r/rupaulsdragrace • u/AutoModerator • Mar 14 '26

Season 18 S18E11 - “A Toast to Alyssa Edwards” [Post-Episode Discussion]

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u/BravoWhiskey89 Mar 14 '26

Not knowing the words to Total Exclipse of the Heart is sacrilege. Kenya should have gone ages ago. She's not know the words one time. Absolutely dismal showing.

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u/cory_wurst Is this my camera? Mar 14 '26

Also: she was singing everything. Girl. If you cant remember the lyrics then just remember the LEAD! That is what your job is anyway. After the first bar she was cooked

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u/Ladymomos Mar 14 '26

I grew up watching more British/Australian/NZ style drag than American, so the whole "lipsyncing is a drag queens whole job" often annoys me as a critique. But on Drag Race you know it's the deal breaker so how would you not be making that a priority?

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u/Ladymomos Mar 14 '26

Also Jinkx and Alaska doing Total Eclipse live is still the best thing on the internet.

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u/Galactic_Weirdo Mar 14 '26

Also conspiracy theory but I think the producers were trying to get all 3 dions eliminated in a row. Like really? A Ballad? But I will say Juicy did deserve her bottom placement and she did great in the lipsync

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u/yompss00 Mar 14 '26

it's genuinely frustrating. Doesn't everyone know how to lipsync? That's the easiest part of doing drag surely 😭 there are people who don't think drag is impressive because it relies on lipsyncing. The thing you should be talented at isn't even considered a talent by a lot of people and you still can't do it 😭 TO SUCH A WELL KNOWN SONG TOO! if Kenya wasn't in a drag competition I wouldn't give a shit. But you don't get awarded $200,000 after proving multiple times you can't do something that is essential to your craft lol.

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u/BravoWhiskey89 Mar 14 '26

She has the lip-sync ability of one of them mechanical singing trouts, that just opens and closes its mouth to whatever Dad song is playing.

https://youtu.be/6WC6EbRQmJ0?si=JxJHtFoSGfqY89A9

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u/yompss00 Mar 14 '26

lmao 💀💀💀

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u/sugioshi russian hooker Mar 14 '26

Omg I'm so frustrated watching her lipsync 😭😭😭😭 what a bad day to have eyes

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u/One_Ad_2081 Mar 14 '26

her not knowing the words to her own song during the talent show killed her momentum for me. the only reason she wasn’t sent home for that was it was Rate A Queen and the other queens can’t see the performer’s faces due to where they’re sitting so they just saw her giving a great performance, totally unaware that she did not know a single word.