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00:30Well, it do take nerve.
00:38It's your girl Anya Nerve, your current reigning drag superstar.
00:42Since we made a splash last season, the world has gotten a little more shady.
00:47So it's time for the 14 new queens to light up the stage and compete for the crown.
00:51Are you ready to meet the queen?
00:53Let there be light.
01:00Athena Dion.
01:30Briar Blush.
03:17Darlene Mitchell.
05:30Jane don't.
06:00Juicy love Dion.
06:30Juicy love Dion.
07:00Juicy love Dion.
07:30Juicy love Dion.
08:00Juicy love Dion.
08:30Juicy love Dion.
09:00Juicy love Dion.
09:30Juicy love Dion.
09:59Juicy love Dion.
10:29Juicy love Dion.
10:59Juicy love Dion.
11:29Juicy love Dion.
11:59Juicy love Dion.
12:29Juicy love Dion.
13:00You don't know where I can fit my hands.
13:06My name is Athena Dion.
13:08I am the queen of Miami, the queen of Mykonos, and the Greek glam goddess of season 18.
13:14Dion should sound familiar because my little rat of- I'm sorry.
13:17My beautiful daughter got on the show before me on season 16, my beautiful daughter got on the show before me on season 16, Morphine love Dion.
13:22And there's another one on this season with me too.
13:24Juicy love Dion.
13:25Juicy love Dion.
13:25I'm a very fertile mother.
13:27I have a lot of drag children.
13:29This uterus, honey, this uterus, I'm a little bit of drag in the other day, and I've been doing drag in that city for about 16 years.
13:40So everything I've learned on those streets I'm bringing to the main stage.
13:43And there are some cutthroat bitches coming from Miami, and I'm here to slay, to show my gorgeous, gorgeous drag, my goddess presence, and just to bless the other contestants with all that is Athena Dion.
13:56Athena Dion lives at like the crossroad of luxury and glamour.
14:00My style is, it's a mixture of like good old-fashioned, drag, drag, mixed with couture, glamour, a touch of a heavenly essence, you know, something to that effect.
14:11I mean, I am a goddess after all, so I think I do infuse that into my drag.
14:15You know, I'm inspired by a lot of celebrities.
14:16If we're going to talk celebrity-wise, Mother Cher.
14:19Do you believe in love after love?
14:22Celine Dion, my namesake, you know.
14:25Personally, my mother is a big inspiration of mine.
14:27She was the draggiest drag queen in my life growing up, so this is all her fault, to be honest.
14:35You know, I think my motherly personality, I think all my experience will help me the most in this competition.
14:40I've been doing this for a really long time.
14:42I know the girls will underestimate me because I do look very young.
14:46I look like one of the youngest girls on the cast, actually, so I don't think they know that I've been doing it for so long.
14:51But I am a very tight package full of wisdom and knowledge, just like the goddess Athena.
15:01You want me to expose myself?
15:02If I tell you my signature scent right now, every little cross-dresser across the country is going to go out and buy it, and it's not going to be mine and mine alone anymore.
15:09Do you want me to really spill the tea?
15:11Okay, I'll give you this.
15:12I do have all of Cher's perfumes.
15:14She came out with a line of perfumes from every decade, from the 60s to the early 2000s.
15:18And depending on my mood, I will wear those.
15:19That's not my signature scent, though.
15:21I'll do this.
15:22I'll tell you the brand of my signature scent, but I won't tell you which one it is.
15:25My signature scent smells like a powerful, badass bitch with hints of oud and wood as well.
15:31She's a woody queen.
15:32It's by Mancera, but I'm not giving you which one it is.
15:37Back off, bitches.
15:40Baby, I've been doing my big one, honey.
15:41I've been doing my big one since 2009, so it only gets bigger, better, and faster, and longer, and stronger.
15:46And everything else, all of the above, honey.
15:48D, all of the above.
15:49I have been America's next drag superstar.
15:52I'm just here to pick up the check and the crown.
15:55Snap, snap, snap, honey.
15:57I want to cross my leg, but that sounds like a lot of work.
15:59I designed this look.
16:00I designed all my legs.
16:00I'm going to try to sit back just slightly so I can get a little...
16:03I got it.
16:03So we got full body on this?
16:05If I just sat down and didn't talk at all, you would probably think, like, oh, little lady.
16:09I just can't stop.
16:11Like, I just have, like, the gift of gab.
16:12My name is Briar Blush, and I'm from Boston, Massachusetts.
16:19The Boston trait that I'm bringing is deep-rooted self-loathing and being a huge f***hole.
16:26I'm Boston's pin-up princess.
16:28I'm, like, the it girl of any time or place.
16:30The thing about Briar Blush is that her drag is timeless, retro-feeling, but modern.
16:36It's like I exist on my own timeline of history.
16:39Okay, so there was a really beautiful doll photographer-artist, and she had a doll named
16:46Briar that she would photograph, and I thought that name was so f***er's mother, and I just
16:52liked that it was androgynous.
16:53Beautiful girls with androgynous names to me are, like, really, really f***ing.
16:57I love that vibe.
16:58I consider myself a creative, and my style comes from everything that is really important
17:04to me.
17:05I was really goth as a teenager.
17:06I was really into Turner Classic movies.
17:08I was really into people like Dita Von Teese, Nancy Sinatra, who loved Jane Birkin, loved
17:13Sophia Loren, loved Priscilla Presley.
17:15Durr.
17:16And all those things kind of congealed into the life form that I am.
17:19So Briar's not alternative.
17:21She's not not alternative.
17:23I'll put it that way.
17:24I remember really early into my drag career, I performed some whack goth song at a hip-hop
17:28night.
17:29Made a total of $3.
17:30And I was like, damn, I can't even get a Wendy's 4 for 4.
17:34And this other girl in the dressing room hands me another dollar and goes, here, that's my
17:37tip for you.
17:38Now you can get one.
17:39Isn't that beautiful?
17:40I was so chocked that she felt bad and gave me a dollar.
17:43I love horror movies.
17:45Body horror, but I also like suspense.
17:46Like, I was a fan of the original Nosferatu and the French version.
17:49I've seen all of them and I loved them.
17:52Actually, I will say the new Nosferatu, he was so hot.
17:55They gave him like too much sex appeal, to be honest.
17:586'7", like tall, mustache, deep voice, has a property, clearly has money to spend.
18:04But can I tell you something?
18:05Sometimes when guys are so tall, like when they're like hit like 6'4 and above, they
18:08start to slouch in a way that's like kind of hot to me.
18:11Because you're like, oh, you're so tall.
18:13Like, oh, that must be so ****.
18:14I'm like 5'5".
18:15So it's like...
18:16There is nothing anybody could ever say to me that would throw me off, like, of how
18:24I feel about myself.
18:25It's a double-edged sword that I both don't care what anyone says, but I also don't care
18:29at all.
18:30Like, and it's sometimes becomes a problem.
18:32My big one?
18:33Sure, I'll do my big one.
18:35Why the hell not?
18:36Why the hell not?
18:38I'm America's Next Drag Superstar because...
18:43I claim it as my destiny.
18:45What about that?
18:48Oh, um, my signature scent is definitely mozzarella sticks with ranch.
18:53I may smell good during the number, but you're probably going to recognize the smell of mozzarella
18:57sticks.
18:57My name is Sierra Miss, and I'm the shape-shifting superstar of Indianapolis, Indiana.
19:06Indiana is known for bad politics and a lot of corn, so I'm leaving those at home, and
19:12I'm bringing good drag and creativity to the competition.
19:15I don't think that the culture from Indiana influences my drag tastes or aesthetic necessarily.
19:21Those are rooted really in, like, my childhood love, superheroes, comic books, sci-fi fantasy,
19:26all of the things that I would draw as a kid.
19:28I don't know.
19:29I am pretty strange, so, like, picking the strangest thing is really weird.
19:34Um, I think Tony the Tiger is attractive.
19:40Um, I am going on 32 years old, and I still love Power Rangers.
19:44I mean, I'm a sucker for the classics because I'm a millennial.
19:47I realized I was different when I had a crush on both Kimberly and Tommy, but I think that
19:52In Space or Lost Galaxy, for the nerds out there, those are kind of, like, fabulous seasons,
19:57second to Mighty Morphin.
19:58Uh, so are we talking Tommy Green or Tommy White?
20:01Um, I mean, Tommy Green is the bad boy, but Tommy White is, like, so fierce.
20:05When he comes down from the ceiling and, like, the ray of light, that's drag.
20:09That's drag.
20:10And then they were, like, they shared a Zord together, and I was like, that's kind of hot.
20:14Off camera, we'll talk.
20:15Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:16In drag, I embody every comic book superhero that I ever had a crush on.
20:22I am X-Men characters.
20:24I am just jumping out of the pages of a comic book.
20:26I get to be that superhero badass strong woman who is both feminine, sexy, soft, but also could
20:33absolutely beat your ass.
20:35Will I do my big one?
20:37Um, like, in the toilet?
20:40Um, sure, I'll do my big one.
20:42Yeah, why not?
20:43But, okay, girls, yeah, move aside.
20:45I'll do my big one.
20:46Will I do my big one this season?
20:48I'll do my huge one.
20:52I am America's next drag superstar because not only does she have to look good and I look
20:58incredible, she has to have something important to say.
21:01Life is chaotic and crazy, and this world is messed up right now.
21:05And we, as a country, as a people, as a queer community, deserve a drag superstar who is not
21:12only fierce, who is not only wonderful to look at, but can champion equality, diversity,
21:18and stand up to all of the f***ed up s*** that's happening in this world.
21:22We need a superhero, and Sierra Mist is your superhero.
21:29I will not be shablammin' or twirlin' around the stage anytime soon.
21:36Oh, are you not a shablammer?
21:37Oh, no, that's a long way down, girl.
21:43I'm Darlene Mitchell, and I'm from Los Angeles, California.
21:45I was born and raised in a small town in Indiana, actually, so I'm a transplant.
21:51How I describe myself is a little country, a little c*** in a whole lot of camp, because
21:55I definitely like to include this, like, Midwestern country, like, through line.
22:00Darlene's aesthetic is very, like, boxed wine, cigarette after cigarette, you know what I
22:04mean?
22:04Like, very much that woman, and I'm kind of, like, the exact opposite of that.
22:08When they find out that I'm, like, a long time sober and, like, pretty chill and easy,
22:12you know, easy to get along with and pretty sweet, that they're kind of like,
22:15whoa, this is a turn.
22:19The very first song that I ever performed to was Rihanna, S&M.
22:24I was the door girl for free on a Tuesday.
22:28They were like, do you know what?
22:29Like, do you want to, like, do a number?
22:31And I'm like, yeah, for these five people.
22:33So I was like, you know what?
22:34S&M, hit it.
22:35I had the time of my life.
22:36Ooh, my biggest inspiration.
22:39My favorite person in the entire world is Dolly Parton.
22:42I have a Dolly Parton shower curtain.
22:45I'm engaged.
22:47Is Dollywood the honeymoon?
22:48I don't know.
22:48We'll see.
22:51Bring back more mall drag.
22:52These designers, get them out of here.
22:55Bring back the $5 bin.
22:57I want the idios, bidios, little slutty jean skirt, you know, little spaghetti strap tank top.
23:04Give me a little butterfly necklace, you know, 95% alcohol perfume.
23:09Like, I want, I want the dollar store on heels.
23:12Give me mall drag.
23:14One trend that I feel like I would definitely have to chop is the rock hard, solid sculpted wigs with the rhinestones all over.
23:21Chop.
23:21Even though I might own a couple.
23:23Oh, see, here's the thing.
23:26I don't know if I suffer from drag delusion.
23:29I'm aware that some of my tastes, you know, are, are, are not popular among the room, but I'm not saying that it's, you know, the best or that it is, you know, better than anyone else's.
23:39It's just, I'm sticking to my guns.
23:41You know, like, I feel very glamorous in this $5 thong and tank top, like in, in hard front mullet.
23:47Like, I'm sorry, you don't think so, but it's not stopping me.
23:53This season, I am doing the big one.
23:55You're going to see Darlene Mitchell all the way to the end, honey.
23:59We are taking that crown and we are doing it in a pair of jean shorts.
24:04And we're going to go back to that mall drag.
24:07Mall drag taking over the world.
24:09I'm America's Next Drag superstar because I feel like I offer a fresh perspective.
24:13You know what I mean?
24:14And it's time to shake it up, let people know that this is something that is fun and it's self-expression and it's just pedal to the metal.
24:21Like, I'm just like ready to rock and roll.
24:24Oh my God, I can say whatever I want.
24:26I can just lie about who I am.
24:28I've been doing drag for 15 years and I am the most beautiful woman on earth.
24:32Are we playing Two Truths and a Lie now?
24:34I'm a virgin.
24:35Hola, I am Didi Fuego and I am from Monterrey, Mexico, but I currently live in New York City.
24:47Should I do it in Spanish?
24:49Hola, soy Didi Fuego, soy de Monterrey, México y vivo en la ciudad de Nueva York.
24:53That is so stupid.
24:54I am bringing the high excellence in talent from New York City.
25:01New York is a hard city to make it in and I've made it.
25:05Oh my God, I think I just found my light.
25:07Oh.
25:08Didi Fuego is fashionable.
25:11She is beautiful.
25:13She is stupid.
25:14And she's very handsome.
25:19I make my mixes.
25:21I make my clothes.
25:22I didn't make all of this, but I'm involved.
25:24Because I am what?
25:25Too poor to hire anyone.
25:27So, in this competition, what's going to help me the most is that I can do everything.
25:33I'm not saying I'm tens across the board, but I'm like a nice 7.5s at everything.
25:38I can give you talents of all kinds, makings of all kinds.
25:42And there's nothing I can do badly except maybe like throw a ball.
25:47Because I have like a weird arm thing.
25:48From birth.
25:50Like I can't connect this arm to my body without hurting.
25:53Like I just can't.
25:54And I can't like open my arms.
25:57Like I'd be a really bad like server and be like.
26:00That's like as far as it goes.
26:03Do I have any hidden talents?
26:04No, if I have a talent, I am going to monetize it.
26:07I can dance fine and I can also give you a little comedy.
26:09And what I usually do is I'll have a reveal or two or three.
26:12So while the girl is doing the split, which we've seen before, Didi Fuego is pulling out
26:16all the stops elsewhere.
26:18She's a production, honey.
26:20My fan base.
26:21Oof.
26:22I have so many tens of them.
26:24Do they have a name?
26:24I don't know.
26:25We should come up with one.
26:25Like my Flamers.
26:27My Fuegitos.
26:30Didi's BBs.
26:31I need to work on them.
26:32As soon as I get fans, I'll let you know what they're called.
26:34So far, they're called my mom, my dad.
26:38I'll have to find a name for them when there's more than four.
26:40I'm America's next drag superstar because I am Mexican, American, queer, Middle Eastern,
26:47and from New York.
26:49I'm the president's worst nightmare.
26:51And I look like one of his future wives.
26:53But America needs someone like me to bring us together.
26:56To set the record straight.
26:58If you are rooting for me, you are rooting for America.
27:01Crown the Latina.
27:02Also, you know, because I have big teeth, a small waist, and small eyes.
27:11So I'm ready to go.
27:13I already have my all-stars teeth, but I'm not planning on going.
27:16I'm going to win this one.
27:16I might have been born just plain white trash, but Fancy was my name.
27:25What is that from?
27:26Fancy by Reba McIntyre.
27:28You've heard that song.
27:30You've heard Reba.
27:31You know her.
27:32Hi, I'm Discord Adams, and I'm from St. Pete, Florida.
27:40See, it's hard to say because I grew up doing drag in Ohio, and then I moved to Chicago,
27:44and then I moved to St. Pete.
27:45So I'm just kind of bringing Discord to the show.
27:48I'm not really bringing, like, a specific, you know, city type of representation to the
27:52show, I wouldn't say.
27:53I would describe myself as a high-fashion punk rock maximalist.
27:56I want to wear everything.
27:58If you haven't noticed, I always say, like, when I look in the mirror, instead of taking
28:04one thing off, I want to put on two more necklaces and, like, three more bracelets.
28:07I want it to look like if a Transformer was a church.
28:12Like, I'm a church that's on fire, but I'm, like, a human.
28:14Who's to say?
28:16I would say growing up, there was a really big punk scene where I lived.
28:20So throughout high school and all of that, I was really involved in going to shows.
28:23In the punk scene, it's all very DIY.
28:25So you're making your jackets, making your clothes.
28:27You can see a lot of the music that I listen to in my drag style.
28:32The Dead Kennedys, Rancid, the Sex Pistols, a little bit of classic rock, so, like, Aerosmith.
28:37I channel, like, a mixture between, like, Lady Gaga and Mick Jagger.
28:40The first song I ever performed in drag was Teeth by Lady Gaga.
28:44I looked like my makeup was far too pale.
28:47I looked like a zombie Cher stomping around in a bra and panties.
28:52I felt fierce, but, like, when you look back on it, it's very funny.
28:55Uh, I'm just weird.
28:57Um, I can't touch velvet.
28:59If I touch velvet, um, my fingers cry.
29:02And then I have to, like, lick them to, like, reset the feeling.
29:05That way I don't feel the velvet anymore.
29:07It makes my fingers feel, like, dry.
29:09Like, it's sucking all the moisture out of them or something.
29:11Similar to, like, microfiber.
29:12I don't want to touch that either.
29:13I don't know.
29:13Ask my fingers.
29:14Not me.
29:15I would love to be able to put on a velvet dress.
29:17It's just awful.
29:18If I could bring back one trend in drag, it should be makeup.
29:22The girls stopped wearing makeup for a while.
29:24We need more blush, more eyeliner, more lip liner.
29:28Like, we're drag queens.
29:29Like, look like a drag queen.
29:31What is trending right now in drag?
29:33I think we're on the right track right now.
29:35I think, oh, but, like, I think, like, if you want to wear nothing, at least make it look good.
29:39But I hate when the girls just, like, tie, like, a shoestring around their nipples.
29:42And they're, like, look how fierce I look.
29:44It's, like, no.
29:45Like, put on some stuff.
29:48Will you do your big one this season?
29:50My what?
29:51Will you do your big one?
29:52What's that mean?
29:54Um, okay.
29:56Yeah, I'm absolutely going to have my big one this season.
29:58I mean, look how fierce I look.
30:00Hello.
30:01I'm America's next drag superstar because I am bringing punk rock to the main stage.
30:06I am bringing a sense of fashion that the girls have not seen before.
30:10And I just want to be an advocate for, like, the underdog and an advocate for people who are getting treated poorly in this country.
30:18We need drag queens who are going to say more about what's happening instead of saying less.
30:23Oh, yeah.
30:24Get the fog in there.
30:25Really cover up that skin texture, baby.
30:27Oh, yeah, baby.
30:28I want it to look like you're seeing me like you just took a fat vape rip.
30:33That's where I look my best.
30:35Hi, my name is Jane Don't.
30:41I'm 32, and I am from beautiful Seattle, Washington.
30:45What is drag like in Seattle?
30:47Um, really good?
30:49I don't know.
30:50I feel like we're having, like, a Seattle moment.
30:51You know, my sisters Bosco and Irene just came through and stormed all stars.
30:56Irene and Bosco are two of my best friends and two of my mortal enemies.
31:01Historically, alternative drag is kind of the thing in Seattle.
31:05Like, I started as, like, a real weirdo.
31:07Not like now where I'm a beautiful, glamorous woman.
31:09I think I'm standing in that legacy very strong.
31:11I'm a lawyer by day.
31:13I have a 9 to 5.
31:14I'm a wife, a mother, a woman of God.
31:16Um, but there is something wrong with me.
31:20Clearly.
31:20Ah, you know, here's the thing about my drag name.
31:23It's not that fun of a story.
31:25I just used to smoke a lot of weed in college.
31:27I don't do that anymore because I get too scared.
31:29I think legal weed is way too strong.
31:31One time while I was really high, I just thought of the name Jane Don't.
31:34I was like, if I ever do drag, that's the name.
31:36And I literally, I've never thought of, like, another drag.
31:38Like, it really, it was that.
31:39That was my great American novel.
31:41It was that.
31:41It was a beautiful burst of creativity.
31:43And ever since then, I've been extremely, um, yeah, just boring, sort of flat from there.
31:48Never come up with anything else.
31:50What did you think when you first saw Elaine Jane?
31:51I am the first Jane.
31:52She's plain.
31:52I understand that naturally you don't want to call her plain because it's a crazy name,
31:56but that's not my problem.
31:57But also, I would get her hate mail online sometimes.
32:00Like, people would tag me on tweets and stuff.
32:02And I'm just, you know, I'm at brunch, minding my business.
32:06What kind of drag do I do?
32:08I want to say conceptual, but I feel like when you say you're conceptual,
32:11people just, like, think you're going to kind of look ugly.
32:13So, uh, just good.
32:15Can I say good?
32:16I do good drag.
32:17And, and sexy drag.
32:21Hot.
32:22You got to put it right now.
32:24What's your signature scent in drag?
32:25Oh, my God.
32:26What a good question.
32:27Is this new?
32:28First of all, half these bitches do not have a signature scent.
32:30I think I might have brought the most perfume to the competition.
32:33My signature scent, it's, it's by a, I'm going to be a douchebag again.
32:37Sorry.
32:39It's, uh, it's called Ode Protection.
32:41So the, like, top notes are really floral.
32:43It's like jasmine.
32:44It's like pheromone accord.
32:45Which is, like, synthetic blood smell.
32:47Like, civet.
32:48Or, like, animalistics in fragrance.
32:50You smell like a really, like, a really wealthy.
32:53I bought it for her.
32:54I love fragrance.
32:55I will talk about fragrance, like, we could do, we could do two hours on that alone.
32:58Will I do my big one this season?
32:59Yeah.
33:00Why not?
33:01That could be fun.
33:03That's, like, what the kids are saying, right?
33:04They're doing, yeah, what is, what is, what would be, like, the definition of doing your big one?
33:08Having an impactful moment.
33:10Oh, I'm, I'm going to have several of those.
33:12I am America's Next Drag Superstar because I think that it's time that, um, a nice lady was crowned.
33:20Let's do our big one.
33:22I could put my leg behind my head, but I actually physically just can't show you right now.
33:27I can't show you that I can do that.
33:29Just believe that I can put my leg behind my head.
33:31I can believe that.
33:32You can believe that?
33:33You think I'm flexible?
33:34Oh.
33:35My name is Juicy Love Dion, and I'm from Miami, Florida, the only special part of Florida.
33:46South Florida, best part of Florida, and you could tell them I said that.
33:51One of my drag mothers is here.
33:52My drag grandmother.
33:55She hates when I say that, so I won't say it too loud.
33:57My name is Athena Dion.
33:58She is also the mother of Morphine Love Dion, who is also my mother.
34:03The family tree is, like, all over the place, okay?
34:05It all started back in the day.
34:06I was a senior in high school, and Morphine Love just scooped me up and said,
34:11you're going to be in my next drag number.
34:13Snuck me into the club, and, like, from that day I was born, and then she introduced me to Athena,
34:17and Athena was like, okay, Morphine.
34:19It's like when someone has a kid too young and, like, grandma has to take care,
34:23but then grandma becomes a mama.
34:24Exactly.
34:26I feel like I'm very, like, Latina.
34:28I give you, like, all that Latina sexiness, vibe, the beauty, the gorgeous face,
34:33but mixing, like, a little club kid, androgyny, always playing on that line of, like, you know,
34:39abstract but still and sexy.
34:41I used to be very, very, very, very, like, punk, always in black latex, red latex,
34:46but now I'm going more, like, couture.
34:48I want to feel more elegant.
34:50I had someone say to me one time, a gorgeous older Greek man, say,
34:53you are not punk, you are gorgeous, you are elegant, and I have had those words in my head forever,
34:59so I'm sticking to it.
35:01I'm sticking to that gorgeous, elegant poise, but with a little twist, you know?
35:08Mmm, YSL East St. Laurent Libre.
35:12That is, like,
35:15that smell is me in drag.
35:18It smells like a princess.
35:20It smells like maybe I was just with my boyfriend,
35:23and my perfume and his cologne mixed.
35:26Libre is...
35:28Yeah, it's that girl.
35:30It's that scent.
35:32It smells like me.
35:32Smell Libre, and you'll smell juicy.
35:36Okay, what's the strangest thing about this?
35:39Strange?
35:40I don't know.
35:42I don't think I'm strange.
35:43I'm not like Briar.
35:44Briar's very strange.
35:45Briar's a very strange individual.
35:46Okay, clock it.
35:49You'll see.
35:50One time she did come up to me, she goes,
35:51smell my finger.
35:53Listen, I had to go.
35:57One trend I would like to get rid of,
35:59mono booty.
36:00Yes, you're padded, but if you don't have an ass crack in pads,
36:02I'm sorry, it looks crazy.
36:04It's one butt, and you have a G-string on,
36:06and there's no indentation.
36:08That is...
36:09Criminal.
36:11Baby, I've been doing my big one.
36:14I'll do my big one, I'll do my big one,
36:15and then I'll do it again.
36:16I am America's next drag superstar because you've never had a girl this sickening and gorgeous
36:25and stupid and funny and with this much of a lack of references and this good of a dancer
36:34and this Latina and this Cuban before.
36:41Oh my god, I improvised it.
36:42I'm an improv queen, actually.
36:44Really good at improv.
36:46Hee-hee.
36:47I think I have a very good voice.
36:49Like, I have a really good announcer voice, so I can really project my voice like,
36:53Are you ready, drag fans?
36:54Let's do this.
36:55I'm doing Meet the Queens here on season 18 of RuPaul's Drag Race.
36:59Tune in only on MTV.
37:00Yeah.
37:01I say that I'm like a Barry White mixed with Lizzo.
37:05I love that.
37:09I am Kenya Pleaser all the way from South Carolina, bitch.
37:13South Cackalacky, bitch.
37:15They are going to gag to see my ass on this show.
37:18That's that little boy from the church.
37:19That is going to be crazy.
37:21It's going to be crazy.
37:22Hey.
37:24The number one trait from South Carolina that I'm bringing is my humbleness.
37:28Being from the South, bitch, you always have to be humble
37:30because that's the only way you are going to succeed in life.
37:33If you're not humble, bitch, you won't get shit.
37:36You all what you eat.
37:38And I eat kindness.
37:41The drag that I do is...
37:43I was about to lie, bitch.
37:44I was about to say it's big, bitch.
37:45I'm big.
37:45No, it's sexy and it can be your auntie at the same time.
37:48Very much that type of tea.
37:49And I like older things like the 80s, 90s, different things like that.
37:53And I love to mix everything into one
37:54and cultivate it with old school drag that meets new school.
37:57It's like I'm decorating my jewelry and everything
37:59and I got my little brothel outfit on, like a little whorehouse in Texas.
38:02But it's still sexy, you know?
38:05Honey, one thing that you can get and bet your bottom dollar...
38:09Bottom.
38:09From Kenya Pleaser is, bitch, I'm going to kick that mother f***ing leg
38:13until it touches my forehead, honey.
38:14My leg could go...
38:15Oh, s***.
38:17And just imagine a big girl doing that.
38:18It's like a gag.
38:20If someone were to play me in a movie, I want it to be Shirley Ralph.
38:23I don't want them to do CGI like they did Will Smith in that one movie.
38:26I want Shirley Ralph to play me right now.
38:29Singing does not pay the bills.
38:31I want that Shirley Ralph to play me, bitch.
38:33That's from Sister Act.
38:34I know some of you white bitches don't know that.
38:35So Kenya Pleaser is so stupid.
38:37I want it to have a pun name because I think it's funny
38:39when a really sexy girl has like a campy name.
38:41So I was like, oh my God, can you feel your beats?
38:43Can you do this?
38:44Can you do that?
38:45Can you do that?
38:45Can you take it?
38:46Can you take her?
38:47And I was like, wait.
38:49Pleaser.
38:49Can you please her?
38:51Kenya Pleaser.
38:52And do you know people don't get my name when they first hear it?
38:55Like, bitch, what?
38:58Will you do your big one this season?
39:00My big one?
39:01Bitch, I am the big one, honey.
39:03In the words of Mistress Isabel Brooks, do your big one, twin, bitch.
39:06I think I am.
39:07I really think I'm bringing something to this competition that the world has never seen.
39:11The Pleaser experience.
39:13The Pleaser effect is in full emotion, darling.
39:15I am America's next drag superstar because I represent all those little plus-sized, chunky,
39:21dark-skinned boys from small country towns that never had a chance to see yourself on television,
39:26honey.
39:27Those boys who you thought you would never leave your hometown.
39:30You will always be up under your mothers and grandmothers and going to church and doing
39:33bulls***.
39:34And you want to just be fabulous and gay.
39:36I am America's next drag superstar because I represent those people, honey.
39:40I represent the black community.
39:42Every time I cinch my fat ass into this corset, I bat my eyelashes.
39:47It is a political statement.
39:49And that's why me, Kenya Pleaser, should be the next drag superstar.
39:58My signature move.
39:59Um, sometimes I like to do this thing where I lift my leg up and then I get twirl on my
40:04foot and I do a little kick.
40:05It doesn't really look cute right now, but I promise you, with legs like these, it will
40:09look cute.
40:13My name is Mandy Mango.
40:15I'm the sweetest fruit in Philadelphia.
40:18The drag scene in Philadelphia is very diverse, very eclectic.
40:21We have our teeny boppers.
40:23We have our mama whoppers.
40:25We have some flippity-floppers and some daddy-toppers.
40:28The mango part is inspired off the carabao, which is the Filipino mango, which has recently
40:34ranked the sweetest mango in the world.
40:36So I think that says a lot about me.
40:38I'm also fruity.
40:39I'm Filipina.
40:40And I'm not genetically modified.
40:42I'm a first-generation Filipino-American.
40:46Growing up has always been strange, trying to figure out if I'm Filipino enough, American
40:51enough, or not enough either, on top of being queer.
40:55So drag has really guided my journey in understanding my identity.
40:59My biggest drag inspiration, I would say, would be my mom.
41:03My mom was a pageant queen in the Philippines.
41:05She won Best Evening Gown in Miss Baguio, Philippines, 1987.
41:09And I think she should have took the crown, but that's fine.
41:12We'll talk about that another time.
41:13I would say Mandy was born with my first drag show in college.
41:17I performed to Took the Night by Chelly.
41:19She won the show and she clearly took the night.
41:22Ooh, the strangest thing about me.
41:24I don't like to eat oranges and I've never peeled an orange.
41:28Some people don't believe me and they think that's strange.
41:30I have eaten an orange and I didn't really like it, so then I just stopped trying.
41:37It just looked like a dollar effort anyways, so I was like, I'm not going to eat that.
41:40I'll stick to my mangoes.
41:42Do you just literally start peeling the skin with your fingers and your nails?
41:45Do you need to have nails to do this?
41:46I can't do anything with these!
41:49I can't type on my phone.
41:50I can't wipe my butt.
41:52It looks really pretty, I know, but there's things I need to do.
41:55And I'm a woman who likes to do a lot of things, so nails sometimes get in the way.
41:58I also work as a registered nurse in HIV and sexual health.
42:02I can do venipunctures.
42:04I can do liver elastography.
42:06I can do head-to-toe assessments.
42:08I can do subcutaneous intramuscular injections, subdermal vaccines.
42:14I have a lot of talents and skills, some might say.
42:20Oh, you want to see my big one?
42:21You want to see the big one?
42:23What other opportunity than to bring the big one for season 18 of RuPaul's Drag Race, okay?
42:29I am America's next drag superstar because I'm sweet, I'm smart, I'm sexy, and I'm credentialed!
42:36I might be a part-time entertainer, but I'm a full-time drag queen.
42:41And if you think that the responsibility of a drag queen ends at the four walls of a venue, then you are mistaken.
42:47I make sure that I advocate for my community in and out of a show, in and out of the clinic,
42:52because as queer people, we have lives that we celebrate, lives that we get sad about, lives that we laugh about.
42:59And I want to take care of that for our community.
43:02Every time I could get into drag, I am my mother.
43:07I look in the mirror, I'm like, oh, shit, I'm my mom.
43:09It's so funny.
43:10And the older that I'm getting, I'm acting like her a lot more as well.
43:15It pisses me off.
43:20My name is Mia Starr, and I am from West Palm Beach, Florida.
43:24West Palm Beach.
43:25I bring choreography.
43:29I am a dancer queen, hip-hop dancer queen.
43:33That is me.
43:34Not so much on the technicality side.
43:37Not the ballet stuff.
43:38Like, real hood hip-hop stuff.
43:39That's me inside.
43:40My style is very urban.
43:42It's very slutty.
43:45I'm a whore.
43:47I love to sing.
43:48I am a singer first.
43:50Like, I did do a gospel album back in 2018.
43:54I released it.
43:55It's, yeah, I love singing.
43:58I don't do it as often now, but that's, like, where my heart and soul is.
44:02That's my first love.
44:05To be honest, I started in 2008, and I took a 14-and-a-half-year break.
44:11I moved to Los Angeles to pursue dancing.
44:14I was able to perform and go on world tours with Britney Spears for her Vegas residency,
44:19Paulina Rubio.
44:21I've been on tour with Rihanna, her Loud Tour in 2011.
44:24I'm showing my age.
44:25I've been on tour with Camila Cabello.
44:27I'm actually the lead dancer in her Havana video.
44:31So I'm, like, the Mr. Havana himself.
44:37Spoiler alert!
44:39We're a woman now.
44:42Whoa!
44:42So, yes, it's changed so much, but it's really cool to be able to come back with all the
44:49knowledge that I've learned from the greatest of the greats and now apply that to myself.
44:52I think what's going to help me the most is just being myself.
44:57I can't, you know, look to the left and right and be like, well, damn, I don't have that.
45:01Not to say I don't do it, but I, you know, I try not to do it as often as I see a thing
45:06The strangest thing about me is I curl my toes when I sleep.
45:14My boyfriend just told me that.
45:16I don't know why, but I crunch my toes all the time.
45:20He's like, stop crunching your toes.
45:21My signature scent in drag is a body mist from Bath & Body Works.
45:27You can get three for three.
45:28It is amazing.
45:30Listen, I know girls, they make fun of me, but anytime I walk into a room, people, they
45:35give me compliments about it.
45:36It's called something gorgeous, like gingham gorgeous something.
45:42I don't know.
45:43Look, I just look for the three for threes.
45:45I am going to do my big one this season.
45:48No matter who is in my way, y'all gotta go.
45:51I am America's next drag superstar because I am a bad bitch.
45:56Okay.
45:59Oh, who is my biggest inspiration?
46:01I do think Sasha Colby is a really big inspiration.
46:04I mean, to me, she's drag excellence and Spongebob.
46:09Yes.
46:14Hi, I'm Mikey Meeks and I'm from the city beautiful Orlando, Florida.
46:20My keys.
46:21Get it?
46:21My keys.
46:22My keys.
46:23Okay.
46:24Highbrow comedy here.
46:26The doors I've opened.
46:29Please take these cat toys out of my hand.
46:31Mikey is my real name.
46:32I just spell it more androgynous.
46:34And I thought I spelled it phonetically because I spell it the normal way out of drag.
46:37In drag, it's M-Y-K-I.
46:39But people still don't know how to say it.
46:41But it's Mikey, right?
46:42Not Mickey, not Meeky.
46:44And then Meeks is a nickname that my best friends gave me.
46:46So it's two of my own nicknames put together.
46:47Mikey Meeks, honey.
46:48My full legal drag name is Dr. Michaela Meekerson.
46:53M-D.
46:54And the M-D stands for mental disorder.
46:59I think of myself as a dynamic theatrical powerhouse.
47:04I do a little bit of everything.
47:05Theater is my upbringing.
47:07I call myself a recovering theater girl because that trauma is in the past.
47:10But I love going for old Hollywood glamour mixed with a little bit of party girl.
47:14So I'm a cross between Ava Gardner and Charlie X.
47:19I think my gut instinct will help me the most.
47:23It's got me this far.
47:24I've always kind of had my eyes on the goal and I get what I want.
47:27And that's not me being cocky.
47:29That's just I know what I can do and I know what I'm worth.
47:32So I just got to keep that and listen to it.
47:35Hidden Talents.
47:35No, I'm very obnoxious and I show all my talents.
47:38But I'm very good at Super Smash Brothers.
47:40Is that a hidden talent?
47:43What's the strangest thing about you?
47:45Ooh, I tend to like...
47:48The queens call it powering down.
47:51So like when I'm overstimulated or I'm just like deep in thought,
47:53I look like someone hit my off switch.
47:55I'm just like...
47:58The girls will be like, oh, Mikey's down.
48:00Mikey, power up.
48:00You're powering down.
48:01Power back up.
48:01Power back up.
48:02I think we all suffer from drag delusion.
48:04I think drag delusion is a spectrum and we're all on that spectrum.
48:07Okay?
48:07Because I'm sure I'm going to look back a year from now and be like,
48:10Oh, that's a boot.
48:10Like that's, that's a miss.
48:11I missed something there.
48:12But as for my confidence, no.
48:17But as for my aesthetic, probably.
48:19Will you do your big one this season?
48:21Oh my...
48:22What the f***?
48:24Mistress Isabel Brooks write this question?
48:27Am I going to do my big one this season?
48:28And of course, I'm looking for a big one after this.
48:32Do your big one, honey.
48:34I am America's next drag superstar because I know my star potential is ready for that next level.
48:41I have a whole city of people chanting my name.
48:45I hope to make them proud and hopefully a whole new legion of people to impress as well.
48:49Honestly, I know everything about me and there's nothing else you can tell me.
48:58I'm not delusional.
48:59I'm trying to be more delusional.
49:01I'm trying to be like, no, I am the greatest thing.
49:04You can't tell me anything.
49:06To me...
49:08What was the question?
49:08Hi, my name is Nini Coco.
49:16I am 29 and I am from Denver, Colorado.
49:19So Nini Coco is not a complicated name at all.
49:23It comes from my out of drag name.
49:24My out of drag name is Nico Nini Coco.
49:28It was very simple.
49:29I feel like my drag is an extension of my out of drag self.
49:32It's not this completely different persona.
49:34So it feels really close to who I am and who I've always been.
49:36I love super sharp, super colorful, very bold silhouettes.
49:41Everything that I wear has to be sparkling and shining.
49:44That is my drag queen must have is a rhinestone.
49:47I love drag that catches the light, gets your attention from the back of the room.
49:51So it's striking.
49:53It's graphic lines.
49:54It's kind of this 2D illustration just brought to life.
49:57The first song I ever performed was Aura by Lady Gaga.
50:00I was feeling the fantasy.
50:02I felt so fierce.
50:03I auditioned for this competition with that Lady Gaga song.
50:05And three months later, I won the whole thing.
50:08I killed it.
50:09Made all these other bitches mad.
50:11And I had been incubating in the bedroom a little bit before that.
50:13So performing on a stage, two and a half years.
50:16But experimenting with makeup and learning to sew, I started doing earlier in the pandemic.
50:20But, you know, how long you've been in drag is no measure of the talent and skill and things that you can do.
50:26So, you know, when I was in elementary school, I was the fastest cup stacker in the entire elementary school.
50:35Do you know about cup stacking?
50:36The 3-6-3, the 6-6, the 1-10-1, the full cycle?
50:39Girl.
50:39I won a little thing of cups at my elementary school for being the fastest in the fourth grade.
50:44And then I won another thing of cups for being the fastest in the entire elementary school.
50:48None of these bitches stand a chance when I get my hands on some cups.
50:52Okay?
50:52Oh!
50:53That's my hidden talent for sure.
50:54Up until the day I walked into this place, I was a mechanical engineer.
51:01That was my thing.
51:02I went to college for engineering.
51:04Got a job.
51:05Super exciting.
51:07Super inspiring.
51:08Secret Smartie!
51:09Girl.
51:10Honestly, I hope I don't have a signature.
51:12I hope I don't smell like anything.
51:13My signature scent is no scent at all.
51:15You don't need to smell a thing when I walk by.
51:17You don't need to smell me.
51:18You can see me.
51:19You can touch me.
51:20Don't smell me.
51:21That is not part of my flavor profile of drag.
51:24You don't need to smell.
51:26Will you do your big one this season?
51:28Oh, yeah.
51:29I am squatting on these bitches.
51:32I am on these bitches.
51:33It's going to stink.
51:35And they're going to hate it.
51:36It's going to smell like so nothing that it's going to stink.
51:39They won't even see it, but I'll be on them.
51:42I am America's Next Drag Superstar because I am a powerhouse when I hit the stage.
51:48I am a maker and a creative.
51:50Like, I figure out how to do anything and create anything.
51:53If I have a vision, we're bringing that vision to life one way or another.
51:56I'm America's Next Drag Superstar because you can't spell my name without icon icon.
51:59It is written in the name, written in the stars.
52:03Patty.
52:07I'm not seeing it enough, mama, honey.
52:08Baby, you can put a little bloop, bloop.
52:10You can put a little something in there.
52:11It'll feel you out.
52:12You know, you imagine how surprised and how sexy you feel.
52:15My drag name is Vita Von T. Star, and I'm from Montgomery, Alabama.
52:23Oh, my God.
52:24Montgomery, Alabama, very small city, a red state.
52:27So, not a lot going on.
52:29There isn't a drag scene, really.
52:32Yeah, I am the drag scene.
52:34My style is very feminine, but I like masculine traits as well.
52:38I love to show femininity, but still showing power.
52:42A little bit of both.
52:43I would have to say a trait that I bring into my drag is tradition.
52:47I'm very old school.
52:48I like powerful drag.
52:50I like meaningful drag.
52:51I like for my drag to tell a story.
52:54I think what will help me the most in this competition is my skills that I possess outside
52:59of drag, which is designing and sewing.
53:02We're pushing for Miss Congeniality.
53:04I am a helpful queen.
53:05I am a drag queen's drag queen.
53:07Baby, listen.
53:09I can't do the stunts and the tricks and the flips and the dips and the splits.
53:12I can't do that anymore.
53:15But I'm going to try to be so captivating on stage because I feel like that's the essence
53:20that, you know, we don't glorify.
53:22But I feel like being captivating is an essence that I would try to use to my advantage.
53:28Bring the people to you.
53:30Well, my name's come from the movie Too Long Foo.
53:33I was about eight years old when that movie came out.
53:35And I didn't know what was really happening.
53:38I just know that I was so drawn to the character Vita Boehm of the Manhattan Boehm's.
53:43And so I wanted to capture Vita, Vita Von Teese and Diane Carroll all together.
53:49And those women just collectively possess different traits that makes up me.
53:55What's the strangest thing about you?
53:57Hmm.
53:58Coming from a little emo gothic kid, um, oh, I shouldn't say that.
54:03Um, that's a bit embarrassing.
54:04Um, definitely all black.
54:07Piercings in my ear.
54:08Um, I had contacts called iguana, which were like red and yellow.
54:12Um, I dyed my hair green, blue, red, chains everywhere.
54:17I wore handcuffs.
54:18My nails were black.
54:20Fishnet shirts.
54:21Yeah, baby, I did it.
54:23And that, that, it still lives in me.
54:25But, hey.
54:25I will do my big one, this, yes, yes, kind of, maybe, sort of, a little, but a lot, just
54:38enough, maybe not enough, but yes.
54:43I am America's Next Drag Superstar because I know my, I know who I am.
54:52I know my superpower in drag.
54:53I know what I could bring.
54:54I just have all of the things.
54:57I'm cultured.
54:58I'm, I'm experienced.
55:00Yeah, I am all of the things.
55:04In shady times, let there be light.
55:10And let there be drag.
55:15This season, 14 new queens will be the light the world needs right now.
55:21More than ever.
55:22Wake up, sugar, baby.
55:24It's the lady boss who paved the way for all the hungry children to get paid on television.
55:29Wake up, sugar, baby.
55:31It's the lady boss who paved the way for all the hungry children to get paid on television.
55:40Don't be afraid to light up the stage, darling.
55:44Find your life.
55:53If you do not see all this, do you not see these hills, do you not see this crown?
55:57Do you not see a real thought about the house?
56:00Do you not see all this, do you not see these hills, do you not see this crown?
56:04the crown is for the taking
56:08they all sparkle but food will shine the brightest ready set glow
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