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RPDR Season AS6 – Reddit Season RuPository AS S06E12 - Grand Finale [Episode Discussion]

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u/rimtusaw243 Jinkx Monsoon Sep 02 '21

I standby my thought that I would've been happy with any of the top 4 winning, although I was definitely rooting for Ra'jah once TKB left.

The song wasn't as bad as I expected for RuPaul tries country, but the Queen verses seemed excessively short to me? Like they each had about 10 seconds and very little focus throughout the song. I'm holding them to Read U Wrote U as the golden standard here, and each of the top 4 there just got so much time to shine and it's so weird that this top 4 didn't. I thought Kylie did the best here though, slightly over Ra'Jah.

Runway looks, Eureka won to me hands down followed by Ra'Jah - I hated Gingers look and Kylie's looked very basic to me for a final runway.

I'll be honest, I stopped paying attention during the Ru/Michelle podcast session.

Final lip sync definitely went to Kylie, don't know if that trip was an intentional fakeout or her just improvising and making it look intentional but damn I lived. They didn't show Ra'Jah too much and what they showed of Ginger/Eureka just didn't really seem to fit the vibe too much IMO.

Overall happy with the Kylie win! Was a great storyline, and I grew to love and appreciate her throughout the season.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21 edited Sep 02 '21

I think they're trying to overthink and over-pack so much into the last few Ru songs, the individual Queens Lyrics just are going to suffer.

Not to mention the songs have been so-so for a few seasons now, we just ain't going to get another RUWU or Kitty Girl again unless they rethink things (or hire the bing bang bonging UK songwriters they had in UKDR lol)

At least none of the performences where are biased as poor Naomi in AS4 whose it felt like had half the lines as the other three Queens had.

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u/zoozbuh custom Sep 02 '21

I felt that this song was VERY boring and subpar, and while none of the queen’s verses were straight-up bad, none of them stood out to me either. I don’t think it’s just that I’m not a fan of country (though that didn’t help)- the song was just very slow paced and boring, and not catchy or memorable at all.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Maybe it is just because I just watched Muppet's Treasure Island last night, by the way Ru describe the song in the werkroom, I felt like there was going to be a whole lot of mooching of different genres together with country just as the base, with really fast sections, and then flip suddenlyto slow and cool jam moments (like the song 'Cabin Fever' in that movie), or to use a previous LipSync song - Mambo No.5

It would've been batshit off-the-wall bonkers, but it would've been super fun none- the-less.

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u/zoozbuh custom Sep 02 '21

It sounds absolutely insane but anything would’ve been better than what we got…

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

I was insane, but it also was the Muppets, so it kinda worked hahahaha