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Oh thank gawd, it's finally the weekend. And it's almost warm now! Yay! It's like spring is almost here, but not really because I still need to wear two coats to walk my dog so that I don't freeze my nips off. Anyway, to celebrate the warmer weather and the two days where we don't have to work, we're cramming not one, not two, but three videos here all featuring the queens of RuPaul's Drag Race. First off, we have the new episode of Ring My MORE
Despite what Vivienne Pinay (who?) would have you believe, this is not the season of the fish. If anything, this season of RuPaul's Drag Race seems to be about expanding what drag can be. After Sharon Needles won last season with a style of drag that the show had previously never seen, the bar's been set higher and you can tell RuPaul is trying to bring in a more diverse group of girls. So far we've had the first transgender contestant, art MORE
Because of the lack of a new episode of RuPaul's Drag Race this week, we figured that we'd have no new All T, All Shade this week. But since this week was a full-season recap, and because it's kind of a slow news day, we decided to do a special version of ATAS where we predict who'll make it to the top three. To make sure we over think this as much as possible, we're basing this on two perameters: The queen's current scores: The queens' MORE
Usually, when the queens of RuPaul's Drag Race are whittled down to seven, Ru will throw the queens a marketing challenge. It's not enough for a queen to be talented; they need to be able to get those talents out there for the world to see. Whether it's season one's Oprah challenge, season two's autobiography, or season four's Dragazines, a queen has to know how to get the word out about herself. So when Ru made this season's batch of queens MORE
On the last episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, queens Roxxxy Andrews butted heads with Jinkx Monsoon before revealing that, when Roxxxy and her sister were both little kids, Roxxxy's mother abandoned them at the bus stop. It was a really heartbreaking moment because, well, what kind of mother would abandon her kids like that? That's a very special kind of heartless. Not only that, but Roxxxy's drag mother, Erica Andrews, passed away the same day that MORE
Despite the fact that drag queens are meant to be funny and entertaining, their have been very few straight forward stand-up challenges on RuPaul's Drag Race, although there's a very big reason for this: Stand-up is hard. If you don't know how jokes work (as is the case for some queens) and you don't know how to get the timing right (as it was for even more of the queens) you're going to fall flat on your ass. So how'd the queens do? Well MORE
While this season doesn't seem to have any work room divisions (e.g. S3's Heathers vs. Boogers) there is a fair amount of co-dependency on this season of RuPaul's Drag Race: Namely, RoLaskaTox and the Coco-Alyssa feud. Everyone in that workroom seems to be focused on someone other than themselves, and unfortunately, if the girls can't get their eyes on the prize, they all risk going home crownless. This week saw the queens putting together a "We MORE
After the impossible ballet challenge last week, RuPaul decided to lob the queens the most entertaining of softballs: The Snatch Game! Yes, RuPaul's Drag Race's most iconic mid-season challenge finally came last night, and while a few of the queens were chameleonic in their celebrity realness, others really weren't fooling anyone. Alaska - Top 3 We all knew that Alaska was going to excel in this challenge -- out of all the queens, she's MORE
Out of all the Sisyphean tasks RuPaul has ever dropped on her queens, putting together a ballet in the space of a few days may be the most impossible challenge ever on RuPaul's Drag Race. Honestly, proper ballet is something that takes years of training to master, and asking a bunch of drag queens to get the steps down in a matter of days is like giving each of them a piece of coal and giving them a week to turn it into a diamond. Granted, it was MORE
If there's one surefire way to throw off the queens of RuPaul's Drag Race, it's to throw them an acting/writing challenge. Since most of the queens are split pretty evenly down the line between "lip synchers" and "jill-of-all-trades," the acting/writing challenge is usually a good litmus test for separating the creative types from those just resting on pretty. It's a testament to how strong this season's batch of queens is that they don't MORE
If you caught the last episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, chances are you still have RuPaul's new song "Peanut Butter" (featuring Big Freedia) stuck in your head. Well, the music video for the song is finally here, and call me crazy, but I think peanut butter might be some sort of metaphor for ... something. I don't know what, but it's gotta be a metaphor for something. This one's a thinker ... MORE
After being on the air for a certain amount of time, it's only fitting that a reality television show starts to turn inward, dissecting and evaluating its own history. Granted, RuPaul's Drag Race is probably one of, if not the most self-aware reality shows out there, so going meta isn't anything new for it. That being said, when this week's challenge involved recreating famous scene's from Untucked's run, the pay-off was surprisingly better than MORE
Welcome to a new little feature on PopBytes we're calling All T, All Shade, where we condense an entire episode (which you can watch below) of RuPaul's Drag Race down the juiciest, tastiest bits for your consuming pleasure! We're not going to do a full play-by-play, because those take forever and I already do one of those on another blog, so instead, we'll be pulling out the meatiest chunks and focusing on those. To break things in, we'll be MORE
Okay, who saw last night's RuPaul's Drag Race premiere? Oh, everyone? How good was it? Oh my ... look, we'll go over the episode a little later in the day, but for now, we have to get to Sharon Needles' brand new music video for her single, "This Club Is A Haunted House," (featuring RuPaul) because it's amazing. Out of all the Drag Race singles, it's probably one of, if not THE, best songs to come out, and you can buy it (as well as Sharon's MORE
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