with her hand. “I keep forgetting people know who I am and if I say something, the internet goes upside down, so I’m gonna keep it a secret – but I’m going to Iceland next week and we’re all watching the finale in my cabin.”

Still no Willam (not surprising), but cackling at Shangela Part III:

http://www.vh1.com/news/331067/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-3-cast/

Bring Morgan McMichaels back, that's a deep cut!

I should've called it Shangela: The Return: Part II.

And meet the queens, again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30mvTi2MNf0

Chi Chi is unrecognizable!

Pretty cool cast, but where are Ongina, Valentina, Shae Coulée and Kim Chi?

there will be a massive chichi/kennedy lipsync explosion, just you wait

That will be amazing!

The hell do people think Bebe is the 10th queen?