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Ronaldo and welcome back to or and today we'll be reviewing episode 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race
All Stars season 8. our Queens are back back back back back again to perform in the
fan games variety Extravaganza hosted by our top two Kandy Muse and Jimbo a challenge that is to
be considered by the fans when casting their votes for the winner of the fame
games along with each illuminated Queen's Runway every single week and their social
media activity whatever that means but that's not all because y'all wanted a Twist eh okay
we also find out from RuPaul this week that the top two winners of this week's Fame games
variety egg shavaganza will be lip-syncing for the chance to randomly multiply their fan votes
by a multiplier of two three or five but as it turns out none of this multiplier nonsense even
really matters because the whole voting system is a bogus Sham in my opinion but we'll be discussing
that 'Rigga Morris' at the end of today's video after we break down each Queen's performance in
the fame games variety Extravaganza and first up this evening a little trip to the silicone Hills
of 90210 it's Monica Beverly Hills and grow up there is one thing she brought to this competition
it is that mug she looks beautiful in this number tonight and as far as what she did for her number
this was a standard Ru girl [ __ ] track where she kind of just brags about being the it girl
the number one the girl with the mug that not a soul can clock and I think this song is amusing
for what it is the lyrics are memorable and I had fun overall with her performance but this wasn't
like the most exciting thing we've ever seen on the drag race stage especially because considering
we have seen at this point hundreds of it girl tracks on the drag race main stage for variety
show extravaganzas and there's only so many of these tracks that I can take anymore I think she
needed to bring just a little bit more pep to her step in this number I'm gonna give this like a two
Flame Hot and next up we've got Naysha Lopez who is looking gorgeous as usual I love the get up I
love the costume I love the culture of what she brought to the stage in a flamenco Style dance I
also want to compliment her on how ambitious this was because this is a wild dance to pull off from
the feet to the face to the entire body and it's extremely Technical and tight dancing and Naysha
here is wearing a platform high heel which of course limits her movement and I think she kind
of went a little too much form over function here because I wouldn't have minded seeing her in a
smaller danceable Keel if it meant she could have had a little more movement in her dancing because
it did come off a little bit stiff she was only a able to hit some of the like bigger dance steps in
these high heels so I give this like a two and a half flare warming up and next up there's always
time for a breakdown it's the Mrs Kasha Davis this is wild okay on a serious note I do want
to say I appreciate the courage and tenacity of what she did in fighting bigotry on the main stage
and having people that will verbally and Visually stand up for the downtrodden and disenfranchised
is something we 100 percent need more of in this world but on a comedic note I laughed so hard like
it was so funny and I honestly don't know how much of this was self-aware versus unself-aware which
is another layer of what made it so funny she comes out in a white Angelic Smock surrounded
by the pink bobbed pit crew which then rips off during her breakdown to a bodysuit of rainbow
tassels where she starts rapping or singing over a metal track like this was Camp it was camp and
it was wildly entertaining even if at some level it felt like the drag race Main age equivalent
of asking for thoughts and prayers but I loved every second of it and this performance was but
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and next up we take a cool refreshing dip into the Waters of Darienne Lake who in tonight's
variety show gives us a veritable Buffet of what Darienne lake has to offer Beauty
stand up with lots of great misdirect comedy and some motivational speaking which doesn't
really sound like it would all work together as well as it did but guess what Mimi it did
and I think it does take a special type of talent to inject your personal story into
a medium that is widely palatable and funny to a large audience this performance was hot
and next up oh God I don't know if I can do this again that should have been her Talent fine the
squeak anyways Jaymes Mansfield hits main stage and she does a performance about these these right
here and our performances mostly I would say A Burlesque style performance but with only one
reveal to these but most of the performance was just about her running around on stage showing
off these and being silly and dumb and in all of its dumbness it was a lot of fun I've got
to say though it was kind of funny watching her on stage talk about how big these are when we've
been watching Jimbo Bounce around on this same very stage all season in some of these that are
like 10 or 100 times larger but that point aside I think what she did was successful
and interestingly on Trend with what is very successful in these variety shows more and more
stuff that is stupid pointless and not taking itself too seriously his performance was HOT
and next up give me a k a h wait I can't spell it's Kahanna Montrese and she tonight Taps
into her cheer talent that she's held in her back pocket for many years and overall I think Kahanna
did a great job bringing some high pep energy to the stage the standing backflip that she did
on the mat was perfectly executed at least from my perspective as somebody who can't even put my left
foot in and get it back out when I'm doing the Hokey Pokey but it was fun to watch I will say
though I couldn't help but want more gymnastics like maybe an intro somersault or a cartwheel
going out I don't know like just one more thing to really seal the deal of I am a gymnastic cheer
Queen but again as someone who doesn't do a lot of gymnastics I'm not so sure how much of what
I'm asking or looking for is actually realistic versus an expectation that I have said because
I've watched way too much bring it on so I'm gonna give her performance a three Flame Hot
and next up the Lala Ri experience and girl I was shocked at The Emptiness of
the stage and the plainness of her outfit when everything was starting because everyone else
pretty much had some crazy set design confetti explosions flashing lights and she was like
I'm Gonna Give You me the stage and the Lala Ri experience and girl that's all she needed
to give Because Winn-Dixie gave was gave we needed to be given was gave we needed to be
given was Gove but on a serious note if you're gonna do an IT girl track this is how it needs
to be done the dancing the choreo and the track itself with her vocals that she was
lip syncing to was actually really good as well like the whole package was just
complete and she needed not one prop not one rhinestone not one piece of glitter to keep
my 100 percent unadulterated attention and for those reasons this performance is a five flame HOT
and next up let's take a little trip to the big apple orchard and visit Miss Alexis Michelle
who this episode comes into the work room and immediately just starts apologizing and
talking to Lala saying how she wants to take full responsibility for her elimination and
I'm like girl whose responsibility else would it have been you're the one that sent her home of
course you need to take full responsibility and then after that proceeds to spend every
other confessional and talking head moment discussing with Lala ri about Lala ri about
how down bad she is for her very own Lala Ri experience I'm like girl I don't know if Lala
is experiencing what you're experiencing but I'm entertained so thank you for that
but anyways concerning her apple... both of her apples her variety show was essentially
a Broadway style well off Off-Broadway style campy musical burlesque number where she was
the apple tree singing about getting a good ol' Shakedown so that her apples would come out of
the branches I was impressed by this performance overall and it got better as it went on because
I think in the beginning she was struggling a little bit with her vocals and the backing track
but actually as the backing track got less and less and she was more more and more acapella she
sounded better and better and More in control of the stage and what she was saying and how she was
doing what she was doing you know what they say an apple a day keeps the ROTS away this was HOT
and next up is Jessica Wild and I was really surprised as she came out in what for her was a
relatively flat wig but then it all starts making sense as she is dancing and whipping and whipping
that hair which ultimately culminates and what I can only describe as a tornado of
hair whipping and girl she's gonna be wearing a neck brace for the next three weeks but damn
does she look good on that stage doing what she was doing she kind of reminds me of that scene
show Girls Where Nomi is in the water... you know the one... if you know you know
but Jessica is always fun to watch and I've gotta say she this entire season demonstrated
how she has perfectly captured and packaged the wild funny chaotic and charismatic person
that she is and this was a great note for her to go out on this performance was HOT
and finally let's discuss our top two All-Stars of the competition Kandy Muse and Jimbo who were
excellent hosts tonight Jimbo made a banana split using only her god-given whipped cream
machines and ice cream sprinkles a banana and even a fork pulled out from various pockets
and locations of her outfit and this is one of the most entertaining things of
the entire night because it was a smart and irreverent use of time she was given
she is somebody who does not take herself or anything she does too seriously while at the
same time applies this extreme level of care and professionalism to her craft this was hot
and finally we have Kandalizza Muse who did an IT girl track and was very much the opposite of
what Jimbo gave tonight like juxtaposing Jumbo's Insanity to Kandy's seriousness and how serious
she approaches her drag and performance in dancing in choreo I think is just really fun like there is
really nobody else who can feel her fantasy as much as Kandy can feel her fantasy when Kandy's
feeling her fantasy say that five times fast or one time at all the only thing that left me
scratching my head during Kandy's performance and wondering what the hell is this was the
actual vocals that were in the backing track she was lip syncing to I didn't understand why
she used someone else's voice for this very personal it girl track I just feel like it
would have been easy enough for her to record the vocals herself but I don't know maybe she
was just too booked blessed and busy to do it who can never be sure his performance was hot
and so at the end of it all RuPaul selects Lala Ri and Jaymes Mansfield as the top two All-Stars of
the week which I think is a pretty agreeable Choice from the selection of performances we
saw tonight I absolutely 100 agree with Lala I don't think her slot could be debated but the
other slot I think could have been given to somebody like Darienne or maybe even Kasha...
I'm probably the only person that laughed at that
there's always time for a breakdown so Lala and Jaymes lip sync to Rain On Me by Lady
Gaga and I did react to this lip sync as well as the entire variety show over on my patreon
at patreon.com/BussyQueen it's my members only website and you can check out exclusive content
like that reaction video using the link in the description of this video see you there
but I'll say this lip sync was honestly pretty fun maybe one of the most fun lip syncs that
we watched throughout the whole season and I don't know if that's because I'm just really
personally tired of the lipstick assassin format or if it was just really exciting
to once again watch two girls lip sync when there was actually something at stake
and like if I had to pick one winner between these two I would pick Lala but Ru decides
this lip sync was worthy of a tie which is fine but it did just kind of feel to me like
another eye rolling over produced this was actually pre-planned the entire time
overproduction moment from this season of which there have already been I think one too many like
think about it without at least two queens getting a multiplier this whole Fame games
voting thing would have just felt even more unfair and unbalanced than already
is so Jaymes and Lala spin and get a 2 and 3X multiplier respectively...
but on the subject of these fan votings they are in my opinion complete bogus - but that's
just my opinion based on my investigation of the voting website that we are supposed
to be voting on to select a fame games winner let's talk about it
so at the end of the episode Ru announces that we as fans are to
go to Queenofthefamegames.votenow.tv and cast our votes for which Queen We want to be crowned queen
of the Fame games who I'll remind you will win a cash prize of sixty thousand dollars
when you visit the URL you get a page showing each of the nine fame Games participants and a
button underneath each photo that allows you to cast a vote for them and when you click
vote you're prompted to log in after first agreeing to some rules which by the way in
the fine prints State we can cast 10 votes or actually 10 votes per login method email
and Facebook as long as you are according to the rules casting these votes yourself
and not using some third-party computer program to cast the votes in your place
and this all seems fine and dandy until we actually get back to the login form and try
to use it because as it turns out you could literally type any email into this login box
and the Box accepts what you type closes and lets you start voting you can type RuPaul gmail.com
you can type rupaulswig gmail.com and the website will happily let you cast 10 votes as this person
for the queen or Queens of your choice and I'm sure you're thinking right well you can probably
type any email you want but you know you're gonna have to get a confirmation email to your inbox and
click that in order to actually have your votes counted right like they would do I don't know some
kind of basic identity verification check to make sure that people are like at least using their
own emails or real emails at all to cast these votes right no they're not doing that at all this
voting system is not checking if the entered email addresses are real or fake on any level you can
literally type gibberish into the box cast your 10 votes and then do it again and again and again but
the crazier thing is the system on the back end is actually tracking the votes cast by a given email
because let's say you log out of the page here sign in again sign in again with RuPaul gmail.com
and see that the 10 votes you cast were actually cast counted and somewhere accounted for but with
again no actual verification of those votes being cast by the actual person that owns that email
like what is this? and I'll just say if there is not even a basic level of identity verification
checking being done I think it is a highly improbable that this system has any sort of
sophisticated mechanism of which to check if a bot is spoofing thousands or even millions of votes
into the system which tells me this system is not being used at all they just put out a voting box
in the middle of the street and wrote like cast your vote here people are throwing ballots in
and then at the end they just opened the hatch at the bottom of the voting box which goes directly
into a blazing bonfire and RuPaul announces the winner that she wanted to announce of this thing
from the outset anyways and look all of this would be fine if this were just a silly title
right but like this is a silly title and a cash prize of sixty thousand dollars that's a lot of
money too I think have what is in my opinion a sham or bogus voting system predicated on the
idea that we as fans are supposed to select our favorite winner for this competition which is
already has enough convoluted and crazy rules to I guess I don't know have been obvious it
was fake from the outset to begin with but I'll let you all decide in the comments below is the
fame games just a poorly thought out and terribly executed disaster or is it a bogus sham meant to
placate the masses which one let me know now it's time for hottest Hots tonight I'm gonna give my
hottest hot and the variety show Extravaganza to Lala Ri and I also did ask my patrons to
put on their hottest hots for the variety show and they too voted for the Lala Ri experience
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