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00:00I'll see you next time
00:30Well, it do take nerve
00:43It's your girl Anya Nerve
00:44Your current reigning drag superstar
00:47Since we made a splash last season
00:49The world has gotten a little more shady
00:51So it's time for the 14 new queens
00:53To light up the stage and compete for the crown
00:56Are you ready to meet the queen?
00:57Let there be light
00:59Athena Dion
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01:30Briar Blush
02:00Briar Blush
02:30Sierra Miss
02:41Briar Blush
03:11Darlene Mitchell
03:31Briar Blush
03:38Darlene Mitchell
03:45Didi Fuego.
04:15Didi Fuego.
04:45Didi Fuego.
05:01Discord Adams.
05:03Discord Adams.
05:05Discord Adams.
05:25Jane don't.
05:55Jane don't.
06:25Juicy love Dion.
06:55Kenya Pleaser.
07:42Mandy Mango.
07:56Mandy Mango.
08:38Mia Star.
08:40Mia Star.
09:12Mikey Meeks.
10:40Vita Fonti's star.
11:10Vita Fonti's star.
11:40The time has come for a new season and for the drag we deserve.
11:46Who do you think will snatch the spotlight?
11:49Get ready y'all because season 18 is about to begin.
11:52Here again are the queens of season 18.
12:10The queens of season 18 is about to begin.
12:18I think the queens of season 18 is about to begin.
12:28See you Friday night on MTV.
12:58Do I have any hidden talents?
13:01I can fit both hands in my- I'm kidding, I can't.
13:06You don't know where I can fit my hands.
13:11My name is Athena Dion, I am the queen of Miami, the queen of Mykonos, and the Greek glam goddess
13:18of season 18.
13:19Dion should sound familiar because my little rat of- I'm sorry.
13:22My beautiful daughter got on the show before me on season 16, Morphine Love Dion.
13:27And there's another one on this season with me too.
13:29Juicy Love Dion.
13:30I'm a very fertile mother, I have a lot of drag children.
13:34This uterus, honey, she's been put to work.
13:37Listen, I am the mother of Miami and I've been doing drag in that city for about 16 years,
13:45so everything I've learned on those streets I'm bringing to the main stage and there are
13:48some cut-throat bitches coming from Miami and I'm here to slay, to show my gorgeous, gorgeous
13:54drag, my goddess presence, and just to bless the other contestants with all that is Athena
14:00Dion.
14:01Athena Dion lives at like the crossroad of luxury and glamour.
14:05My style is- it's a mixture of like good old-fashioned drag-drag mixed with couture, glamour, a touch
14:13of a heavenly essence, you know, something to that effect.
14:16I mean, I am a goddess after all, so I think I do infuse that into my drag.
14:20You know, I'm inspired by a lot of celebrities, if we're going to talk celebrity-wise, mother's
14:23share.
14:24Do you believe in love after love?
14:27Celine Dion, my namesake, you know.
14:30Personally, my mother is a big inspiration of mine.
14:32She was the dragiest drag queen in my life growing up, so this is all her fault, to be
14:36honest.
14:37You know, I think my motherly personality, I think all my experience will help me the most
14:44in this competition.
14:45I've been doing this for a really long time.
14:47I know the girls will underestimate me because I do look very young.
14:51I look like one of the youngest girls on the cast, actually, so I don't think they know
14:55that I've been doing it for so long.
14:56But I am a very tight package, full of wisdom and knowledge, just like the goddess Athena.
15:06You want me to expose my- if I tell you my signature scent right now, every little cross-dresser
15:10across the country is going to go out and buy it, and it's not going to be mine and mine alone
15:13anymore.
15:14Do you want me to really spill the tea?
15:16Okay, I'll give you this.
15:17I do have all of Cher's perfumes.
15:19She came out with a line of perfumes from every decade, from the 60s to the early 2000s,
15:23and depending on my mood, I will wear those.
15:24That's not my signature scent, though.
15:26I'll do this.
15:27I'll tell you the brand of my signature scent, but I won't tell you which one it is.
15:30My signature scent smells like a powerful badass bitch, with hints of oud and wood as well.
15:36She's a woody queen.
15:37It's by Mancera, but I'm not giving you which one it is.
15:41Back off, bitches.
15:43Baby, I've been doing my big one, honey.
15:46I've been doing my big one since 2009, so it only gets bigger, better, and faster, and
15:50longer, and stronger.
15:51And everything else, all of the above, honey.
15:53D, all of the above.
15:54I have been America's next drag superstar.
15:56I'm just here to pick up the check and the crown.
15:59Snap, snap, snap, honey.
16:01I want to cross my leg, but that sounds like a lot of work.
16:03I designed this look.
16:04I designed all my looks.
16:05I'm going to try to sit back just slightly, so I can get a little...
16:07I got it.
16:08So we got full body on this?
16:10If I just sat down and didn't talk at all, you'd probably think, like, oh, little lady.
16:13I just can't stop.
16:15Like, I just have, like, the gift of gab.
16:21My name is Briar Blush, and I'm from Boston, Massachusetts.
16:23The Boston trait that I'm bringing is deep-rooted self-loathing and being a huge f***hole.
16:31I am Boston's pin-up princess.
16:33I'm, like, the it girl of any time or place.
16:35The thing about Briar Blush is that her drag is timeless, retro-feeling, but modern.
16:40It's, like, I exist on my own timeline of history.
16:46Okay, so there was a really beautiful doll photographer artist, and she had a doll named Briar that she would photograph.
16:52And I thought that name was so f***edress mother.
16:55And I just like that it was androgynous.
16:58Beautiful girls with androgynous names to me are, like, really, really f***ed.
17:02I love that vibe.
17:03I consider myself a creative.
17:05And my style comes from everything that is really important to me.
17:10I was really goth as a teenager.
17:11I was really into Turner Classic movies.
17:13I was really into people like Dita Von Teese, Nancy Sinatra.
17:16Love Jane Birkin.
17:17Love Sophia Loren.
17:18Love Priscilla Presley.
17:19Duh.
17:20And all those things kind of congealed into the life form that I am.
17:23So Briar's not alternative.
17:25She's not not alternative.
17:26I'll put it that way.
17:27I remember really early into my drag career, I performed some whack goth song at a hip-hop night.
17:33Made a total of $3.
17:34And I was like, damn, I can't even get a Wendy's 4 for 4.
17:38And this other girl in the dressing room hands me another dollar and goes, here, that's my tip for you.
17:42Now you can get one.
17:43Isn't that beautiful?
17:44I was so chocked that she felt bad and gave me a dollar.
17:47I love horror movies.
17:49Body horror, but I also like suspense.
17:51Like, I was a fan of the original Nosferatu and the French version.
17:54I've seen all of them and I loved them.
17:56Actually, I will say the new Nosferatu, he was so hot.
18:00They gave him, like, too much sex appeal, to be honest.
18:026'7", like, tall, mustache, deep voice, has a property, clearly has money to spend.
18:08But can I tell you something?
18:09Sometimes when guys are so tall, like when they're, like, hit, like, 6'4", and above,
18:13they start to slouch in a way that's, like, kind of hot to me.
18:16Because you're like, oh, you're so tall.
18:17Like, oh, that must be so .
18:18I'm, like, 5'5".
18:24There is nothing anybody could ever say to me that would throw me off, like, of how I feel about myself.
18:29It's a double-edged sword that I both don't care what anyone says, but I also don't care at all.
18:34Like, and it's, like, sometimes becomes a problem.
18:36My big one?
18:37Sure, I'll do my big one.
18:38Why the hell not?
18:39Why the hell not?
18:40I'm America's Next Drag Superstar because I claim it as my destiny.
18:51Clot that.
18:52Oh, my signature scent is definitely mozzarella sticks with ranch.
18:57I may smell good during the number, but you're probably going to recognize the smell of mozzarella sticks.
19:06My name is Sierra Miss, and I'm the shape-shifting superstar of Indianapolis, Indiana.
19:10Indiana is known for bad politics and a lot of corn, so I'm leaving those at home,
19:16and I'm bringing good drag and creativity to the competition.
19:20I don't think that the culture from Indiana influences my drag tastes or aesthetic, necessarily.
19:25Those are rooted, really, in, like, my childhood love.
19:28Superheroes, comic books, sci-fi, fantasy, all of the things that I would draw as a kid.
19:36I don't know.
19:36I am pretty strange, so, like, picking the strangest thing is really weird.
19:39Um, I think Tony the Tiger is attractive.
19:45Um, I am going on 32 years old, and I still love Power Rangers.
19:49I mean, I'm a sucker for the classics because I'm a millennial.
19:51I realized I was different when I had a crush on both Kimberly and Tommy,
19:55but I think that In Space or Lost Galaxy, for the nerds out there,
19:59those are kind of, like, fabulous seasons second to Mighty Morphin.
20:02Uh, so are we talking Tommy Green or Tommy White?
20:05Um, I mean, Tommy Green is the bad boy,
20:08but Tommy White is, like, so fierce.
20:09When he comes down from the ceiling and, like, the ray of light,
20:12that's drag.
20:13That's drag.
20:14And then they were, like, they shared a Zord together,
20:17and I was like, that's kind of hot.
20:19Off camera, we'll tell you.
20:21In drag, I embody every comic book superhero that I ever had a crush on.
20:26I am X-Men characters.
20:28I am just jumping out of the pages of a comic book.
20:31I get to be that superhero badass strong woman who is both feminine, sexy, soft,
20:36but also could absolutely beat your ass.
20:39Will I do my big one?
20:41Um, like, in the toilet?
20:44Um, sure, I'll do my big one.
20:46Yeah, why not?
20:47Okay, girls, yeah, move aside.
20:49I'll do my big one.
20:50Will I do my big one this season?
20:52I'll do my huge one.
20:54I am America's next drag superstar because not only does she have to look good and I look incredible,
21:04she has to have something important to say.
21:06Life is chaotic and crazy, and this world is messed up right now.
21:11And we, as a country, as a people, as a queer community, deserve a drag superstar who is not only fierce,
21:17who is not only wonderful to look at, but can champion equality, diversity, and stand up to all of the f***ed up s*** that's happening in this world.
21:27We need a superhero, and Sierra Mist is your superhero.
21:36I will not be shablammin' or twirlin' around the stage anytime soon.
21:40Oh, are you not a shablammer?
21:41Oh, no, that's a long way down, girl.
21:47I'm Darlene Mitchell, and I am from Los Angeles, California.
21:50I was born and raised in a small town in Indiana, actually, so I'm a transplant.
21:55How I describe myself is a little country, a little c***, and a whole lot of camp,
22:00because I definitely like to include this, like, Midwestern country, like, through line.
22:04Darlene's aesthetic is very, like, boxed wine, cigarette after cigarette, you know what I mean?
22:09Like, very much that woman.
22:10And I am kind of, like, the exact opposite of that.
22:12When they find out that I'm, like, a long time sober and, like, pretty chill and easy, you know, easy to get along with and pretty sweet,
22:19that they're kind of like, whoa, this is a turn.
22:22The very first song that I ever performed to was Rihanna, S&M.
22:27I was the door girl for free on a Tuesday.
22:32They were like, do you know what? Like, do you want to, like, do a number?
22:35And I'm like, yeah, for these five people.
22:37So I was like, you know what? S&M, hit it.
22:39I had the time of my life.
22:40Ooh, my biggest inspiration.
22:42My favorite person in the entire world is Dolly Parton.
22:45I have a Dolly Parton shower curtain.
22:50I'm engaged.
22:51Is Dollywood the honeymoon?
22:52I don't know. We'll see.
22:55Bring back more mall drag.
22:56These designers, get them out of here.
22:59Bring back the $5 bin.
23:01I want the iddiest, biddiest, little slutty jean skirt, you know?
23:06Little spaghetti strap tank top.
23:08Give me a little butterfly necklace, you know?
23:1195% alcohol perfume.
23:14Like, I want the dollar store on heels.
23:17Give me mall drag.
23:18One trend that I feel like I would definitely have to chop
23:20is the rock hard solid sculpted wigs with the rhinestones all over.
23:25Chop.
23:26Even though I might own a couple.
23:30See, here's the thing.
23:31I don't know if I suffer from drag delusion.
23:33I'm aware that some of my tastes, you know, are not popular among the room.
23:38But I'm not saying that it's, you know, the best or that it is, you know, better than anyone else's.
23:44It's just, I'm sticking to my guns, you know?
23:46Like, I feel very glamorous in this $5 thong and tank top.
23:49Like, in hard front mullet.
23:51Like, I'm sorry you don't think so, but it's not stopping me.
23:57This season, I am doing the big one.
24:00You're going to see Darlene Mitchell all the way to the end, honey.
24:04We are taking that crown and we are doing it in a pair of jean shorts.
24:09And we're going to go back to that mall drag.
24:11Mall drag taking over the world.
24:13I'm America's Next Drag Superstar because I feel like I offer a fresh perspective.
24:18You know what I mean?
24:19And it's time to shake it up.
24:20Let people know that this is something that is fun and it's self-expression.
24:23And it's just pedal to the metal.
24:26Like, I'm just like ready to rock and roll.
24:28Oh my God.
24:29I can say whatever I want.
24:30I can just lie about who I am.
24:32I've been doing drag for 15 years and I am the most beautiful woman on earth.
24:36Are we playing Two Truths and a Lie now?
24:38I'm a virgin.
24:39Ah!
24:45Hola, I am Didi Fuego and I am from Monterrey, Mexico.
24:49But I currently live in New York City.
24:51Should I do it in Spanish?
24:53Hola, I am Didi Fuego.
24:54I am from Monterrey, Mexico.
24:55And I live in New York City.
24:57That is so stupid.
24:59I am bringing the high excellence in talent from New York City.
25:05New York is a hard city to make it in.
25:07And I've made it.
25:08Oh my God, I think I just found my light.
25:11Oh!
25:12Didi Fuego is fashionable.
25:16She is beautiful.
25:17She is stupid.
25:19And she's very handsome.
25:21I make my mixes, I make my clothes.
25:26I didn't make all of this, but I'm involved.
25:28Because I am what?
25:30Too poor to hire anyone.
25:32So in this competition, what's going to help me the most is that I can do everything.
25:37I'm not saying I'm tens across the board, but I'm like a nice 7.5s at everything.
25:42I can give you talents of all kinds, makings of all kinds.
25:47And there's nothing I can do badly except maybe like, like throw a ball.
25:51Because I have like a weird arm thing.
25:53From birth.
25:54Like I can't connect this arm to my body without hurting.
25:58Like I just can't.
25:59And I can't like open my arms.
26:01Like I'd be a really bad like server and be like.
26:04That's like as far as it goes.
26:07Do I have any hidden talents?
26:09No, if I have a talent, I am going to monetize it.
26:11I can dance fine and I can also give you a little comedy.
26:14And what I usually do is I'll have a reveal or two or three.
26:17So while the girl is doing the split, which we've seen before.
26:20Didi Fuego is pulling out all the stops elsewhere.
26:22She's a production, honey.
26:24My fan base.
26:25Oof.
26:26I have so many tens of them.
26:28Do they have a name?
26:29I don't know.
26:30We should come up with one.
26:31Like my flamers.
26:32My Fuegitos.
26:34Didi's BBs.
26:35I need to work on them.
26:37As soon as I get fans, I'll let you know what they're called.
26:39So far they're called my mom, my dad.
26:42I'll have to find a name for them when there's more than four.
26:45I am America's next drag superstar because I am Mexican, American, queer, Middle Eastern, and from New York.
26:53I am the president's worst nightmare.
26:55And I look like one of his future wives.
26:57But America needs someone like me to bring us together.
27:00To set the record straight, if you are rooting for me, you are rooting for America.
27:05Crown the Latina.
27:08La corona será mia.
27:09Mia!
27:10Also, you know, because I have big teeth, a small waist, and small eyes.
27:16So I'm ready to go.
27:18I already have my all-stars teeth, but I'm not planning on going.
27:20I'm going to win this one.
27:22I might have been born just plain white trash, but Fancy was my name.
27:29What is that from?
27:31Fancy by Reba McIntyre.
27:32You've heard that song.
27:34You've heard Reba.
27:35You know her.
27:37Hi, I'm Discord Adams, and I'm from St. Pete, Florida.
27:44See, it's hard to say because I grew up doing drag in Ohio, and then I moved to Chicago, and then I moved to St. Pete.
27:50So I'm just kind of bringing Discord to the show.
27:53I'm not really bringing, like, a specific, you know, city type of representation to the show, I wouldn't say.
27:57I would describe myself as a high-fashion punk rock maximalist.
28:01I want to wear everything.
28:03If you haven't noticed, I always say, like, when I look in the mirror, instead of taking one thing off,
28:09I want to put on two more necklaces and, like, three more bracelets.
28:12I want it to look like if a Transformer was a church.
28:16Like, I'm a church that's on fire, but I'm, like, a human.
28:19Who's to say?
28:21I would say growing up, there was a really big punk scene where I lived.
28:24So throughout high school and all of that, I was really involved in going to shows.
28:28In the punk scene, it's all very DIY, so you're making your jackets, making your clothes.
28:32You can see a lot of the music that I listen to in my drag style.
28:36The Dead Kennedys, Rancid, the Sex Pistols, a little bit of classic rock, like Aerosmith.
28:41I channel, like, a mixture between, like, Lady Gaga and Mick Jagger.
28:44The first song I ever performed in drag was Teeth by Lady Gaga.
28:48I looked like my makeup was far too pale.
28:51I looked like a zombie Cher stomping around in a bra and panties.
28:56I felt fierce, but, like, when you look back on it, it's very funny.
29:00I'm just weird.
29:01I can't touch velvet.
29:03If I touch velvet, my fingers cry.
29:06And then I have to, like, lick them to, like, reset the feeling.
29:09That way I don't feel the velvet anymore.
29:11It makes my fingers feel, like, dry.
29:13Like it's sucking all the moisture out of them or something.
29:15Similar to, like, microfiber.
29:16I don't want to touch that either.
29:17I don't know.
29:18Ask my fingers.
29:19Not me.
29:20I love to be able to put on a velvet dress.
29:21It's just awful.
29:22If I could bring back one trend in drag, it should be makeup.
29:27The girls stopped wearing makeup for a while.
29:29We need more blush, more eyeliner, more lip liner.
29:32Like, we're drag queens.
29:34Like, look like a drag queen.
29:35What is trending right now in drag?
29:38I think we're on the right track right now.
29:40I think, oh, but, like, I think, like, if you want to wear nothing,
29:43at least make it look good.
29:44But I hate when the girls just, like, tie, like, a shoestring around their nipples.
29:47And they're like, look how fierce I look.
29:48Look how fierce I look.
29:49Will you do your big one this season?
29:50My what?
29:51Will you do your big one?
29:52What's that mean?
29:53Um, okay.
29:54Yeah, I'm absolutely going to have my big one this season.
29:55I mean, look how fierce I look.
29:56Hello.
29:57I'm America's next track superstar because I am bringing punk rock to the main stage.
30:10I am bringing a sense of fashion that the girls have not seen before.
30:15And I just want to be an advocate for, like, the underdog and an advocate for people who
30:20are getting treated poorly in this country.
30:23We need drag queens who are going to say more about what's happening instead of saying less.
30:27Oh, yeah.
30:28Get the fog in there.
30:29Really cover up that skin texture, baby.
30:31Oh, yeah, baby.
30:32I want it to look like you're seeing me like you just took a fat vape rip.
30:37That's where I look my best.
30:40Hi, my name is Jane Don't.
30:46I'm 32 and I am from beautiful Seattle, Washington.
30:50What is drag like in Seattle?
30:52Um, really good?
30:54I don't know.
30:55I feel like we're having like a Seattle moment.
30:56You know, my sisters Bosco and Irene just came through and stormed all stars.
31:00Irene and Bosco are two of my best friends and two of my mortal enemies.
31:06Historically, alternative drag is kind of the thing in Seattle.
31:10I started as like a real weirdo.
31:11Not like now where I'm a beautiful, glamorous woman.
31:13I think I'm standing in that legacy very strong.
31:16I'm a lawyer by day.
31:17I have a nine to five.
31:18I'm a wife, a mother, a woman of God.
31:21Um, but there is something wrong with me.
31:24Clearly.
31:26You know, here's the thing about my drag name.
31:28It's not that fun of a story.
31:29I just used to smoke a lot of weed in college.
31:31I don't do that anymore because I get too scared.
31:34I think legal weed is way too strong.
31:36One time while I was really high, I just thought of the name Jane Don't.
31:38And I was like, if I ever do drag, that's the name.
31:40And I literally, I've never thought of like another drag.
31:42Like it, it really, it was that.
31:44That was my great American novel.
31:45It was that.
31:46It was a beautiful burst of creativity.
31:47And ever since then, I've been extremely, um, yeah.
31:51Just, just boring sort of flat from there.
31:53Never come up with anything else.
31:54What did you think when you first saw Elaine Jane?
31:56I am the first Jane.
31:57She's plain.
31:58I understand that naturally you don't want to call her plain
31:59because it's a crazy name, but that's not my problem.
32:01But also I would get her hate mail online sometimes.
32:04Like people would tag me on tweets and stuff.
32:06And I'm just, you know, I'm at brunch, minding my business.
32:11What kind of drag do I do?
32:12I want to say conceptual, but I feel like when you say you're conceptual,
32:15people just like think you're going to kind of look ugly.
32:17So, uh, just good.
32:19Can I say good?
32:21I do good drag and, and sexy drag.
32:25Hot.
32:26Hot.
32:27You gotta, right now.
32:28What's your signature scent drag?
32:30Oh my God.
32:31What a good question.
32:32Is this new?
32:33First of all, half these bitches do not have a signature scent.
32:35I think I might have brought the most perfume to the competition.
32:38My signature scent.
32:39It's, it's by a, I'm going to be a douchebag again.
32:42Sorry.
32:43It's, uh, it's called Ode Protection.
32:46So the like top notes are really floral.
32:48It's like jasmine.
32:49There's blood accord.
32:50Which is like synthetic blood smell.
32:51Like civet.
32:52Or like animalistics in fragrance.
32:54You smell like a really, like a really wealthy.
32:57I bought it for her.
32:58I love fragrance.
32:59I will talk about fragrance.
33:00Like we could do, we could do two hours on that alone.
33:02Will I do my big one this season?
33:04Yeah.
33:05Why not?
33:06That could be fun.
33:07That's like what the kids are saying, right?
33:08They're doing, yeah.
33:09What is, what is, what would be like the definition of doing your big one?
33:12Having an impactful moment.
33:14Oh, I'm going to have several of those.
33:17I am America's Next Drag Superstar because I think that it's time that, um, a nice lady
33:24was crowned.
33:25Let's do our big one.
33:26I could put my leg behind my head, but I actually physically just can't show you right
33:31now.
33:32I can't show you that I could do that.
33:34Just believe that I can put my leg behind my head.
33:36I can believe that.
33:37You can believe that?
33:39Oh, my name is Juicy Love Dion, and I'm from Miami, Florida.
33:48The only special part of Florida.
33:51South Florida, best part of Florida, and you could tell them I said that.
33:54One of my drag mothers is here.
33:57My drag grandmother.
33:59She hates when I say that, so I won't say it too loud.
34:02My name is Athena Dion.
34:03She is also the mother of Morphine Love Dion, who is also my mother.
34:07The family tree is, like, all over the place, okay?
34:09It all started back in the day.
34:11I was a senior in high school, and Morphine Love just scooped me up and said,
34:15you're going to be in my next drag number.
34:17She snuck me into the club, and, like, from that day I was born, and then she introduced
34:21me to Athena, and Athena was like, okay, Morphine.
34:24It's like when someone has a kid too young and, like, grandma has to take care,
34:27but then grandma becomes a mama.
34:29Exactly.
34:30I feel like I'm very, like, Latina.
34:33I give you, like, all that Latina sexiness, vibe, the beauty, the gorgeous face.
34:38But mix in, like, a little club kid, androgyny, always playing on that line of, like, you know,
34:44abstract but still and sexy.
34:46I used to be very, very, very, very, like, punk, always in black latex, red latex.
34:51But now I'm going more, like, couture.
34:53I want to feel more elegant.
34:55I had someone say to me one time, a gorgeous older Greek man, say,
34:58you are not punk.
34:59You are not punk.
35:00You are gorgeous.
35:01You are elegant.
35:02And I have had those words in my head forever, so.
35:04I'm sticking to it.
35:05I'm sticking to that gorgeous, elegant poise, but with a little twist, you know?
35:13YSL East Saint Laurent Libre.
35:16That is, like, that smell is me in drag.
35:22It smells like a princess.
35:24It smells like maybe I was just with my boyfriend and my perfume and his cologne mixed.
35:30Libre is, yeah, it's that girl.
35:35It's that scent.
35:36It smells like me.
35:37Smell Libre and you'll smell juicy.
35:39Okay, what's the strangest thing about you?
35:44Strange?
35:45I don't know.
35:46I don't think I'm strange.
35:47I'm not like Briar.
35:48Briar's very strange.
35:49Briar's a very strange individual.
35:52Okay, clock it.
35:53You'll see.
35:54One time she did come up to me, she goes, smell my finger.
35:58Listen, I had to go.
36:02One trend I would like to get rid of, mono booty.
36:04Yes, you're padded, but if you don't have an ass crack in pads, I'm sorry.
36:08It looks crazy.
36:09It's one butt and you have a G string on and there's no indentation.
36:13That is, let me know.
36:16Baby, I've been doing my big one.
36:18I'll do my big one.
36:19I'll do my big one and then I'll do it again.
36:21I am America's next drag superstar because you've never had a girl this sickening and
36:29gorgeous and stupid and funny and with this much of a lack of references and this
36:37good of a dancer and this Latina and this Cuban before.
36:46My God, I improvised it.
36:47I'm an improv queen actually.
36:49Really good at improv.
36:50Hee hee.
36:52I think I have a very good voice.
36:54Like I have a really good announcer voice.
36:56So I can really project my voice like, are you ready drag fans?
36:59Let's do this.
37:00I'm doing Meet the Queens here on season 18 of RuPaul's Drag Race.
37:03Tune in only on MTV.
37:07Yeah.
37:08I say that I'm like a Barry White mixed with Lizzo.
37:09I love that.
37:10I love that.
37:14I am Kenya Pleaser all the way from South Carolina.
37:17Bitch.
37:18South Cack and Lackey bitch.
37:19They are going to gag to see my ass on this show.
37:22That's that little boy from the church.
37:25That is going to be crazy.
37:26It's going to be crazy.
37:27Hey.
37:29The number one trait from South Carolina that I'm bringing is my humbleness.
37:33Being from the South bitch, you always have to be humble because that's the only way you are going to succeed in life.
37:38If you're not humble bitch, you won't get .
37:40You all what you eat.
37:43And I eat kindness.
37:46The drag that I do is...
37:47I was about to lie.
37:48Bitch.
37:49I was about to say it's big.
37:50Bitch, I'm big.
37:51No.
37:52It's sexy and it can be your auntie at the same time.
37:53Very much that type of tea.
37:54And I like older things like the 80s, 90s, different things like that.
37:57And I love to mix everything into one and cultivate it with old school drag that meets new school.
38:02Like I'm decked under my jewelry and everything.
38:04And I got my little brothel outfit on, like a little whore house in Texas.
38:07But it's still sexy, you know?
38:09Honey, one thing that you can get and bet your bottom dollar, bottom, from Kenya Pleaser,
38:15is bitch, I'm going to kick that mother leg until it touches my forehead, honey.
38:19My leg could go, oh.
38:21Oh, .
38:22And just imagine a big girl doing that.
38:23It's like a gag.
38:25If someone were to play me in a movie, I want it to be Shirley Ralph.
38:28I don't want them to do CGI like they did Will Smith in that one movie.
38:31I want Shirley Ralph to play me right now.
38:34Singing does not pay the bills.
38:36I want that Shirley Ralph to play me, bitch.
38:38That's from Sister Act.
38:39I know some of you white bitches don't know that.
38:40So, Kenya Pleaser is so stupid.
38:42I want it to have a pun name, because I think it's funny when a really sexy girl has like a campy name.
38:46So, I was like, oh my god, can you feel your beats?
38:48Can you do this?
38:49Can you do that?
38:50Can you do that?
38:51Can you take it?
38:52Can you take her?
38:53And I was like, wait.
38:54Pleaser.
38:55Can you please her?
38:56Kenya Pleaser.
38:57And do you know people don't get my name when they first hear it?
39:00Like, bitch, what?
39:02Will you do your big one this season?
39:04My big one?
39:05Bitch, I am the big one, honey.
39:07In the words of mistress Isabelle Brooks, do your big one, twin, bitch.
39:11I think I am.
39:12I really think I'm bringing something to this competition that the world has never seen.
39:16The Pleaser experience.
39:17The Pleaser effect is in full motion, darling.
39:19I am America's next drag superstar because I represent all those little plus size chunky dark skinned boys from small country towns that never had a chance to see yourself on television, honey.
39:31Those boys who you thought you would never leave your hometown.
39:34You will always be up under your mothers and grandmothers and going to church and doing bullsh** and you want to just be fabulous and gay.
39:40I am America's next drag superstar because I represent those people, honey.
39:45I represent the black community.
39:47Every time I cinch my fat ass into this corset, I bat my eyelashes.
39:52It is a political statement.
39:53And that's why me, Kenya Pleaser, should be the next drag superstar.
40:00My signature move.
40:04Um, sometimes I like to do this thing where I lift my leg up and then I get twirled my foot and I do a little kick.
40:10It doesn't really look cute right now, but I promise you with legs like these, it will look cute.
40:18My name is Mandy Mango.
40:20I'm the sweetest fruit in Philadelphia.
40:22The drag scene in Philadelphia is very diverse, very eclectic.
40:26We have our teeny boppers.
40:28We have our mama whoppers.
40:30We have some flippity floppers and some daddy toppers.
40:32The mango part is inspired off the carabao, which is the Filipino mango, which is recently ranked the sweetest mango in the world.
40:40So I think that says a lot about me.
40:42I'm also fruity.
40:44I'm Filipina and I'm not genetically modified.
40:48I'm a first generation Filipino American.
40:50Growing up has always been strange trying to figure out if I'm Filipino enough.
40:55American enough or not enough either on top of being queer.
40:59So drag has really guided my journey in understanding my identity.
41:03My biggest drag inspiration, I would say would be my mom.
41:07My mom was a pageant queen in the Philippines.
41:09She won best evening gown in Miss Baguio, Philippines, 1987.
41:13And I think she should have took the crown, but that's fine.
41:16We'll talk about that another time.
41:18I would say Mandy was born with my first drag show in college.
41:21I performed to Took the Night by Chelly.
41:23She won the show and she clearly took the night.
41:26Ooh, the strangest thing about me.
41:29I don't like to eat oranges and I've never peeled an orange.
41:32Some people don't believe me and they think that's strange.
41:36I have eaten an orange and I didn't really like it.
41:39So then I just stopped trying.
41:41It just looked like a dollar effort anyways.
41:43So I was like, I'm not going to eat that.
41:45I'll stick to my mangoes.
41:46Do you just literally start peeling the skin with your fingers and your nails?
41:50Do you need to have nails to do this?
41:51I can't do anything with these.
41:53I can't type on my phone.
41:55I can't wipe my butt.
41:56It looks really pretty, I know.
41:58But there's things I need to do.
42:00And I'm a woman who likes to do a lot of things.
42:02So nails sometimes get in the way.
42:03I also work as a registered nurse in HIV and sexual health.
42:07I can do vena punctures.
42:08I can do liver elastography.
42:10I can do head to toe assessments.
42:12I can do subcutaneous intramuscular injections, subdermal vaccines.
42:18I have a lot of talents and skills, some might say.
42:24Oh, you want to see my big one?
42:26You want to see the big one?
42:27What other opportunity than to bring the big one for season 18 of RuPaul's Drag Race, okay?
42:33I am America's next drag superstar because I'm sweet.
42:37I'm smart.
42:38I'm sexy.
42:39And I'm credentialed.
42:41I might be a part-time entertainer, but I'm a full-time drag queen.
42:46And if you think that the responsibility of a drag queen ends at the four walls of a venue, then you are mistaken.
42:52I make sure that I advocate for my community in and out of a show, in and out of the clinic.
42:57Because as career people, we have lives that we celebrate, lives that we get sad about, lives that we laugh about.
43:03And I want to take care of that for our community.
43:08Every time I could get into drag, I am my mother.
43:11I look at the mirror, I'm like, oh, shit on my mom.
43:13It's so funny.
43:14And the older that I'm getting, I'm acting like her a lot more as well.
43:19And it pisses me off.
43:21My name is Mia Star, and I am from West Palm Beach, Florida.
43:28West Palm Beach.
43:30I bring choreography.
43:33I am a dancer queen, hip-hop dancer queen.
43:37That is me.
43:38That is me.
43:39Not so much on the technicality side.
43:41Not the ballet stuff.
43:42Like, real hood hip-hop stuff.
43:44That's me.
43:45Stop.
43:46My style is very urban.
43:47It's very slutty.
43:49I'm a whore.
43:51I love to sing.
43:53I am a singer first.
43:55Like, I did do a gospel album back in 2018.
43:58I released it.
43:59It's, yeah, I love singing.
44:02I don't do it as often now, but that's like where my heart and soul is.
44:07That's my first love.
44:10To be honest, I started in 2008 and I took a 14 and a half year break.
44:16I moved to Los Angeles to pursue dancing.
44:19I was able to perform and go on world tours with Britney Spears for her Vegas residency.
44:24Paulina Rubio.
44:25I've been on tour with Rihanna, her loud tour in 2011.
44:28I'm showing my age.
44:30I've been on tour with Camila Cabello.
44:32I'm actually the lead dancer in her Havana video.
44:36So I'm like the Mr. Havana himself.
44:41Spoiler alert!
44:43We're a woman now.
44:46Whoa.
44:47So, yes, it's changed so much, but it's really cool to be able to come back with all the knowledge that I've learned from the greatest of the greats and now apply that to myself.
44:57I think what's going to help me the most is just being myself.
45:01I can't, you know, look to the left and right and be like, well, damn, I don't have that.
45:05Not to say I don't do it.
45:06But I, you know, I try not to do it as often as I see Athena Deandre.
45:11The strangest thing about me is I curl my toes when I sleep.
45:17My boyfriend just told me that.
45:20I don't know why, but I crunch my toes all the time.
45:24He's like, stop crunching your toes.
45:26My signature scent in drag is a body mist from Bath & Body Works.
45:31You can get three for three.
45:33It is amazing.
45:35Listen, I know girls, they make fun of me, but anytime I walk into a room, people, they give me compliments about it.
45:41It's called something gorgeous, like gingham gorgeous something.
45:46I don't know.
45:47Look, I just look for the three for threes.
45:50I am going to do my big one this season.
45:53No matter who is in my way, y'all gotta go.
45:56I am America's next drag superstar because I am a bad bitch.
46:01Okay.
46:04Oh, who is my biggest inspiration?
46:06I do think Sasha Colby is a really big inspiration.
46:08I mean, to me, she's drag excellence.
46:10And Spongebob.
46:13Yes.
46:17Hi, I'm Mikey Meeks and I'm from the city beautiful Orlando, Florida.
46:24My keys.
46:25Get it?
46:26My keys.
46:27Okay.
46:28Highbrow comedy here.
46:30The doors I've opened.
46:33Please take these cat toys out of my hand.
46:35Mikey is my real name.
46:36I just spell it more androgynous.
46:38And I thought I spelled it phonetically because I spell it the normal way out of drag.
46:42In drag, it's M-Y-K-I, but people still don't know how to say it.
46:46But it's Mikey, right?
46:47Not Mickey, not Meeky.
46:48And then Meeks is a nickname that my best friends gave me.
46:50So it's two of my own nicknames put together.
46:52Mikey Meeks, honey.
46:53My full legal drag name is Dr. Michaela Meekerson.
46:58MD.
46:59And the MD stands for mental disorder.
47:01I think of myself as a dynamic theatrical powerhouse.
47:08I do a little bit of everything.
47:10Theater is my upbringing.
47:11I call myself a recovering theater girl because that trauma is in the past.
47:15But I love going for old Hollywood glamour mixed with a little bit of party girl.
47:19So I'm a cross between Ava Gardner and Charlie X.
47:22I think my gut instinct will help me the most.
47:28It's gotten me this far.
47:29I've always kind of had my eyes on the goal and I get what I want.
47:32And that's not me being cocky.
47:34That's just, I know what I can do and I know what I'm worth.
47:37So I just got to keep that and listen to it.
47:39Hidden talent.
47:40No, I'm very obnoxious and I show all my talents, but I'm very good at Super Smash Brothers.
47:45Is that a hidden talent?
47:46What's the strangest thing about you?
47:49Ooh, I tend to like, the queens call it powering down.
47:55So like when I'm overstimulated or I'm just like deep in thought, I look like someone hit my off switch.
48:00I'm just like, the girls will be like, oh, Mikey's down.
48:04Mikey power up.
48:05You're powering down.
48:06Power back up.
48:07I think we all suffer from drag delusion.
48:09I think drag delusion is a spectrum and we're all on that spectrum.
48:11Okay.
48:12Because I'm sure I'm going to look back a year from now and be like, oh, that's a boot.
48:15Like that's, that's a miss.
48:16I missed something there.
48:17But as for my confidence.
48:20No.
48:21But as for my aesthetic, probably.
48:24Will you do your big one this season?
48:26Oh my, what the f***.
48:29Mistress Isabel Brooks write this question.
48:31Am I going to do my big one this season?
48:33Of course.
48:34I'm looking for a big one after this.
48:36Do your big one, honey.
48:38I am America's next drag superstar because I know my star potential is ready for that
48:45next level.
48:46I have a whole city of people chanting my name.
48:49I hope to make them proud and hopefully a whole new legion of people to impress as well.
48:53Honestly, I know everything about me and there's nothing else you can tell me.
49:03I'm not delusional.
49:04I'm trying to be more delusional.
49:05I'm trying to be like, no, I am the greatest thing.
49:08No, I am the greatest thing.
49:09You can't tell me anything.
49:11To me, what was the question?
49:19Hi, my name is Nene Coco.
49:21I am 29 and I am from Denver, Colorado.
49:24So Nene Coco is not a complicated name at all.
49:27It comes from my out of drag name.
49:29My out of drag name is Nico Nene Coco.
49:32It was very simple.
49:34I feel like my drag is an extension of my out of drag self.
49:37It's not this completely different persona.
49:38So it feels really close to who I am and who I've always been.
49:41I love super sharp, super colorful, very bold silhouettes.
49:46Everything that I wear has to be sparkling and shining.
49:48That is my drag queen must have is a rhinestone.
49:51I love drag that catches the light, gets your attention from the back of the room.
49:56So it's striking.
49:57It's graphic lines.
49:58It's kind of this 2D illustration just brought to life.
50:02The first song I ever performed was Aura by Lady Gaga.
50:05I was feeling the fantasy.
50:06I felt so fierce.
50:07I auditioned for this competition with that Lady Gaga song.
50:10And three months later, I won the whole thing.
50:13I killed it.
50:14Made all these other bitches mad.
50:15And I had been incubating in the bedroom a little bit before that.
50:18So performing on a stage, two and a half years.
50:21But experimenting with makeup and learning to sew,
50:23I started doing earlier in the pandemic.
50:25But, you know, how long you've been in drag is no measure of the talent,
50:30skill and things that you can do.
50:31So, you know, when I was in elementary school,
50:36I was the fastest cup stacker in the entire elementary school.
50:40Do you know about cup stacking?
50:41The 3-6-3, the 6-6, the 1-10-1?
50:43The full cycle?
50:44Girl!
50:45I won a little thing of cups at my elementary school for being the fastest in the fourth grade.
50:49And then I won another thing of cups for being the fastest in the entire elementary school.
50:53None of these bitches stand a chance when I get my hands on some cups.
50:56Okay?
50:57Oh!
50:58That's my hidden talent for sure.
50:59Up until the day I walked into this place, I was a mechanical engineer.
51:05That was my thing.
51:06I went to college for engineering.
51:09Got a job.
51:10Super exciting.
51:11Super inspiring.
51:12Secret Smartie!
51:14Girl!
51:15Honestly, I hope I don't have a signature.
51:16I hope I don't smell like anything.
51:17My signature scent is no scent at all.
51:19You don't need to smell a thing when I walk by.
51:21You don't need to smell me.
51:22You can see me.
51:23You can touch me.
51:24Don't smell me.
51:26That is not part of my flavor profile of drag.
51:29You don't need to smell.
51:30Will you do your big one this season?
51:32Oh, yeah.
51:33I am squatting on these bitches.
51:36I am on these bitches.
51:38It's gonna stink.
51:39And they're gonna hate it.
51:40It's gonna smell like so nothing that it's gonna stink.
51:44They won't even see it, but I'll be on them.
51:46I am America's Next Drag Superstar because I am a powerhouse when I hit the stage.
51:53I am a maker and a creative.
51:55Like I figure out how to do anything and create anything.
51:57If I have a vision, we're bringing that vision to life one way or another.
52:00I'm America's Next Drag Superstar because you can't spell my name without icon icon.
52:03It is written in the name.
52:05Written in stars.
52:06Patty.
52:11I'm not seeing it enough, mama, honey.
52:13Baby, you can put a little bloop bloop.
52:15You can put a little something in there.
52:16I'll feel you out.
52:17You know?
52:18Imagine how surprised and how sexy you feel.
52:20My drag name is Vita Von T Star and I'm from Montgomery, Alabama.
52:27Oh my God.
52:28Montgomery, Alabama.
52:29Very small city.
52:30A red state.
52:31So not a lot going on.
52:33There isn't a drag scene really.
52:35Yeah.
52:36I am the drag scene.
52:38My style is very feminine, but I like masculine traits as well.
52:42I love to show femininity, but still showing power.
52:47A little bit of both.
52:48I would have to say a trait that I bring into my drag is tradition.
52:51I'm very old school.
52:53I like powerful drag.
52:54I like meaningful drag.
52:56I like for my drag to tell a story.
52:59I think what will help me the most in this competition is my skills that I possess outside of drag,
53:05which is designing and sewing.
53:07We're pushing for Miss Congeniality.
53:08I am a helpful queen.
53:09I am a helpful queen.
53:10I am a drag queen's drag queen.
53:12Ooh.
53:13Baby, listen.
53:14I can't do the stunts and the tricks and the flips and the dips and the splits.
53:17I can't do that anymore.
53:19But I'm going to try to be so captivating on stage because I feel like that's the essence that,
53:25you know, we don't glorify.
53:27But I feel like being captivating is an essence that I would try to use to my advantage.
53:32Bring the people to you.
53:35Well, my names come from the movie To Wong Fu.
53:38I was about eight years old when that movie came out.
53:40And I didn't know what was really happening.
53:43I just know that I was so drawn to the character Vita Boheme of the Manhattan Bohems.
53:48And so I wanted to capture Vita, Vita Von Teese and Diane Carroll all together.
53:54And those women just collectively possess different traits that makes up me.
54:00What's the strangest thing about you?
54:02Hmm.
54:03Coming from a little emo gothic kid.
54:05Oh, I shouldn't say that.
54:07That's a bit embarrassing.
54:09Definitely all black.
54:11Piercings in my ear.
54:13I had contacts called iguana, which were like red and yellow.
54:17I dyed my hair green, blue, red.
54:20Chains everywhere.
54:21I wore handcuffs.
54:22My nails were black.
54:24Fishnet shirts.
54:25Yeah, maybe I did it.
54:27And that, that, it still lives in me, but hey.
54:33I will do my big one this.
54:35Yes.
54:36Yes.
54:37Kind of.
54:38Maybe.
54:39Sorta.
54:40A little.
54:41But a lot.
54:43Just enough.
54:44Maybe not enough.
54:46But yes.
54:48I am America's Next Drag Superstar because I know my, I know who I am.
54:56I know my super power in drag.
54:58I know what I could bring.
54:59I just have all of the things.
55:01I'm cultured.
55:02I'm, I'm experienced.
55:04Yeah.
55:05I am all of the things.
55:09In shady times.
55:12Let there be light.
55:15And let there be drag.
55:20This season, 14 new queens will be the light the world needs.
55:24Right now.
55:25More than ever.
55:26Wake up sugar baby.
55:27Is that lady boss who paved the way for all the hungry children to get paid on television?
55:31Wake up sugar baby.
55:32Is that lady boss who paved the way for all the hungry children to get paid on television?
55:33Wake up sugar baby.
55:34Is that lady boss who paved the way for all the hungry children to get paid on television?
55:35Wake up sugar baby.
55:36Is that lady boss who paved the way for all the hungry children to get paid on television?
55:37Wake up sugar baby.
55:38Is that lady boss who paved the way for all the hungry children to get paid on television?
55:39Wake up sugar baby.
55:40Don't be afraid to light up the stage, darling.
55:56Find your light.
56:10The crown is for the taking.
56:15They all sparkle, but food will shine the brightest.
56:21Ready, set, glow.
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