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00:01:12Well, it do take nerve.
00:01:14It's your girl Anya Nerve, your current reigning drag superstar.
00:01:18Since we made a splash last season, the world has gotten a little more shady.
00:01:23So it's time for the 14 new queens to light up the stage and compete for the crown.
00:01:28Are you ready to meet the queens?
00:01:30Let there be light.
00:01:37Athena Dion.
00:01:38Let's get started.
00:01:39Let's go.
00:01:56Let's go.
00:02:27Briar Blush.
00:03:19Sierra missed.
00:03:21Briar Blush.
00:04:14Darlene Mitchell.
00:04:16Briar Blush.
00:04:18Briar Blush.
00:04:19Briar Blush.
00:04:22Briar Blush.
00:04:25Briar Blush.
00:04:35Briar Blush.
00:04:37Briar Blush.
00:04:41Briar Blush.
00:04:43Briar Blush.
00:04:46Briar Blush.
00:05:00D.D. Fuego.
00:05:02Briar Blush.
00:05:03Briar Blush.
00:05:07Briar Blush.
00:05:08Briar Blush.
00:05:09Briar Blush.
00:05:11Briar Blush.
00:05:52Discord Atoms.
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00:07:26Juicy love Dion.
00:07:57Juicy love Dion.
00:07:57Juicy love Dion.
00:08:41Juicy love Dion.
00:09:01Juicy love Dion.
00:09:02Mandy Mango.
00:09:03Juicy love Dion.
00:09:05Juicy love Dion.
00:09:20Juicy love Dion.
00:09:21Juicy love Dion.
00:09:23Juicy love Dion.
00:09:48Mia Starr.
00:10:03Mia Starr.
00:10:33Mia Starr.
00:10:40Mikey Meeks.
00:11:04Mia Starr.
00:11:04Mia Starr.
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00:11:50Mia Starr.
00:12:15Vita Fonti's star.
00:12:49Vita Fonti's star.
00:13:07The time has come for a new season and for the drag we deserve.
00:13:10Who do you think will snatch the spotlight?
00:13:13Get ready, y'all, because season 18 is about to begin.
00:13:16Here again are the queens of season 18.
00:13:19The queen.
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00:14:18See you Friday night on MTV.
00:14:48Right now.
00:14:50More than ever.
00:14:52Wake up, sugar, baby.
00:14:53It's the lady boss who paved the way for all the hungry children to get paid on television.
00:14:59Wake up, sugar, baby.
00:15:01It's the lady boss who paved the way for all the hungry children to get paid on television.
00:15:13Don't be afraid to light up the stage, darling.
00:15:22Find your light.
00:15:38The crown is for the taking.
00:15:44They all sparkle, but food will shine the brightest.
00:15:50Ready, set, glow.
00:15:55RuPaul's Drag Race, new season, premieres Friday, January 2nd at 8.
00:16:01Watch on MTV.
00:16:05Do I have any hidden talents?
00:16:07I can fit both hands in my mind.
00:16:09No, I'm kidding.
00:16:09I can't.
00:16:11You don't know where I can fit my hands.
00:16:18My name is Athena Dion.
00:16:20I am the queen of Miami, the queen of Mykonos, and the Greek glam goddess of season 18.
00:16:27Dion should sound familiar because my little rat of...
00:16:29I'm sorry.
00:16:30My beautiful daughter got on the show before me on season 16, Morphine Love Dion.
00:16:35And there's another one on this season with me, too.
00:16:37Juicy Love Dion.
00:16:39I'm a very fertile mother.
00:16:41I have a lot of drag children.
00:16:43This uterus, honey, she's been put to work.
00:16:47Listen, I am the mother of Miami, and I've been doing drag in that city for about 16 years.
00:16:54So everything I've learned on those streets, I'm bringing to the main stage.
00:16:58And there are some cutthroat bitches coming from Miami.
00:17:01And I'm here to slay, to show my gorgeous, gorgeous drag, my goddess presence, and just
00:17:08to bless the other contestants with all that is Athena Dion.
00:17:12Athena Dion lives at, like, the crossroad of luxury and glamour.
00:17:16My style is, it's a mixture of, like, good old-fashioned drag, drag, mixed with couture, glamour,
00:17:25a touch of a heavenly essence, you know, something to that effect.
00:17:28I mean, I am a goddess after all, so I think I do infuse that into my drag.
00:17:32You know, I'm inspired by a lot of celebrities.
00:17:34If we're going to talk celebrity-wise, Mother Cher.
00:17:36Do you believe in life after love?
00:17:40Celine Dion, my namesake, you know.
00:17:43Personally, my mother is a big inspiration of mine.
00:17:45She was the draggiest drag queen in my life growing up.
00:17:48So this is all her fault, to be honest.
00:17:54You know, I think my motherly personality, I think all my experience will help me the most
00:17:59in this competition.
00:18:00I've been doing this for a really long time.
00:18:01I know the girls will underestimate me because I do look very young.
00:18:05I look like one of the youngest girls on the cast, actually.
00:18:08So I don't think they know that I've been doing it for so long.
00:18:11But I am a very tight package full of wisdom and knowledge, just like the goddess Athena.
00:18:22You want me to expose my...
00:18:23If I tell you my signature scent right now, every little crossdresser across the country
00:18:28is going to go out and buy it, and it's not going to be mine and mine alone anymore.
00:18:31Do you want me to really spill the tea?
00:18:33Okay, I'll give you this.
00:18:34I do have all of Cher's perfumes.
00:18:36She came out with a line of perfumes from every decade, from the 60s to the early 2000s.
00:18:40And depending on my mood, I will wear those.
00:18:42That's not my signature scent, though.
00:18:44I'll do this.
00:18:44I'll tell you the brand of my signature scent, but I won't tell you which one it is.
00:18:48My signature scent smells like a powerful badass bitch with hints of oud and wood as well.
00:18:55She's a woody queen.
00:18:56It's by Mancera.
00:18:59But I'm not giving you which one it is.
00:19:00Back off, bitches.
00:19:04Baby, I've been doing my big one, honey.
00:19:05I've been doing my big one since 2009, so it only gets bigger, better, and faster, and
00:19:10longer, and stronger.
00:19:11And everything else, all of the above, honey.
00:19:12D, all of the above.
00:19:14I have been America's next drag superstar.
00:19:17I'm just here to pick up the check and the crown.
00:19:20Snap, snap, snap, honey.
00:19:22I want to cross my leg, but that sounds like a lot of work.
00:19:24I designed this look.
00:19:25I designed all my looks.
00:19:26I'm going to try to sit back just slightly so I can get a little...
00:19:28I got it.
00:19:29So we got full body on this?
00:19:31If I just sat down and didn't talk at all, you'd probably think like, oh, little lady.
00:19:36I just can't stop.
00:19:37Like, I just have like the gift of gab.
00:19:43My name is Briar Blush, and I'm from Boston, Massachusetts.
00:19:46The Boston trait that I'm bringing is deep-rooted self-loathing and being a huge f***hole.
00:19:54I am Boston's pin-up princess.
00:19:56I'm like the it girl of any time or place.
00:19:58The thing about Briar Blush is that her drag is timeless, retro-feeling, but modern.
00:20:04It's like, I exist on my own timeline of history.
00:20:10Okay, so there was a really beautiful doll photographer artist, and she had a doll named
00:20:16Briar that she would photograph, and I thought that name was so f***edress mother, and I just
00:20:22liked that it was androgynous.
00:20:23Beautiful girls with androgynous names to me are like really, really f***ed.
00:20:27I love that vibe.
00:20:28I consider myself a creative, and my style comes from everything that is really important
00:20:35to me.
00:20:36I was really goth as a teenager.
00:20:37I was really into Turner Classic movies.
00:20:39I was really into people like Dita Von Teese, Nancy Sinatra.
00:20:43Love Jane Birkin.
00:20:45Love Sophia Loren.
00:20:46Love Priscilla Presley.
00:20:47Duh.
00:20:48And all those things kind of congealed into the life form that I am.
00:20:51So Briar's not alternative.
00:20:54She's not not alternative.
00:20:55I'll put it that way.
00:20:56I remember really early into my drag career, I performed some whack goth song at a hip-hop
00:21:01night, made a total of $3, and I was like, damn, I can't even get a Wendy's 4 for 4.
00:21:07And this other girl in the dressing room hands me another dollar and goes, here, that's
00:21:10my tip for you.
00:21:11Now you can get one.
00:21:12Isn't that beautiful?
00:21:13I was so chocked that she felt bad and gave me a dollar.
00:21:17I love horror movies.
00:21:19Body horror, but I also like suspense.
00:21:21Like, I was a fan of the original Nosferatu and the French version.
00:21:24I've seen all of them, and I love them.
00:21:27Actually, I will say, the new Nosferatu, he was so hot.
00:21:30They gave him, like, too much sex appeal, to be honest.
00:21:33Six, seven, like, tall, mustache, deep voice.
00:21:37Has a property.
00:21:38Clearly has money to spend.
00:21:39But can I tell you something?
00:21:40Sometimes when guys are so tall, like when they're, like, hit, like, 6'4 and above,
00:21:44they start to slouch in a way that's, like, kind of hot to me.
00:21:48Because you're like, oh, you're so tall.
00:21:49Like, oh, that must be so ****.
00:21:51I'm, like, 5'5.
00:21:51So it's like...
00:21:57There is nothing anybody could ever say to me that would throw me off, like, of how I
00:22:01feel about myself.
00:22:02It's a double-edged sword that I both don't care what anyone says, but I also don't care
00:22:06at all.
00:22:07Like, and it sometimes becomes a problem.
00:22:10My big one.
00:22:11Sure, I'll do my big one.
00:22:13Why the hell not?
00:22:14Why the hell not?
00:22:16I'm America's Next Drag Superstar because I claim it as my destiny.
00:22:25Clock that.
00:22:27Oh, um, my signature scent is definitely mozzarella sticks with ranch.
00:22:33I may smell good during the number, but you're probably going to recognize the smell of mozzarella
00:22:37sticks.
00:22:42My name is Sierra Miss, and I'm the shape-shifting superstar of Indianapolis, Indiana.
00:22:47Indiana is known for bad politics and a lot of corn, so I'm leaving those at home, and
00:22:54I'm bringing good drag and creativity to the competition.
00:22:57I don't think that the culture from Indiana influences my drag tastes or aesthetic, necessarily.
00:23:02Those are rooted, really, in, like, my childhood love, superheroes, comic books, sci-fi, fantasy,
00:23:08all of the things that I would draw as a kid.
00:23:13I don't know.
00:23:14I am pretty strange, so, like, picking the strangest thing is really weird.
00:23:18Um, I think Tony the Tiger is attractive.
00:23:23Um, I am going on 32 years old, and I still love Power Rangers.
00:23:28I mean, I'm a sucker for the classics because I'm a millennial.
00:23:31I realized I was different when I had a crush on both Kimberly and Tommy, but I think that
00:23:37In Space for the Lost Galaxy, for the nerds out there, those are kind of, like, fabulous
00:23:41seasons, second to Mighty Morphin.
00:23:43Uh, so are we talking Tommy Green or Tommy White?
00:23:45Um, I mean, Tommy Green is the bad boy, but Tommy White is, like, so fierce.
00:23:50When he comes down from the ceiling and, like, the ray of light, that's drag.
00:23:54That's drag.
00:23:56And then they were, like, they shared a Zord together, and I was like, that's kind of hot.
00:24:00Off camera, we'll talk to you again.
00:24:02In drag, I embody every comic book superhero that I ever had a crush on.
00:24:08I am X-Men characters.
00:24:10I am just jumping out of the pages of a comic book.
00:24:13I get to be that superhero badass strong woman who is both feminine, sexy, soft, but also
00:24:20could absolutely beat your ass.
00:24:22Will I do my big one?
00:24:26Um, like, in the toilet?
00:24:28Um, sure, I'll do my big one.
00:24:30Yeah, why not?
00:24:32Okay, girls, yeah, move aside.
00:24:33I'll do my big one.
00:24:34Will I do my big one this season?
00:24:36I'll do my huge one.
00:24:41I am America's next drag superstar because not only does she have to look good and I
00:24:47look incredible, she has to have something important to say.
00:24:51Life is chaotic and crazy, and this world is messed up right now.
00:24:55And we, as a country, as a people, as a queer community, deserve a drag superstar who is
00:25:02not only fierce, who is not only wonderful to look at, but can champion equality, diversity,
00:25:09and stand up to all of the f***ed up s*** that's happening in this world.
00:25:14We need a superhero, and Sierra Mist is your superhero.
00:25:24I will not be shablammin' or twirlin' around the stage anytime soon.
00:25:28Oh, you're not shablammin'?
00:25:30Oh, no, that's a long way down, girl.
00:25:36I'm Darlene Mitchell, and I'm from Los Angeles, California.
00:25:39I was born and raised in a small town in Indiana, actually, so I'm a transplant.
00:25:45How I describe myself is a little country, a little f***ing a whole lot of camp, because
00:25:50I definitely like to include this, like, Midwestern country, like, through line.
00:25:54Darlene's aesthetic is very, like, boxed wine, cigarette after cigarette, you know what I mean?
00:25:59Like, very much that woman, and I'm kind of, like, the exact opposite of that.
00:26:03When they find out that I'm, like, a long time sober and, like, pretty chill and easy, you
00:26:08know, easy to get along with and pretty sweet, that they're kind of like, whoa, this is a turn.
00:26:15The very first song that I ever performed to was Rihanna, S&M.
00:26:20I was the door girl for free on a Tuesday.
00:26:25They were like, you know what?
00:26:26Like, do you want to, like, do a number?
00:26:28And I'm like, yeah, for these five people.
00:26:30So I was like, you know what?
00:26:31S&M, hit it.
00:26:32I had the time of my life.
00:26:34Ooh, my biggest inspiration.
00:26:36My favorite person in the entire world is Dolly Parton.
00:26:39I have a Dolly Parton shower curtain.
00:26:43I'm engaged.
00:26:45Is Dollywood the honeymoon?
00:26:46I don't know.
00:26:47We'll see.
00:26:49Bring back more mall drag.
00:26:51These designers, get them out of here.
00:26:54Bring back the $5 bin.
00:26:55I want the iddiest, bittiest, little slutty jean skirt.
00:27:00You know, little spaghetti strap tank top.
00:27:03Give me a little butterfly necklace.
00:27:06You know, 95% alcohol perfume.
00:27:09Like, I want the dollar store on heels.
00:27:13Give me mall drag.
00:27:14One trend that I feel like I would definitely have to chop
00:27:16is the rock-hard, solid, sculpted wigs
00:27:20with the rhinestones all over.
00:27:21Chop.
00:27:22Even though I might own a couple.
00:27:26See, here's the thing.
00:27:28I don't know if I suffer from drag delusion.
00:27:30I'm aware that some of my tastes, you know,
00:27:33are not popular among the room.
00:27:35But I'm not saying that it's, you know, the best
00:27:38or that it is, you know, better than anyone else's.
00:27:41It's just I'm sticking to my guns, you know?
00:27:43Like, I feel very glamorous in this $5 thong and tank top.
00:27:48Like, in hard front mullet.
00:27:50Like, I'm sorry you don't think so.
00:27:52But it's not stopping me.
00:27:56This season, I am doing the big one.
00:27:59You're going to see Darlene Mitchell all the way to the end, honey.
00:28:03We are taking that crown and we are doing it
00:28:06in a pair of jean shorts.
00:28:09And we're going to go back to that mall drag.
00:28:11Mall drag taking over the world.
00:28:13I'm America's Next Dark Superstar because I feel like I offer a fresh perspective.
00:28:19You know what I mean?
00:28:19And it's time to shake it up.
00:28:20Let people know that this is something that is fun and it's self-expression.
00:28:25And it's just pedal to the metal.
00:28:27Like, I'm just, like, ready to rock and roll.
00:28:30Oh, my God.
00:28:31I can say whatever I want.
00:28:32I can just lie about who I am.
00:28:34I've been doing drag for 15 years and I am the most beautiful woman on earth.
00:28:39Are we playing Two Truths and a Lie now?
00:28:41I'm a virgin.
00:28:48I'm a virgin.
00:29:12Oh, my God.
00:29:12Yes.
00:29:13Oh my God, I just think I just found my light.
00:29:16Oh.
00:29:18Didi Fuego is fashionable, she is beautiful,
00:29:23she is stupid, and she's very handsome.
00:29:30I make my mixes, I make my clothes.
00:29:32I didn't make all of this, but I'm involved
00:29:34because I am what?
00:29:36Too poor to hire anyone.
00:29:39So, in this competition, what's gonna help me the most
00:29:42is that I can do everything.
00:29:44I'm not saying I'm tens across the board,
00:29:46but I'm like a nice 7.5s at everything.
00:29:50I can give you talents of all kinds, makings of all kinds,
00:29:55and there's nothing I can do badly except maybe like,
00:29:58like throw a ball.
00:29:59Because I have like a weird arm thing, from birth.
00:30:03Like, I can't connect this arm to my body without hurting.
00:30:06Like, I just can't.
00:30:07And I can't like open my arms.
00:30:10Like, I'd be a really bad, like, server, I'd be like...
00:30:13That's like as far as it goes.
00:30:17Do I have any hidden talents?
00:30:18No, if I have a talent, I am going to monetize it.
00:30:21I can dance fine, and I can also give you a little comedy,
00:30:24and what I usually do is I'll have a reveal, or two, or three.
00:30:26So while the girl is doing the split,
00:30:28which we've seen before,
00:30:30Didi Fuego is pulling out all the stops elsewhere.
00:30:33She's a production, honey.
00:30:35My fan base, oof, I have so many tens of them.
00:30:39Do they have a name?
00:30:40I don't know, we should come up with one.
00:30:41Like, uh, my Flamers, my Fuegitos, Didi's BBs.
00:30:47I need to work on them.
00:30:48As soon as I get fans, I'll let you know what they're called.
00:30:51So far, they're called my mom, my dad.
00:30:55I'll have to find a name for them when there's more than four.
00:30:57I'm America's next drag superstar
00:30:59because I am Mexican, American, queer,
00:31:04Middle Eastern, and from New York.
00:31:06I'm the president's worst nightmare,
00:31:08and I look like one of his future wives.
00:31:11But America needs someone like me to bring us together.
00:31:14To set the record straight,
00:31:16if you are rooting for me, you are rooting for America.
00:31:19Crown the Latina!
00:31:22The corona will be mine, mine!
00:31:24Also, you know, because I have big teeth,
00:31:27a small waist, and small eyes,
00:31:31so I'm ready to go.
00:31:33I already have my all-stars teeth,
00:31:34but I'm not planning on going.
00:31:35I'm gonna win this one.
00:31:40I might've been born just plain white trash,
00:31:43but Fancy was my name.
00:31:45What is that from?
00:31:46Fancy by Reba McIntyre.
00:31:48You've heard that song.
00:31:50You've heard Reba.
00:31:51You know her.
00:31:58Hi, I'm Discord Adams,
00:31:59and I'm from St. Pete, Florida.
00:32:01See, it's hard to say,
00:32:02because I grew up doing drag in Ohio,
00:32:03and then I moved to Chicago,
00:32:05and then I moved to St. Pete.
00:32:06So I'm just kind of bringing discord to the show.
00:32:09I'm not really bringing like a specific, you know, city type of representation to the show,
00:32:14I wouldn't say.
00:32:14I would describe myself as a high fashion punk rock maximalist.
00:32:18I want to wear everything.
00:32:22If you haven't noticed,
00:32:24I always say like when I look in the mirror,
00:32:26instead of taking one thing off,
00:32:27I want to put on two more necklaces and like three more bracelets.
00:32:30I want it to look like if a Transformer was a church.
00:32:35Like I'm a church that's on fire, but I'm like a human.
00:32:38Who's to say?
00:32:40I would say growing up, there was a really big punk scene where I lived.
00:32:44So throughout high school and all of that,
00:32:46I was really involved in going to shows.
00:32:48In the punk scene, it's all very DIY.
00:32:50So you're making your jackets, making your clothes.
00:32:52You can see a lot of the music that I listened to in my drag style.
00:32:57The Dead Kennedys, Rancid, the Sex Pistols,
00:33:00a little bit of classic rocks like Aerosmith.
00:33:02I channel like a mixture between like Lady Gaga and Mick Jagger.
00:33:06The first song I ever performed in drag was Teeth by Lady Gaga.
00:33:10I looked like my makeup was far too pale.
00:33:13I looked like a zombie Cher stomping around in a bra and panties.
00:33:19I felt fierce, but like when you look back on it, it's very funny.
00:33:23I'm just weird.
00:33:24I can't touch velvet.
00:33:26If I touch velvet, my fingers cry.
00:33:29And then I have to like lick them to like reset the feeling.
00:33:33That way I don't feel the velvet anymore.
00:33:34It makes my fingers feel like dry.
00:33:36Like it's sucking all the moisture out of them or something.
00:33:39Similar to like microfiber.
00:33:40I don't want to touch that either.
00:33:41I don't know.
00:33:42Ask my fingers.
00:33:43Not me.
00:33:43I would love to be able to put on a velvet dress.
00:33:45It's just awful.
00:33:48If I could bring back one trend in drag, it should be makeup.
00:33:51The girls stopped wearing makeup for a while.
00:33:53We need more blush, more eyeliner, more lip liner.
00:33:57Like we're drag queens.
00:33:59Like look like a drag queen.
00:34:00What is trending right now in drag?
00:34:03I think we're on the right track right now.
00:34:05I think, oh, but like, I think like if you want to wear nothing, at least make it look good.
00:34:10But I hate when the girls just like tie like a shoestring around their nipples.
00:34:13And they're like, look how fierce I look.
00:34:15It's like, no, like, like put, put on some stuff.
00:34:19Will you do your big one this season?
00:34:21My what?
00:34:22Will you do your big one?
00:34:23What's that mean?
00:34:24Yeah.
00:34:26Um.
00:34:27Okay.
00:34:28Yeah, I'm absolutely going to have my big one this season.
00:34:30I mean, look how fierce I look.
00:34:32Hello.
00:34:32I'm America's next drag superstar because I am bringing punk rock to the main stage.
00:34:38I am bringing a sense of fashion that the girls have not seen before.
00:34:43And I just want to be an advocate for like the underdog and an advocate for people who
00:34:49are getting treated poorly in this country.
00:34:52We need drag queens who are going to say more about what's happening instead of saying less.
00:34:56Oh, yeah.
00:34:57Get the fog in there.
00:34:58Really cover up that skin texture, baby.
00:35:00Oh, yeah, baby.
00:35:02I want it to look like you're seeing me like you just took a fat vape rip.
00:35:08That's, that's where I look my best.
00:35:14Hi, my name is Jane Don't.
00:35:16I'm 32 and I am from beautiful Seattle, Washington.
00:35:20What is drag like in Seattle?
00:35:23Um, really good.
00:35:24I don't, I feel like we're having like a Seattle moment.
00:35:27You know, my sisters Bosco and Irene just came through and stormed all stars.
00:35:32Irene and Bosco are two of my best friends and two of my mortal enemies.
00:35:38Historically, alternative drag is kind of the thing in Seattle.
00:35:42Like that's, I started as like a real weirdo.
00:35:43Not like now where I'm a beautiful glamorous woman.
00:35:46I think I'm, I'm standing in that legacy very strong.
00:35:48I'm a lawyer by day.
00:35:50I have a nine to five.
00:35:51I'm a wife, a mother, a woman of God.
00:35:54Um, but there is something wrong with me.
00:35:57Clearly.
00:36:00You know, here's the thing about my drag name.
00:36:01It's not that fun of a story.
00:36:03I just used to smoke a lot of weed in college.
00:36:05I don't do that anymore because I get too scared.
00:36:08I think legal weed is way too strong.
00:36:10One time while I was really high, I just thought of the name Jane Don't.
00:36:12And I was like, if I ever do drag, that's the name.
00:36:15And I literally, I've never thought of like another drag.
00:36:17Like it, it really, it was that.
00:36:19That was my great American novel.
00:36:20It was that.
00:36:21It was a beautiful burst of creativity.
00:36:23And ever since then, I've been extremely, um, yeah, just, just boring, sort of flat from there.
00:36:29Never come up with anything else.
00:36:30What did you think when you first saw Lane Jane?
00:36:32I am the first Jane.
00:36:33She's plain.
00:36:33I understand that naturally you don't want to call her plain because it's a crazy name, but that's not my
00:36:37problem.
00:36:38But also, I would get her hate mail online sometimes.
00:36:41Like people would tag me on tweets and stuff.
00:36:43And I'm just, you know, I'm at brunch, minding my business.
00:36:48What kind of drag do I do?
00:36:49I want to say conceptual, but I feel like when you say you're conceptual, people just like think you're going
00:36:54to kind of look ugly.
00:36:55So, uh, just good.
00:36:57Can I say good?
00:36:58I do good drag and, and sexy drag.
00:37:04Hot.
00:37:05You got it right now.
00:37:06What's your signature scent in your drag?
00:37:09Oh my God.
00:37:09What a good question.
00:37:10Is this new?
00:37:11First of all, half these bitches do not have a signature scent.
00:37:14I think I might have brought the most perfume to the competition.
00:37:17My signature scent, it's, it's by a, I'm going to be a douchebag again.
00:37:21Sorry.
00:37:23It's, uh, it's called Ode Protection.
00:37:25So the like top notes are really floral.
00:37:28It's like jasmine.
00:37:29There's blood accord.
00:37:30Which is like synthetic blood smell.
00:37:32Civet.
00:37:33Or like animalistics in fragrance.
00:37:35You smell like a really, so she was like, I'm really wealthy.
00:37:38I bought it for her.
00:37:39I love fragrance.
00:37:40I will talk about fragrance.
00:37:41Like we could do, we could do two hours on that alone.
00:37:43Will I do my big one this season?
00:37:45Yeah.
00:37:46Why not?
00:37:47That could be fun.
00:37:49That's like what the kids are saying, right?
00:37:50They're doing, yeah.
00:37:51What is, what is, what would be like the definition of doing your big one?
00:37:55Having an impactful moment.
00:37:56Oh, I'm going to have several of those.
00:37:59I am America's Next Drag Superstar because I think that it's time that a nice lady was crowned.
00:38:08Let's do our big one.
00:38:10I can put my leg behind my head, but I actually physically just can't show you right now.
00:38:15I can't show you that I can do that.
00:38:17Just believe that I can put my leg behind my head.
00:38:20I can believe that.
00:38:21You can believe that?
00:38:22You think I'm flexible?
00:38:23Oh.
00:38:28My name is Juicy Love Dion, and I'm from Miami, Florida.
00:38:33The only special part of Florida.
00:38:36South Florida, best part of Florida.
00:38:37And you can tell them I said that.
00:38:41One of my drag mothers is here.
00:38:43My drag grandmother.
00:38:45She hates when I say that, so I won't say it too loud.
00:38:47My name is Athena Dion.
00:38:49She is also the mother of Morphine Love Dion, who is also my mother.
00:38:53The family tree is like all over the place, okay?
00:38:56It all started back in the day.
00:38:57I was a senior in high school and Morphine Love just scooped me up and said,
00:39:02You're going to be in my next drag number.
00:39:04She snuck me into the club and like from that day I was born and then she introduced me to
00:39:09Athena.
00:39:10And Athena was like, okay, Morphine.
00:39:11It's like when someone has a kid too young and like grandma has to take care, but then grandma becomes
00:39:16a mama.
00:39:17Exactly.
00:39:19I feel like I'm very like Latina.
00:39:21I give you like all that Latina sexiness, vibe, the beauty, the gorgeous space.
00:39:26But mixing like a little club kid androgyny, always playing on that line of like, you know, abstract, but still
00:39:34and sexy.
00:39:35I used to be very, very, very, very like punk, always in black latex, red latex.
00:39:40But now I'm going more like couture.
00:39:43I want to feel more elegant.
00:39:45I had someone say to me one time, a gorgeous older Greek man say,
00:39:48You are not punk.
00:39:50You are gorgeous.
00:39:51You are elegant.
00:39:52You are elegant.
00:39:52And I have had those words in my head forever.
00:39:55So I'm sticking to it.
00:39:56I'm sticking to that gorgeous, elegant poise, but with a little twist, you know?
00:40:06YSL East Saint Laurent Libre.
00:40:09That is like, that smell is me in drag.
00:40:15It smells like a princess.
00:40:17It smells like maybe I was just with my boyfriend and my perfume and his cologne mixed.
00:40:23Libre is, yeah, it's that girl.
00:40:28It's that scent.
00:40:29It smells like me.
00:40:30Smell Libre and you'll smell juicy.
00:40:35Okay, what's the strangest thing about you?
00:40:38Strange?
00:40:39I don't know.
00:40:40I don't think I'm strange.
00:40:42I'm not like Briar.
00:40:43Briar's very strange.
00:40:44Briar's a very strange individual.
00:40:47Okay.
00:40:47Clock it.
00:40:48You'll see.
00:40:49One time she did come up to me, she goes, smell my finger.
00:40:54Listen, I had to go.
00:40:57One trend I would like to get rid of.
00:40:59Mono booty.
00:41:00Yes, you're padded, but if you don't have an ass crack in pads, I'm sorry.
00:41:03It looks crazy.
00:41:05It's one butt and you have a G string on and there's no indentation.
00:41:09That is criminal.
00:41:12Baby, I've been doing my big one.
00:41:15I'll do my big one.
00:41:16I'll do my big one and then I'll do it again.
00:41:18I am America's next drag superstar because you've never had a girl this sickening and gorgeous
00:41:27and stupid and funny and with this much of a lack of references and this good of a dancer
00:41:37and this Latina and this Cuban before.
00:41:44Oh my god, I improvised it.
00:41:46I'm an improv queen actually.
00:41:48I'm really good at improv.
00:41:51I think I have a very good voice.
00:41:54Like I have a really good announcer voice.
00:41:56So I can really project my voice like,
00:41:57Are you ready drag fans?
00:41:59Let's do this.
00:42:00I'm doing Meet the Queens here on season 18 of RuPaul's Drag Race.
00:42:04Tune in only on MTV.
00:42:07Yeah.
00:42:08I see that I'm like a Barry White mixed with Lizzo.
00:42:10I love that.
00:42:15I am Kenya Pleaser all the way from South Carolina.
00:42:19Bitch, South Pack and Lackey bitch.
00:42:21They are going to gag to see my ass on this show.
00:42:24That's that little boy from the church.
00:42:26That is going to be crazy.
00:42:28It's going to be crazy.
00:42:29Hey.
00:42:30Mwah.
00:42:31The number one trait from South Carolina that I'm bringing is my humbleness.
00:42:36Being from the South bitch, you always have to be humble.
00:42:38Because that's the only way you are going to succeed in life.
00:42:41If you're not humble bitch, you won't get .
00:42:43You all what you eat.
00:42:46And I eat kindness.
00:42:49The drag that I do is . . .
00:42:51I was about to lie.
00:42:52Bitch.
00:42:53I was about to say it's big.
00:42:53Bitch, I'm big.
00:42:54No.
00:42:54It's sexy and it can be your auntie at the same time.
00:42:57Very much that type of tea.
00:42:58And I like older things like the 80s, 90s, different things like that.
00:43:02And I love to mix everything into one and cultivate it with old school drag that meets new school.
00:43:07Like I'm decked under my jewelry and everything.
00:43:09And I got my little brothel outfit on.
00:43:11Like a little whore house in Texas.
00:43:13But it's still sexy, you know.
00:43:15Honey, one thing that you can get and bet your bottom dollar.
00:43:19Bottom.
00:43:20From Kenya Pleaser.
00:43:21Bitch, I'm going to kick that mother leg until it touches my forehead, honey.
00:43:25My leg could go . . .
00:43:27Oh . . .
00:43:28And just imagine a big girl doing that.
00:43:30It's like a gag.
00:43:32If someone wants to play me in a movie, I want it to be Shirley Ralph.
00:43:35I don't want them to do CGI like they did Will Smith in that one movie.
00:43:38I want Shirley Ralph to play me right now.
00:43:41Singing does not pay the bills.
00:43:43I want that Shirley Ralph to play me, bitch.
00:43:46That's from Sister Act.
00:43:46I know some of you white bitches don't know that.
00:43:48So Kenya Pleaser is so stupid.
00:43:50I want it to have a pun name because I think it's funny when a really sexy girl has like
00:43:53a campy name.
00:43:54So I was like, oh my god, can you feel your beats?
00:43:57Can you do this?
00:43:58Can you do that?
00:43:58Can you do that?
00:43:59Can you take it?
00:44:00Can you take her?
00:44:01And I was like, wait.
00:44:02Pleaser.
00:44:03Can you please her?
00:44:06Kenya Pleaser.
00:44:06And do you know people don't get my name when they first hear it?
00:44:09Like, bitch, what?
00:44:12Will you do your big one this season?
00:44:14My big one.
00:44:15Bitch, I am the big one, honey.
00:44:18In the words of Mistress Isabelle Brooks, do your big ones win, bitch?
00:44:21I think I am.
00:44:22I really think I'm bringing something to this competition that the world has never seen.
00:44:26The Pleaser experience.
00:44:28The Pleaser effect is in full emotion, darling.
00:44:30I am America's next drag superstar because I represent all those little plus size chunky dark skin boys from small
00:44:39country towns that never had a chance to see yourself on television, honey.
00:44:43Those boys who you thought you would never leave your hometown, you will always be up under your mothers and
00:44:49grandmothers and going to church and doing bullsh** and you want to just be fabulous and gay.
00:44:53I am America's next drag superstar because I represent those people, honey.
00:44:58I represent the black community.
00:45:00Every time I cinch my fat ass into this corset, I bat my eyelashes.
00:45:06It is a political statement.
00:45:07And that's why me, Kenya Pleaser, should be the next.
00:45:13Drag superstar.
00:45:15My signature move.
00:45:17Um, sometimes I like to do this thing where I lift my leg up and then I like to twirl
00:45:21my foot and I do a little kick.
00:45:23It doesn't really look cute right now, but I promise you with legs like these, it will look cute.
00:45:32My name is Mandy Mango.
00:45:34I'm the sweetest fruit in Philadelphia.
00:45:36The drag scene in Philadelphia is very diverse, very eclectic.
00:45:40We have our teeny boppers.
00:45:42We have our mama whoppers.
00:45:44We have some flippity floppers and some daddy toppers.
00:45:47The mango part is inspired off the carabao, which is the Filipino mango, which has recently ranked the sweetest mango
00:45:55in the world.
00:45:56So I think that says a lot about me.
00:45:58I'm also fruity.
00:46:00I'm Filipina.
00:46:01And I'm not genetically modified.
00:46:04I'm a first generation Filipino American.
00:46:07Growing up has always been strange trying to figure out if I'm Filipino enough, American enough or not enough either
00:46:14on top of being queer.
00:46:17So drag has really guided my journey in understanding my identity.
00:46:21My biggest drag inspiration, I would say, would be my mom.
00:46:25My mom was a pageant queen in the Philippines.
00:46:28She won best evening gown in Miss Baguio, Philippines, 1987.
00:46:32And I think she should have took the crown, but that's fine.
00:46:35We'll talk about that another time.
00:46:36I would say Mandy was born with my first drag show in college.
00:46:40I performed to Took the Night by Chelly.
00:46:43She won the show and she clearly took the night.
00:46:46Ooh, the strangest thing about me.
00:46:49I don't like to eat oranges and I've never peeled an orange.
00:46:52Some people don't believe me and they think that's strange.
00:46:56I have eaten an orange and I didn't really like it.
00:47:00So then I just stopped trying.
00:47:02It just looked like a dollar effort anyways.
00:47:03So I was like, I'm not going to eat that.
00:47:06I'll stick to my mangoes.
00:47:07Do you just literally start peeling the skin with your fingers and your nails?
00:47:11Do you need to have nails to do this?
00:47:12I can't do anything with these.
00:47:15I can't type on my phone.
00:47:16I can't wipe my butt.
00:47:18It looks really pretty, I know, but there's things I need to do.
00:47:22And I'm a woman who likes to do a lot of things.
00:47:24So nails sometimes get in the way.
00:47:25I also work as a registered nurse in HIV and sexual health.
00:47:29I can do venipunctures.
00:47:31I can do liver elastography.
00:47:33I can do head-to-toe assessments.
00:47:35I can do subcutaneous intramuscular injections, subdermal vaccines.
00:47:42I have a lot of talents and skills, some might say.
00:47:48Oh, you want to see my big one?
00:47:50You want to see the big one?
00:47:52What other opportunity than to bring the big one for season 18 of RuPaul's Drag Race, okay?
00:47:57I am America's next drag superstar because I'm sweet, I'm smart, I'm sexy, and I'm credentialed!
00:48:06I might be a part-time entertainer, but I'm a full-time drag queen.
00:48:11And if you think that the responsibility of a drag queen ends at the four walls of a venue, then
00:48:17you are mistaken.
00:48:17I make sure that I advocate for my community in and out of a show, in and out of the
00:48:23clinic.
00:48:23Because as crew people, we have lives that we celebrate, lives that we get sad about, lives that we laugh
00:48:30about.
00:48:30And I want to take care of that for our community.
00:48:35Every time I get into drag, I am my mother.
00:48:39I look in the mirror, I'm like, oh, on my mom.
00:48:41It's so funny.
00:48:42And the older that I'm getting, I'm acting like her a lot more as well.
00:48:47And it pisses me off.
00:48:53My name is Mia Star, and I am from West Palm Beach, Florida.
00:48:57West Palm Beach.
00:48:59I bring choreography.
00:49:02I am a dancer queen, hip-hop dancer queen.
00:49:07That is me.
00:49:08Not so much on the technicality side.
00:49:10Not the ballet stuff, like real hood hip-hop stuff.
00:49:14That's Mia Star.
00:49:15My style is very urban.
00:49:16It's very slutty.
00:49:20I'm a whore.
00:49:22I love to sing.
00:49:24I am a singer first.
00:49:26Like, I did do a gospel album back in 2018.
00:49:29I released it.
00:49:31It's, yeah.
00:49:32I love singing.
00:49:33I don't do it as often now, but that's like where my heart and soul is.
00:49:38That's my first love.
00:49:41To be honest, I started in 2008, and I took a 14 and a half year break.
00:49:48I moved to Los Angeles to pursue dancing.
00:49:51I was able to perform and go on world tours with Britney Spears for her Vegas residency.
00:49:57Paulina Rubio.
00:49:58I've been on tour with Rihanna, her loud tour in 2011.
00:50:01I'm showing my age.
00:50:03I've been on tour with Camila Cabello.
00:50:05I'm actually the lead dancer in her Havana video.
00:50:10So I'm like the Mr. Havana himself.
00:50:15Spoiler alert!
00:50:17We're a woman now.
00:50:21Whoa!
00:50:22So, yes, it's changed so much, but it's really cool to be able to come back with all the knowledge
00:50:29that I've learned from the greatest of the greats and now apply that to myself.
00:50:34I think what's going to help me the most is just being myself.
00:50:37I can't, you know, look to the left and right and be like, well, damn, I don't have that.
00:50:41Not to say I don't do it, but I, you know, I try not to do it as often as
00:50:46I see Athena Dion do it.
00:50:50The strangest thing about me is I curl my toes when I sleep.
00:50:56My boyfriend just told me that.
00:50:58I don't know why, but I crunch my toes all the time.
00:51:02He's like, stop crunching your toes.
00:51:04My signature scent in drag is a body mist from Bath & Body Works.
00:51:10You can get three for three.
00:51:11It is amazing.
00:51:14Listen, I know girls, they make fun of me.
00:51:16But anytime I walk into a room, people, they give me compliments about it.
00:51:20It's called something gorgeous, like Gingham Gorgeous something.
00:51:26I don't know.
00:51:27Look, I just look for the three for threes.
00:51:30I am going to do my big one this season.
00:51:33No matter who is in my way, y'all gotta go.
00:51:36I am America's next track superstar because I am a bad bitch.
00:51:42Okay.
00:51:44Oh, who is my biggest inspiration?
00:51:47I do think Sasha Colby is a really big inspiration.
00:51:49I mean, to me, she's drag excellence.
00:51:52And Spongebob.
00:51:55Yes.
00:52:00Hi, I'm Mikey Meeks and I'm from the city beautiful Orlando, Florida.
00:52:06My keys.
00:52:07Get it?
00:52:09My keys.
00:52:10Okay.
00:52:12Highbrow comedy here.
00:52:14The doors I've opened.
00:52:16Please take these cat toys out of my hand.
00:52:18Mikey is my real name.
00:52:20I just spell it more androgynous.
00:52:22And I thought I spelled it phonetically.
00:52:24Because I spell it the normal way out of drag.
00:52:26In drag, it's M-Y-K-I.
00:52:28But people still don't know how to say it.
00:52:30But it's Mikey, right?
00:52:31Not Mickey, not Meeky.
00:52:32And then Meeks is a nickname that my best friends gave me.
00:52:35So, let's do my own nicknames put together.
00:52:36Mikey Meeks, honey.
00:52:38My full legal drag name is Dr. Michaela Meekerson.
00:52:43MD.
00:52:44And the MD stands for mental disorder.
00:52:50I think of myself as a dynamic theatrical powerhouse.
00:52:54I do a little bit of everything.
00:52:56Theater is my upbringing.
00:52:58I call myself a recovering theater girl.
00:53:00Because that trauma is in the past.
00:53:01But I love going for old Hollywood glamour,
00:53:04mixed with a little bit of party girl.
00:53:06So, I'm a cross between Ava Gardner and Charlie X.
00:53:11I think my gut instinct will help me the most.
00:53:15It's gotten me this far.
00:53:16I've always kind of had my eyes on the goal.
00:53:18And I get what I want.
00:53:20And that's not me being cocky.
00:53:22That's just, I know what I can do.
00:53:24And I know what I'm worth.
00:53:25So, I just got to keep that and listen to it.
00:53:27Hidden talent.
00:53:28No, I'm very obnoxious and I show all my talents.
00:53:32But, I'm very good at Super Smash Brothers.
00:53:34Is that a hidden talent?
00:53:36What's the strangest thing about you?
00:53:38Ooh, I tend to like...
00:53:42The queens call it powering down.
00:53:45So like when I'm overstimulated or I'm just like deep in thought,
00:53:48I look like someone hit my off switch.
00:53:49I'm just like...
00:53:53The girls will be like, oh, Mikey's down.
00:53:54Mikey, power up.
00:53:55You're powering down.
00:53:55Power back up.
00:53:56Power back up.
00:53:57I think we all suffer from drag delusion.
00:53:59I think drag delusion is a spectrum.
00:54:00And we're all on that spectrum.
00:54:02Okay?
00:54:03Because I'm sure I'm going to look back a year from now and be like,
00:54:05oops, that's a boot.
00:54:06Like that's a miss.
00:54:07I missed something there.
00:54:08But as for my confidence, no.
00:54:13But as for my aesthetic, probably.
00:54:16Will you do your big one this season?
00:54:18Oh my...
00:54:18What the ?
00:54:21Mistress Isabel Brooks write this question?
00:54:24Am I going to do my big one this season?
00:54:25Of course.
00:54:27I'm looking for a big one after this.
00:54:30Do your big one, honey.
00:54:31I am America's next drag superstar because I know my star potential
00:54:37is ready for that next level.
00:54:39I have a whole city of people chanting my name.
00:54:43I hope to make them proud and hopefully a whole new legion of
00:54:46people to impress as well.
00:54:49Honestly, I know everything about me and there's nothing else you can
00:54:52tell me.
00:54:52I'm not delusional.
00:54:53I'm trying to be more delusional.
00:54:55I'm trying to be like, no, I am the greatest thing.
00:54:59You can't tell me anything.
00:55:00To me, what was the question?
00:55:09Hi, my name is Nene Coco.
00:55:11I am 29 and I am from Denver, Colorado.
00:55:15So Nene Coco is not a complicated name at all.
00:55:19It comes from my out of drag name.
00:55:20My out of drag name is Nico Nene Coco.
00:55:24It was very simple.
00:55:25I feel like my drag is an extension of my out of drag self.
00:55:29It's not this completely different persona.
00:55:31So it feels really close to who I am and who I've always been.
00:55:34I love super sharp, super colorful, very bold silhouettes.
00:55:39Everything that I wear has to be sparkling and shining.
00:55:41That is my drag queen must have is a rhinestone.
00:55:45I love drag that catches the light, gets your attention from the back of the room.
00:55:49So it's striking.
00:55:51It's graphic lines.
00:55:52It's kind of this 2D illustration just brought to life.
00:55:56The first song I ever performed was Aura by Lady Gaga.
00:55:59I was feeling the fantasy.
00:56:01I felt so fierce.
00:56:02I auditioned for this competition with that Lady Gaga song.
00:56:05And three months later, I won the whole thing.
00:56:08I killed it.
00:56:09Made all these other bitches mad.
00:56:10And I had been incubating in the bedroom a little bit before that.
00:56:13So performing on a stage, two and a half years.
00:56:16But experimenting with makeup and learning to sew, I started doing earlier in the pandemic.
00:56:21But, you know, how long you've been in drag is no measure of the talent and skill and things that
00:56:27you can do.
00:56:28So, you know.
00:56:31When I was in elementary school, I was the fastest cup stacker in the entire elementary school.
00:56:37You know about cup stacking?
00:56:38The 3-6-3, the 6-6, the 1-10-1?
00:56:41The full cycle?
00:56:41Girl!
00:56:41I won a little thing of cups at my elementary school for being the fastest in the fourth grade.
00:56:47And then I won another thing of cups for being the fastest in the entire elementary school.
00:56:51None of these bitches stand a chance when I get my hands on some cups.
00:56:55Okay?
00:56:55Oh!
00:56:56That's my hidden talent for sure.
00:56:59Up until the day I walked into this place, I was a mechanical engineer.
00:57:04That was my thing.
00:57:05I went to college for engineering.
00:57:08Got a job.
00:57:10Super exciting.
00:57:11Super inspiring.
00:57:13Secret Smartie!
00:57:14Girl!
00:57:15Honestly, I hope I don't have a signature.
00:57:16I hope I don't smell like anything.
00:57:18My signature scent is no scent at all.
00:57:20You don't need to smell a thing when I walk by.
00:57:22You don't need to smell me.
00:57:23You can see me.
00:57:24You can touch me.
00:57:26Don't smell me.
00:57:27That is not part of my flavor profile of drag.
00:57:30You don't need to smell.
00:57:31Will you do your big one this season?
00:57:34Oh, yeah.
00:57:35I am squatting on these bitches.
00:57:38I am on these bitches.
00:57:40It's gonna stink.
00:57:41And they're gonna hate it.
00:57:42It's gonna smell like so nothing that it's gonna stink.
00:57:46They won't even see it, but I'll be on them.
00:57:49I am America's Next Drag Superstar because I am a powerhouse when I hit the stage.
00:57:56I am a maker and a creative.
00:57:58Like, I figure out how to do anything and create anything.
00:58:00If I have a vision, we're bringing that vision to life one way or another.
00:58:04I'm an American Next Drag Superstar because you can't spell my name without icon icon.
00:58:07It is written in the name.
00:58:09Written in the stars.
00:58:10Patty.
00:58:14I'm not seeing it enough, mama, honey.
00:58:16Baby, you can put a little bloop bloop.
00:58:18You can put a little something in there.
00:58:19I'll feel you out.
00:58:20You know?
00:58:21Imagine how surprised and how sexy you feel.
00:58:28My drag name is Vita Von T Star and I'm from Montgomery, Alabama.
00:58:32Oh, my God.
00:58:33Montgomery, Alabama.
00:58:34Very small city.
00:58:36A red state.
00:58:37So, not a lot going on.
00:58:39There isn't a drag scene, really.
00:58:41Yeah.
00:58:42I am the drag scene.
00:58:44My style is very feminine, but I like masculine traits as well.
00:58:49I love to show femininity, but still showing power.
00:58:53A little bit of both.
00:58:54I would have to say a trait that I bring into my drag is tradition.
00:58:58I'm very old school.
00:58:59I like powerful drag.
00:59:01I like meaningful drag.
00:59:02I like for my drag to tell a story.
00:59:06I think what would help me the most in this competition is my skills that I possess outside
00:59:11of drag, which is designing and sewing.
00:59:14We're pushing for Miss Congeniality.
00:59:16I am a helpful queen.
00:59:17I am a drag queen's drag queen.
00:59:20Ooh.
00:59:21Baby, listen.
00:59:21I can't do the stunts and the tricks and the flips and the dips and the splits.
00:59:25I can't do that anymore.
00:59:28But I'm going to try to be so captivating on stage because I feel like that's the essence
00:59:34that, you know, we don't glorify, but I feel like being captivating is an essence that
00:59:40I would try to use to my advantage.
00:59:42Bring the people to you.
00:59:45Well, my names come from the movie To Wong Fu.
00:59:48I was about eight years old when that movie came out, and I didn't know what was really
00:59:53happening.
00:59:53I just know that I was so drawn to the character Vida Boheme of the Manhattan Bohems.
00:59:58And so I wanted to capture Vida, Vida Von Teese, and Diane Carroll all together.
01:00:05And those women just collectively possess different traits that makes up me.
01:00:12What's the strangest thing about you?
01:00:14Hmm.
01:00:15Coming from a little emo gothic kid.
01:00:18Oh, I shouldn't say that.
01:00:20That's a bit embarrassing.
01:00:22Definitely all black.
01:00:24Piercings in my ear.
01:00:26I had contacts called iguana, which were like red and yellow.
01:00:31I dyed my hair green, blue, red chains everywhere.
01:00:35I wore handcuffs.
01:00:36My nails were black.
01:00:38Fishnet shirts.
01:00:39Yeah, maybe I did it.
01:00:41And that, it still lives in me, but hey.
01:00:47I will do my big one this.
01:00:49Yes.
01:00:50Yes.
01:00:51Kind of.
01:00:53Maybe.
01:00:54Sorta.
01:00:55A little.
01:00:56But a lot.
01:00:58Just enough.
01:00:59Maybe not enough.
01:01:01But yes.
01:01:04I am America's next drag superstar because I know my .
01:01:11I know who I am.
01:01:13I know my superpower in drag.
01:01:14I know what I could bring.
01:01:16I just have all of the things.
01:01:18I'm cultured.
01:01:19I'm experienced.
01:01:21Yeah.
01:01:22I am all of the things.
01:01:25In shady times, let there be light.
01:01:31I can't.
01:01:32I can't.
01:01:33And let there be drag.
01:01:38This season, 14 new queens will be the light the world needs.
01:01:42Right now.
01:01:44More than ever.
01:01:46Wake up, sugar, baby.
01:01:47It's the lady boss who pays the way for all the hungry children to get paid on television.
01:01:53Wake up, sugar, baby.
01:01:54It's the lady boss who pays the way for all the hungry children to get paid on television.
01:02:00This season with me.
01:02:01Is thereinільки?
01:02:05It's the fire.
01:02:07Don't be afraid to light up the stage, darling.
01:02:16Find your life.
01:02:32The crown is for the taking
01:02:38They all sparkle
01:02:39But boom
01:02:41They'll shine the brightest
01:02:43Ready
01:02:45Set
01:02:47Glow
01:02:49RuPaul's Drag Race
01:02:51New season premieres Friday, January 2nd at 8
01:02:54Watch on MTV
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