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Drag Race Recap: Straight Roommate Edition
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No. 4 ·
BrianZ · Member · 316 comments
Love love love Nina! She’s always amazing, always fresh and exciting: Mearl said it “She always manages to surprise” and I agree. That element of ‘what’s she gonna do next’ is something that really helped RuPaul gain the level of notoriety she has today.
I don’t hate BeBe but she’s just not exciting. I think she does amazing drag, but very few of her looks had the ‘wow’ factor for me: Very fishy but doesn’t pop. And that wig rippin’ hissy fit last week made me cringe.
I couldn’t believe that Rebecca got through, again!, on her “potential”. Honey I’m not going to watch this show for a couple years waiting for her to learn the skills necessary to win. Her outfits were frayed at the edges, totally unfinished. I do give her credit on some original thinking on the outfits, they weren’t totally shiteous. Her makeup is almost well done, but never polished; you can see the texture of it. Her walk on the runway looks as if her legs are getting some mechanical assistance, not fluid at all. And her expression in drag … well, maybe she’s afraid to move her face for fear of the pancake falling off. She might have potential (to be a street hooker), but it’s not to be a drag superstar. I gag ever so slightly (and that’s a mean feat at this point in my life) when I think that Ongina and Shannel went home to keep this person on the show.
Mar 10, 2009 at 10:43 am · @Reply
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No. 6 ·
rex
I for one didn’t think I would like the show – but I do – and I’m routing for Nina Flowers….I’ve seen drag over the my 48yrs and NEVER fully appreciated the work put into it…Nina Flowers represents Masculinity and the FULL Transformation that being a Drag Star entails.
Mar 10, 2009 at 1:05 pm · @Reply · Flag
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No. 8 ·
jackpacer
Shannel never had a chance winning, the judges always critiqued her harder than the rest. The reason, RuPaul is still a gorgous ass diva queen, Shannel is a gorgous ass diva queen and we all know that you can have two diva queen accupy the same room. Since RuPaul is in charge, Shannel had to go. Don’t worry Shannel, with LaCage closed in Vegas, there is room for a new drag show on the strip and now you get to advertise “as seen on DragRace”. Rebecca should have been off two shows ago. I’m rooting for Ms. NIina Flowers. He really worked out that Vogue challenge, shame we didn’t have a surprise Madonna appearance.
Mar 10, 2009 at 1:17 pm · @Reply · Flag
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No. 10 ·
Chris
I could not stand Shannel. She has no class. Her big attitude and even larger costumes really turned me off. I will be happy if Nina wins. Although a smart ass sometimes, she is always helping the other contestants so she can have a fair fight for the title. She is the most decent Queen on the show.
Mar 10, 2009 at 1:31 pm · @Reply · Flag
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No. 15 ·
kevin (not that one)
Shannel = Diva
Is anyone surprised that we FINALLY got to see Shannel’s inner diva go ballistic?
That said, I’m going to miss Shannel most of all since she is a true queen. I love the way she dishes and I believe, despite her divatude, that she/he’s a really nice person. And I totally agree with her about Rebecca.
It should be said that only out of the lips of a drag queen could you expect to hear the irony-laden “underneath all of that make-up is a superficial person”.
And what’s the deal with the whole retro foray into vogueing? That totally made no sense. And, if you’ve ever seen Paris is Burning or Party Girl, you would’ve known that none of them actually pulled off a true vogue.
Mar 10, 2009 at 4:00 pm · @Reply · Flag
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No. 16 ·
Jon Wilson
Nina is adorable. And she has a great amount of class. I almost wept that week when she said she came from “a humble background” (because they couldn’t afford cable tv, as I recall). Bebe is classy too, but she is not sincere enough, nor is she articulate enough. Even though Nina has the accent, she is so winning as a human being. What ARE we going to do with those hideous tattoos?!?!?
Rebecca just has to go. Buh-bye.
Mar 10, 2009 at 5:00 pm · @Reply · Flag
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No. 18 ·
scandi · Member · 6 comments
Rebecca just doesn’t look like a drag queen to me. She looks like one of those gay boys (myself included) who decides to dress up on Halloween and might look okay, but ain’t no damn queen. It just kills me that she’s there over Ongina.
My vote is definitely going to be for Nina, she’s the only one left who’s truly fierce.
Mar 10, 2009 at 7:07 pm · @Reply · Flag
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No. 21 ·
Tom Bardwell
Nina will win!
Rebecca needs to soften her contour.
Mar 10, 2009 at 8:37 pm · @Reply · Flag
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No. 24 ·
Doug
I’d like Nina Flowers to win and think she should win… If you think about it Nina is the one you’d notice and the one you would remember. Nina Flowers is also more transformative in his persona’s and distinctive in his/her look… And he seems like a great guy too!
Mar 11, 2009 at 12:40 am · @Reply · Flag
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No. 26 ·
sparkle obama
@Andrew W:
>>Shanelle really is stunning, but… doesn’t she also look just a little bit (a whole lot) like Kirstie Alley?<<
yeah she does!
it’s the eyebrows.
shannel does the vegas showgirl thing and she does the vegas smoky eye.
chanel’s classic vegas stripper brow is cruelly curved – self-consciously “aggressive” and ever-so-slightly placed too close together.
it’s a sci-fi/fantasy “wicked disney queen” brow crossed with sheer, inadvertant reba mcintire/polly holliday cornpone…
shannel’s brows are consciously intimidating, angrily drawn
and faintly, slightly “white trash”
(not to get “racial”…)
like previous contestant tammy brown, as well as holly woodlawn, rhoda, ross the boss, clara bow and the fabulous marisa berenson,
rupaul’s eyebrows are always spaced wide-apart, open, light, ethereal – and more roundly *arced* than arched & angled.
rupaul’s art deco, ross-related brow is organic, friendly and optimistic.
it represents rupaul’s basic positivity as clearly as shannel’s knitted, country & baroquely “evil” brow mirrors her own intrinsic negativity!
-it’s as clear as the brows on those girls’ faces…
as fit and poised as she is, shannel’s sick, wrong, country stripper brow finally is a
deal-breaker for me, aesthetically speaking…
along with her dark, swooping, contrasting tammy fae baker lipliner -
– well she can kiss my grits!
nina flowers most consistently represents the standard set by rupaul himself.
she gives the face, the flair & the hilarity.
she brings back the human simpatico contagious joie de vivre that made rupaul herself so special when she first came out in the 80s & 90s, and added up to her persona as a shaman for the “age of oprah”.
however!
only the paint-challenged, tentative rebecca has the POTENTIAL to equal or even come close to the BEAUTY STANDARD set by rupaul as Supermodel of the World.
i have to assume that there a singing challenge & a beauty challenge yet to come in the competion.
do you think they will have to sing, or is “singing” a moot point in the rupaul equation??
entyway, i’m looking forward to a beauty shot challenge.
rupaul is just like his doppelgangers ross, cher & miss dolly parton,
along with the force of her phenomenal personality, it was sheer beauty & physical grace that brought rupaul all the way to the top of his field.
if rebecca can find her motivation, loosen up and somehow learn to
*blend her blush*…
Mar 11, 2009 at 5:22 am · @Reply · Flag
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No. 29 ·
sparkle obama
i am gagging on “rupaul’s drag race”.
all the kids are lovely!
both nina flowers and ongina are potential superstars and the embattled rebecca glasscock is a true beauty and you lie if you deny!
shannel was a trip, and her absolute swimsuit walk was flawless and pretty, but i can’t cosign on all the praise her makeup application has recieved.
i think she’s talented, precise and skilled – but i also feel her style is misguided and “regional”, as the children say nowadays…
shannel brags about her skills, but how about some class?
…it’s all in the eyebrows.
someone else pointed out that shannel gives you kirstie alley *down* – and not in a good way.
Mar 11, 2009 at 7:51 pm · @Reply · Flag
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No. 30 ·
Sebbe · Member · 1054 comments
@sparkle obama – Once Shannel shook her ass again at the judges I screamed OUT at the teevee. That may go over big in the club in vegas, and it was cute the first few times she did it, but enough already. She screams trashy vegas, I don’t think that is what Ru is looking for.
Mar 11, 2009 at 8:05 pm · @Reply · Flag
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No. 32 ·
Keith
@Sebbe: Chicken Fetticine almost had but then did the ass shaking to a gospel track which is so not appropriate.
@ Sparkle Obama- love the eyebrow analysis food for thought.
@ Mike – God forbid Logo should do the right thing and renew a bonified hit. I’ve noticed that when they cross utilize a show it’s a good sign but I could be wrong. Lord knows they threw on the tar stain Tea Telicka on Logo just because it was a hit on MTV(I think) Was the thinking, “hey she’s bi maybe the queers watching Logo will like it.” I’m so hoping Rupaul gets renew because I forgot how wonderful he is. Sorry to go on & on. One last thing, Has anyone noticed how Rupaul kinda disappeared during the Bush years.
Mar 12, 2009 at 9:32 am · @Reply · Flag
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No. 33 ·
Stop! Or My Daddy Will Shoot!
@kevin (not that one): Voguing didn’t stop after Paris is Burning. Balls are still happening today, and the girls have taken the dramatics to a whole ‘nother gymnastic breakdancing level of ferocity. Nina especially knows how to pull off a contemporary vogue, notably ‘hand performance’, though I was hoping to see some real ‘dips’.
And speaking of, I’m dissappointed that instead of lending the whole Vogue/Ball theme a little bit of authenticity by having one of Paris is Burning‘s Legendary Children or a current figure on the scene (Jay Karan!) as a special guest judge, they brought out some Vodka shill. Yeah he was cute, but that’s not the point.
Shanelle was a little embarrassing to watch, as usual, and it was especially hilarious to see her shake her tailfeather to a GOSPEL song! Bebe does her thing but is a little dry, and I’ve been on Team Nina since the beginning. She helped Bebe with her outfits! She’s in it to win, but she’s not cut-throat like some other bitches who will remain glasscock, I mean nameless.
Mar 12, 2009 at 12:42 pm · @Reply · Flag
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Shannelle always turned it out, but only in that Vegas surface level way.
Rebecca, Smack that worked over tranny drag DOWN
Bebe, love her but
NINA ROCKS and has my vote, in or out of drag!