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it's me and welcome back to HOT or ROT and today we'll be reviewing episode four
of- no episde three of rupaul's drag race UK season four and today some of
our Queens had the honor of winning the RuPaul Christmas ornament meme turned trophy in the
inaugural NAFF-TA Awards! I'll identify those winners as we go and for the main
challenge and Runway they were put into Pairs and asked to create two high-fashion runaway
looks using only the Fabrics found in their big giant Bingo boxes bingo!
so we'll be breaking down each look and ranking the Queens in pairs from rottest rot to hottest
hot - based on nothing but my completely invalid and uncredible opinion... and then at the end of
today's video we'll be breaking down some unaired drama as spilled by the quietest
but brightest UK Starlet- Starlet! As it turns out our goofy little girl had quite
a lot to say over the past week concerning her elimination and how she thought she upset RuPaul,
whose feet she painted, and more! and finally we'll be recapping what the Queens themselves
thought about the episode who were apparently facing a bit of blowback from the fan base...
first up- all the Glitters is not necessarily gold as it turns out;
at the bottom of my list tonight we've got Cheddar Gorgeous and Copper Top who were given
the gold box and they are collectively at the bottom of my list for one reason and one reason
only- they really did not work together well as a team... their two looks were the least
cohesive of any pairing tonight and one of them way outshined the other; let's talk about it
first up copper topper who's a little bit pressed this episode because her peers have voted her best
background actress in a non-speaking role AKA Queen who has most faded into the background-
I mean girl I'd be press press pressed if my fellow drag race Queens voted me that too but
as the other queens told her they were asked to choose and she was the one they chose which is
yes kind of ironic because of the Queens in this cast she is one of the louder ones and
even wears outfits with words written on them like how the hell is someone like this Fading
Into the background and I think two things were going on with Copper Top in these three episodes
primarily I don't think the producers knew what exactly to do with her storyline she's
an extremely talented Queen with a lot to offer but my God God look at the cast I know this cast
I think copper struggled the most to really find her Niche and brand herself to the judges
she just wasn't standing out and her look tonight certainly didn't help with the problems that she
was having in this competition she is giving drag race drag queen staple Barbarella and ultimately
missing that element of Copper Top I'd even go as far to say that a queen saying their look is
inspired by Barbarella and their confessional is as played out as me dressing like a sing Queen
if you can't read yourself how the hell are you gonna read anybody else but seriously if
Barbara is so Fierce and talented and every drag queen wants to be her like let's get her on drag
race already Barbarella for season 15 am I right but worse than the look being a cliche
reference I think the way the bodysuit fits is a little questionable around those leg hymns
and there's just too much going on with the top half of her look the gold hair the gold makeup
the Cape is just a lot to look at and then nothing on the bottom just like I like it ow
nothing on the bottom but a white boot that is that does not match the rest of the look
or Cheddar's look this look is a ROT... but speaking of Miss Gorgeous the alien deity
of the competition she and Stark contrasts what Copper Top did on the runway tonight flawlessly
executed her look she absolutely is giving alien from space but her own flavor I love in particular
the way that she has integrated some gold flakes into all the waves of that wig they're matching
the gold flakes of the cape that's draped around her shoulders this look though does suffer in some
of the same ways that coppers does it is a little plain once you get down to the bottom part of the
waist and I don't understand the black boot just as much as I don't understand the solid white
boot I think it would have made a lot more sense for them to just make gold boot covers because
like yeah their capes are lined great however the boots just stick out like a sore thumb but
Cheddar's look at least makes sense for who she is as a drag character and has some more artistic
inspiration than her teammate coppers so I would leave this look like a very safe HOT... but Miss
cheddar you did you copper real dirty letting her go out like that gotta say and next up team purple
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now back to our purple ladies I've put them second to bottom tonight for the
sole reason of their looks being very uninspired the queens were asked to make
a pair of high fashion looks but I don't think that they left the department store
still obviously better than me though who never left amazon.com I don't want to see
any more tucking h m just kidding it's this is definitely a step above h m but only a step...
first in our group we've got Danny beard who was awarded best seen stealing attention
grabbing camera hog honestly not a bad thing to be awarded and I think this would honestly
boost my confidence in the competition because it shows the other queens are looking at you as
someone who knows how to work the camera so to Danny's credit she does tell Ru in The workroom
when she's doing her walkabouts that this is not really her thing but neither was last week and she
did after all still participate in the winning group and get a Rupeter badge for a performance
Ru then tells this team to embellish their looks and make them more than simple but I don't think
they really listened other than adding these gold chains... Danny's look while I would enjoy for I
think let's say a hosting gig at a nightclub for a comedy show I'm just not reading his
high fashion or getting anything from either of these two's looks that says anything about their
personalities and they've almost got the exact same looks on Danny's dress is a little skimpier
though and runs up as she walks down the runway which- hey! could be a feature, and not a bug
but I read it as she didn't quite get the dimensions of the dress right so because she
looks good she just didn't for me meet the brief I would leave this over the warming up! and pixies
in the exact same boat for me tonight the only difference is like maybe if Danny's look was
giving Bridesmaid, Pixies would be giving mother of the bridesmaid? or as Sminty would call it 'old
maiden' and in that since it was it was just a little too long and I think unnecessarily aged
pixie's drag character here not sure why they went for this mother daughter kind of thing but
again this look is good just not great for me so I would leave it with a warming UP...
and next up team mint green girl that color that color did they not camera test that color or maybe
they did conspiracy theory time and maybe they put that mint green color in there to sabotage
whichever team got it? just a thought... let's break it down they say their fashion inspiration
here is Bottega Venetta; remember remember the 5th of November [insert laugh track here]
so Bottega venetta's not something I've ever seen on Amazon so I don't recognize it but did
they achieve that let's look at Jonber's look first- who RuPaul tells to her face in front of
the rest of the girls and the pit crew that her name is terrible! your drag name is terrible!
welcome to the club! but Jonbers or 'J' as ru is now calling her comes out in one of the more
successful looks I think of the night or at least upper halves I love that asymmetrical Xena kind
of warrior princess fantasy that she has going on there and the woven pieces of fabric that create
that shoulder are really really cool I'm not super in love with the wet hair or the boring
part of the bottom part of the outfit so this is kind of like a half-rot half-hot situation
for me because I think she really was a victim more of the color of the fabric than anything
else and her teammate black Peppa who was voted beast in Show by her peers AKA exhibits the most
Star Quality both struggled and was successful in the same way jonbers was tonight... it was black
peppa's idea to do the weaving of this Fabric and the ambition that thought required- wow I
love that and of all the looks I think she had the best idea it really just was a lack of time
tonight that prevented Peppa from executing her vision she's walking down the runway and ends up
with a zipper of the skirt that was originally on the back on the front somehow easy access at least
and the top part of her dress is literally just falling off of her body her look though despite
its technical flaws I would still give a say three Flame Hot because I would rather see a queen or
pair of queens in a case like this reach for the moon and land somewhere in the Stars rather than
serve something predictable and boring even if predictable and boring fits and doesn't fall off
next up team blue-daba-dee-daba-daaaa - I think about that song every morning... at the bus stop
and team blue is comprised of sminty drop and le fil; and this pair I particularly enjoyed watching
interact tonight because we've got as she's voted by her peers this chaotic hot mess of
energy meets the refined, calm and collected Le Fil let's look at Sminty drops look first which
is one of my favorite favorites of the night I absolutely love the thigh high sparkly stocking
which matches the sparkly blue opera glove that she's got on the contrast of all that sparkle
and glitter playing in those Runway lights works really really well against the less exciting and
softer blue fabric that makes the dress skirt and top part of her look also did y'all catch
that frame of Sminty outlining her head on the fabric like by laying on the floor literally me
if I ever had to design something this look is very 90s supermodel meets almost like 20s kind
of swimwear flapper fantasy I just think she did an excellent job showing skin where it
counted but also covering up skin or parts of her body where it counts like with the head
wrap just another drop of fashion into the pool of sminty hot mess that is hot mess that's what
her teammates voted her I didn't say that I'm a mess I'm always a mess and I've never pretended
to be anything less hey thank you thank you very much it's Sminty's partner Le Fil, who looks
equally effortlessly Chic and they I think did a really great job of making themselves look like
two pieces from the same fashion collection but giving very different fashion eras I'm getting 'I
Dream of Genie' vibes from Le Fil's look which I love and is literally all the judges praised her
for I also wouldn't recognize all the rouging elements the way that top crop top fits I also
like that she's got a different flavor of head wrap on this look though next to Sminty's I will
say I feel like is missing a bit of that blue glitter fabric I just wanted a few more peeps
of that maybe on her hands or maybe sewn to the lining of her Cape or something which yes
would have taken her a lot more time to do so I definitely understand why she didn't I will also
say that because these two have such a dramatic height difference it probably would have been a
little bit better if La fil's silhouette in the bottom part of that dress had opened up
on the side like Sminty's just to give her body a little more height but again small critiques and I
definitely dream of Le fil this look is HOT... and the blue team for me was beaten only by the black
team comprised of Dakota Schiffer and Baby and these two are excellent pairing as well you can
tell they both love fashion I don't know a thing about it but they are talking about Richard Quinn
the 90s and all kinds of silly little names and decades that I don't know about I think
these two also worked super well for each other because they are very much in personality foils
of each other Dakota is more soft-spoken and careful with her fashion and ideas and baby is
more energetic confident and willing to as we see on the runway show a bit more skin than Dakota is
let's first dive into the details of baby's look who's giving main pop girl Diva Ariana Grande
which did kind of catch me off guard because they were playing that clip in the work room
of her showing off just the skirt part of the outfit with nothing else and it does look kind
of frumpy but that final effect is flawless I grow up that was giving bin bag realness I'll
be the Ben where's the sign up list but yeah I love her miles of legs that she is showing off
and I love how she's showing off the contrasting fabric pattern in different ways than her partner
Dakota and I think there's just something about those two Trails of fabric coming off as a sort
of train on the back of her dress are really fresh and fun another number one hit for baby
but whose surprise this look is indicator like her personality is giving a softer side of this
look but still keeping it flirty with the shortcut the dress skirt and spicy I think with the way her
hair girls are just like sitting on top of her head again I think it was really really smart of
these girls to use this fabric to help emphasize how great these looks were because as we have seen
on RuPaul's Drag Race doing an all-black look can be very dangerous in the runway lights you
run the risk of losing texture in silhouette but using the right compliments you can
emphasize how powerful the 'LBD' can be I don't need to tell you all twice but this look is HOT!
and the win tonight no surprise is given to Baby and Dakota this is definitely judging I agreed
with I think the only competition against them really worse Sminty and La fil who definitely gave
two cohesive fashion looks however team baby and Dakota just felt a touch more modern which I think
pushed them to the finish line for me but when we start to talk about bottoms for this episode
I am a little confused about what happened they always do this on drag race they'll be
like here's a group challenge but we're gonna judge you individually or here is a completely
individualistic challenge but we're gonna judge you as a group I feel like we definitely learned
more than anything as seasoned viewers of RuPaul's Drag Race that group challenges
are often just an excuse for the producers to step in and to maybe redirect the season and
of course they see more fit for how it's playing out and tonight we see black peppa and Copper Topp
plucked from their pairings and put in the bottom two together and if this were Bussy Queen's drag
race we would have Copper Topp and cheddar gorgeous lip syncing tonight but it's not.
concerning Peppa and Copper's lip sync though I did react to it over on my patreon as part of
my new podcast called the bus stop! the bus stop is a patreon exclusive podcast
that I've just started and I'm having so much fun with it's made up of my reactions
to the best moments of each episode of drag race and also both personal and drag behind
the scenes updates it's fun relaxed we talk we chat spill the tea and sip the T and again you
can get access to the bus stop my new patreon exclusive podcast by clicking the link in the
description of this video and visiting patreon.com/bussyqueen see you there!
this lip sync though, good god did we witness a murder... black peppa went in on this I felt
like I was back watching lip sync between Denali and Kimora Hall like that is how much of a serve
black peppa's lip sync was she was giving all the splits all the drops and in ways that made
sense with the music and she had me guessing at every moment what she would do because she kept
switching up her energy and that is what I think truly makes a great lip sync don't get me wrong
though I don't think Copper Top did bad in this Lip Sync It's just that she needed to do a hell
of a lot more than that to beat black peppa I seriously could have watched an hour of black
Peppa doing that lip sync so miss Copper Topp or copper bottom this episode does go home and on
Twitter she left the fans with this message I feel very sad but very proud and some of her sisters
like black peppa quote tweeted and wrote so proud of what we did just may wrote didn't she bloody
smash it what Nikon and Dakota wrote I love Copper Top Queen so much all sentiments I agree with I
certainly don't think that she had a bad showing on RuPaul's Drag Race my God the talent level of
this season is just I think something that we have just never seen the likes of before more
that said I'm sure it was not easy to be voted Fading Into The Background by your peers and go
home on that same episode so y'all make sure to go send her some love on social media she deserves it
and finally concerning the Queen's reactions to the fan base reacting to the episode pixie polite
said mad seeing people's opinions on this week's episode because in the room we all agreed with
placements but some of y'all really watching 17 different versions of the show based on who your
quote faves are le fil wrote the design challenge is so important because it's the only time when
Queens have to rely on their own skills and vision no stylists no budgets black peppa
wrote with the vision I had I underestimated the time nonetheless I wouldn't change a thing
enjoy the show P.S thank you Danny beard for the white heels and sminty wrote Defending her look
everyone saying I was just wearing a two-piece like do you know how hard it is to make gloves
and stockings out of non-stretch fabric let alone sequin and considering there was a lot
of fan discussion about how quote playing some of the looks were I did want to remind y'all
that the box is a fabric given to the queens were actually just plain themselves because
after all the runway category High fashion was intended more to show off outfit construction and
understanding of fashion than it was like let's say a traditional design challenge where the goal
is to be more avant-garde so with all that in mind make sure y'all go give some love to our
Queens who are putting on an ultra fabulous season now on to the dragon drama of our little star
first I want to recap her interview she did with the drag race yearbook video and that she
told the host why she black but she really did not know anything about Jerry Halliwell or the
Spice Girls oh my God it also reminisced on some of the olden days of drag race where it did feel
like the runway maybe counted for closer to 50 of the judgments I think over time there was a
time when looks were highly favored on drag race like it's of course going to evolve over time they
look for different things each season each season has its own flavor and the planet just wasn't the
season and she also revealed that the reason she was chosen for black peppa's team on the episode
she was eliminated was because in episode 1 she had helped black Peppa paint her feet pink for
the Mr Blobby look so when she was getting ready for Blobby I was completely ready in this country
ready to go and she was struggling last minute to pinch her feet pink and I was likely make her
help my angel so she was like Scarlet painted my feet pink so she's gonna be in my groupie
also did an interview with Digital Spy where they asked her questions like what was going
through your mind during that lip sync she said the best way I would describe it comparing it to
how Valentina described it it feels like you're not doing it and you're sitting and watching
that kind of thing and Chelsea clarified what happened with her elimination exit line she said
when I walked off there was a moment they made me worry a bit I said my exit line at the front of
the stage and then I walked off and I was really emotional I just needed to get off camera because
I was about to completely break down and I did the second I got off the stage there were times when
some Queens walk off in a huff or they're pissed off and they kind of niff off all the judges and
the judges pull a face like they were rude the contestant was rude and RuPaul kind of had this
weird expression when I walked up the stage I was worried that she thought I was being disrespectful
or rude or ungrateful so I would maybe say to her that's not what I was doing I was just really
really really emotional and I was completely heartbroken and finally for hottest eyes in
this design challenge I'm going to give my team hottest Hots to baby in Dakota and also award the
individual hottest hot of this Runway to baby I also asked my patrons to vote on their hottest and
then no surprise also chose baby and Dakota and the individual hottest hot of this Runway Dakota
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