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00:10It's a new day and there's still six of us because no one went home so we'll see what's
00:17gonna happen.
00:18Why do you think Ruth gave us another opportunity?
00:22Honestly, I think that Ruth feels like she said, like we're both really fierce queens.
00:26Like if I was anyone else in this competition, I might feel a little bit like, oh shit, Ruth
00:33feels like we're too good to go.
00:36I would be nervous.
00:38Can somebody just slap her and wake her up?
00:40I wasn't expecting to be in the bottom two.
00:42You're never expecting to be in the bottom two.
00:44And I know.
00:45I know.
00:46But that's the lesson I learned.
00:47I appreciate that RuPaul gave me another opportunity.
00:51I cannot fuck it up.
00:53Ooh, girl, you got she mail.
00:57Hey, dragsters.
00:58Hey.
00:58Listen up.
00:59Can you hear that?
01:00It's herstory calling.
01:02Learn to embrace the past.
01:04Make it your own.
01:05And you just might be America's next drag superstar.
01:10Hello, hello, hello.
01:11Hey.
01:12Hi.
01:13My gorgeous queens.
01:15Now, to kick things off, we're going to play a little game of Rusical Chairs.
01:21Oh.
01:22Now, it's a lot like musical chairs.
01:25When the music stops, whoever left standing has to finish the lyric.
01:30If you get it right, you get to give a queen the boot.
01:33But, if you're wrong, you're out.
01:37Oh.
01:37And you have to play the game wearing high heels.
01:40Oh, of course.
01:43Are you ready?
01:44Yes.
01:45Let the music play.
01:50And when they see me, they wanna be me.
01:54Ah!
01:56Ah!
01:58Carmen is left standing.
02:00What lyric comes next?
02:02Um.
02:04And when they see me, they wanna be me.
02:06I am your fantasy.
02:09Covergirl!
02:10Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!
02:12You got it.
02:15You get to give one of the queens the boot.
02:19I choose...
02:20...Tangela.
02:21I knew it was me.
02:22Bye!
02:23Let the music play.
02:25Hey DJ, love the way I lose my inner visions when you spin.
02:32And I don't care if people stare.
02:38Carmen, dear, are you on a five second delay or something?
02:42What lyric comes next?
02:44You gotta think about this one all the time.
02:46I'd rather something than try to fit in.
02:49Damn, these bitches got me.
02:51I'm sorry Carmen, but you are out.
02:52You may join Changela.
02:55Let the music play.
02:56Here's some train chases up in here.
02:59Welcome to my stratosphere.
03:01See you speak.
03:02Make a move.
03:03What you wanna do?
03:04I ain't got...
03:05Woo!
03:05Wow!
03:07I ain't got no time for no Lucky Lou booze.
03:09That is right.
03:14Get out, girl.
03:15Woo!
03:17There are two chairs left and three queens.
03:20This is the main outfit.
03:22Are you ready?
03:24Just let the music dance into your soul.
03:27Faster, faster, exhilarating.
03:32All right, Jara.
03:33Can't wait to hear this.
03:36Accelerating.
03:39Hello!
03:40Time is up, Jara.
03:41I'm sorry.
03:42But go ahead and join the other girls.
03:44We have two girls in one chair.
03:46Sounds like a video you can watch online.
03:50Okay.
03:51Let the music play.
04:01All right, Raja.
04:03Do you know the lyrics?
04:04We have a winner!
04:10Now, it is time to pump up the volume.
04:13For this week's main challenge,
04:15you'll need to find inspiration
04:17from the vast herstory of music
04:20to perform in a ladyboy music festival.
04:23We're calling Rue Paula Palooza.
04:27Sponsored by Absolute Vodka.
04:29Please welcome Jeffrey Moran.
04:33Hi!
04:34Hi, guys.
04:35There are a couple of things I think you need to know
04:37as you go through the competition.
04:39You need to let your personality show through.
04:40We really want to see that you know who you are.
04:43Show us what it means to be part of this family
04:46and part of Absolute.
04:47Now, ladies, this week,
04:49each of you will record the brand new
04:52RuPaul song, Superstar.
04:56But, each of you will be interpreting it
04:59in a totally different and timeless musical style.
05:03Your options are hip-hop, country, disco, reggae,
05:08punk, or pop.
05:10Now, Manila, since you won the mini-challenge,
05:13you get to choose first.
05:15And then, one at a time,
05:17you decide who chooses next.
05:19Hmm.
05:20I'm gonna go with...
05:22Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
05:24Disco!
05:27Now, Manila, who gets to choose next?
05:30Um, we'll go with Raja.
05:33I want punk.
05:34Who gets to go next?
05:37Jada.
05:38Jada gets to go next.
05:39Come on over, Jada.
05:41Manila picks Jada, not Carmen.
05:44What happened to Team Heather?
05:45I'm gonna take five.
05:48All right, Manila, who goes next?
05:50Alexis.
05:51Alexis.
05:52Thank you, Manila.
05:52I get what you're trying to do, Manila,
05:54but girl, just pick the Heathers.
05:56Who cares about those boogers?
05:57Girl, stop being fair.
05:57Sure.
05:58I'm gonna take the hip hop.
05:59All right, Mommy.
06:02Next is Carmen.
06:03Next is Carmen.
06:04Finally.
06:05Carmen, are you feeling country?
06:07Um...
06:07Or are you feeling reggae?
06:10I really like reggae,
06:11so I'm gonna go with reggae.
06:12Okay!
06:14And, of course, that means, Shangela,
06:16you are our country queen.
06:18I'm straight out of Paris, Texas,
06:20and I'm going to hold on to the country.
06:23All right, ladies.
06:24Before your recording session,
06:26you'll have time to rehearse
06:28and put together an appropriate performance outfit.
06:32Until then, gentlemen,
06:34start your engines,
06:36and may the best woman win.
06:44Carmen Carrera.
06:45Join us here in Alexis Montejo's show.
06:48Do you have any questions for our comedy queen?
06:50No, I thought you...
06:51I thought you was gonna...
06:52I thought this was your show.
06:53I'm giving you the free option
06:55to say something to her
06:56before we continue just criticizing you.
06:58I wanna...
07:01Manella just took me by surprise.
07:03I wouldn't have expected her to pick me first.
07:04I would... I know her.
07:05She would have said, okay,
07:06now, who do I think is gonna try to turn in this competition?
07:08I don't want them to have the music they want.
07:10I don't really read into those things.
07:11I think that some people might wanna, you know,
07:13stir up some drama because of that,
07:15but I think that's why she did.
07:16Oh, I don't think it's nobody trying to stir up drama.
07:17You can be stupid all day long, pretend to be aloof,
07:20but I know better, honey.
07:22You go play that one with somebody else.
07:24I think that Alexis and Shangela wanna start drama.
07:27Fuck those hoes.
07:28Who cares?
07:30Maybe she did or maybe she didn't.
07:31I don't know.
07:32I'm gonna ask that bitch.
07:34I'm gonna ask her right now.
07:36They're trying to say that you're trying to sabotage me
07:38because I only had two options instead of four,
07:40and I should have been called after this bitch.
07:43You know what, honey?
07:44It's not shade.
07:45I'm not strategizing besides myself.
07:47Oh, so you're being selfish.
07:50Going down the line was like the easiest and fairest way to do it
07:52because I don't wanna start drama being like picking you guys first
07:55and then having all the other girls being like,
07:56oh, no, let's just pick in the Heathers.
07:57I actually wanted the reggae one, actually.
08:01Well, then it worked out.
08:02So what are you fucking complaining about, bitch?
08:03I'm not complaining about anything.
08:05Don't get me twisted, honey.
08:06You know what?
08:07No.
08:08Carmen's trying to stir up some motherfucking drama
08:10when she's turning to Shangela.
08:14What you were meant to be, oh, all the glamour and all of the fame.
08:19The main challenge this week is we have to record our own version
08:23of RuPaul's new single, Superstar,
08:25and we have to perform it in front of a live audience.
08:31Ho, ho, ho.
08:32All of the glamour and all of the fame.
08:35People are gonna remember your name.
08:39It is battle of the vocals right now.
08:41Everyone is doing their song.
08:42All of the glamour and all of the glamour.
08:45All of the glamour and all of the glamour.
08:48All of the glamour and all of the glamour and all of the glamour and all of the glamour.
08:49Girl, I thought I was at the audition for Glee.
08:51Bam.
08:52Meant to be you.
08:55They gonna love you whatever you do.
08:58Jata sounds horrible.
09:00Ho, ho.
09:02Maybe tone is lost in translation.
09:07She don't sing in Spanish.
09:09She don't sing in English.
09:10She don't sing in any language.
09:14Hello, hello, hello, my superstar.
09:17Hello.
09:18Hey, Carmen.
09:19Hey, hey.
09:20Lady Reggae.
09:21Yes.
09:21Does this challenge frighten you at all?
09:23No, this excites me.
09:25Because you were in the bottom too.
09:26Maybe I might have a little bit more to prove,
09:27but I like a challenge.
09:29I'm not going to try to fake it.
09:29You know, I'm just going to sing like I do,
09:31and I'm going to try to go with something that I can pull off.
09:34Ariman.
09:35One love.
09:36Okay.
09:37Well, hello, Raja.
09:38Hi, gorgeous lady of wrestling.
09:41Yes.
09:41So why did you choose punk?
09:42As much as I wanted to be a punk rocker as a teenager,
09:45I was way too glamorous up here.
09:46Like, I could not stick a safety pin in my nose.
09:49I was like, I might bleed.
09:50It might hurt.
09:50You've been criticized for overthinking your challenges.
09:53You're very cerebral.
09:54What is your strategy to sort of break out of that?
09:58Well, you know, this is a perfect one for me,
10:00because I can finally go balls to the wall.
10:02Something that's always worked for me is to remember that
10:04what other people think of you is none of your business.
10:08Yeah.
10:09No, that's them.
10:10All right, Raja.
10:11Thanks, Rude.
10:12Get back to work.
10:12All right.
10:13See you later.
10:14Hey, Manila.
10:15Hi.
10:16Do you have your disco moves together?
10:17Can you do the bump?
10:18Yes.
10:19Boom.
10:20Boom.
10:20Can you do the double bump?
10:21Boom.
10:22Boom.
10:22Boom.
10:22Boom.
10:22Boom.
10:22Boom.
10:22Boom.
10:24Boom.
10:25Boom.
10:26Sofía.
10:27The new princess of pop.
10:29Yes.
10:30Do you know how to sing at all?
10:31Um, yes.
10:33You do?
10:34There was a little hesitation there.
10:35Yes.
10:36I'm not the best singer.
10:37I'm an actress.
10:38We have to believe it.
10:39And in front of the mirror, I'm gonna practice.
10:41I'm a singer.
10:42I'm a singer.
10:43I'm a singer.
10:44And I'm gonna sell it.
10:45I'm very glad I kept you around because I'm very excited to see your pop princess.
10:50You're gonna love that, darling.
10:53Hey, Shangela.
10:54Hey, Rue.
10:54Now, you got stuck with country.
10:56Would you have chosen it?
10:56It's not about the song.
10:58Yeah.
10:58It's the look.
10:59Motif.
10:59There's that traditional, you know, Jessica Simpson, these boots are made for walking
11:03kind of look.
11:03Yeah.
11:04And then there's Carrie Underwood concert.
11:06That is quite a conundrum because a lot of people are gonna expect...
11:11Jeans skirts and plaid tops.
11:13You're just gonna have to follow your heart on this.
11:17Yo, yo, yo, yo.
11:19Hey, Rue.
11:20What's up?
11:20I got the hip hop.
11:21And you chose this.
11:23Yes.
11:24I'm modeling myself after Lil' Kim.
11:26Uh-oh.
11:27Uh-oh.
11:27The queen bee?
11:28I love Lil' Kim.
11:29Rue knows I am hip hop.
11:31Keep it hood and, uh...
11:35Peace.
11:35Peace.
11:36Bam!
11:37Bam!
11:38All right, ladies.
11:39In a few moments, you'll be headed to a professional recording studio.
11:43Field trip!
11:45Woo!
11:46Now, tomorrow, on the main stage, you'll be debuting your version of Superstar in front
11:52of a live audience.
11:54Woo-hoo!
11:54We'll be joined by our extra special guest judges, Grammy award-winning artist Jodie
12:00Watley.
12:01Woo-hoo!
12:02Jodie Watley is an amazing performer, so I'm excited that someone on that judge's panel
12:06is gonna finally be looking at performance over look.
12:09And the sizzling hot, Carmen Electra.
12:12Woo-hoo!
12:14So whatever you do, don't fuck it up.
12:18Ah!
12:19Superstar!
12:21Shangela, she looks like Mystique's country realness.
12:25Poor Shangela.
12:26I mean, she's got country, and ugh, it's tragic.
12:29How's Shangela gonna do in country?
12:31I think she's gonna rely what she's been relying on this whole time.
12:34Being a loud mess.
12:36I don't know what the hell Shangela is wearing right now.
12:38Like, she just cut a piece of fabric and it's all uneven, and it's not making any sense
12:42to me.
12:42I hope that I don't get red for not coming out there in a cowboy hat, you know, and a
12:46denim skirt, but it's not that.
12:48It's more this.
12:49This is Carrie Underwood concert, you know what I'm, you know what I mean?
12:52She's somehow got her way through it with fucked up outfits before, so, you know what, we'll
12:56see what happens with her.
12:57Bless her little heart.
13:05Hey.
13:06Hi.
13:06I'm Shangela.
13:06I'm Lucian.
13:07Today our main challenge is to record RuPaul's song Superstar in a specific musical genre.
13:12Have you been in a studio before?
13:13No, I have not.
13:14This is your microphone.
13:15Steve is in the booth.
13:16Okay.
13:16He's gonna help us out.
13:17Lucian produced RuPaul's CD, Champion.
13:20This is real.
13:21It makes me feel like I'm already a musical recording artist.
13:26Now that the time has come, waiting what seems like forever.
13:32The melody that you're singing there seems a little different.
13:34Okay.
13:34Are you changing it on purpose?
13:36I may have taken it too high with the O.
13:38What I would say is that.
13:40But I'll do it and then I'll take your feedback on it.
13:42I'd love to record one more time and then that way I can get the timing down for the intro.
13:46So you guys may not have to do any editing, which would be nice.
13:49Okay, thank you.
13:49It seems like Shangela might benefit from being less confident.
13:55Anything else that I can do to make it better?
13:57No is okay too.
14:01It's gonna be my first experience as a singer, okay?
14:03So easy on me.
14:04Oh, okay.
14:05All right.
14:06It's really scary though.
14:07It is.
14:08It's been a while since we haven't seen a hot, gorgeous guy.
14:13Bam!
14:14I cannot concentrate.
14:16Whoa!
14:17All of the glamour and all of the fame.
14:21People are gonna remember your name.
14:24Yeah!
14:25Okay.
14:27There's a lot to go over here.
14:28Why you didn't like?
14:29You sound terrified.
14:31I am terrified.
14:32Your vocals are like shaking.
14:34I know.
14:35I'm nervous.
14:36What will make you not nervous?
14:37We cannot say that on TV.
14:50Yeah, it's those upper notes that are a little like...
14:52So I'll just push harder.
14:54Well, don't think push.
14:55Just think power.
14:56Okay.
14:57Here we go.
14:59I'm gonna love you as you are.
15:01I'm gonna love you.
15:03You're a superstar.
15:07If you can run some auto-tune on that, that'd be great.
15:10Yeah!
15:11Now that the time has come,
15:14waiting what seems like forever.
15:17Just enunciate the words a little bit more
15:19and make it a little more prettier in that girl punk way.
15:22You're a superstar!
15:29What does that mean?
15:30Sounds like you have a deeper voice than the key of this song.
15:34I'm kind of the more edgy gal.
15:37I don't want to compromise my voice and fuck it up by doing something that's out of my range.
15:40We gotta figure out how to make you sound unless I can't find the right thing.
15:44The right tune, right.
15:45I can't wait to perform in front of a live audience and I just hope that the recording, the look,
15:50all of it goes well so that the audience can love it.
15:52Yeah, there's definitely pressure.
15:54Maybe we should play it back so you can hear and then maybe we can figure out a game plan.
15:58I'm doing reggae.
15:59Okay.
16:00But I don't want to be like old school, like with the accent.
16:04So you don't want to play up any comedy or anything like that?
16:05Yeah, because I think it's not really my things.
16:07Well, this is the microphone.
16:09Okay.
16:09This is to catch my spit, I guess.
16:12It's actually to block the air from popping.
16:16Now that the time has come.
16:20Waited what seemed like forever.
16:22They're gonna love me whatever I do.
16:27I'm sorry, hearing my voice is freaking me out.
16:29Do you think that you're performing right now?
16:30Well, I don't think.
16:32So it's like, is there a way that you can throw in some extra things in the beat?
16:34The beat is so like...
16:36Reggae is laid back.
16:37You have to perform it.
16:38If you were in a club and you were singing this and there's a crowd of people around you, what
16:42would you do?
16:43I would sound like a mess, but let's go, let's do it.
16:58It's just not interesting at all.
17:00It's just like, just so flat.
17:02If you don't give me something more entertaining, it's gonna be like, just do it.
17:05I'm a little frustrated and Luzhen just wants me to keep going and get more.
17:09But this is not my thing.
17:10I think we're done.
17:11Ugh.
17:12That was crazy.
17:21I'm sorry.
17:25Fuck.
17:26Okay, here we go from the beginning.
17:30Fuck.
17:33Sounds bad, right?
17:34It's still not great.
17:36No.
17:36Okay.
17:36Let's try.
17:37Keep trying.
17:38Okay.
17:39Here we go.
17:40Gonna love you.
17:42You're a superstar.
17:45Is it better?
17:45We should figure out the best way to make you sound good.
17:49I'm doing my best.
17:51I don't have the best boys.
17:55But after being the bottom two last week, I'm gonna be a professional.
18:00I'm gonna be more serious.
18:01You know, I have to give you props because you're working.
18:05Listen.
18:06Appreciate it.
18:07I felt like Yara was always trying hard even to make something happen.
18:11But I don't know that anything ever really did.
18:13Gonna love you.
18:14You're a superstar.
18:25Recording artist Manila Luzon is in the house.
18:29Oh, are those our music?
18:30We walk into the workroom and there are MP3 players just waiting there with our songs on them.
18:37Today, we have to lip sync the song that we just recorded.
18:41Super song.
18:44I gotta be alone.
18:46Hearing my voice with the track and the lyrics.
18:49I mean, it was a full on song and it was me singing it.
18:52And I'd never heard that in my life.
18:54I love it.
18:55I love it.
18:56I love it.
18:56I want to do more.
18:57It's good to have that feeling because I'm an old jaded queen.
19:00And I just, I was like beside myself.
19:02Woohoo!
19:02I love it!
19:03I'm so excited to hear my song.
19:05I cannot believe it.
19:07I can understand me and my English is very well looking, darling.
19:11Wow, Jada.
19:12What?
19:13I love it.
19:13I can actually understand you.
19:15Oh, shit.
19:16I sound sickly.
19:19I sound 10 times better than what I was expecting to sound like.
19:23It's awesome.
19:24It sounds great.
19:25Bam!
19:27So I got my track.
19:28I'm listening to it.
19:29And I'm like, oh my god.
19:32I don't like the way it's sounding right now.
19:34I want to hear yours.
19:35Yeah, yeah, yeah.
19:36I need to learn mine.
19:37I don't like the song personally, so I'm not going to go around and like spreading my bad
19:40song to everyone.
19:41I want to keep it to myself and be like, all right, let me think of a plan in order
19:44to make
19:44this work.
19:45So Heather, what'd you think of your recording session?
19:47How did it go yesterday?
19:48It went well.
19:49I like it.
19:50Now that we have our music, I was like, oh, dang.
19:53I don't know about this.
19:55It's kind of weird to hear my own voice.
19:57Trust me, it sounds a lot better in my head.
19:58But there was really nothing left to do except to perform the hell out of it.
20:03This is going to be interesting.
20:07Ow, I'm making a cowboy hat.
20:09Mm-hmm.
20:09Do you rhinestone the trim?
20:11Uh-huh.
20:11That's cute.
20:12Do you need more rhinestones?
20:13I have some more.
20:13I have some more.
20:14Oh, you sure you don't want to put some more rhinestones on that?
20:17That was not her trying to help me.
20:19That was her trying to get into my head.
20:21Well, this is a pretty rhinestone, girl.
20:41Well, hello there.
20:44Welcome to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag Race.
20:47Michelle Visage, a name that's music to my ears.
20:51Aw, go on.
20:52Jeffrey Moran, absolute brand czar.
20:56Baby, we've got to stop meeting like this.
20:58Yes, anybody in that dress, we're going to meet a lot more often.
21:02Jodie Watley, not only are you one of my favorite singers,
21:06you're my favorite Soul Train dancer.
21:09Carmen Electra, welcome.
21:12I feel so Paisley Park tonight.
21:14Yes, very.
21:16This week, each of our queens was challenged to record my song,
21:20Superstar, in a different style.
21:23Now they're here to perform in front of a live audience
21:26at RuPaulapalooza, sponsored by Absolute.
21:31Gentlemen, start your engines, and may the best woman win.
21:36Let's go again.
21:40Oh, oh, oh, oh.
21:42Superstar, superstar.
21:44Now that the time has come.
21:47Waiting what seems like forever.
21:51Gather your broken dreams.
21:54Put all the pieces together,
21:57And everyone will see what you were meant to be, oh.
22:04Can I just unfold my wings?
22:06I'm giving you soul-trained realness, honey.
22:08Gonna love you as you are.
22:11You're gonna love you.
22:13You're a superstar.
22:16Oh, oh, oh.
22:17All of the glamour and all of the fame.
22:21Yeah, yeah.
22:21People are gonna remember your name.
22:25I know I look good.
22:26I'm feeling fabulous.
22:28Woo-woo.
22:29Alexis is serving hip-hop.
22:31Cheers, your mama.
22:32Please don't look back.
22:33Cause I have been traveling from far from Puerto Rico.
22:36I'm about to attack.
22:37Cause this is my time and I'm a star.
22:41Bam!
22:43Can I get a holiday?
22:48Now that the time has come.
22:51Waiting what seems like forever.
22:55Everyone looks wired.
22:56They might as well be in the country, hold down.
22:59And I love that.
22:59So I just start boot scooting my way right on across that stage.
23:02Now and forever.
23:04The dream coming true.
23:06They're gonna love it whatever you do.
23:09Gonna love you as you are.
23:11Woo-hoo!
23:12Gonna love you.
23:13You're a superstar.
23:16Superstar is what you are.
23:17Woo!
23:18Woo!
23:20Woo!
23:20Woo!
23:20Woo!
23:21Woo!
23:26I'm a little worried about the audience.
23:29How they are gonna take this ballet.
23:32But at the end, people are receiving me with open arms.
23:37I love it.
23:37Where you were meant to be.
23:40Woo!
23:41Woo!
23:41All of the glamour and all of the fame.
23:45People are gonna remember your name.
23:48Gonna love you as you are.
24:09It's hard to get into character and be, you know, this sexy person performing to like the cats in the
24:15alley.
24:16So I'm just trying to like do something that's going to compensate for the horrible vocal.
24:20They're gonna love me.
24:22Yes, they are.
24:23They're gonna love me.
24:25I'm a superstar.
24:37Now that the time has come.
24:40Waiting what seems like forever.
24:43Gather your broken dreams.
24:45Put all the pieces together.
24:47I go out there and I'm really feeling my look.
24:50I wanted to embody punk as a philosophy and as a movement.
24:53And I just wanted to have a great time out there.
24:55Now and forever, the dream's coming true.
24:57They're gonna love you whatever you do.
24:59Gonna love you as you are.
25:02Gonna love you.
25:03You're a super.
25:06A superstar.
25:11Ladies.
25:12Ladies, it's time for the judge's critique.
25:16Let's start with Manila.
25:19I thought the lip sync could have been a little more on point.
25:22I wanted to feel like you were singing it a little bit more.
25:25I was surprised that you went directly to the audience as soon as you came out to the stage.
25:28I felt you grabbing at the audience too early.
25:31Okay.
25:32Your moves were great.
25:33You had really super moves.
25:34And I pray to God there's a bottle of Absolute hidden in that fro somewhere.
25:38There's actually a whole case.
25:39The song was totally late 70s after school special starring Scott Baio theme song.
25:45Which I love.
25:46And you look gorgeous.
25:49Next up, Alexis Mateo.
25:53Now tell us about your outfit.
25:55My outfit was inspired by Lil' Kim.
25:57Um.
25:58Bam.
25:58Girl, I thought you got Missy Elliott stuffed up in there.
26:01Yes.
26:02Big old titties and lots of ass.
26:05Alexis sold it.
26:06I could tell that you were enjoying it.
26:08The lip sync was great.
26:10Loved the rap.
26:10I'm a hip hop girl.
26:12And this is like Hannah Montana does hip hop.
26:14Hannah Montana?
26:17All right.
26:17Up next, our country queen, Shangela.
26:20Hey, y'all.
26:21You chose to do today's country look, like Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift.
26:26To me, it was a little more pop than country.
26:29I would have liked to have seen something just a little bit more unexpected.
26:33You definitely came out with the energy.
26:34There's no question.
26:35But I think I almost saw that energy getting the best of you.
26:38It got a little sloppy sometimes.
26:42Your energy is always great.
26:43But I would have liked to have seen a little more country stuff in there.
26:46But I just, you know, I feel that it's important that we just are open-minded with Revited Country.
26:50I know you guys are definitely open-minded to that.
26:52And so I appreciate all your comments back.
26:54When we're sitting here, we hear that song.
26:56That's what dictated it.
26:57It's not our preconceived notion of country.
26:59It's that, you know, that's what you heard.
27:04All right, next up, our pop princess, Zara Sofia.
27:08I love the fact that you put some Spanish in there.
27:11Yes.
27:12That was fantastic.
27:13Yes, thank you.
27:14I don't know if I would have picked that outfit for that version of the song, but you do look
27:18spectacular.
27:19I appreciate that sex sells.
27:21I might have maybe covered up a little skin.
27:23Had you stood at the back of the stage back there for a little longer with the mic stand,
27:27you could have sold the ballad a little bit more.
27:30Yes, you could have worked the mic stand more, but you connected with the audience.
27:33I love the glitter.
27:34It's very Britney, MTV Video Music Awards, I'm a Slave.
27:37Yeah.
27:37And Britney wants her old body back, too, by the way.
27:38I bet she does.
27:39Yeah.
27:40Up next, our punk queen, Raja.
27:44We've been asking you here for you to tap into that power that you have when you walk the runway.
27:49And it looked to me like you did it.
27:52I loved it.
27:53I loved the performance.
27:55The lip sync was great.
27:56You really owned the stage on this one.
27:57I mean, I was there.
27:58I felt like I could have gotten in the mosh pit.
28:00When I was 14, I had the same hairdo, but it was blue.
28:02Everything was on tonight, Raja.
28:04Your performance, your look, your attitude, the emo, like way on.
28:08Thank you so much.
28:10Up next, Lady Reggae, Carmen Carrera.
28:14Tell me about your outfit.
28:16Well, my outfit is kind of like if Bob Marley had a love child with a Puerto Rican girl,
28:21and she grew up in Jersey.
28:22I love the outfit.
28:23There were some problems in the lip sync.
28:25It was a little off.
28:26So now, Jeffrey, she pulled the guy up on stage, but she left him there.
28:32Frankly, he diverted my attention a little too much from you.
28:35This is about you.
28:35You're going to be the superstar.
28:36It made me feel like quality impression and a little low on the delivery.
28:42I sound horrible, but that's okay.
28:43I'm a man.
28:44You didn't sound horrible.
28:45You didn't.
28:45You just, it felt that you weren't committed to the vocal.
28:50Ladies, $75,000 is at stake, and the decisions get harder and harder to make, and I need your
28:57help.
28:59Who should go home tonight and why?
29:02Raja.
29:03Oh, man, I fucking hate this question.
29:06You know what?
29:07I, oh, God.
29:09I would say Shangela, only because, you know what?
29:13Clearly, if you go down the line, you can tell which genre of music everyone is for the
29:16most part, and then, you know, it just kind of gets lost as far as her look.
29:20Carmen, same question.
29:22I have to agree with Raja because I feel that if there's always a look issue, you need to
29:28look the part if you're going to be a drag superstar.
29:30Where look is definitely important, you have to be able to perform, and you need to be
29:34able to connect, and obviously, she didn't do that tonight, and she has continuously not
29:38done that throughout this competition, and that's truly why I feel Carmen Carrera.
29:41She'll be the one who goes home tonight.
29:43Alexis Mateo, I'm going to pick Carmen Carrera as well, and I think she's just resting and
29:47pretty.
29:48All right, girls.
29:49I think we've heard enough.
29:51Now, while you enjoy an absolute cocktail in the Interior Illusions Lounge, the judges and
29:57I will deliberate.
29:58You may leave the stage.
30:02All right, just between us girls, we'll start with Manila.
30:06Now, I have never enjoyed a performer to come out and immediately attack the audience.
30:11I love the fro, and I love what she delivered, but I think I'm with you.
30:15I don't want her attacking that audience.
30:17I think she looked good, her costume and the whole package, and I love that she attacked
30:20the audience.
30:21Good for her.
30:23Alexis Mateo.
30:24The good was she really did own her performance.
30:27It's hip-hop.
30:28We don't know you as that kind of an artist, and then you come out here, you got a hip
30:31-hop
30:31hat on, you got a girl hip-hop jacket on, and then the rest is stripper.
30:35That's not hip-hop.
30:36I mean, what was she supposed to wear?
30:37Some...
30:37She was supposed to sport a sag and a white shirt?
30:40If I pick her up, we're going to an interview, and I see them, and I'm like, what?
30:43We've got to cover those up.
30:44Well, a big trend in queens these days are those latex boots.
30:48I don't like the way they look.
30:49Those aren't breasts.
30:50These are breasts.
30:51Oh, girl.
30:52These are breasts.
30:53You don't have to tell me twice.
30:55Shangela.
30:56Now, she made a bold decision to do today's country look.
30:59She didn't do it for me, and I understand, you know, the whole, I wanted to be current
31:02and I wanted to be now country, like, fine.
31:04But someone's paying you to do something.
31:06Sweetie, you've got to deliver on that.
31:07I almost don't even remember it.
31:09It was so middle of the road.
31:11If you have to explain it, it's not being projected.
31:13It was a fail.
31:14Jara Sofia.
31:16That body is near perfection.
31:17But with that said, that voice is still there, and I don't ever want to hear her record again.
31:22Just FYI.
31:24I don't know.
31:24I thought she had guts to get up here.
31:26She sparkled.
31:27I liked her.
31:29Carmen Carrera.
31:30The best thing about it for me was the outfit.
31:32I saw some style with no substance.
31:35I think she's too self-conscious about looking anything other than sexy.
31:39Right.
31:40And I do think she has the goods, but she's not moving past this point of posing.
31:43That's her crutch.
31:45So she really doesn't have to bring anything else.
31:48Raja.
31:48A lot of performing is owning it.
31:51Raja just owned it.
31:53She walked out with those Doc Martens and that little plaid number, and I'm like, she got it.
31:57She can study a look and she can get it and she works it on the runway, but when it
32:00comes
32:00to emoting, she's fallen short.
32:03And Michelle, you've seen this.
32:04Do you think she's broken through that?
32:05I think this was so in touch with the core of who she is that we can't really judge if
32:08she's broken through or not.
32:09She represented the strongest type of woman, which I find so attractive.
32:14I wouldn't mind if she, well, I guess she wouldn't need to strap it on.
32:18I know.
32:21Silence.
32:22I've made my decision.
32:24Bring back my girls.
32:28Welcome back, ladies.
32:30Now, based on your performance on the main stage, I've made some decisions.
32:35Ja, Sophia, your performance was graceful, but your power ballad ran out of gas.
32:45You're safe.
32:48Raja, the judges OD'd on your punk performance.
32:54God save the queen.
32:57You are the winner of this challenge.
33:00And you've won an original custom gown by Marco Marco from the house of Infinite Radness.
33:08I feel fantastic.
33:10I grew up being a little punk kid, so it was kind of nice to get to live that look,
33:14and I
33:14deserve to win.
33:18Carmen Carrera, your reggae was half-baked, and your performance went up in smoke.
33:26I'm sorry, my dear, but you are up for elimination.
33:31Oh, God.
33:32I was in the bottom two last time, so for me, it's do or die.
33:35Manila, your disco look rocked the boat.
33:42You're safe.
33:47Shangela, your attempt to explain away your new country look fell on deaf ears.
33:56Alexis Mateo, your hip-hop was just too damn strip-hop.
34:02Alexis Mateo, you are safe.
34:14Shangela, my dear, you are up for elimination.
34:18When Ru says that I'm in the bottom two, my heart is beating so loudly.
34:22Because it's not time for me to go home.
34:24It's not.
34:26Two queens, stand before me.
34:29Ladies, this is your last chance to impress me and save yourself from elimination.
34:36The time has come for you to lip-sync for your life.
34:44Good luck, and don't fuck it up.
34:56No matter how hard I try
34:58You keep pushing me aside
35:01And I can't break through
35:04There's no talking to you
35:07It's so sad that you're leaving
35:11It takes time to believe it
35:14But after all, you said and done
35:19You're gonna be the only one
35:22Do you believe in life after life?
35:27I can feel something inside me sad
35:31I really don't think it's wrong enough, no
35:35Well, I know that I'll get through this
35:39It hurts me to say that Shangela's kind of turning it out.
35:42I mean, I'm rooting for my girl, but Carmen might be in trouble.
35:45I don't need you anymore
35:47No, I don't need you anymore
35:52Oh, do you believe in life after life?
35:58I can feel...
36:04Ladies, I've made my decision.
36:09Shangela, Shantae, you stay.
36:18Good talk.
36:21Carmen Carrera, my Jersey girl
36:24You're a fierce queen
36:25Do you believe in life after RuPaul's Drag Race?
36:31Because I believe in you
36:37Now, sashay away
36:44Ru's decision is Ru's decision, and I respect her decision.
36:46I think in this competition, it's about doing it and doing it the best you can
36:50And if other people do it better, then that's the reality of it.
36:53But I am the most beautiful one here.
36:56And honestly, I would have liked to get sent home by somebody better.
37:01Condragulations girls, you have been turning it out week after week, and so don't even think of letting up now.
37:11Now, remember, if you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you going to love somebody else?
37:16Can I get an amen in here?
37:17Amen!
37:18All right, now let the music play!