For this maxi challenge each queen has preselected a pop diva whom they will impersonate in order to serve up a brief Superbowl halftime show performance, lip syncing to RuPaul tracks remixed and re-recorded to emulate the sonic qualities of that particular diva. Closet, Asia O’Hara).Įnter the Drag Race halftime show. By selecting one diva to focus on, like Cher or Madonna, you put queens who would never even think to impersonate that particular star at a distinct disadvantage (e.g., Heidi N. “Well,” you might reply, “there are Rusical challenges, like season 12’s ‘Madonna: The Rusical’! Don’t those pick up the slack left by Snatch Game and cater to the performance-heavy queens?” (Okay, I was getting there? Stop being rude?) These also have major drawbacks. It elegantly presents a solution to a problem that our world’s most brilliant scientists have struggled for years to decipher: How do we highlight the talents of incredibly talented queens whose primary skill is performing the heavily copyrighted music of female pop stars in bars? Snatch Game is the obvious solution, but that only caters to a very specific type of comedically minded queen, leaving excellent entertainers like Trinity K. Halftime Headliners is the platonic ideal of a Drag Race maxi challenge. I’ve called our legendary mother queen “maniacal,” “a psychological terrorist,” “a gay Joe Rogan,” and, baby, that’s just what I’ve said in print! So believe me when I say that RuPaul truly freaked it with the challenge this episode. As longtime readers surely know by now, I am not one to shy away from RuPaul slander.
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