PW: So what do you think of someone like Lady GaGa, who obviously approrpriates a lot of drag culture in her shows.
RuPaul: I think she's brilliant. At its core, drag is about sampling all aspects of pop culture and repurposing a lot of ideas. And that's what GaGa does -- someone of my generation, I can pinpoint what she took from where. The same was true of Madonna. We knew when she was doing Dietrich or Monroe or Barbarella. A smart person knows the future belongs to those who can remember the past.
I was not expecting such an insightful quote from RuPaul.
I'm not actually familiar with his work, I know he has a show right now, but he's huge. And by that I mean pretty much everyone knows who he is. I really do think he's the most famous drag queen, if you ask people on the street who RuPaul is, pretty much all of them would know.
