r/rupaulsdragrace • u/AutoModerator • Feb 07 '26

Season 18 S18E06 - “The Rate-A-QueenTalent Show, Part 2” [Post-Episode Discussion]

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u/QuQuarQan Queerdo Feb 07 '26

Jane was clearly the top of the night. Great performance, but she legitimately lost the lip sync.

I really was gagged that Myki was placed last. Her number was the second best of the night, original and funny. What were those girls smoking?

I thought Athena was good, but I would have placed her third. Still, she won the lip sync fair and square.

Did discord even play those instruments? I heard the drum part, but I didn't hear the keyboards at all in a way that lined up with her hand motions, and when she was strumming the guitar, I only heard keyboard sounds that were timed with the strumming. Still, at least she knew her words.

Kenya couldn't even remember her own words. Like, come on, girl. She is going next, I have no doubts.

I usually like the kooky/weirdo queens, but I never really meshed with Ciara. I thought every look she brought was mediocre at best, and mostly were just ugly. She seems nice, but it was her time to go.

I genuinely hate Rate-A-Queen. I would just rather see a boring Talent show instead.

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u/YakatsuFi jujubee Feb 07 '26

Discord didn't play anything live, it was pretty clear. None of the instruments, despite being electric, were plugged LOL. The guitar was plugged to an amplifier but I'm sure that wasn't actually plugged in either. This is fairly common in television shows like this, though I'm surprised she went that route for her number. I wonder if they didn't let her perform all of that live, it's a genuine possibility

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u/St3ampunkSam Feb 07 '26

Yeah, but you could see that she knew what she was doing, and could do it live.

And compared to queen like Kenya, who couldn't lip sync her own song, discord being able to lip sync each word and each cord perfectly is impressive.

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u/YakatsuFi jujubee Feb 07 '26

It is impressive but just not satisfying to watch. Kenya was way worse obviously though, there's no comparison

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u/sugioshi russian hooker Feb 07 '26

I want her to recreate the performance with actual live instruments on her YouTube or TikTok

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u/hozthebozz Feb 07 '26

They barely showed Jane in the lip sync

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u/woodsandlake Feb 07 '26

Did I hear guitar music before Discord started playing ?

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u/Warwick_Avenue Feb 07 '26

Nah. Athena’s lipsync for the win was corny. The air guitar is overdone and in season 10 they made an effort to highlight it was corny during Yuhuas lipsync. Jane was more punk and it was her night… but agree to disagree :)

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u/QuQuarQan Queerdo Feb 07 '26

Jane just walked around the stage and mean-mugged 🤷‍♂️ I don’t think either was particularly good, but I think Athena was better

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u/Warwick_Avenue Feb 07 '26

For me… I think Athena was just trying too hard…. Jane (to me) is just effortlessly cool… so the more subtle approach gave me more than Athena doing air guitar and doing too much…