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Hi Ugly, it's me, Bussy, and welcome back to Hot or Rot!
And today we'll be reviewing episode 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race season 14.
Today our queens are split into teams by Willow Pill and challenged to create and present
a Drag Con-style discussion panel on the topic of menzezezzezzezzezzez.
And the runway category was shoulder padzezzezzezzs.
And today we'll be ranking the queens from Rottest Rot to Hottest Hot based on how I
thought they performed in the episode overall, out of a total of 10 hot flames.
We've also got some exciting news to discuss concerning our Widdlest Pill,
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Now with no panel needed on this channel, first up, it's Jorgeous.
In the main challenge, she stumbled a couple of times as the judges pointed out – over
words like toxic, saying “toxitive,” and if she had played up some of those mistakes,
and not been so focused on trying to be perfect, she actually could have had a much more successful
time.
Because the actual story she was telling that we heard about in the work room and on the
panel was a great one.
And hearing how her relationship formed and developed with her father over time, despite
the early criticisms of some of her behavior, was really beautiful.
But just a great story, does not a great panelist make.
This performance was a Rot.
And over on the bidi bidi runway, she's giving me very Selena disco vibes.
And of course she looks Jorgeous, she always does.
This didn't really do a lot for me tonight.
A) it's a silhouette in type of style that we have seen from Jorgeous many times already
in this competition, and B)
as the judges pointed out, it wasn't really shoulder pads – it was arm poofs.
So many of the other queens chose really fun themes for this runway category, but Jorgeous
kept it a little too simple this time.
I wanted bigger hips, bigger breasts, bigger shoulders, and maybe a biscuit on the side.
This look was a Rot.
Next up, the last Kennedie: Jasmine.
She had similar problems to Jorgeous tonight, and I can't help but wonder if they hadn't
been paired together, would they have maybe had a little more success?
Because the back to back of these 2 kind of talking in circles – I think wasn't productive
for the group or themselves as individuals.
Let's not overdo this critique though – it was a Rot.
Over on the runway, girl, let's get Jasmine some snaps, some applause, for how beautiful
that mug and hair looked on her tonight.
She painted very age-appropriately and the effect was stunning.
But for how stunning she was neck up, I couldn't help but think that this look was almost a
bit bobble-headed.
I wasn't really sure what this singular one-piece highlighter jumpsuit was doing, and yeah,
it had really big shoulders on it, but why?
I was just maybe wanting a bit more definition out of this look.
Because as is, it just kind of looked like one of those giant painters cards that you
would pick up from the hardware store … dancing down the runway?
Maybe even a belt would have solved that problem?
I’m not sure, but the judges loved it, so what do I know?
Still gonna give this look a lime green Rot though.
Next up, the villain of the season has arrived!
Referring of course specifically to one particular instance where Daya said that Jasmine was
an energy vampire!
And y’all please for the love of god, just because she’s being the villain on reality
TV let’s not do crazy things on social media.
I’m enjoying it.
Let me have this.
But for all that talk she had, there wasn't a lot of walk.
Daya did okay in the challenge, but I think she didn't know how to or simply couldn't
play off of her teammates on the panel.
So what she did felt very individualistic, and I think the bigger challenge here of this
challenge was that the queens worked well as a team to enhance each person's performance.
And to the detriment of herself, I think she let her ego get in the way just a tad too
much in the challenge tonight, so I'm gonna give this performance a Rot.
And on the runway, general Betty, reporting for duty.
Hee hee, I said duty!
… Pee pee poo poo *gay cackle* I love this look.
I don't really know what the judges were on about here, I thought it was both a great
display of Daya’s personal fashion, and an excellent adaptation of this runway.
She's giving me the Mad Max end of the world apocalyptic vibes that I didn't know I needed,
but I appreciate it.
One critique here on Daya’s look tonight – I think she could have done a little bit
more with the pants and boots, because as they were, they really were just pants and
boots and pants and boots and pants and boots!
But for the bravery she displayed on tonight's episode, Daya Betty I salute you!
This look was Hot.
Next up, Angeria Paris Van Michaels.
In the work room we hear that Angeria actually has not done so well on panel style things
in the past in pageants, but, I think she did a really excellent job of just being herself,
and mixing in a little bit of professionalism to what she was doing on the panel.
For example, she would combine good storytelling about her relationship with menzezes with
jokes about how romance now is kind of like a pizza – there's no build up and it just
shows up at your door 15 minutes later hot and ready.
Which is a great point.
Where's the chivalry?
Angeria’s performance was like a pizza – hot and ready.
And on the runway, she says she did a black lip for the kids, and I loved this look.
Because now for the second week in a row, she has come out of the runway and I'm sitting
there being like wait who is that?
What are they wearing?
Why are they wearing that?
Like I absolutely adore a queen who can give this beautiful pageantry perfection, and then
switch it up with this kind of avant-garde club kid fantasy for no other reason by the
way than just to display her versatility without being asked.
My only improvements for this look because of the category being shoulder pads, would
have been to make the shoulder pads more of a central piece.
Give me the actual reason behind why we're doing this crazy look with the shoulder pads
other than it happens to have shoulder pads.
But as is Angeria has served us a check … mate.
This look was Hot.
Next up, it's Lady time!
Weeeeeee!
I think Miss Lady struggled to find her footing a little bit in the beginning, especially
with that mix-up of Blake Shelton and Blake Livel, but girl I feel you there, I would
take Blake Lively over Blake Shelton any day.
But this mix-up was kind of endearing and funny, and I think we got to see a great example
of her rolling with the punches there, and even turning that Blake Lively mix-up into
a joke at the end of the panel.
This performance was Hot.
And on the runway, munch much crunch crunch!
Let's crack some nuts!
This runway for camden felt very right to her whimsical approach to drag.
This is stuff that is great on a huge stage like the RuPaul's Drag Race runway, plus who
doesn't love getting their nuts cracked?
My only improvement for this look I would suggest to Miss Camden would be to make those
shoulders even bigger.
She gave us a couple little stars coming off, but let's blow that up to an entire universe!
You get my point there, but the way that she played this runway was definitely right.
This look is Hot.
Next up, the demon queen from Seattle – Bosco.
Bosco, it is Bosco.
This [ __ ] is not afraid to show us that she knows how to work a mic.
Her booking fee after this just went up like times 10.
She had a joke pun and set up for every single switch in time that she redirected the panel.
Which at first, I was a little nervous she might be overdoing, but then later realized
oh, well if she wasn't doing that, then the panel would be falling flat because nobody
else was telling a single joke.
But that does leave me with the question, is it a valid critique here to maybe suggest
for Bosco to have cut off some of Jorgeous and Jasmine's speech?
Or perhaps was she maybe playing the game a little bit there and letting them self-sabotage?
Who knows, but I thought her performance was Hot.
And over on the runway, kamehaMEHAMEHAMEHAAAAAAA … boom.
She came out with some self-proclaimed Dragon Ball Z references, and I lived for it.
And sure the look overall I think is a bit PC, right?
The corset bando panty boot combo is not necessarily super elevated, but what really made this
look for me and was absolutely necessary was that jacket with those gorgeous shoulder pad
pieces.
Full Super Saiyan fantasy.
So while most of this outfit was average, power level of that jacket was over 9,000!
This look is Hot.
Next up, Wiwowowiiwowiwoiwiiwo Willow Pill.
In the challenge, Willow Pill demonstrated she is the funniest person alive.
The way she interlaced real stories about her personal life with ridiculous jokes?
Next level comedy.
For example she's still attracted to men even though she's an anarchist, and she is still
a virgin because she only does [_] and of course the cherry on top of this multi-layered
cake was her talking about her chronic illness not allowing her to give good hand jobs!
Like girl, if you can't make fun of yourself, how in the hell are you gonna make fun of
anybody else?
Willow's performance was Hot.
And on the runway, I smell a rat … tail.
I'm calling it now, in six months time we will have legions of gays out of the nightclubs
with rat tales.
Her runway is giving me business, [_], power, and camp.
That hair is so punk and I love that she took this whole fantasy in this sort of cyberpunk
direction, but I do understand what the judges were saying about wanting more out of the
category shoulder pads from this look … but in my opinion the inventiveness that Willow
brings to Drag Race is I think very much worth rewarding and exploring even if she needed
a little more investment in the size of her shoulder pads.
I think this look was Hot.
And we also have some exciting news from our Widdlest Pill tonight, she took to Instagram
a couple of days ago to come out and share her story about her gender identity.
This is what she wrote:
“I want to address some of the things I said in Untucked last week when I talked about
my gender identity.
It's taken me a long time to come to terms with my transness, because so much space has
been taken up by my illness.
My condition has caused me so much physical and emotional pain that my body became something
I always wanted out of.
During quarantine I started to explore my feelings about my illness and unpacked a lot
of medical PTSD and self-hatred.
But only in the last year have I really started to realize that I'm not happy with my gender
identity either.
Much of that is due to being on Drag Race and feeling euphoria being Willow for the
first time since quarantine, and being around a bunch of queer and trans friends on set.
I'm still not sure where I fit on the spectrum.
For now, I'll just say trans femme, but I also don't have to know now.
I want to share this because I felt so lonely keeping this to myself.
I’ve rarely been able to talk to other people with similar stories, though I know there
are many out there.
I'm so tired of holding my pain in, and if I'm sharing dark bath bomb jokes and my ass
cheeks to the TV world then I also want to share this.
For now I go by Willow in and out of drag with they/she pronouns, though I know this
experience isn't linear.
I'm starting to finally feel bits of happiness with my face and body, and that's a start.
I love you all so much.”
And as I’ve excitedly said in the past couple of weeks concerning Jasmine and Bosco's stories
about their gender identities, I'm endlessly happy that Drag Race is allowing this platform
now to exist where queens can not only share their stories with other queens on set, but
also with the world to help the rest of the LGBTQ community feel a little less lonely,
so thank you to everyone who has been brave enough on Drag Race to use their platform
in that way.
Next up, and [ __ ] I'm gooped!
I'm gooped and gagged, but at the top of my list tonight is DeJa Skye.
We saw this edit for her in the beginning of the episode where I'm thinking ‘hmm,
she might be going home tonight.’
We learned about her family upbringing and how her father left when she was young and
how her relationship with her mother has been strained for so long because she lives with
bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
And after DeJa pours her heart out on the work room table about all of that RuPaul goes
“wow.”
And then he's like “has anyone been to drag con?”
Oh my god!
And look, definitely am not at all calling out Ru here or saying anything about how Ru
responded or anyone else responded, but that edit was wild.
And I do also want to leave open the door there to say it very much could have been
an editing choice by the editors, and may not necessarily reflect the exact conversation
that happened in the work room.
Let's visit DeJa's panel.
The second Willow picked her I knew exactly where she was going.
I was like yup, that is the one person of this cast who I would trust with my life to
lead a panel.
DeJa's presentation skills were excellent, and she knew exactly when, where, how, and
why to switch the discussion, and made it very clear what each queen was talking about.
And while she wasn't laugh out loud funny as like Bosco was, I don't think she needed
to be, because the rest of her team had so many jokes counter balancing all of that more
strict professionalism she brought to the challenge.
DeJa elevated her team to a higher level tonight, and this performance was Hot.
And again on the runway, another excellent night for DeJa.
And of all the looks on the runway tonight, I think this is the singular one that screams
shoulder pads the most.
She's giving us a classic Chanel suit, adapted to the shoulder pads runway brief, and maybe
intentionally or not giving us a little Kanye West fashion reference to those looks that
he was doing with Lil Pump?
The pop culture?
I'm living.
And I think she dragged up her take on this runway just enough with all the sequins and
she looks beautiful.
Plus I'm glad we're continuing the trend with DeJa of seeing more diversity in the looks
that she can serve.
This look was Hot.
And concerning the tops and bottoms this week – Bosco actually takes the win.
And she did an excellent job moderating her team, but I think the better team was actually
DeJa’s.
And for how great her moderation was with them, and general direction of how everyone
took everything, I kind of thought we should have given it to DeJa.
Especially, cherry on top, considering the runway.
But I think it's no secret that RuPaul's Drag Race really boils down at the end of the day
to RuPaul's make RuPaul laugh race, and Bosco did a lot of that tonight.
So I understand the win there.
I personally also would have been thrilled with a win for Willow who I think excellently
commanded every single question she was given on the panel.
And for the bottom two the judges picked Jorgeous and Jasmine, which were the exact bottom 2
I would have picked, as you can see based on my rankings.
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But in all honesty, they both killed it.
This was kind of aaaaaa lip sync I think their producers really really wanted to have, and
girl they saw that opportunity and took it.
And the great thing was, this wasn't a forced bottom 2 like we've seen storylines force
bottom 2s to get specific lip syncs before, it was a very naturally occurring one.
Both of our dancing divas absolutely killed this song, but if I had to take one of these
lip syncs to my grave, it would have been Jasmine’s.
What did it for me was when she did that timed split with the beats of the song going down.
Amazing.
I did also see a little bit of division online about who won the lip sync, so I took to my
YouTube community tab and posted a poll and asked y’all what you thought – and here
are the results.
And finally as for my Hottest Hot tonight – on the runway, DeJa Skye, and in the main
challenge, Willow Pill.
I also asked my Patrons to vote on their Hottest Hots and in the runway they've chosen DeJa
Skye, and in the main challenge Bosco.
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