- Hey guys, this is Bob the Drag Queen.
So I know this is a little bit different,
we're doing things a little bit differently
here on The Pit Stop.
We're doing the at home edition.
And today I have a really special guest.
Is she gonna Skype from there?
It's Aja!
- Hey girl, what's up?
- How you doing, girl?
- I'm doing good, the people at home may not know this
but you and I are right next to each other.
- Yeah, I'm in the hotel room next door.
- We're six feet away, don't worry.
- What y'all don't know is
me and Aja are next door neighbors (laughs).
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- Where have you chosen to quarantine?
- Well it wasn't a choice, but I'm stuck
in Los Angeles for the time being.
- Work, girl, you better work.
I am quarantining from Washington Heights in Manhattan
but enough about Miss Rona, Miss Rona is not on this season.
Instead, we have to talk about these fierce girls.
Because this is probably one of the best episodes
I've seen this season.
- Oh yes, this is actually one of
my favorite episodes that I've seen ever.
It's really cute.
- Yeah, so good.
All right, so we just passed Snatch Game,
which is the legendary halfway point
for Ru Paul's Drag Race.
Girls, if you can make it to Snatch Game,
you can make it.
The girls made it to Snatch Game, but girl,
tensions are high in that room.
They have a little goodbye moment for Aiden,
which, I love that Widow's like, "Bullshit."
- [Aja] Oh she called it out.
She was like, "I don't know why y'all smiling right now,
because just yesterday, y'all was
down each other's throats."
But you know what, I was kind of gagged too,
I was like, oh, okay.
- [Bob] Like, the girls are taking so much joy
in everyone else's pain and misery.
If you forget a lyric, if you can't dance,
if you forget this, the girls are like,
"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes."
- I love it though, because it's such a natural reaction.
When you're in a competition, girl, nobody's saying,
"Let's all proceed together."
There's one crown, and one prize.
Somebody gotta win it.
- I mean, you had that legendary moment,
everyone knows about it.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- Did you stone those tights?
- I mean, honestly, personally, I'm here for the drama.
I love it.
What about you, are you into it?
- I think we need more drama.
Honestly, it's just natural in a competitive environment
and this is something that's been in drag for a long time.
You know, bitches get bitchy, they get catty,
and this is how it really is.
So I'm so happy that the girls are just
letting it all hang out, real loose.
- [Bob] So, for the main stage challenge,
the girls are doing Madonna: The Unauthorized Rusical.
And if I recall correctly, we both did Madonna challenges
on the runway our season.
Because my season (beep) it up so royally,
they said, "Y'all need to save us
because season eight Madonna runways were so bad.
- Well I can't speak for everyone else on my season
but I (beep) it up too, so don't worry.
We on the same boat.
- What was your Madonna look?
- So I did a La Isla Bonita.
I made that dress with fabric I found
in the front of TNT, so you know, it was free (laughs).
- [Bob] And on mine, I did the boy scout look
that Madonna wore to the HRC or GLAAD,
or one of those big things.
- And you won that challenge, too.
Period.
- Periodt.
Which Madonna would you have wanted to do for the challenge?
- [Aja] I would have loved to do the modern day Madonna
because, you know, she's not really singing,
she's kind of rap speaking
and she kind of has this quirkiness to her.
She's like, "I'm a woman of age,
but I'm still gonna give the girls what they want," so.
- [Bob] Yeah. I would have wanted to do Jackie Cox's
MTV Awards, Like A Virgin Madonna, in the wedding dress.
Because, I mean, for me,
when you think of Madonna,
the two most iconic Madonnas are Madonna in the cone bra
and Madonna in the wedding dress,
rolling around with that blonde hair.
- Honestly, the rolling around in the wedding dress moment
is probably one of the most spoken about,
iconic Madonna moments of all time.
- Well watching the whole thing, I was like,
that's why Madonna is an icon.
Like, Madonna is a real life, all this stuff she did,
everything she set up for the girls who came behind her,
everyone from Gaga to Beyonce to even Adele, probably.
She's probably influenced that scene somehow.
Madonna really did make a lot of stuff happen
for a lot of people so,
you work, Esther Ciccone.
- (laughs)
- [Bob] The girls are trying to set everyone up now.
So no one wants the beginning parts, so they give it to Jan.
And they think they're gonna (beep) Jan over,
but bitch, Jan is not (beep) around.
- Yeah, that's the thing, I'm like, you know,
I know Jan from New York,
and I know that she does everything.
So I was like, I don't think it was smart for them
to think that they were sacrificing the lamb.
I was like, "Actually, what you're doing is,
you're giving her the leeway
to (beep) on all of you right now."
- Yeah, let me tell you what I would not do,
sing after Jan has sang (laughs).
I'd be like - Period.
- Jan goes first, then I'll do my little crunchy ass voice,
but I am not going to be trying to sing.
You saw in the first episode that she can do a cartwheel,
she can do this move, she can do this thing,
bitch can like, why would you do that to yourself?
- [Aja] No, it's true, and honestly,
out of all the girls on the season,
she seem to have a range that can go the highest
which is gonna fit more close to Madonna's real voice.
- [Bob] Yeah.
- [Aja] So I was like, "Okay. Let's see how this goes,
let's see how all the girls sound."
- I think performing Madonna in front of Michelle
is probably scarier than performing Madonna
in front of Madonna (laughs).
- Well that's true, because Michelle,
as a superfan of Madonna, if you're a superfan of anyone,
you know every single thing down to the T.
Something that maybe, you know,
a part the person wouldn't even know about themselves.
- And she's gonna be more critical,
because Madonna's like, "Girl, it doesn't matter."
Michelle's like, "No! Madonna would never do that!"
And as they're up there,
Jan is not being shy about wanting to win.
She's like, "This is mine, I want to win,
this belongs to me."
- Honestly, whenever I see Jan in this episode,
I'm like, she has it in the bag.
- That's what I kept thinking.
Also, Gigi's finally nervous.
Gigi's stumbling, she can't do the Madonna scoot,
you know, the Madonna pedal foot scoot.
- I don't know why Gigi was so nervous,
because she's been doing so well up until now,
so I'm like, okay girl, why are you nervous?
- Well probably because if Drag Race has shown us anything,
it's that you can being doing well all season long
and on the turn of a dime,
they can be like, "Goodbye, bitch."
That's how Drag Race be.
One of the shadiest things I've ever heard on Drag Race
was Brita being like, "What's wrong with your knee,
you should have been healed by now."
I was like, "Bitch, she's not Wolverine."
(laughs)
Not, "You should have been healed by now," girl.
So let's talk about Madonna: The Unauthorized Rusical.
What do you think overall?
- [Aja] So, for me, my personal highlights
were obviously Jan, she's a great singer,
she sold it, she did the dancing.
But I really loved Jada.
There's just something so perfect about Jada.
And when she came out as this sexy Madonna,
I was like, girl, this is who I think I am
when I'm being sexy and I'm seducing--
- [Bob] Yes!
- [Aja] I was like, this is who I think I am,
and then I realized, no, I'm more like Crystal's Madonna.
- Yes (laughs).
For me, my top two were first Jan, who,
I'm just gonna say it right now,
I think she should have won the challenge.
I think Jan should have won.
And for me, the second best was Widow.
Widow, first of all, I love that Madonna.
That is, like, fur coat with a cane,
the Calvin Klein tuxedo suit, singing, "Hey Mr. DJ."
That's one of my favorite Madonnas.
- [Aja] She was also giving me the Madonna dance moves
from when she did that music video with Britney Spears,
Me Against the Music, and she had the little cane,
and she was spinning it.
I was just like, this is like a early 2000s,
late 90s moment, and it's just like,
I feel like Widow is really from that era too,
so I feel like she just killed it.
- [Bob] Well I feel like they're just sleeping on Widow.
Like, the judges are sleeping on Widow.
She's so good, she's so talented,
and I'm a huge Widow Von'du fan, so.
- I am too, but more than anything, I'm a Heidi fan.
- Okay, is Heidi
not the cutest thing you've ever seen in your life?
- Heidi is literally the personification
of Woody Woodpecker.
She should literally be a cartoon voice.
- [Bob] Heidi N Closet is real.
- [Aja] Are we still calling her that?
- [Bob] (laughs) We're just calling her Heidi.
Heidi!
So we know who our favorites are,
who is your least favorite?
- [Aja] Definitely my least favorites were Brita,
I don't know, I felt like she wasn't
in sync with the dancers and to me she just looked nervous
so she looked like she wasn't really embodying,
that Madonna was definitely the Vogue era,
where she was really like, straight lines and fluidity,
and I felt like Brita was a little stiff.
- Yeah. So right after the performance,
we go straight to the runways.
Category is, Night of a Thousand Michelle Visages.
What do you think about this category?
- Okay, again, Jan killed it.
She literally looked like Michelle in the episode.
But although she didn't do well in the challenge,
Jackie looked really good as Michelle.
When I saw the trailer, I'm not gonna lie,
I didn't know that that was the challenge,
so when I saw the trailer and that was in there,
I said, "Why the hell she look like that?"
But now, it made sense.
- [Bob] That is probably one of Michelle's tackiest looks
she's ever done on Drag Race.
It is so, it is insanely tacky.
And she nailed it.
- I thought Gigi was smart for that,
because I probably would have done a Seduction Michelle.
Or I would have done Michelle wearing the green,
when they had the green runway in season seven.
She had on this cute mint green, and she was like,
"Yeah, I'm wearing green, what's up?"
I thought that would have been clever.
- I love the one where it's Michelle
and she has her hands on her lower back,
and she has those big, chunky nails,
and you can see just the top of her ass crack.
I would have came out with a dress
with the entire back of my dress cut out,
long nails on my back, hair going down,
just go walk backwards down the runway.
- That would be cute.
- Imagine.
- [Aja] My least favorite Michelle look was Heidi's
because I didn't understand it.
- Yeah, I don't know the reference
and also, what a boring Michelle,
but that little bouncing ass hair got me together.
Also, how amazing is this panel?
I mean, we have AOC, we have Winnie Harlow,
they're both supermodels
and one of them happens to be a congresswoman.
- Period.
I am such a big fan of AOC
and I think that anybody who is into the politics,
which everybody should be at this point,
because you know, we're not in a good place.
You know, should follow her
and what she does for the community.
- Confirmed.
AO-Sis endorses AOC.
- Actually, yes.
- There it is. AO-Sis for AOC, girl.
So the judges have done their full critiques
and Ru Paul looks directly at Jan and goes, "You're safe."
- [Aja] Bitch, it was the fiercest blue balls
I've ever seen in my life.
- Jan should have been Blac Chyna.
Jan should have won that challenge.
- Not Blac Chyna, she really did.
I think she really killed it and she wanted it so bad,
and I think Gigi did excellent as well.
- [Bob] Yeah.
- I feel like, I don't know, still,
there was just something about it that
Jan's performance and look and total package still,
you know what, I loved both of their runways,
I think Jan's runway sent it over the top for me.
- [Bob] So the bottom two are Brita and Heidi.
First of all, do you agree with this bottom two?
- [Aja] I do agree with the bottom two
and I'm kind of glad it was the bottom two
because I don't want Jackie to go home,
because if Jackie goes home,
I don't have nothing really sexy to look at
when they're out of drag in the workroom.
- [Bob] What do you think of the lip sync though?
Do you think they did a good job in the lip sync?
- [Aja] I feel like the lip syncs this season
have been buck wild.
I feel like they're chaotic neutral, if that makes sense.
- [Bob] Okay.
- Some of them are over the top,
but they're always crazy, and I feel like
Heidi always brings them crazy lip syncs.
Like, her panties all out, she's giving it to the girls.
And Brita's so theatrical and she does the,
I call it the New York teeth lip sync,
when (teeth biting)
- Oh yeah, you can hear the dentures clacking.
- But ultimately, it was honestly one of those lip syncs
where I really didn't know what was going to happen.
I was sold on Brita's lip sync
until she started doing the coochie burning.
- [Bob] Yeah, she was trying to play,
I'm thinking that maybe it was like,
"Burning up for your love," like I'm burning from your love?
I don't know.
- [Aja] Girl, the burn turned into a itch,
and they said, "We gonna scratch you off."
(Bob laughing)
- Aja, it is always so fun having a kiki with you.
You are one of my favorite queens from Drag Race.
You are a (beep) TV icon.
Thank you for joining us.
- Oh stop it Bob, it's always (beep) great to see you,
to speak to you, and you're right next door,
so after this, I'm about to turn up.
- Yeah, we'll slide notes back and forth.
- Oh, social distancing, yeah, you're right.
- Social distance, social distance, social distance.
Thank you so much and be safe.
Thank you all for watching The Pit Stop,
and be sure to tune in next week from our homes,
where we'll be watching episode eight
of season 12 of Ru Paul's Drag Race.
Bye everyone.
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As a total side note, do you not love that sexy broccoli
just keeps popping up in and out?
- I mean, she's a fierce broc ally, what can I say?
She's trying to support the girls.
- Not broc ally!
(laughing) I'm a fierce broc ally.