MEET THE QUEENS
It’s become an established trope that the Queens “present” themselves when they enter the workroom for the first time, saying or doing something to make themselves stand out and introduce their drag personas.
Miss Fame: “Greetings, earth Queens, I come in peace.” Dressed like a purple, spiney alien. Gorgeous makeup. Fashion Queen. Very handsome boy,too.
Ginger Minj: “Hi fellas.” Plus size Queen. Retro fashion
Jaidynn Diore Fierce: “How y’all doin?” 2nd plus size Queen. Sassy but wearing a bad tutu.
Violet Chachki: “Ooh la la, la la.” Purple hair and purple dress (a nod to her name). Fashion Queen. Biggest competition for Miss Fame in looks & style.
Max: Walks in reading a newspaper (so her face is hidden). Headline says: Max has arrived. “Well, it’s about time!” Retro fashion Queen. Has an unusual made-up accent.
Katya: “C’mon season seven,” in Russian. Dressed all in red with Russian hat. Glamour/comedy Queen.
Jasmine Masters: “I’m here! We made it, bitches!” Baring her midriff. Looks like she should be an Atlanta housewife. Maybe a pageant Queen
Mrs. Kasha Davis: “Hiya my honeys, I’m hooome! Are there any other Queens here? Oh, just me, I guess.” Comedy Queen. Retro style
Trixie Mattel: Walks in holding a map hiding her face. “This isn’t Maury” Povich!” Comedy Queen. She doesn’t paint for the back row. She paints for the check cashing place down the street.
strong>Candy Ho: “I hope you girls got a sweet tooth because Candy’s in the m*********ing house!” Puerto Rican Queen. Pageant Queen
Pearl: “S’up?” Fashion Queen. Has a painted on chin strap. C’mon, chin strap
Kennedy Davenport: “Well, hello.” Pageant/dancer Queen. Jasmine Masters is fangirling over her (it’s cute).
Sasha Belle: “Hey, it’s me! Say hello to my little friends!” Shoots off plastic machine guns. Retro style. She’s done her homework, studying Drag Race hard. Maybe a comedy Queen
Tempest DuJour: “Who’s ready for some hot tuna casserole, because Mama’s home?” Opens her legs and a baby doll drops out. Comedy Queen. Maybe the oldest contestant.
MINI-CHALLENGE
The first mini-challenge is traditionally a photo shoot. This time they’re doing a runway photoshoot. Two of their looks, one from Spring and one from Fall.</
Judges: RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Carson Kressley, Alaska as Anna Wintour and makeup artist Mathu Andersen. RuPaul is wearing a suit with white sandals. You go, girl
The Queens are stressing about doing two looks. The fashion Queens are killing it, as you would expect. Jasmine Masters is showing her midriff again. Miss Fame has an amazing fascinator. Violet Chachki wears a black ensemble that turns into a tartan jumpsuit. Two looks in one. They don’t announce a winner or loser.
RUNWAY</b
The Pit Crew enter the workroom naked. This challenge is based on the well-known RuPaul quote: You’re born naked and the rest is drag. The Queens are challenged to walk the runway naked. Well, not really. They’re asked to create a resort wear look that tears away to reveal a nude illusion.
Candy Ho can’t sew (they have one every year). Tempest DuJour used to be 400 pounds. Lost weight for her kids. Jasmine Masters is blathering something about a cocoon and a butterfly. Ru seems skeptical. Trixie Mattel wears scary blue contacts
Katya is in a red cape with long blond hair. She leans down to pick something up, mooning the judges. Mrs. Kasha Davis has a muumuu. Sasha Belle doesn’t look like nude illusion, just a beige bathing suit with a big black bra. Odd. Miss Fame has an amazing body. Kennedy Davenport sports a gold circus tent, revealing body jewelry and wings. Tempest DuJour in a nice resort robe thing but her nude illusion is pretty bad (the golden crabs covering her hoohaw don’t help). Trixie Mattel has a pink dress with a matching cape. Her nude illusion has articulated hinges like a Barbie doll. Pearl made a pretty nice red muumuu. Max created a diamond pattern top & skirt and used arm crutches. “Nothing says resort like polio.” Ginger Minj made a cute, retro dress. Jasmine Masters came out in a multi-colored tube (the cocoon?) and dropped it to reveal her nude illusion covered by lots of purple fringe. Candy Ho made a very short muumuu but her body is fierce. Jaidynn Diore Fierce wore a pink animal print muumuu (it is resort wear, after all). I think Violet Chachki is actually naked
Even though this is nude illusion (panty hose and makeup) they still have to blur the privates. Silliness.
Max is happy to be safe. Trixie is annoyed (she thought she would be in the top).
They’re judging the Queens on their looks from the runway and the runway mini-challenge
Top Queens: Miss Fame, Kennedy Davenport, Violet Chachki
Bottom Queens: Sasha Belle, Tempest DuJour, Jasmine Masters, Candy Ho
Violet Chachki is the winner. Miss Fame is pissed she didn’t win.
LIPSYNC FOR YOUR LIFE
The two Queens up for elimination are Tempest DuJour and Candy Ho. They perform to Geronimo by RuPaul. Ru is the queen of self-promotion.
Candy Ho is an amazing performer and she is seriously lip-syncing for her life. Tempest DuJour, a comedy Queen, is a mess. She gave up pretty early.
Even though I prefer Tempest DuJour’s personality, Candy Ho deserved to shantay, you stay. Sashay away, Tempest DuJour, sashay away. I wish I could have seen more from you.
Next week: Lipsync-a-palooza!
Love Drag Race and the recap!
There were a lot of spacing and coding issues with this post. I’ve been working on them. I assure you the recap itself was perfectly written. It’s just that when the post is writing in some other editor besides WP it gets all fuckleberried sometimes when it’s posted.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Sorry about that, TT. I had no idea you’d like it & post it. I was assuming you’d yell at me (which is an honor in & of itself). I hope everyone enjoys it. The Queens deserve some recap love!
I was sad to see Temptes go as well. I wish she would have tried harder. I do not like candy ho!
I haven’t watched, but I will be privately rooting for Ginger.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Candy Ho is not a pleasant person (well, tv personality Candy Ho isn’t pleasant) but she did an amazing lipsync. And Tempest DuJour didn’t even try. RuPaul had no choice. So sad.
So happy to see this. My client is also happy.
Very, very disappointed with Temptest. She is a costume designer and her nude suit didn’t fit?.. WTF. Then she doesn’t do anything but move her arms/hands in the lip sync for your life? She deserved to go home with that piss poor performance! Total miss on use of Alaska as Anna Wintour. We should have seen more of that. Loved RuPaul’s sandles.
Random Thoughts
Does anyone else know if Untucked is just on iTunes at 2.99 or available for free? Liked last seasons double premiere. Didn’t give the mediocre queens a chance to slide under the radar. Friend sent me a text last night that I read to my husband “Race starts in five minutes.” His response “what, there is no NASCAR on tonight”. Hahahahahaaha.
Lady Cocotte….Nice Job!
Your client got yelled at today. Mostly because I am super crabby, but also because he didn’t “Go Look” when I told him to.
Fucker doesn’t even try to earn his keep around here.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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My client barks at the dumb ass hooligans in the hood. That is a enough.
Sara check your twitter. I sent you the link for some Untucked Eleganza.
TT if you want to add the link here just get it off my time line.
Untucked is behind the scenes footage with the Queens while the judges are deliberating elimination. They are served cocktails & usually the MOST DRAMA happens in these scenes. A must watch for Drag Race fans.
Untucked is now online every Tuesday morning through the Logo website or app.
The Logo website sucks. For six years I endured their shitty media player that is always buffering & freezing & crashing. Eventually I usually just find a bootleg Untucked to download, but this year it’s easier to watch thanks to it being allowed to be posted else where for free.
You can also go straight to YouTube for Untucked. It arrives at 9 AM on the World of Wonder YouTube page. It”s uncensored and I can now see why the bodysuits were blurred on the show.. A few of the queens were sporting airbrushed labia majoras!
OMG I couldn’t believe that one Queen, the big girl, that laid out on the couch with her legs spread with her painted labia. I.DIED. #RipMe
Thanks, Sara! I had fun doing the recap. I take the Queens seriously.
They should have made an entire episode of Alaska as Anna Wintour. She’s my favorite Queen, hands down. She recently got sober & her performances have really benefitted from it.
I went on the Drag Race cruise in December. There were maybe 15 performances onboard & her show “Red for Filth” was inarguably the best. So witty, so funny. And Justin (the man inside the woman) is a total sweetheart.
Thank you Lady Cocotte for serving up some Drag Race realness for us sickening Drag Race fans who are glad to have place to kiki about the Queens here in the House of TT.
There were so many snarky bitchy moments between the Queens when they meet & judge each other. Always my fave part.
It’s still early, but first impressions I have to say this a lackluster group thus far. I still don’t know all the names, but Jasmine Masters looks exactly like Porsha from RHOA. Go take another look at her & then agree omkaayyyy!
I like Pearl only because she’s the edgy Queen & I always gravitate to the edgy weird ones like Sharon Needles, Milk, Nina Flowers, & Raja. Pearl’s kinda cute outta drag too, but still a bit to twinkish for my taste buds.
I’m amused by Kayta & her Russian streetwalker schtick, as well as Kandy Ho, the fierce Puerto Rican Queen with the thick accent.
And hello to the NEW members of the pit crew, especially to the new red headed guy & all his naked glory.
I’m kinda glad Santino is gone as judge. Carson & Ross are funny, but they are still meh to me.
I want Chris March for a judge. He was on Project Runway and did several costumes for drag queens. This is is just a lack luster group so far. Maybe someone will suprise me.
I loooove the drag race and watch it every year. Was also thinking not too many drop dead gorgeous, mostly lack luster girls. But what really pissed me off was the guide saying it was 2 and 1/2 hours long. Being the premiere, I gave up a couple of other shows so I could record and wouldn’t miss a second…only to discover it was only one hr, long. Logo pulled a Bravo. Would not have been a big deal if it was only 1/2 hour of something else…but an hour and a half of stuff I wasn;t interested in. That ruined it a little for me.
Someone called Pearl “trade” on Twitter last night. I was like, in what universe?
I agree, these are mostly baby queens and they don’t seem as seasoned as past contestants. Usually the novice stood out like a sore thumb (ahem, Shangela), now the seasoned queens stand out… immediately. (Miss Fame and Kennedy D.) Everyone else seems so… mediocre. This is not the season of the Heathers, that’s for sure.
Trade is a word that has been used for YEARS. The definition seems to mean different things in context but: According to Urban Dicitonary: A man who messes around with other men, but no one would ever know by looking or talking to him. A masculine gay male. Masculine in appearance.
20 years ago in my circle trade meant you were basically whorish but not a prostitute. Screwing anybody for a drink, dinner, a ride, place to crash, etc….
In my circle, trade means masculine presenting, kinda Butch… That’s why it was funny when Pearl was called trade. As you said, he seems a bit twinkish. Still cute, but def not trade.
My hubbie watched DR for the first time last night. I, of course, have watched from the beginning, when it was filmed in RuPaul’s basement, over exposed lighting and all. The one thing I had to tell him was that for the first few episodes, because there are 14 contestants, you don’t get the interplay between them that is just the golden part of the show. Once it’s narrowed somewhat you start getting much more insight into the personalities. Untucked is kind of essential viewing – I’m surprised they moved it to web only.
Thanks, UF! It’s nice to find so many drag hags here.
My favorite so far is Max. I’m a sucker for a fake accent. And her polio resort look made my night. She won’t win but I’ll enjoy her while she’s around. She gives me a Milk-y vibe. I’m also loving Ginger Minj & Violet Chachki (although it’s more of a love/hate thing with Violet).
I’m so glad everyone noticed the Jasmine Masters/Porsha Williams connection! I hope she’s in on the joke. I’ve watched some videos Jasmine posted on Facebook & she’s sassy. Very opinionated.
Yeah the polio legs reminded me of MILK from last year with his two surprising runway looks: Pinocchio & pregnant.
Nina Flowers is still my absolute favorite queen and I still believe she was robbed in season 1.
YASSSSS! She was indeed the fiercest Queen that served the best face & fashion!
Oh god. y’all need to watch this, Calm down, It’s nude illusion (aka a fake nude looking jumpsuit that makes them look female nude)
What happened to the budget?? What happened to the Interior Illusions lounge? Why is Untouched shot on a throwaway couch and a couple of stools backstage? Has sponsorship been compromised? The ‘Absolute’ Bar disappeared a while ago. Did they even get drinks? I don’t remember. I live and breathe this show but the production values were kinda lo-fi. I’m kinda bummed.. but I’ll still watch.
I know!!!
Untucked was filmed literally back stage behind the main curtain w/ production crew running around. What happened to those fabulous lounge rooms?
I guess they also lost Interior Illusions as a sponsor, too. Funny, I never knew that was the name of an actual site until Nene went furniture shopping there for RHOA. Until then, I just thought it was a name Ru made up!
Jasmine Masters physically reminds me of RHOA Porche so much it’s distracting.
I KNOW…. We said the same thing in my house the minute she sashayed into the room.
The mouth, the hair, the mannerisms – it’s all Porche. I hope that for Snatch Game she DOES Porche, giving us underground railroad illiteracy realness.
Even the judges referenced har as a housewives look alike.
I am loving max, miss fame, pearl, violet and ginger. But we will see when it comes to talent and personality.
I really hope that Jasmine won’t S-P-E-L-L multiple words every episode because if she does, it’s going to get old real Q-U-I-C-K.
I’m sooo happy you posted this TT! Please keep doing it. It’s the best reality show and reminds me that if they can project confidence so can I.
It feels like a lot of comedy queens this year. I also think this show puts Queens who can’t afford expensive clothes at a disadvantage. Don’t like that.
Ross kept saying obvious comments so I hope he gets funnier. Loved how Michelle wasn’t a fan of Kathy’s comments.
Love this show. Please keep it going. Miss your Blacklist posts. Wish you did The Good Wife, Being Mary Jane, and Project Runway;)
The expense of clothing, wigs and makeup is huge. I too feel bad for the queens who can’t afford to keep up.
Yes because goddamit, dressing in drag should be a human right! The government should pay for all of that stuff. It’s not fair that some people make more money than other people. I demand communism for all!
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Yes, please keep posting! I love the show and I love TT! What a great place to catch up and have a discussion.
Really enjoyed the untucked post. I hadn’t seen that yet. Love Ru Paul’s Drag Race. Kinda felt bad for Tempest going home right off the bat. I think it was Kennedy Davenport, I was loving her makeup with all the sparkling green Swarovski like eyes and lips. It was beautiful with her skin and flawlessly applied. The cameraman seemed to like it too as he kept cutting to her.
Can I get a hallelujah!
I think Mama Ru chose the wrong two for the bottom. IMO it should have been Sasha Belle and Jasmine Masters …
I love Carson Kessley and like him so much better than Santino Rice.
Jacque, I totally agree with your bottom two. Like a lot of reality competitions, sometimes Ru’s decisions are based more on influence from producers than how the contestants did in the challenges.
RuPaul is the Queen bitch in charge. He’s the executive producer.
I think this year, Ru is listening to producers because of the budget cuts.
It’s obvious that a lot of sponsorship has been pulled (absolute) and it is playing a HUGE impact on the show. On the show itself the changes are small, but on untucked…the changes are enormous! I HATE that you can only find untucked online! That was the BEST part of watching drag race. I can only hope that online only means that untucked will be even more explicit and raw!
Up until this season I’ve always watched Drag Race & Untucked online because it wasn’t in the lineup of my cable provider. I always downloaded the episodes from a place I can’t name because the LOGO website’s media player SUCKS bad! Now I have a new cable provider & LOGO is available to me. YAY. I never knew that Untucked was aired on LOGO. I always thought it was online only programming, so I have no problem with it being on YouTube.
TT and Lady Cocotte~thank you for posting this recap of Drag Race!! <3 I am a big fan of this show, so 10 TT tokens to each of you for this. I was very disappointed when there was no Untucked after the premiere, but I will watch it on You Tube. I am not sure what's going on with production and the Illusions Lounge, maybe it is being redecorated. I wish we could have seen more of Tempest, but we knew someone had to go no matter what. I think Tempest gave up because she is still dealing with her own personal image issues after losing all that weight. Michelle's point was correct, but as usual, her delivery was harsh and Tempest probably took the critique to heart.
I liked the runway with two looks at the beginning of the episode. Did anyone besides me notice that Jasmine looks like Raven Simone while wearing her glasses in the confessionals and Chaka Kahn in drag while wearing the red wig? I like the new judges, but I really want to know when will Wendy Williams finally agree to be a guest judge? I am so glad one of my favorite shows is back on the air. 🙂
I meant to say Jaidynn looks like Raven Simone and Jasmine reminds me of Janet Hubert or Altovise Davis.
IDGI… whose TTT are you stealing only to return them to me? You don’t seem to get how this works.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Thank you so much for the recap of Drag Race. I’m good with the fact that Santino Rice is gone. He was not a favorite of mine. But I am so pissed about Untucked. What the heck happened? Did Absolut Vodka pull their advertising spots so they couldn’t afford cocktails or couches? Now we have to find Untucked somewhere else? This sucks. Untucked is where all the good stuff happens. These queens all seem a little less than this season. I probably won’t be able to pull for Jasmine Masters just because she reminds me of Porsha like so many of y’all have said. Keep up the good work Lady Cocotte. Can’t wait for next week.
OMG I can’t believe you watch this too….. I know Absolut is no longer a sponsor of the show, but dayum did they own the furniture too? I don’t know if the new backstage spot is temporary or what, but I miss the glamour of those silver & gold patent leather couches.
@Urethra Franklin~I believe there are contractual issues going on behind the scenes between Logo, World of Wonder, and RuPaul over the ownership of the show and who has the rights to feature and air the queens beyond their own individual season of Drag Race. I will miss Absolute Vodka and Illusions as sponsors, but I want DR to continue, despite the absence of their longtime partners/supporters. Maybe its run on Logo is coming to an end, and Logo sees the handwriting on the wall.
I would not be surprised if DR winds up on another cable network like Esquire TV or Fuse because DR has helped to build Logo, but Logo still has not created new programing that will keep the viewers interested. Noah’s Ark was one of my favorites, but the dispute between Logo and the creator/executive producer sent that show to an early grave. The Cucumber and Banana shows were interesting, but it probably will take a few years for those shows to gain an audience. I feel Logo is on life support, and DR is its only lifeline. However, business is business, so I would not be surprised if World of Wonder and RuPaul take their show somewhere else and refuse to allow it to go down with Logo’s sinking ship.
I’m surprised that LOGO has so many problems. It’s been like that for years. They have a HUGE market that is interested & supportive of their programming, but their programming offers are so limited. I don’t get it.
I miss Noah’s Ark too goldenindigo. Logo needs to get it’s act together. They are messing with my viewing pleasure.
I’m so fucking happy that my favorite show is getting recapped on my favorite blog!
So many changes this season. Some hood, some not so good.
Im already missing the scrumptious Shawn Morales but this new red head guy is fucking hot!
Not a big fan of a mini challenge that doesn’t have a winner. Loved seeing Alaska as Anna Wintour. I want Mathu Anderson to be my BFF.
I liked Santino Rice.
I made it a point to avoid any queen related news this season, I wanted a blank slate for everyone. So far, I’m loving Pearl, Ginger Minj, Miss Fame and both Violet Chachki and Trixie Mattel surprised me.
Jasmine Masters Seems very sweet but I’m not a fan of her look and that Hula-hoop bullshit should have got her the boot. Kandy Ho’s painting skills need major work. Who the fuck paints a beard on when doing drag? Was not impressed by Max at all.
Love the addition of Carson Kressley and Ross Matthews.
Not happy they moved Untucked to the next day and to YouTube. Since I avoided all the news, I missed this bit of information and was freaking out. When I finally got to see Untucked, my first thought was WTF is with this ghetto-ass set? They cannot be serious. I hope the set gets upgraded to something more than a gold couch and a couple coushioned stools soon.
Seeing Ginger Minj all sprawled out with one leg on the back of the couch in her nude illusion might make me forget that ratchet set.
Thanks so much for the recap. I tape everything so I never see the commercials when new shows are starting cause I FF past them when watching my shows. So I actually missed the premier and had to tape a later show. I would have missed it completely if not for this blog. Recap was really good.
Very nicely done. Thanks.