♪ One thing I know ♪
♪ And I've always known ♪
♪ I am my own best friend ♪
(Jinkx laughs)
- Hi, everyone.
I'm Jinkx Monsoon.
And I'm going to play a game of Song Association
with Elle.
I will be given a word,
and then I'll have 10 seconds
to sing or rap that word in a song.
I'm gonna do medium-well.
I don't wanna say that I'm gonna like, kill this,
and then look like an idiot.
And I don't wanna say that I'm like,
gonna be bad at it,
because I'm good at everything I do, so.
I'm gonna shoot middle of the road.
(Jinkx chuckles)
(Jinkx wails)
Ooh, I'm having a good day
'cause you didn't hear my break at all.
You.
♪ You got to have friends ♪ (bell dings)
♪ The feelings oh so strong ♪
You gotta have friends.
I was singing Bette Midler's version.
Rose.
♪ I say love ♪
♪ It is the rose ♪
(Jinkx cackles)
♪ I say love, it is a flower ♪
♪ And you're the only sea ♪
And then you have to get through the whole song
to get to-
♪ The Rose ♪
(Jinkx cackles)
Also by Bette Midler. (laughing)
Poor.
My dear, sweet child.
That's what I do.
It's what I live for.
♪ Poor, unfortunate souls ♪
♪ In pain, in need ♪
♪ This one longing to be thinner ♪
♪ That one wants to get the girl ♪
♪ And do I help them ♪
♪ Yes indeed ♪
Oh, I could go on.
Poor, Unfortunate Souls.
Sung by Pat Carroll.
And soon to be played by Melissa McCarthy, I believe, yes.
The first song I ever performed,
and we have it documented in my family somewhere,
is just me singing-
♪ Tale as old as time ♪
♪ Song as old as rhyme ♪
And I was a little kid,
and my nose was running,
and I was dedicating the song
to every member of my family.
So I go, "This one's for you, Uncle Mark."
♪ Tale as old as time ♪
♪ Song as old as rhyme ♪
♪ Beauty and the beast ♪
(Jinkx sniffles)
"This one's for you, Aunt Mimi."
♪ Tale as old as time ♪
♪ Song as old as rhyme ♪
(Jinkx sniffles)
"This one's for you, Nana."
Like, over and over and over.
And I never got tired of it.
And, very few things have changed.
(Jinkx sniffles, giggles)
World.
♪ And you can color my world with sunshine ♪
♪ So yellow each day ♪
♪ And you can color my world with happiness all the way ♪
♪ Just take the green from the grass ♪
♪ And the blue from the sky up above ♪
♪ And if you color my world ♪
♪ Just paint it with your love ♪
♪ Just color my world ♪
It's Petula Clark.
Time.
♪ If you're lost and you look ♪
♪ And you will find me ♪
♪ Time after time ♪ (bell dings)
♪ Time after time ♪
My time on Broadway.
Dream come true doesn't encapsulate it
as well as it should.
I like to say I was hoping this show
might get my foot in the door,
and now there doesn't seem to be a door.
(Jinkx chuckles)
My favorite song from the show Chicago
is one that they cut from the film.
But it goes-
♪ One thing I know ♪
♪ And I've always known ♪
♪ I am my own best friend ♪
(Jinkx laughs)
It's called, "I Am My Own Best Friend."
It's a song about self-sufficiency.
Feather.
Oh.
♪ You and I ♪
♪ Meant to be ♪
♪ Like a feather ♪
♪ It should be ♪
♪ When I rise to see it done ♪
♪ Like a feather ♪
♪ It'll be, it'll be ♪
♪ It'll be ♪
Nikka Costa, Like A Feather.
Blue.
Oh.
♪ Blue moon of Kentucky, keep on shining ♪
♪ Shine on on the one who left me blue ♪
♪ I said blue moon of Kentucky ♪
♪ Keep on shining ♪
♪ Shine on the one alone ♪
♪ And left me blue ♪
It's Patsy Cline, "Blue Moon of Kentucky."
Sweet.
♪ Sweet home Alabama ♪
♪ Where the skies are so blue ♪
♪ Sweet home Alabama ♪
♪ Lord, I'm coming home to you ♪
I always think of Megan Mullally singing.
♪ Sweet home Alabamoo ♪
She says "Alabamoo" for some reason.
Sweet Home Alabama.
Start.
Drag queens.
♪ Start your engines ♪ (bell dings)
♪ May the best drag queen win ♪
That's the RuPaul's Drag Race theme song,
performed by RuPaul.
This summer, I am going on my biggest
North American tour yet.
It is called Jinkx Monsoon, Everything At Stake.
Because that's what it is right now, you know?
I've had some successes,
I've had a couple good years under my belt recently.
And I decided, let's take everything,
let's take all this energy,
and let's focus it in
on doing the biggest spectacular
North American tour I've ever done
so we've got a five person band touring with me.
You're gonna see original music
by me and Major Scales, my music partner.
You're gonna see new comedic bits
and sketches and monologues.
You're gonna get to see me do
what's gotten me to where I am today,
at the best of my ability.
You know why?
'Cause I'm over 30, very flirty,
femme, fun, and full of life.
And you can too, with Jinkx Monsoon,
Everything At Stake, this Summer.
(Jinkx giggles)
True.
Oh.
♪ And I see your true colors shining through ♪
♪ And I see your true colors ♪
♪ And that's why I love you ♪
♪ So don't be afraid ♪
♪ Let them show ♪
(Jinkx chuckles)
♪ Your true colors ♪
It's Cyndi Lauper, True Colors.
Could.
♪ If you had been on the square ♪
♪ And you treated me fair ♪
♪ And we had not have a tiff ♪
♪ If you had not said I should go ♪
♪ And jump off, right ♪
Oh my God, it's a patter song.
♪ If you could've then you should've ♪
♪ When you could've and then you could've ♪
It's Kristin Chenoweth singing.
When she's like-
♪ If you could've, then you should've ♪
(Jinkx laughing)
♪ If you could've then you would've ♪
Run.
♪ Running just as fast as we can ♪
♪ Running on to one another's hands ♪
♪ Into the night away, into the light ♪
♪ Do do do do do do do do do do ♪
♪ I think we're alone now ♪
♪ Doesn't seem to be anyone around ♪
Lose.
♪ The winner takes it all ♪
I'm doing Cher's version.
♪ The winner takes it all ♪
♪ The loser- ♪
(laughing) I can't.
What's going on with my voice?
The Winner Takes It All,
originally by ABBA.
Cher did a cover of it.
When Cher decided to do ABBA's songs
completely as they were originally recorded,
just replacing ABBA's voices with Cher's.
And Cher really just said,
"No, I'm taking these.
You can have the rest, but I'll take these ones over here."
Friend.
♪ You've got a friend in me ♪ (bell dings)
(Jinkx chuckles)
♪ You got a friend in me ♪
♪ Well just remember what your old pal said ♪
♪ Boy, you got a friend in me ♪
(Jinkx chuckles)
That's "Friend in Me" from Toy Story,
by Randy Newman. (laughing)
My favorite song as a kid was,
"Jump In The Line" by Harry Belafonte.
Because one of my favorite movies as a kid was Beetlejuice.
And I used to have the Beetlejuice soundtrack
on my Speak 'n Say.
And so as a little four year old,
I would sing along with-
♪ Jump in the line ♪
♪ Rock your body on time, okay ♪
♪ I believe you ♪
Just really the whole Harry Belafonte songbook.
(Jinkx laughs)
Goodbye.
♪ Everything's as if we never said goodbye ♪
That's Glenn Close. (bell dings)
As Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Weber's
"Sunset Boulevard."
I think I did well done.
I said I was going for medium well,
and I did well done. (laughing)
Yeah, I'll come back.
Listen, I love coming twice.
(Jinkx sings in foreign language)
(Jinkx giggles) (upbeat music)