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Discussion: RuPaul's Drag Race: Music Rate - Finale now!
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That disco remix is everything. album version no thank u.
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19. Britney Spears - Toxic
Average: 7.1875
Miss Congeniality (11): mxttewdelrey
Fan favorites (10): jqnetto, Wonderlust, Petals, -Lewymocha-, jpow, Clueless
Shady queens (1): That Bad Eartha, Subomie, DevonDreams
A fun, albeit overrated lip sync between Jiggly and Alisa Summers (aka the most forgettable queen in Drag Race history). Alisa basically did nothing except walk around and play with her breastplate. Jiggly was serving it in her baked potato couture and her moves were fun, but it is true that she was in flats the whole time which made it a little less impressive to me at least.
The song is good. Not my favorite Britney single, but not as horrid as Conner makes it out to be. I gave it a low score primarily because ATRL always over-rates Britney and I wanted to counteract that.
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Nothing really special tbh even if I didn't sabotage, 6 at best.
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18. Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman
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Average: 7.19375
Fan favorites (10): mxttewdelrey, Staryu, Petals, maurixrosup
Shady queens (2): DevonDreams
A cringeworthy lip sync for Kenya and an iconic one for Latrice. The mixture of camp and emotion really lended to a great performance for Latrice. Standing in one spot completely serious singing to that fake baby bump. It was easy to forget she wasn’t actually pregnant.
A genuine classic in every sense of the word and truly a prime example of the power of Aretha at her peak.
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One of my favorite lip syncs  Latrice killed it
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This is why Aretha is legend.
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17. Cher - Believe
Average: 7.3125
Fan favorites (10): mxttewdelrey, That Bad Eartha, maurixrosup, Clueless
Shady queens (1): Wonderlust
Carmen was really a terrible performer. She literally looked as high as her costume would stereotypically suggest the whole time and like she could barely open her mouth. Shangela meanwhile looked a damn mess in her country get up, but turned it the f out. She hit every beat with those dance moves, gave the single greatest death drop in the show's history (and came the closest to scaring Michelle to death), and the fiercest lip sync move of all time when she waved goodbye to Carmen during the "I'm so sad that you're leaving" lyric.
The song that popularized Autotune and Cher's late career smash hit. I'm a Cher stan so I can't physically make myself score this lower than a 10 even though she has many better songs. Just how massive this song was is so impressive considering now when once you hit 40 as a woman it is almost impossible to get a radio hit.
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16. Stacey Q - Two of Hearts
Average: 7.34375
Fan favorites (10): Subomie, maurixrosup, Losing my ground
Shady queens (3): DevonDreams, -Lewymocha-
The showdown of incredible acrobatics versus lip sync precision. Sonique could have beaten just about any other girl on the cast with this lip sync, but she had the misfortune of being in the bottom with Morgan who truly matched the song beat for beat hitting every word and having a very tight choreography to match it.
A true one-hit wonder, this song is a fun slice of icy 80s pop. And you know Stacey Q was a true one-hit wonder due to her appearance on Drag U  . Morgan was on that episode too, but wasn't Stacey's professor. I was hoping they would have a moment about the lip sync, but no such luck.
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2 of Hearts is perf, two queens I adore giving it everything. Even Ru mentioned it was the closest to that point.
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15. Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
Average: 7.375
Fan favorites (10): conatus, Petals
Shady queens (2): DevonDreams
Sahara wasn't as cringeworthy as Kenya in Natural Woman here, but she clearly didn't know how to perform this song. Jujubee matched the sort of emotional power you need to hit, but also was a tad sloppy with her execution. Part of this was because Juju was drunk as hell during this lip sync after her emotional breakdown in Untucked. And now this lip sync and Juju as a whole this episode are why the girls have a drink cap in Untucked.
The song is pretty fantastic and I wish the show would use more rockish music like this occasionally.
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Jealous Of My Boogie is def. one of the best Ru songs featured in the show. Toxic is bad. Why did I not give Natural Woman a 10? Believe... Is a song. Two Of Hearts is great and Black Velvet is amazing.
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14. En Vogue - My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)
Average: 7.46875
Fan favorites (10): Subomie, Petals, Staryu
Shady queens (1): DevonDreams
The first true hint of Raven's star power was this lip sync. She and Nicole had similar outfits, but by the end of the lip sync she not only clearly stood out compared to NPB, but she also managed to seem pretty fierce in comparison to the rest of the cast. When she went back and pointed at the other girls telling them "you're never gonna get it" you could clearly see her nerve. And the light humor throughout her performance paired with a tight lip sync was great.
Another classic by a fantastic and often underrated girl group.
And congrats to En Vogue for winning season 2!
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The queens, the songs, the lipsyncs...
Season 2 is just next level.
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Raven did kind of destroy Nicole, but that's more of an expectation than an achievement.
She was still robbed. Twice!
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13. Britney Spears - Stronger
Average: 7.5625
Fan favorites (10): mxtthewdelrey, Staryu
Shady queens (1): DevonDreams
I really enjoyed this lip sync the first time I saw it, but I am really tired of hearing people say Ongina won it. I get that Bebe didn't know all the words perfectly, but she really did put everything on that stage (losing her wig before it was tacky) and exhibited the fire that Ru is looking for when he is judging a LSFYL. This all goes back to the problem of saving Rebecca over Jade in the previous episode though because then Jade could have been in the bottom and this wouldn't have even been an issue.
One of my all time favorite Britney songs so I'm glad it made it the furthest of her material in this rate.
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I can't hate a song that got rid of Ongina.
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Quote:
Originally posted by That Bad Eartha
22. Teena Marie - Lovergirl
Average: 7.0625
Fan favorites (10): That Bad Eartha, Subomie, jqnetto, Wonderlust
Shady queens (2): DevonDreams, -Lewymocha-
A great lip sync from both Kandy and Kasha. MKD started out strong but then lost some steam and visibly missed a few words towards the end. Kandy was a slow build and then really slayed it at the end even though she was in a challenging dress to perform in.
The only song from season 7 I would call a "discovery". This song is actually really incredible. It has everything I love about 80s music in it, but then it also has incredible vocals from Teena Marie (which is something a lot of 80s songs are lacking). The way she rips into those syllables on 'crying' is just amazing.
And condragulations to Teena Marie for being the winner of season 7!
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Kasha's impact 
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Originally posted by Subomie
tbh violet shouldve been in her place!
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Originally posted by conatus
I can't hate a song that got rid of Ongina. |
Why do you hate Ongina? And Alyssa? I agree they are overrated, but neither are really hate worthy.
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I just thought Ongina was boring in the lipsync, but I'll put the blame on the tiny stage for S1. Definitely a bad lip sync showing for both.
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Quote:
Originally posted by That Bad Eartha
Why do you hate Ongina? And Alyssa? I agree they are overrated, but neither are really hate worthy.
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With Ongina, I hated that even her more mediocre moments were praised to the high heavens, but that may have just been down to the low standard present in the first season.
Alyssa is the definition of insufferable. She's useless, unpolished, and very limited in her capabilities, and all the things considered funny about her, I can't stand. I was always #TeamCoco. Talent won.
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