RuPaul's DRAG RACE [All Stars 5]

[Kieran_Frost]

RuPaul's DRAG RACE
[ALL STARS 5]

A new All Stars season is upon us... and All Star Rules... Have... Been... Suspended. FOREVER!!! According to the trailer, the top All Star of the Week will lip sync for her legacy against a Lip Sync Assassin from a previous season; if the All Star wins the lip sync, she’ll get the power to eliminate a fellow queen, if the Assassin wins, the eliminated queen will be determined after a majority vote by the rest of the contestants, and the $10,000 tip rolls over to further episodes, until an All Star queen wins a lip sync. GAG!!! Welcome to All Stars...

Let us discuss, post reviews, fan art! OH MY GOD FAN ART! I love the fan art! Anything and everything. Obviously this is very focused on All Stars, but post any drag race love, if you want (queens coming to your local clubs, new songs out, etc). But... please let's none of us attack the queens. Criticize them, yes, but let's remember it's drag! It's silly. It's fun. And while a queen can come off as "talentless" ON THE SHOW, that doesn't mean they aren't a fierrrrrrce queen in "the other real world" (as my teacher once said).

ART BY CHEYNE


REGARDING SPOILERS!
Please, please use spoiler tags! I think if we all wait till Monday to stop using them, that should be fine
[as any die hard drag race fan would have seen the show by Monday, or avoided all on-line media, so they won't see it regardless]

BRING BACK MY ALL STARS
Jujubee. READING. High. W. High. Bttm5 (high). Bttm4 (high). Bttm3 (high).
Miz Cracker. High. "Top Toot" (ep.1). W. WINS LIPSYNC. Bttm5 (low). W.. W. WINS LIPSYNC.
Shea Couleé. "Top Toot" (entrance look). W. WINS LIPSYNC. "Top Toot" (ep.2). Bttm3. "Top Toot" (ep.3). "Top Toot" (ep.4). W. WINS LIPSYNC.. Bttm4 (high). Bttm3 (low).

Blair St. Claire. READING. High. WINNING TEAM. Bttm5 (low). "Top Toot" (ep.5). Bttm4 (low). ELIMINATED
Alexis Matteo. High. Low. Bttm5 (high). "Top Toot" (ep.6). ELIMINATED
India Ferrah. W. Bttm3. Bttm3. Bttm2. ELIMINATED
Mayhem Miller. Bttm2. WINNING TEAM. ELIMINATED
Mariah Balenciaga. Bttm3. ELIMINATED
Ongina. Low. ELIMINATED
Derrick Berry. ELIMINATED

[Kieran_Frost]

FASHION PHOTO RuVIEW [All Stars 5 Entrance Looks]

[CellarDweller]

I was wondering/hoping you were gonna start this thread!

I already picked who I would like to win, and since I could only pick one, I went with a queen I've always liked, JujuBee. However, I will be equally as happy if Ongina wins

[Kieran_Frost]

It just occurred to me, because of Cheyne's art I added on the OP post, it is season 1,2 & 3 vs season 8, 9 & 10. I was going to do a "Toot or Boot" of their promo looks until I realised that it's a collage made for it, it's not an actual promo (Shea is in her season 9 finale look vs Sasha; and Derrick's face is edited on that body). So instead lets discuss... LIPSYNC ASSASSINS!!!

Interestingly, the first true lipsync assassin was Jujubee. Others I'd be shocked to not have:
- Peppermint. We literally have the phrase lipsync assassin BECAUSE OF PEPPERMINT! (thanks to Shea, fun fact)
- Kameron Michaels. He survived 4 lipsyncs (though that last one was more Asia's butterfly massacre that clinched the win)
- Coco Montrese. The first b*tch to ever survive 3 lipsyncs, because she assassinated them! Even taking out Alyssa Edwards
- Sasha Velour. I mean... SHE TOOK OUT SHEA! She took out Shea! She. Took. Out. Shea. By delivering the greatest lipsync on the show ever. AND... she took out Peppermint. Only one person has assassinated the original lipsync assassin, and that was Sasha Velour.
- Latrice Royale. Give her Gospel, give her soul, and ain't no-one taking her down. Her record is 5 out of 6 in her lipsyncs, having only ever lost to Chad Michaels in season 4. That's VERY impressive.
- Yvie Oddly. She won all 3 of her lipsyncs in season 11, and after that EPIC battle against Brooke, Ru said "we got a couple of lipsync assassins on our hands. No-one is safe."
- Alaska. She won all 3 lipsyncs in All Stars

OTHER UNDERRATED ASSASSINS
- Roxxy Andrews. We've only seen her lipsync twice, and both times it was... FANTASTIC! And she won both times.
- Darienne Lake. She was a great lipsyncer. She got to Top4 on this skill alone.
- Naomi Smalls. Is a fantastic lipsyncer, she's done it 3 times, and won. Every. Single. Time. She is currently undefeated.
- Bebe took out Ongina. Bebe won her season. Bebe slayyyyyyed every lipsync she's ever been given.
- Diedre Ritz. She was SO GOOD at lipsyncing. I'd love to see her back.
- Nina Bonina Brown. She was a great lipsyncer, and had she not lost her drive, she'd have probably beaten Shea too.

I was wondering/hoping you were gonna start this thread!

I already picked who I would like to win, and since I could only pick one, I went with a queen I've always liked, JujuBee. However, I will be equally as happy if Ongina wins

I only let you pick one, because Ru should only pick one, because All Stars 4 tie SUCKED!

[Kieran_Frost]

Now let's look at our queens records on lipsyncing, to see who has the best chance to take out an assassin...

LIPSYNC ASSASSINS
5 for 5. Jujubee. HAS. WON. EVERY. LIPSYNC!. Let that sink in. I don't think any other queens has a better track record on lipsyncs than Jujubee. She has given us some iconic lipsyncs, including all the feels against Raven in AS1
3 of 4. Alexis Matteo. In her season she sent home all of #TeamTalent (Stacey, Shangela and Yara) in a lipsync; only losing in All Stars 1 against Raven.


A GOOD CHANCE
1(2) of 2(3). Mayhem Miller. Did a fantastic job in her lipsync in season 10 against Yuhae, but lost to Monet X Change. BUT her lipsync in Christmas Queens was fabulous!
1 of 2 Derrick Berry. She beat Robber Turner and lost to Bob the Drag Queen
1 of 2. Shea Couleé. She... wasn't great. She beat Nina, BUT Nina wasn't trying. And Shea didn't do a great job in either lipsync, she just did a decent job. That won't take out an assassin.


LITTLE CHANCE
1 of 2. India Ferrah... well... yes she won a lipsync, but she was picked up in the now infamous "drag is NOT a contact sport". Then lost to Stacey.
0 of 1. Miz Cracker lost to Kameron Michaels. She did a decent job.
0 of 1. Ongina. She lost in an epic lipsync to Bebe.


NO CHANCE
0 of 1. Blair St. Claire. Lost to Vixen, and didn't do a great job.
0 of 1. Mariah Balenciaga. She didn't know her words. Watermelon. Watermelon.

[Kieran_Frost]

RuVIEW
EPISODE I

It's here! It's here, it's here, it's here. A new season of All Stars is here! This is the best of the best, Ru's legendary children. Well... Ru's legendary children plus 3 filler b*tches (#shade). Not since AS2 have we had a truly LEGENDARY cast; and this season is sadly no exception. I mean is anyone REALLY holding out hope Blair could win? Or Derrick? Or India? REALLY? This is really a 5 horse race, and if I was a betting man, I think 3 of the finale 4 are pretty locked in. But Aja surprised us in AS3, and Monet got a crown... so maybe the weaker queens can surprise us. I doubt it. Let the Hunger Games... BEGIN!!!

ENTRANCE LOOKS
This is not your first impression, that happened in your original season... this is instead a chance to RuDeem. A chance to burst in and remind the audience that you left a fierce queen, and you returned more polished, more fabulous and with even more C.U.N.T. than ever before. Well... apparently some didn't get that memo #shade
TOOT
Blair St. Claire. Blair lived in the 20s/30s first time round; now she's evolved into the 80s with this beautiful over-indulgent shoulder and cut waist. I loved the lining for the sleeve. It's less about wowing us, and more about showing us her evolution as a queen from when we last saw her, and I appreciate that. It was a good choice.
India Ferrah. She needed to make it clear she is here for RuDemption. AND I LOVED IT! It was sooooo drag. Dame drag. She still has her breastplate, which made me chuckle, but it's finally done right. This looked EXPENSIVE! And she needed to start with a bang, to stand any chance of gaining momentum. The sheer legs, the exaggerated Edwardian sleeves and pairing mint green fabric with silver jewellery. GORGEOUS! Though poor thing, can she not just have one entrance where another queen isn't doing a similar look? BWAHAHAHA!
Jujubee. Could she have done more? YES. Did she still look amazing, even scaled back? YES. Is she arguably THE ONLY B*TCH of this cast who could get away with this look? Absolutely. An icon can break the rules. And it was so meticulously accessorized. If you are going for minimalism, it has to be done perfectly. And she looked like the dictionary embodiment of perfection (plus, based on her season 2 and All Stars 1 entrance look, this IS an upgrade, ha!).
Miz Cracker. It's very Cracker and very beautiful. Is it necessarily the best choice to enter the werq room in? Maybe not. It's perfected Cracker, which I applaud and it's just very pretty (esp. the feathered ends escaping the swirls on the dress). But it's not a gag. It's possibly something she could have done on her season.
Ongina. In drag less is not more, more is more. And I appreciated it. I appreciated she went for it. It didn't fully work. Reminding me of Plastique's finale look meets Asia's Egyptian goddess. I know she's going for that mythological warrior, and I liked it a lot. But something wasn't there to tip it over into the Harlem children screaming "you are ooooohhhhver miss thing, you are over!"

BOOT
Alexis Matteo. Okay... how to... hmmmm. Alexis' problem is NOT that she's now a big girl, Alexis' problem is she still paints and pads like she's a small girl. This just looked a mess, the jawline, the white high-lighed mask above her eyes and on her nose, the shape. It felt so... inexperienced. Maybe even a little recycled. This was someone who's won 4 challenges? REALLY? She needs to call up Eureka and chat about "proportionisingggggggg!"
Derrick Berry. If I wanted to escape the Britney box, I wouldn't walk in dressed as Britney. I wouldn't wear a blonde wig ever again! And I'm going to be blunt, Derrick does not have the body (anymore) to make this look work. I think a perfectly snatched female tux would have been a stronger choice, with a neon green wig to add some skank on it.
Mariah Balenciaga. Is it me or did she look like Alexis Michelle? This look was ugly, I'm sorry. It wasn't even a nice bodysuit; it didn't match, and those colours clashed horribly. Her skin looked the wrong shade (I mean she looked white; and she's a beautiful black queen). And considering Mariah's (only) skill is her beauty and fashion looks, I was shocked. Compared to her show-stopping lewk in the photo-challenge at the start of Season 11... wha-a-a-happened?
Mayhem Miller. It's basic af. I know there is a bunch of drama on-line because she bought this for $32 on Amazon, that's not the point. I don't think you need to spend a lot on drag to look fierce, Yvie didn't; she's the dollar queen. Yvie served some STUNNING lewks on a tight budget. This just didn't flatter Mayhem's body, the matchy-matchy with the make-up, nails and jewelry... it LOOKED cheap. Not because of the price tag, but based on how she put the look together. And Mayhem has something to prove, unlike some of the others; she needed to win the fans over from the first second. To hit the ground running... not slow walk to the middle. This look confirmed she is not winning. Period. Facts are facts. I said what I said! [GLITTERED RASPBERRY AWARD]

ENTRANCE TROPHY: Shea Couleé. This is so gorgeous. It's high fashion with the current trend of floral print, but done in a colour and style I've not seen. Now add the bag and the subtly wavey, long hair; stunning. But it's also SO drag. One gloved hand, the choker, the flared pants, those big earrings like fruit. It was... breathtaking. One of the best chic looks I've seen on this show; which was bold AF while not losing the aesthetic. She came TO SLAY!

THE LIBRARY... IS OPEN
It wouldn't be All Stars without opening the library for a Reading challenge. I wasn't expecting much from this bunch, besides Jujubee, none of them are particularly quick on the insults; and so wasn't shocked when it was one of the most underwhelming Reading challenges we've seen. It wasn't Season 11 bad, but it wasn't great. These all All Stars, right? Before the episode aired (but once we knew who the queens were) I wanted a queen to have rose petals. And Mariah did that BUT it didn't work. I would have had on a glove with roses in, just like Sasha and said "I have just one thing to say... hiiiiieeeee" and ripped off the glove to throw roses in the air, identical to Sasha. And no-one made the Cracker joke of "thin... white... and salty. Two out of three of those statements are still true." Also a tie??? F*CK THAT NOISE! Pffft. It's stupid. Blair did good, but she wasn't a patch on Jujubee. Sorry. No. Grow a pair RuPaul and stop doing ties! They don't work! Don't do a competition and then try and give everyone a prize. This is not a participation category.
READING TROPHY: Jujubee. She is the ultimate Reader. This was her challenge to win, and she f*ckin' slayyyyed it. I was worried going in, because she has (almost) the ultimate bar to hit, and that's high expectations. When you think Reading, you think Jujubee. Well... she did that. "Mayhem Filler. I mean... Meh-hem Miller." / Mariah. Great. Now we have to change the name to Drag Race Some Stars." I. Was. HOWLING!

FUN FACT: Jujubee now joins Alaska and Latrice as the only contestants to win the Reading challenge TWICE (though unlike the other two, this was -- sort of -- her 'third' time Reading, because in All Stars 1 they did this bizarre cheerleader Reading mini-challenge, which was won by Yarlexis)

To Be Continued...