Discussion: RuPaul's Drag Race: Music Rate - Finale now!

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RuPaul's Drag Race: The Music Rate

Tomorrow the cast of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 8 will be announced and hopefully Season 8 will premiere within a month of that. But for now, let's celebrate the music used in the lip syncs throughout the seasons to help pass the time! The wide variety of music for the show should make for an entertaining rate with songs spanning from the 1950s to present day!

We will be rating all 83 songs used in a lip sync spanning 7 seasons and All Stars, plus one bonus song by a true icon of RPDR that was featured in an episode.

Rules

Rate every song from 1-10.
You may give one 0, one 10.5, and one 11.
Feel free to send partial votes as you go. Just make sure you do like a season or two at a time.
Commentary is welcome, but not required.
Try to balance rating the song as a song and judging it based on the lip syncs. I understand that both will be a factor and encourage that, but sometimes lackluster songs make amazing lip syncs and sometimes amazing songs have crappy lip syncs. There are a lot of songs though and watching the lip syncs might be easier since they are abridged so do what you need to do to participate. Here is a good place to watch them if you choose to do the rate this way.
Send me your scores in a private message by March 2nd at midnight EST.

Season 1

1. RuPaul - Supermodel of the World
2. Michelle Williams - We Break the Dawn
3. Whitney Houston - Greatest Love of All
4. Eurythmics - Would I Lie To You
5. Britney Spears - Stronger
6. Mary Mary - Shackles (Praise You)
7. RuPaul - Covergirl

Season 2

8. En Vogue - My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)
9. Wynonna - I Hear You Knocking
10. Stacey Q - Two of Hearts
11. Martha Wash - Carry On
12. Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
13. Sister Sledge - He's The Greatest Dancer
14. Debbie Gibson - Shake Your Love
15. Aretha Franklin - Something He Can Feel
16. RuPaul - Jealous of My Boogie

Season 3

17. Vanessa Williams - The Right Stuff
18. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
19. Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way
20. Klymaxx - Meeting In The Ladies Room
21. Jody Watley - Looking For A New Love
22. Amii Stewart - Knock on Wood
23. Donna Summer - MacArthur Park
24. Toni Basil - Mickey (Spanish Version)
25. Cher - Believe
26. Fantasia - Even Angels
27. Paula Abdul - Straight Up
28. Patti LaBelle - I Think About You
29. RuPaul - Champion

Season 4

30. Britney Spears - Toxic
31. Donna Summer - Bad Girls
32. Natalie Cole - This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)
33. P!nk - Trouble
34. Madonna - Vogue
35. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
36. Pam Tillis - Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
37. Martha Wash & RuPaul - It's Raining Men... The Sequel
38. Gladys Knight & the Pips - I've Got To Use My Imagination
39. Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
40. Wynonna - No One Else On Earth
41. RuPaul - Glamazon

All Stars

42. Paula Abdul & The Wild Pair - Opposites Attract
43. Ethel Merman - There's No Business Like Show Business
44. Janet Jackson - Nasty
45. The Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha
46. Robyn - Dancing On My Own
47. RuPaul - Responsitrannity

Season 5

48. Miley Cyrus - Party In The USA
49. Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World)
50. The Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up
51. Britney Spears - Oops...I Did It Again
52. Cher - Take Me Home
53. The Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited
54. Willow - Whip My Hair
55. Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin Goin On But The Rent
56. Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted
57. Seduction - Two To Make It Right
58. Yma Sumac - Malambo No. 1
59. RuPaul - The Beginning

Season 6

60. Madonna - Express Yourself
61. Vicki Sue Robinson - Turn the Beat Around
62. Selena Gomez - Shake It Up
63. Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman
64. Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - Head to Toe
65. Salt N Peppa & En Vogue - Whatta Man
66. Exposé - Point of No Return
67. P!nk - Stupid Girls
68. Paula Abdul - Vibeology
69. Aretha Franklin - Think
70. Kelly Clarkson - Stronger
71. RuPaul - Sissy That Walk

Season 7

72. RuPaul - Geronimo
73. Olivia Newton-John - Twist of Fate
74. Kylie Minogue - I Was Gonna Cancel
75. Blondie - Dreaming
76. Teena Marie - Lovergirl
77. Ariana Grande & Zedd - Break Free
78. Michel'Le - No More Lies
79. Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
80. Demi Lovato & Cher Lloyd - Really Don't Care
81. Robin S - Show Me Love
82. Katy Perry - Roar
83. RuPaul - Born Naked

Bonus

84. La Toya Jackson - Just Wanna Dance

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Results

Subomie

ok but can I sabotage all the popgirl songs

That Bad Eartha

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Originally posted by Subomie

ok but can I sabotage all the popgirl songs

I was planning on doing the same tbh.

GoldFangs

Is it bad I can't view some of these as just songs? I just envision the lip sync

i.e - Straight Up

Reverie

YESSS Thank you Tyler

Quote:

Originally posted by GoldFangs

Is it bad I can't view some of these as just songs? I just envision the lip sync

i.e - Straight Up

I'm definitely gonna factor the lip synchs into this. I mean some songs like Break Free I never loved until I saw the lip synchs!

That Bad Eartha

Quote:

Originally posted by GoldFangs

Is it bad I can't view some of these as just songs? I just envision the lip sync

i.e - Straight Up

I'm the same way tbh. I mainly said the bit about thinking of them as songs so some of the good songs don't get sabotaged by some bad lip syncs. But really you can rate them however you want.

Quote:

Originally posted by Reverie

YESSS Thank you Tyler

Subomie

Quote:

Originally posted by That Bad Eartha

I'm the same way tbh. I mainly said the bit about thinking of them as songs so some of the good songs don't get sabotaged by some bad lip syncs.

Poor Oops.

mxtthewdelrey

I clicked on this thread ready to sue, but this sounds fun!

PinkBox

I'll try to do this even though there are a lot of songs

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Originally posted by Subomie

Poor Oops.

Stan

Let me bookmark this

Staryu

Don't do "Robin S - Show Me Love" wrong, the good sis has had a hard enough life and I love this song

That Bad Eartha

Also since there are so many songs, I'm open to doing an extension once we get closer to the due date.

And feel free to send your votes in different partial sets so you don't have to keep track of everything. Like if you decide to listen to Season 1 and 2, but then want to take a break that is fine. As long as you get all seasons in by the due date we'll be good.

Subomie

Carry On is a bit too long for me, the lip-sync cut is amazing though.

conatus

I will definitely do this.

Clueless

YAS I'm so here for this

I love that Spotify playlist of the tracks

Subomie

Are we rating MacArthur Park or MacArthur Park Suite?

This is literally the distinction between a 10 and an 11.

jqnetto

Surely I'm going to be part of this.

Hope no one does early seasons' songs wrong.

jqnetto

Are we actually rating "Just Wanna Dance"?

Well, that goes my zero I guess.

That Bad Eartha

Quote:

Originally posted by Subomie

Are we rating MacArthur Park or MacArthur Park Suite?

This is literally the distinction between a 10 and an 11.

You can choose.

I know the show used part of the song that wasn't in the single edit, but they also definitely didn't do the full 17 minutes. I think they did like the 7-8 minute version.

I'm rating it as the suite since that is the first version released by Donna of the song.