Can we discuss RuPaul’s Drag Race, the show, as opposed to the chatter, speculations, and drama? After the most recent episode, “House of Fashion,” these queens deserve every accolade in the world. This episode showcased the cast’s true ferocity from top to bottom, and I’m not going to let this season pass without discussing these queens!
Discuss that Reading Challenge with me. Okay, yes, it would have been fantastic to hear multiple readings from the majority of the queens, but we did hear readings from 13 queens. The Reading Challenge was so carefully edited that we only saw the best of the greatest reads, but a few of them were all-time greats.
Lux Noir London: “Marcia, Marcia Looking through your closet, it appears like you purchased everything from Marshall’s, Marshall’s, and Marshall’s.”
“Anetra, your name sounds like the insurance company Loosey had to contact for that botched facelift,” said Sasha Colby.
Miss Malaysia, I think you should commit to the moniker ‘Malaysia’ and disappear like that airplane, says Loosey LaDuca.
Let’s discuss the Maxi Challenge, which added a twist to the typical sewing competition. The queens were required to compete in three teams and produce a unified collection of outfits using unconventional materials from three rooms arranged in the styles of Carson Kressley, Ross Mathews, and Michelle Visage. Season after season, we are presented with sewing difficulties, but this one introduced some unexpected and welcome surprises. Having the queens collaborate to form a unified line? The designers of Project Runway struggle with this every season. What are the results? Actually superior to what we’ve seen in numerous seasons of Project Runway!
There was not a single LaLa Ri bag dress among the group. I have a difficult time recalling another design challenge in the series’, oh, 800 seasons that resulted in as many outstanding designs. Mistress Isabelle Brooks, Aura Mayari, Amethyst, Spice, and Luxx Noir London provided New Jersey-inspired elegance for the House of Visage.
All of these would be perfectly secure in any other season. All of them have redeeming qualities: if the stitching is incorrect, the pattern is correct. If the design is questionable, then the seamstress’s abilities are adequate. Luxx and Sasha, two of the season’s fashion royalty, presented us with their best looks to yet. Even Spice served, and I only mention her since this was her first task without her twin sister Sugar, who was a seamstress. No one simply hot-glued a bunch of gibberish to a corset and everyone rose to the occasion.
I’ll even go so far as to state that the bottom two were completely safe compared to other bottoms we’ve seen. Jiggly Caliente’s baked potato raver look and the aforementioned gift bag lewk pale in comparison to Amethyst’s flawless gold outfit, and Janelle Monae praised Salina for her innovative vest-to-cape reveal. Actually, Salina should have been safe after completing that many clothes for a single assignment (! ), but then we wouldn’t have gotten that lip sync.
Salina and Amethyst engaged in a combat that highlighted their respective exceptional strengths. Amethyst demonstrated for the third time that, while coming across as a bit of a ’90s sitcom nerd in her confessionals, she has a surprising amount of funk and swagger. That is simply some entertaining lip-syncing. And Salina, the beast was let loose. Just seconds before lip-syncing “am I a sinner with my skirt on the ground?” she dropped her skirt like it was a wardrobe malfunction. And then perform a cartwheel? This was the first official lip sync performance of the season.
This is the essence of Drag Race. It is simple to become engrossed in behind-the-scenes drama, who posted what on Instagram, or whatever extracurricular crap is creating hot takes today. This is not the Drag Race. Mistress begins her Drag Race reading of Loosey with, “After hearing you sing, I believe I understand homophobia.” Jax is describing what it’s like to be a queer person of color adopted by white parents in Connecticut on Drag Race. All the females on Drag Race are informing Spice that they are now her sisters. Drag Race is Malaysia Babydoll Foxx introducing us to Palm Springs Baptist with her very first look. This f*cking show is a lip sync.
This is what we must remember, regardless of what else is occurring outside the pink brick walls. Currently, a new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race is airing, and I can’t wait to see what happens.
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