Spoilers ahead for the finale of “Drag Race UK vs The World”.
Drag Race UK vs The World came to a glittery finish on Tuesday, as Blu Hydrangea lip-sync battled her way through Jujubee and Mo Heart to be crowned the first-ever “queen of the mothertuckin’ world.”
A much-discussed element of the latest Drag Race spinoff has been the grand prize. Instead of $100,000, the winning queen only receives the aforementioned title and the opportunity to record a duet with host RuPaul.
So fans were a bit surprised when that duet — “Champion (Ru X Blu)” — debuted on Spotify hours before the finale aired.
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Some Reddit sleuths believe the song was accidentally released at midnight local time in New Zealand, but regardless of how it happened, the damage was done:
Spotify right now… ??? pic.twitter.com/KCSDAdrDAz
— RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Fans (@rpdrukfans) March 8, 2022
Spotify leaked who won drag race and here I am in a bar waiting to watch who won.
— hamzii -?????? GZB ? LOSTB (@himbohamza) March 8, 2022
Thanks a lot @Spotify for spoiling the finale of drag race UK vs the world, totally not fuming. ??
— Ry (@big_dumb_hoe) March 8, 2022
I JUST GOT FUCKING SPOILED FOR WHO WINS #DragRaceUK BECAUSE SPOTIFY PUT UP THE SINGLE WITH THE WINNER????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
— CORU (@corulicious) March 8, 2022
me seeing on twitter that the winner leaked because they uploaded the track on spotify #DragRaceUK pic.twitter.com/67afGuVP6M
— ticker tape (@tickticktimer) March 8, 2022
Not long after the song effectively leaked the winner, Spotify suffered a major outage.
That led to some pretty hilarious comments:
Obsessed at Spotify accidentally spoiling Drag Race and deleting their account in response
— andy (@andyetc) March 8, 2022
Spotify shutting down their servers coz some intern accidentally uploaded the drag race winners single
— bbygorl (@jssown) March 8, 2022
Spotify is down because Michelle is at HQ tearing the place down because of the drag race leak #spotify
— Yshee Black (@ysheeblack) March 8, 2022
Here’s the duet with Ru and Blu:
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DarkZephyr
This suggests to me that the winner knew she was the winner long before she actually won, which is weird. Unless both Mo AND Blu did duets with Ru!
BaltoSteve
I would suggest that the show was taped months ago and between then and now is when the song was recorded.
jackscott
Ru needs to open that purse and give some$ to the winner. How crazy is it that once folks make it they forget how hard it can be. Make thinks a little easier for others and help them out, especially if they win your show!!!
DarkZephyr
Isn’t the lack of a cash prize due to rules and regulations in the UK? At any rate, a Queen with a successful or memorable run on drag race makes the REAL money simply from being famous for having a successful or memorable run on Drag Race. Blu is not gonna go without $$$.
BaltoSteve
It’s all because it’s produced by the BBC.
Ronbo
THIS is the worst thing that has ever happened in the world?!? Russia is bombing, invading and killing Ukrainians vs. dragaholics having their little suprise ruioned?!? (not a surprise if you actually watched)
Dan Tracer, stop trolling twitter for stories. Twitter is for twits who have limited ability to make valid analysis or cogent arguments. It’s porn for extremists; a money shot into the darkness by self-centered haters.
Ronbo
Oh yes, follow me on twitter as “Ronbolina”.
ShiningSex
Rupaul’s music is the worst thing to happen to our world.
She’s a joke. When you make a song out of every single word, phrase you utter is pretty pathetic. Where’s the “saboteur” song. Does it exists because if not, I’m sure her overused word will be a song soon enough. Gagging and not for a good reason. LOL.
PS. Blu didn’t deserve the win. She sucked.
phenom
Are you serious?! Asking people to follow your Twitter when trans people in Ukraine can’t leave because of Ukraine’s archaic gender affirmation laws??? Wow you must be a really sick human being. /s
Did that show you how ridiculous you sounded acting as if this article said anywhere that it was, quote, “the worst thing that ever happened”? Go touch grass PLEASE
Invader7
Whatever..>So insignificant…
ShiningSex
First off Blu is horrible. Her lip synch finale was horrible and in way was better than Mo. Ru obviously was going to give it to a UK person. Blu was the worst of the bunch. Pangina would have beaten all of them if she had made it to the end.
Rupaul’s music is hideous and whoever listens to that crap has zero taste in music. Get some taste ladies.
Thad
Seems like some folks just don’t wanna dance