DRАG RАСЕ S16 Мееt Тhе Quееns (2024)
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00:00Don't adjust your screens, because Sasha Colby still runs the show.
00:11A new era of drag is here, and the future belongs to those who slay it.
00:16The time is critical for you to stand up.
00:18The time is now.
00:20A new season of RuPaul's Drag Race is coming, and the future is here.
00:25The future is now.
00:27It's time for you to get your rebel on, and meet the queens of season 16.
00:31Begin.
00:32Cue the music, because the show is about to start.
00:43My name is Q, and I am the one and only letter of the alphabet that you need to know from
00:47now on.
00:48Q is an artist.
00:49Q is a diva.
00:50Q is beyond.
00:51First one in feels correct.
00:52Here.
00:53The natural disaster has arrived.
00:54My name is Tsunami Muse.
00:55Que yo soy la diva de Nueva York.
00:56Tsunami always looks like she's stepped straight out of a runway.
00:57Anything that Tsunami wears, it's always...
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01:22Wait a second.
01:23This place doesn't have a bidet.
01:24I'm a mandatory meeting.
01:25I'm blonde, glamorous, and selling it for a very fair price on Hollywood Boulevard.
01:26A mandatory meeting comes from all the times I've been called into the boss's office thinking
01:27of, I'm about to get fired, but then I walk out with a big fat promotion.
01:28I'm thinking about a ding right there.
01:29Ding!
01:30Hola, muchachos!
01:31Ollies!
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01:47Ollies!
01:48Ding!
01:49Hola, muchachos!
01:50Ollies!
01:51The beauty and the booty is here.
01:55Adarlo todo.
01:57My name is Morphine Love Dion.
02:00I am the Latina goddess of Miami, Florida, the absolute perra, and I'm here to heat things up.
02:07Show us the nails.
02:08Show us the nails.
02:09Okay!
02:10Yes!
02:11My drag is all about the mug.
02:13The makeup always has to be 100 mug, Iana Dupree.
02:18What the?
02:20Oh!
02:22Oh!
02:24Girl, what the f***?
02:25I'm scared.
02:26Just be like...
02:30I think this place is haunted.
02:34I'm Satirica Saul and I'm Philadelphia's crown jewel.
02:37You better slow motion.
02:39Give it to us.
02:40My hair is big, my drag is big, more is more, and bigger is better.
02:48Ooh!
02:49I hope you trash bags are ready to lose!
02:53Okay.
02:55My name is Mirage and I am known as the legs of Las Vegas.
02:58I am feeling like a bad b***h because I just called everybody trash.
03:01I hear the whispers.
03:02I hate her.
03:04And I am choosing not to address them.
03:07My drag is very, like, colorful.
03:09It's kind of like a stripper who shops at Claire's.
03:12Oh, wow!
03:17Rise and shine, mother f***er.
03:20It's Dawn.
03:21Ooh, she's got a potty mouth.
03:24I'm Dawn and I'm the ethereal elf goddess of Brooklyn.
03:27Dawn is known for turning big looks.
03:28Dawn is known for silhouettes.
03:30Dawn is known for extravagant, never-before-seen.
03:33I feel so pussy!
03:42I did not prepare for this.
03:45My name is Hershey LaCorne Jette from the legendary House of Jette,
03:48and b***h, I'm a drag queen.
03:51You might know my drag sister.
03:53She goes by the small name of Cornbread Jette.
03:56One of the most annoying, aggravating women that I know in this world.
03:59But I love her to death.
04:00Hershey LaCorne Jette is glam cap auntie drag.
04:04I love being beautiful, and I love being absolutely stupid.
04:08Darling, why give blood when you could sell?
04:12Plasma.
04:15My name is Plasma, and I'm a 65-year-old woman
04:17inhabiting this gorgeous 24-year-old's body.
04:20My style is very 1950s Hollywood glamour.
04:24Oh, she's elegant.
04:25Ooh, she's royal.
04:33Viva Mexico!
04:36Viva Mexico!
04:38Car.
04:39Brones.
04:41Mi nombre es Geneva Car, or as everybody knows me, Geneva Vroom Vroom Car.
04:45Geneva Car's drag style is very dramatic.
04:48Escándalo, brillo, fantasía.
04:51And, of course, a lot of Mexican spice.
04:57Fasten your seatbelts, because this plane always goes down.
05:01Oh!
05:02I'm Plain Jane, and I'm the authentically Russian clown hooker from Boston.
05:07Plain Jane is known for big boobs, big hips, small waist, pretty face.
05:14Jiggle, jiggle, jiggle those tits.
05:16Oh, yes!
05:18I'm equal parts camp and...
05:23We got somebody.
05:25A goddess amongst men.
05:27She brought the Holy Spirit.
05:28Hallelujah.
05:29My name is Magami, and I am the geek-chic goddess of Brooklyn, New York,
05:32and the Barbie of Staten Island.
05:34I started drag as a cosplayer going to geeky conventions like New York Comic Con.
05:39It's thorny.
05:40Oh!
05:41I can do cosplay and high fashion and avant-garde looks.
05:45People would describe me as loud, funny.
05:48I am a Latina from Brooklyn, so nothing gets by us.
05:54Okay, babe.
05:56Oh!
05:58Okay, babe.
05:59The queen of flips.
06:01I don't set the bar.
06:02I flips it.
06:04My name is Maya Iman LePage, and it's time to get flip-tastic.
06:08On stage, Maya is a ball of fire.
06:11She's doing tricks, flips, and just performing her ass off.
06:14I have multiple videos that have over a million views.
06:18I'm the TikTok sensation.
06:22Oh!
06:27Oh, my God.
06:28You are such a witch, and it's the power right here.
06:34Bananas.
06:37Oh.
06:38So we know the trade of the season.
06:44Blowing in from the east, it's your banana Buddha, Nymphia Wing.
06:48I'm the first Taiwanese queen to reign the stage of drag race.
06:52My drag is very conceptual, cultural, and very yellow, obviously.
06:57Hi, girls.
06:58Hi!
07:02Do not adjust your screen.
07:05Join the revolution on MTV.
07:11Fourteen bold new queens are revolutionizing the game.
07:22In reality, don't ever come free.
07:26Don't ever misachieve the American dream.
07:28And if you're wondering, it looks like me.
07:35The future belongs to those who slay it.
07:47I want to see you sweat, but you're okay.
07:49I want to see you sweat, but you're okay.
07:52You say you want to live, I want to see you buzz up.
07:55Power to the queens.
07:57Who will seize the moment?
08:03RuPaul's Drag Race, new season Friday, January 5th at 8.
08:06The future of drag is on MTV.
08:09Oh, mama, Drag Race went out, and they found the kookiest girls
08:12who have the most liquefied brains in the world.
08:14And they shoved them in a pink box and said,
08:17I am a mandatory meeting, and I am a woman of the world, baby.
08:21I'm from a lot of places.
08:22Most people would probably know me from Los Angeles.
08:24I've had so many day jobs, diva.
08:26I've been a bar back.
08:27I've worked in an office.
08:29I've worked at a tanning salon.
08:30My drag style is c**t, but also quirky,
08:35but also mysterious, chameleonic, okay?
08:38A mandatory meeting is a lot of work,
08:40but it's also a lot of fun.
08:42It's also mysterious, chameleonic, okay?
08:45A mandatory meeting is a lot of things,
08:46so you never know what you're going to get.
08:48I have been in theater literally since I could talk.
08:51My mom said, baby, you've got a lot of energy,
08:53and I can't deal with it,
08:54so we're going to take you to some Saturday morning acting classes.
08:57And that's when I started Meryl Streepin' it for the girls,
08:59and I never really stopped.
09:00When people first meet me, the first thing they think is,
09:02and then the next thing they think is,
09:04and then the third thing they think is.
09:06You start confused, you end up aroused.
09:08I smell like a superstar.
09:10It's also sort of the energy,
09:11the electricity that I bring to the stage,
09:14and also how bad they want to f**k me.
09:16That's really what people walk away with,
09:17a raging erection, or a sopping wet pusswatcha.
09:23The strangest thing about me is I hate peanut butter.
09:27I really do, and people really dog me for it.
09:29If a queen brings a peanut butter sandwich
09:32into that f**king workroom,
09:33I'm smacking the s**t out of her hand.
09:35I'm not allergic, I'm just disgusted.
09:37Me? Competitive? No!
09:39I would kill someone to win this competition.
09:42I won't tell you who, because they will be watching this,
09:44and they'll feel bad.
09:45I'm not worried about these other b**ches, baby.
09:47I know that they don't have what I have,
09:49and they could never give the amidatory meeting fantasy.
09:52The thing I'm most nervous about going into this season
09:55would be RuPaul just looking at me and saying,
09:58you're too good, you have to leave,
10:00you're making all the other girls feel bad.
10:02That would be very scary for me,
10:03because it's a familiar experience.
10:05I've been a fan of Drag Race for a very long time.
10:08Honestly, I was gagged.
10:09I had never seen Drag Queens live.
10:11It was like a whole culture shock for me,
10:13where I was like, this is for me.
10:16Looking beautiful and punching out the competition?
10:18Mama.
10:19For me to be on season 16,
10:21it means that the dark magic that I snuck into the woods to do
10:25when I first watched this show to say,
10:27Mother Ru, come find me,
10:29that means she heard the call.
10:30If you cross me, I'm gonna go draw a pentagram
10:32in front of your house and baby b**ch foreclosure.
10:35People are gonna watch this season and think
10:37it might as well be all stars,
10:39because the talent is through the roof.
10:41I am America's next drag superstar because I'm really good.
10:44Or maybe it's because...
10:46Oh no, it's because...
10:47I can't choose a reason.
10:48There are just so many.
10:49I'm America's next drag superstar, baby.
10:51I can't help it.
10:52I was born this way.
10:58I am America's next drag super...
11:01stupid star.
11:03I am America's next drag stupid star.
11:06Uh, no.
11:12Howdy do, everybody.
11:14My name is Dawn,
11:15and I am all the way over here from Brooklyn, New York.
11:18I'm originally from Raleigh, North Carolina.
11:20After I graduated college,
11:22I was trying to find a drag name.
11:23I broke up with my partner,
11:25got kicked out of my housing,
11:26had to move in with my mom,
11:27couldn't find a job,
11:28was in the middle of a pandemic.
11:29I was depressed and staying up all night,
11:31or perhaps up until dawn.
11:34New York is just this, like,
11:35ever-flowing, ever-changing, like, river of drag talent.
11:39And I came up pretty quick there,
11:41so I think they like me.
11:43My drag is very fantasy-inspired,
11:45delusion, grandeur,
11:46and really f***ing weird.
11:47Can I curse?
11:48Okay, cool.
11:49When people first meet me, they think,
11:51oh, that's a stanky b***h right there,
11:53because I have this eye painted on,
11:55so I can't really, like, emote that well,
11:57and, like, my waist kind of hurts,
11:59and I'm not very comfortable
12:00and so I'm kind of short with people.
12:02But once you get to know me,
12:03you learn that I'm really nice and fun.
12:06Strangest thing about me,
12:07I have a pickle every morning.
12:08Start the day with a pickle, baby.
12:09Why not?
12:10I am so much more than a look.
12:12I mean, I know the look is fierce,
12:14but when you come to a Dawn show,
12:16you're gonna get a lot more
12:17than a pretty face and a cinched waist.
12:19You're gonna get emotion,
12:20you're gonna get giggles.
12:21I'm a silly girl.
12:22I wouldn't consider myself competitive,
12:24but this is Drag Race.
12:26There's $200,000 on the line, baby.
12:28I mean, I'm here to win.
12:30If any of these queens come for me,
12:32I'll probably clap back.
12:33If she reads me, I can read.
12:34I'll say, you look like s*** or whatever, you know?
12:36Mm-hmm.
12:37But you catch me in the right mood, baby.
12:38I'm gonna start crying, sob,
12:40because I can't handle confrontation like that.
12:42No, no, no, no.
12:43Am I a fan of Drag Race?
12:45Pull up in the Sri Lanka.
12:46It's kind of like my bonding show with my friends.
12:49I love to sit at home on a Friday night
12:51with my besties on a couch and a glass of wine.
12:53You start that episode sober,
12:55but by the end of it,
12:56trash, baby, trash.
12:57That's the goal.
12:58My first memory of watching the show
13:01I was in college,
13:02and I watched season 5 in my little dorm room.
13:05Roxy Andrews changed my life, period.
13:07I distinctly remember seeing, like, the workroom, whatever,
13:10and then seeing the runway.
13:11I was like, when did she get boobs?
13:13Did she always have boobs?
13:14I was very confused,
13:15and then I learned what a breastplate was,
13:17and now I'm no longer confused.
13:18But it still changed my life, diva.
13:19What people are gonna think about this season is,
13:21why did they cast all of these psychos, baby?
13:24It's really interesting when you put 5 to 10 people
13:28who would have been, like, the nastiest villain
13:30on their season in one room together.
13:33It gets a little shady.
13:35I am America's next drag race superstar
13:38because I'm a person who lives in America,
13:41who does drag,
13:42and I'm a superstar.
13:43So, like, I can do math.
13:45That equals me win.
13:53Nobody better come for me unless I send for them, honey,
13:56because they do not know that
13:57once the Latina is fired up like a pepper,
13:59she's about to become real spicy.
14:06Hola a todos, todas y todes.
14:07My name is Geneva Carr,
14:09or as everybody knows me,
14:10La Diva Mas Latina,
14:11or Geneva Vroom Vroom Carr,
14:12or That Perra.
14:13I am originally from Tamaulipas, Mexico,
14:15but I currently reside in Brownsville, Texas.
14:18Geneva Carr comes from me asking advice.
14:20The queen knew that I didn't own a car,
14:22so she was like, you need a car.
14:24But it sounded like she said Geneva Carr.
14:25I just took it and I ran with it,
14:26and here we are.
14:27The drag scene, where I am from in Brownsville,
14:29it is very over the top,
14:30big hair, big makeup,
14:32very Latino, Hispanic, Espanol, Mexicanos.
14:36You know, we are a border town.
14:37I always like to think of Geneva as a chameleon.
14:39I can just adapt to whatever it is I want to give
14:41and I want to serve.
14:42However, it always has to have the Latina touch
14:44and the Texas touch,
14:45and of course, a reference to my culture.
14:47I started doing drag for fun,
14:49and now I do drag as a form of expression
14:51and representation to where I come from.
14:54It's my life.
14:55When people first meet me,
14:56if I'm just standing still and not really smiling,
14:58they think I'm a bitch, and I am.
15:00But as soon as I smile and I talk to people,
15:02they're like, oh my God, you're so nice,
15:03you're so likable, you're so bubbly,
15:04you're so outgoing.
15:06But yeah, if you catch me like this,
15:08you would think I won't like you, but I do.
15:10The strangest thing about me
15:12is that I tend to forget that I am
15:15switching from English to Spanish.
15:17I just do it naturally,
15:18and then people are like, wait, what?
15:19And I was like, oh, sorry, I didn't mean to switch.
15:21It's just Spanish is my first language.
15:23The biggest misconception about me
15:25is that people just think that I am just a pageant queen.
15:28I can do so much more than just the beauty
15:30and the grace and the elegance.
15:32I've done a lot of pageants back home,
15:34and I've won every single pageant,
15:35so I am very competitive,
15:36and when the girls hear that I'm gonna compete,
15:38they don't want to go up against me.
15:40The most nervous I am going into the season
15:42would be to have the queen misinterpret my humor
15:46or how I am,
15:47because back in Texas, we like to read each other.
15:49That's how we know we like each other.
15:51My first memory when I started watching Drag Race
15:53was a little confused because I didn't know what drag was.
15:56You know, I'm first generation coming from Mexico.
15:58I've never seen this.
15:59My parents never talked to me about this,
16:01but when I saw it, I was so intrigued by it,
16:03and I was like, I like this, and I want to do this.
16:06Being here on season 16 of RuPaul's Drag Race
16:08is a dream come true.
16:09I've wanted this for so long,
16:10and I am just riding the wave and going with the flow,
16:13and this is my time, and this is the moment.
16:15Everyone is not ready for what is coming.
16:17It's such a diverse cast.
16:18There's so many different queens,
16:19and there's a lot of Latinas, first of all,
16:21so that's going to be very interesting,
16:22because, you know, when Latinas come together,
16:24it could either go really good or really bad.
16:26I am America's next drag superstar because
16:28when I came to the U.S.,
16:29people told me that I came to steal their jobs,
16:31and why not steal the crown while I'm at it?
16:34I feel like I am a chameleon.
16:35I do whatever it takes to adapt and survive.
16:37America's next drag superstar
16:38has to keep staying fresh, elevating, and growing,
16:41and I feel like I have what it takes.
16:43♪♪
16:48Being here on Drag Race
16:50awoken the competitive beast out of me.
16:52There are prizes to be won,
16:53and there's things to be snatched,
16:54and I don't want these other girls to have them.
16:56Give them to me.
16:58♪♪
17:03My name is Hershey LaCour Jete
17:04from the legendary House of Jete
17:05in Los Angeles, California,
17:07and I am from St. Louis, Missouri.
17:08I've been through a lot of tumultuous names
17:11in my drag career.
17:12It started as Don Tantalicious Aja Smith,
17:14but the queens in St. Louis said,
17:15girl, if you want, like, a serious career,
17:17you're gonna have to change it,
17:18so that's where Hershey came from.
17:19It's actually my pronouns in drag, Hershey.
17:21My drag persona is a 47-year-old woman with a pixie cut.
17:24She has a gold tooth, four kids,
17:25and she drives the number 47 in downtown,
17:27and she drives a Nissan Altima.
17:29Squish that together, and that's Hershey LaCour.
17:31I do love being out at night, as tired as I be,
17:34and doing my job, mingling with the people.
17:36If it's the smallest club, the biggest club,
17:38being in my house or being on TV,
17:40I'm just happy to be wherever I'm at.
17:42It's not a means to an end, it's my passion.
17:44A lot of these girls are just, you know, trying to get here.
17:48I think the biggest misconception
17:50that everybody has about me
17:51is that I'm a little bit younger than what I am,
17:53and that I'm a little naive, a little stupid,
17:55and I don't know what I'm doing.
17:56I've probably had twice, three times, four times
17:58the life that probably the whole cast has had.
18:01I'm a parent of two, I have a partner,
18:03I have different responsibilities
18:05that some of the other girls don't have.
18:07I think when people meet me and find all that out about me,
18:11it kind of makes them go,
18:12wait a minute, little her, ooh.
18:13The queens better keep it very cute
18:15when it comes to trying to read me,
18:17because you get me, I'm gonna get you back
18:19four or five times.
18:20My drag journey has always been about love,
18:22building community, building family.
18:23We're a global phenomenon, so we need to connect.
18:25We need to be arm and arm when this is over with.
18:27Season one, I was watching Drag Race
18:30at one o'clock in the morning,
18:31and Bebe Sahara Bonet pops up on my screen.
18:34I remember being floored.
18:35I didn't know we could be that beautiful.
18:37I was, and I said, that's gonna be me one of these days.
18:40It needs to happen.
18:41And it happened, I'm here.
18:43Season 16, it's so many different types of us,
18:47so many different personalities,
18:48so many different styles of drag.
18:50We are gonna take these ratings
18:51higher than they've ever been.
18:52I am America's next drag race superstar
18:55because I represent the regular working girls
18:58who are actually living their lives out here.
19:00We don't have thousands of dollars,
19:01but we have enough to make it work and get the job done.
19:04And then after that, I'm going home
19:05and taking care of children.
19:06I have a man to take care of, and I have a house to clean.
19:09And I genuinely think that's a very real future
19:11of drag and drag queens, sustaining not just yourself,
19:14but your family.
19:15We're turning drag into a whole different type of career.
19:22If any of these girls try to come for me,
19:24I've dealt with worse.
19:25I've been on the train at three o'clock in the morning.
19:28There is nothing that can shake me.
19:34Hello, gays, theys, and girls.
19:36I'm Magami, the geek-chic goddess of Brooklyn, New York,
19:39and the Barbie of Staten Island.
19:40So the name Magami actually means goddess in Japanese,
19:44and it comes from one of my favorite JRPG series.
19:47I'm a huge gamer myself, massive geek, and cosplay nerd,
19:51so goddess felt right for me.
19:53When I was in college, my parents moved to Staten Island,
19:56so I kind of lived there for a few years.
19:58It just became part of my brand.
20:00I really pride myself on my ability to adapt and change
20:05and be versatile.
20:06I love to do glamorous things, but I also love horror,
20:09and I love geeky things.
20:10I think I do drag because it is truly the ultimate art form.
20:14You need to be able to paint your face and make a costume
20:19and host a show, be a comedian, be an actress, be a dancer,
20:23be a graphic designer, do everything.
20:25When people first meet me, they see this mug
20:28and my angry eyebrows and think I'm kind of a massive c***.
20:32I constantly hear,
20:33Oh my God, Magami, I didn't know you were so nice,
20:35and I'm like, that's just the way I paint my eyebrows.
20:38I'm a Taurus, and we are notoriously very chill,
20:42very cool people,
20:43so you may not think that I'm super competitive,
20:46but my mom is a Virgo,
20:47so when I get into that workroom with these other girls,
20:50they better watch out.
20:51I'm kind of most nervous about lip syncing.
20:54I am an older woman.
20:56I can't be bending my knees like all these young girls can.
21:00If it comes down to lip syncing, baby, I have the experience.
21:03I'm going to give it everything that I got.
21:05I love Drag Race.
21:06This is my absolute favorite show in the world.
21:09I am one of the feral internet goblins
21:11who read all the messages,
21:13watch all the interviews and the videos online.
21:16I started watching all the way back in season three.
21:20Raja was serving the fashion,
21:21and Manila was serving the camp and the comedy,
21:24and I feel like that's such a melding of who I am as a person.
21:28Is this real? Am I actually here on Drag Race?
21:32This thing that was like a nebulous concept in the universe
21:36that I just loved from afar,
21:38I wake up every day pinching myself
21:40because I actually did it.
21:42This season is going to be a fan favorite
21:45that people will want to come back to
21:47and rewatch over and over and over again.
21:49Every single one of these girls is fighting for this crown.
21:53This is a season like we haven't seen in a long time.
21:56It is a good old-fashioned knock-down, drag-out race to the end.
22:00I am America's next drag superstar
22:02because I'm giving you fashion,
22:04I am giving you comedy,
22:05all the versatility in the world,
22:07and baby, who doesn't love a verse queen?
22:15I might be sweet and quiet,
22:17but if a girl comes to me,
22:18she better be ready for the heat that's coming from Miami.
22:24My name is Maya Iman LePage,
22:27and I'm from Miami, Florida.
22:29The story of my drag name,
22:31I was actually getting ready to do my first show.
22:33At the time, I was in love with the singer Maya.
22:35LePage is my last name,
22:37which comes from my current mother, Miss Simiaki LePage.
22:40The drag scene in Miami is glamour, fashion,
22:43full of entertainers, high energy.
22:46Everyone loves feathers, everyone loves stones.
22:49The place that I perform in Miami is called the Palace Bar.
22:52It's on South Beach, and yes, it's outside.
22:54We have a pavilion that we're under sometimes,
22:57but then we have the sidewalk we have to go down.
22:59It's a lot to take in.
23:01My style is glitz, glamour, disco, goth, you name it.
23:05The biggest misconception about me is that I'm a diva,
23:09which I'm not.
23:10I get along with everybody.
23:11I hate drama, I'm too old for it.
23:13The energy I'm bringing to this season
23:14is definitely positive energy.
23:16The strangest thing about me is
23:18I've been in Miami, born and raised,
23:20and I'm 34 years old.
23:21I should be used to dealing with hurricanes and tornadoes.
23:24I'm still scared of thunder.
23:26I'm very competitive.
23:27Growing up, I was in a dance group.
23:29We were doing dance competitions all over Florida,
23:31and then once I started doing drag,
23:33I started to do pageants.
23:34I tapped a few girls and won a few titles.
23:37The thing I'm most nervous about this season
23:39is the sewing challenges.
23:41I'm not really an experienced seamstress,
23:43but I know how to do a little one-two
23:45and how to put something together,
23:47but I'm gonna give it my all to make my look complete
23:50and sell it on the runway.
23:51When I was a dancer, a lot of people knew of me
23:54because I was going viral
23:55with some of the stunts and tricks
23:56I would do in the dance shows.
23:58Backhand springs, cartwheels, front flips, rollovers.
24:01So you might see me flip a few times on this season.
24:04I definitely were a drag race fan
24:06before coming on the show.
24:07What made me want to audition
24:09was my best friend, Malaysia Babydoll Fox.
24:12She was on season 15.
24:14She basically put my hand like,
24:16hey, you need to go and do this show.
24:17You're very talented.
24:18The world needs to see you.
24:19I've always been afraid to be in front of cameras.
24:21I just got over that fear.
24:23I said, hey, we gotta get right,
24:24and I feel like this is the perfect platform
24:26for me to take my career to the next level.
24:28It's amazing to be here for season 16
24:30of RuPaul's Drag Race.
24:31I can say I finally did it,
24:33and I'm here representing Miami,
24:35my friends, family, and everyone,
24:37and I just want to make everyone proud.
24:39When the audience see this season
24:41of RuPaul's Drag Race,
24:42it's going to be very mind-blowing.
24:45We're gonna have a lot of gag factors in it.
24:47This is gonna be one of the best seasons, I can say.
24:49Not just because I'm on it.
24:50We worked really hard to put on a great show.
24:53I'm America's next drag superstar
24:55because I embody charisma, uniqueness,
24:58nerves, and talent, and I'm a bad bitch.
25:01I'm already a queen.
25:02I'm just here to get my title.
25:08I can't imagine that any of the girls
25:10would be stupid enough to come for me
25:11in the first place, but if they do,
25:13I'm not afraid to let them have it.
25:14If there's alcohol involved, it's a fight.
25:16Stay tuned for Untucked.
25:22Hi, my name is Miraj Amoro,
25:23and I am from Las Vegas, Nevada.
25:25The story of my drag name,
25:27I kind of stole it from this bitch
25:28from The Incredibles,
25:29the super skinny assistant to the evil villain.
25:31Her name was Miraj, and I thought
25:32that was the cuntiest name I'd ever heard in my life,
25:34so I stole it.
25:35The drag scene in Las Vegas is very fishy.
25:37There's a lot of, like, fishy girls running around,
25:39swimming around out there in the middle of the desert.
25:41A lot of high energy.
25:42There's no pageant scene, really.
25:43You know, we all kind of look like cross-dressers,
25:45but we all know how to dance.
25:46My style is lots of skin, lots of glitter.
25:49Stripper meets burlesque meets raver bitch.
25:53It's very tacky, but on purpose.
25:55You know, not everybody's on purpose,
25:56but when I do it, it's on purpose.
25:57I used to do hair.
25:58I worked at a blow-dry bar,
25:59and we would do, like, makeup and just styling,
26:01not so much cut and color.
26:02So I had a lot of clients who were strippers.
26:03I just wanted to be one of them so bad
26:05with their big titties and their big hair,
26:07and they were drag queens.
26:08They didn't know it, but when I got done with them,
26:10they were drag queens.
26:11Initially, I was just tipping around
26:13and being a cross-dresser
26:14and having a good old time and getting drunk,
26:15and one of these days, someone was like,
26:17you should perform.
26:18And I was like, ew, no, girl,
26:19that's not for me at all.
26:20I'm not trying to do all that.
26:21And I did it one time.
26:22I ran off the stage.
26:23I was so embarrassed.
26:24I hated it.
26:25But I just kept doing it,
26:26and now performing is my number one favorite part of drag,
26:29besides being hot and sexy and getting free drinks.
26:31Tequila helps.
26:32Got me out of my shell for the first couple times.
26:34And when I say couple times,
26:35I mean the first two years.
26:36I'm very competitive.
26:37I'm pretty sure I'm gonna slay the whole season.
26:38I am not bothered by any of these girls.
26:40Worst case scenario,
26:41I leave with the same amount of friends
26:42that I came here with,
26:43and it includes none of these season 16 girls.
26:45What I'm probably most nervous about this season
26:47is the acting challenges.
26:48I know how to act up.
26:49I know how to act a fool.
26:50But in the classical sense,
26:51I don't know if I would consider myself an actress.
26:53But you know what?
26:54I'm good at winging it.
26:55Threw this together in a day.
26:56So you know what?
26:57We're gonna make it work.
26:58So my very, very, very earliest memory
26:59of watching Drag Race,
27:00I was actually in high school.
27:01I wasn't allowed to watch the Logo Network
27:02because my parents kind of had a feeling
27:03I was a little fruity.
27:04So they took the TV out of my room.
27:06It was something so sneaky and taboo for me.
27:09I didn't know why these men were in dresses,
27:10but I was very into it.
27:11Look what happened.
27:12Look what happens
27:13when you don't let your kids
27:14just do what they want to do.
27:15I could have just been a regular gay
27:16working at a cell phone store,
27:17and now I gotta do all this
27:18because you repressed me.
27:19I started drag like a little bit later.
27:21I started when I was like 23 years old.
27:23It was the season that Pheromone got on.
27:25So I knew of Pheromone and Kimora
27:27from back in Vegas.
27:28And then when they were on the show,
27:30I was like, what the f***?
27:31What is this?
27:32These local ass b***hes just got on TV.
27:33Let me figure out how to sell.
27:34Let me start taking this seriously.
27:35Because if Kimora could do it...
27:37No, I'm just kidding.
27:38I think she's sickening,
27:39because I never saw her perform
27:40until she got on TV.
27:41And now we know why.
27:43There are so many twists and turns this season.
27:45I don't even think I'm ready.
27:46I know you're not ready.
27:47It's exciting.
27:48I'm America's next drag superstar
27:50because I think it's time we brought
27:52hot, sexy b***hes back into the race.
27:54Oh, oh, oh.
27:56My contact.
27:57It almost fell out.
27:58I don't want to talk about it.
28:04People really believe
28:06that I'm the Regina George of drag.
28:08Because I'm pretty and gorgeous
28:09and have amazing skin.
28:10That I'm a mean girl.
28:11And it's not true.
28:12I am actually a really nice girl.
28:14Like Miss Congeniality nice.
28:20Holis.
28:21My name is Morphine Love Dion.
28:22And I am the queen of Miami.
28:24Miami's it girl, if you will.
28:26Morphine came from a Lady Gaga music video
28:29called Marry the Night.
28:30Where in a scene,
28:31one of the nurses goes,
28:32good morning, Morphine Princess.
28:33I didn't know it was a narcotic drug
28:35until like two years ago.
28:36So whatever.
28:37I just stuck with it.
28:38My drag style is very Latina showgirl based.
28:41I love Shakira.
28:43I love Kali Uchis.
28:44I like to twerk and give reggaeton
28:46and give Latina flair.
28:48I am a show-stopping diva.
28:49Every time I perform,
28:50every single person in that room
28:51just likes to throw money at me.
28:53So my parents are from Nicaragua.
28:55And I'm a fluent Spanish-speaking diva.
28:59What makes me different from any other queen,
29:01you have your lipstick assassins,
29:02you have your beauty queens,
29:03you have your fashion girls.
29:04But I do it all.
29:06And I also sew.
29:07I am also a makeup artist, a dancer.
29:09And I'm also kind of a hairstylist as well.
29:12When people first meet me,
29:13they get a little bit intimidated
29:15because I do paint a stank face on.
29:17You know, when I walk into a dressing room,
29:18people are just like,
29:19oh, the party's here.
29:20So people usually get intimidated at first,
29:22but then they're always calling me after.
29:24So it's just, you know, awesome.
29:26I'm extremely competitive.
29:28Every drag competition I've done,
29:29I've basically won.
29:31So I like to compete with the best
29:32so I can beat them.
29:33And that's why I'm here on Drag Race.
29:35If another queen comes for me,
29:36I wouldn't even give them the time of day.
29:38I just look at them up and down and be like,
29:39hmm, if you give, you give.
29:41If you don't, then I won't acknowledge you.
29:43I'm honestly most nervous about
29:45not being prepared for a comedy challenge
29:48or an acting challenge.
29:49I do YouTube videos,
29:50so that's kind of like acting.
29:52But to actually do it in front of Mr. RuPaul,
29:54it's kind of scary.
29:55I'm a little nervous about that.
29:56I am a huge fan of the show.
29:59Ten years ago, season six of RuPaul's Drag Race,
30:01I was a sophomore,
30:02and I remember watching Adore Delano
30:04thinking, oh my god,
30:05I need to be on the show.
30:06Because I was a fan of Adore.
30:07Adore, if you're watching, I love you.
30:09To be on season 16,
30:10ten years after I first ever watched it,
30:13is a complete full circle.
30:14Even being here on this set,
30:15I'm just gagged, girl.
30:16I'm just gagged.
30:17I'm gagged.
30:18There's no comparison between
30:19season 16 and other seasons.
30:21The drag is up here.
30:24I've never seen drag like this
30:25in my entire life.
30:26The girls did not come to play this season,
30:27I will say that.
30:28I am America's next drag superstar
30:30because I am just the absolute,
30:33total package.
30:34I have beauty, brains, body,
30:37show-stopping energy.
30:39When I'm on that stage, honey,
30:40your eyes are literally glued to this.
30:43Oh my god.
30:44Maybe I am the Regina George of drag.
30:51Since I'm such an international queen,
30:53I am here to teach the American girls
30:56how it's done, baby.
31:03Hello, my name is Nymphia Wind,
31:05and I'm from Taiwan,
31:06and I currently reside in New York.
31:08Nymphia is actually a fairy-type
31:10evolution of Eevee.
31:12The wind just comes from
31:13aspiring to be free
31:15and invisible like the wind.
31:17The concept of drag
31:19is still evolving in Taiwan.
31:21Job opportunities are still very few,
31:23so I thought I would just plop myself
31:25into this big apple
31:27and see what happens.
31:28Growing up, I've always been a painter.
31:32I would always doodle in class
31:34and not focus on what the teacher's talking about.
31:37I went to university in England,
31:40south of London.
31:41What makes me different from other queens
31:44is definitely my imaginative,
31:47creative, artistic,
31:49high-concept vision for drag.
31:52The fashion references,
31:54the kookiness,
31:55and how I combine my traditional,
31:57cultural background.
31:59Drag is very powerful.
32:01You look into the mirror
32:02and you basically see someone else,
32:04and that gives you freedom
32:05to recreate yourself
32:07and to feel beautiful
32:08and to walk in this world
32:09feeling that you're living a fantasy.
32:11When people first meet me,
32:12they might think that
32:13I'm a cold-hearted b****,
32:15and that I hate them,
32:16and that I'm probably gonna kill them,
32:18or I'm not happy to be there.
32:20I am kind of strange and weird.
32:22I am definitely here
32:24to confuse the other queens.
32:26It's a bit of distraction
32:27to let the other queens underestimate me,
32:30and then I'll, like...
32:32And they'll be like,
32:33I didn't know you could do that!
32:34I like to win.
32:36And so far,
32:37every competition I've been in,
32:39I've placed number one.
32:41So, we shall see!
32:42I'm very good at ignoring people.
32:44This is how I would react.
32:46A queen reading me.
32:50I'm definitely most nervous
32:52about any sort of writing challenge
32:55that is gonna stress me out.
32:57I don't even wanna think about it.
32:59Before I auditioned,
33:00I was in Taiwan,
33:01and then I came to America
33:03with the idea of
33:04maybe getting on Drag Race.
33:05I just felt like
33:06there wasn't a queen like me,
33:08so I really wanted to be
33:10the first East Asian drag queen
33:12to win Drag Race.
33:13Season 16 is the season, okay?
33:18You're in for a crazy ride.
33:19It's a tornado.
33:21I am America's next
33:22drag invasion superstar.
33:30I'm nervous that the hours
33:32that I'll have to be suited up,
33:35I won't be able to
33:36hold in my bowel movements,
33:38and I might make a big, big
33:41stinky stain on that runway.
33:48Hello!
33:49Привет всем моим
33:50русскоговорящим зрителям.
33:52My name is Plain Jane,
33:53and I am from the beautiful city
33:56of Boston, Massachusetts.
33:58I've always really been
33:59into airplanes.
34:00They're really majestic
34:01and beautiful.
34:02I also really relate to
34:04Jane from Tarzan.
34:06I'm also into very musky,
34:08stinky jungle men.
34:09So I just put the two together,
34:11and my name just came about.
34:13The drag scene in Boston
34:15is very eclectic, colorful,
34:17diverse.
34:18There's drag performers
34:20of all shapes, sizes, creeds.
34:23I am a first-generation American.
34:25My parents are both from Russia.
34:27So I'm kind of inspired
34:28by Russian fashion and culture
34:30and all things Slavic.
34:32I would say where I really
34:33stand out from other queens
34:34is my stench.
34:35The chemicals in my body
34:37produce a very unique scent
34:39that is very sex doll.
34:42I don't think I've ever been
34:43able to answer the question
34:44of why drag to anybody.
34:46My mother, she's cried
34:47and begged me to stop,
34:49but I'll never stop.
34:50I have this insatiable
34:53feminine urge inside of me
34:54to cross-dress.
34:55I just can't be
34:56tamed.
34:57I'm a pretty strange
34:58individual all around.
35:00I really enjoy
35:01cartoon porn, yeah.
35:03I am the first fluent
35:05Russian speaker to have been
35:07cast on Drag Race.
35:08There may have been
35:09some misconceptions
35:10with my fellow alumnus, Katya,
35:12but she appropriates
35:14my culture.
35:15She's not actually Russian,
35:16and it's jarring and offensive
35:18to my eyes, ears, nose,
35:19and mouth, and stomach,
35:21what she does.
35:22I am pretty competitive.
35:23I played a lot of sports.
35:25Wherever there are
35:26balls involved,
35:27I handle them very well.
35:28What drew me in to Drag Race
35:31was the ridiculous queens.
35:34I would look at these clowns,
35:36and at first, I was thinking,
35:37who are these people?
35:39Before Drag Race
35:40became so mainstream,
35:42it really used to be
35:43a far more niche art form.
35:45But now, it's everywhere
35:46thanks to RuPaul's Drag Race.
35:48To be here on season 16
35:51is...
35:52Now that I've accomplished
35:54the pinnacle
35:55of my hopes and dreams,
35:57there's nothing left for me to do.
35:59Maybe I'll take up cooking
36:00or become an astronaut.
36:02When the audience
36:03watches season 16,
36:04they're gonna think,
36:05wow!
36:08I am America's
36:09next drag superstar
36:11because I'm willing
36:12to fully disfigure myself
36:14for the cause and the art
36:16of drag.
36:18If these girls decided
36:19to come from Miss Plasma,
36:21I really hope that they can
36:22repair that wig
36:23when I'm done with it.
36:24I am so ready
36:25to eat these girls up.
36:32Hello, my name is Plasma,
36:33and I am from
36:34New York City, baby!
36:36The story behind
36:37the name Plasma
36:38is so uninteresting.
36:39I just liked the way
36:40it sounded,
36:41and I used to live
36:42by a Plasma donation site.
36:43And I was like,
36:44oh, that's a good idea.
36:45I was like,
36:47And I was like,
36:48oh, that sounds fun!
36:49Literally, that's it.
36:50I grew up in a very small
36:51rural northeast Texas town
36:52that literally did not
36:53have a queer population,
36:54no drag anywhere.
36:55I got my BFA
36:56in musical theater.
36:57I moved to New York
36:58on June 1st of 2021,
36:59and I was like,
37:00oh, theater doesn't
37:01exist right now,
37:02but drag is poppin'.
37:03So I tumbled
37:04into the New York drag scene.
37:05I have the most incredible
37:06support network
37:07in my family.
37:08My parents are very,
37:09very involved in my life.
37:10They love Plasma.
37:11They love coming to New York
37:12and seeing the shows.
37:13Plasma is the love letter
37:14to all of the vintage
37:15classic silhouettes.
37:16I love golden age Hollywood.
37:18I love the glamour
37:19of these beautiful young women
37:20who are turned into goddesses.
37:22I love bringing
37:23the old school sh**
37:24into a new realm.
37:25I have a mix back home
37:26where I do
37:27The Lonely Goat Heard
37:28from The Sound of Music
37:29with Throat Goat
37:30by Kim Petras.
37:31I think what makes
37:32Plasma different
37:33is that I not only
37:34look stunning
37:35and perform well,
37:36but I'm also very good
37:37on the microphone.
37:38I consider myself
37:39a very intellectually deep person,
37:40a very emotionally
37:41mature person,
37:42someone who would rather
37:43have a conversation
37:44about their goals
37:45than like,
37:46yes, honey, yes, God,
37:47blah, blah, blah.
37:48I consider myself
37:49a very competitive person.
37:50I grew up doing
37:51high school speech and debate,
37:52which really taught me
37:53how to take a b**ch down.
37:54And then I moved
37:55to New York City,
37:56which I consider to be
37:57the most competitive
37:58drag market on earth.
37:59And I've risen above it all
38:00and now we're on
38:01RuPaul's Drag Race
38:02where I am still
38:03clocking these b**ches.
38:04I didn't pack a lot
38:05of leopard or animal print,
38:06so I'm really nervous
38:07to meet Michelle.
38:08Other than that,
38:09b**ch, I'm not nervous at all.
38:10I love Drag Race.
38:11When I went to Oklahoma
38:12for undergrad,
38:13that's where I was.
38:14I remember what it smelled
38:15like in the room
38:16when Sasha ripped
38:17that f**king wig off.
38:18It changed my life.
38:19That little kid
38:20is now this little diva
38:21being invited
38:22to join the company
38:23of RuPaul's Drag Race.
38:24Especially now
38:25in its heyday.
38:26I mean,
38:27we're winning Emmys
38:28left and right
38:29and this season
38:30is no different.
38:31Tune in.
38:32Being here at this moment
38:33is so incredibly awesome
38:34to me because
38:35I've sort of been able
38:36to learn how to be
38:37a new kind of proud
38:38of myself
38:39and to bear witness
38:40to the level of accomplishment
38:41that I didn't know
38:42would be possible
38:43in my career as an artist.
38:44I'm here at RuPaul's Drag Race
38:45right now
38:46and what I can tell you
38:47is you have never seen
38:48a higher caliber of drag
38:49in your entire life.
38:50I'm looking around
38:51every single day
38:52and there's something new
38:53that blows my mind
38:54at every turn.
38:55This is some good s**t.
38:56I am America's
38:57next drag superstar
38:58because I believe
38:59it is equally important
39:00to be fierce,
39:01to be beautiful,
39:02to be graceful,
39:03and to be kind.
39:04Because none of this matters
39:05unless we as artists
39:06can unite over
39:07our shared beliefs.
39:08And so many people
39:09who would rather see
39:10the queer community dissolve
39:11than to get rid of us
39:12because they know
39:13that we know how to lead it.
39:14And I am the one
39:15that will do my damnedest
39:16to lead the queer community forward.
39:23People usually think,
39:24oh Midwest,
39:25Kansas City,
39:26friendly,
39:27raised on a farm,
39:28but I'll get to the root
39:30of the issue
39:31post haste.
39:37Hey everybody,
39:38I'm Q and I'm from
39:39Kansas City, Missouri.
39:40So I like the letter Q
39:41because it's kind of like
39:42the odd one out of the alphabet.
39:43Because you know,
39:44Q is always with U.
39:46The drag scene in Kansas City
39:48is honestly growing
39:49really, really fast
39:50and it's really competitive.
39:51We only have like three bars
39:52you can perform at,
39:53so you really feel the fight
39:55to have your spot in the scene.
39:57I am like no other queen
39:59because the concepts
40:00that I come with are sickening.
40:02I make all the things
40:03that I wear.
40:04I'm fashion,
40:05and I'm camp,
40:06and I'm editorial,
40:07and I'm theatrical.
40:08You can't put Q in a box
40:09because Q does everything.
40:11I started doing drag in college.
40:13My friends and I,
40:14we wrote like a little
40:15one-act musical
40:16and it was like
40:17B-horror, B-film
40:18kind of humor
40:19and it really, really worked
40:20and that was the first time
40:21where I was like,
40:22oh my gosh, drag,
40:23this makes sense.
40:24I'm somebody
40:25that you won't forget.
40:26When I do shows
40:27and people see me,
40:28I'm the one that they're
40:29coming up to afterwards
40:30to talk to.
40:31I'm a sewing queen.
40:32I do that for a living now.
40:33I sew and I make things
40:34for drag queens.
40:35So when those
40:36design challenges come,
40:37I know the girls
40:38are going to be lining up
40:39asking for help
40:40because I know exactly
40:41what I'm doing.
40:42I am very competitive.
40:43If a girl came for me,
40:44I would come right back.
40:45I don't back down
40:46from a fight.
40:47What I might be
40:48most nervous about
40:49is meeting the other queens.
40:51Sometimes I do come off
40:52as a bitch.
40:53So I really am hoping
40:55I make some really
40:56great connections
40:57with the other girls.
40:58I love Drag Race.
40:59I am a super fan.
41:01I think what I liked
41:02about season six
41:03and seven,
41:04I just saw like
41:05so much creative expression
41:06through like a queer
41:07lens.
41:08And I was watching drag
41:09but not really
41:10pursuing it.
41:11Then I saw
41:12Sasha Velour's
41:13iconic legendary lip sync
41:14with the rose petals
41:15and it was like
41:16one of the first times
41:17I'd seen theater and drag
41:18just mash together
41:19in this world
41:20and I thought
41:21I can do that.
41:22It is
41:23absolutely surreal
41:24that I am on
41:25season sixteen
41:26of Drag Race.
41:27It's been a dream of mine
41:28since I started watching.
41:29I'm honestly sitting
41:30here right now
41:31and I still
41:32don't believe it.
41:33There are things that
41:34happen in this season
41:35that have never happened
41:36before in Drag Race history.
41:38Gagged me quite a bit
41:39for sure.
41:40Everybody came to
41:41season sixteen,
41:42I guess,
41:43ready to compete
41:44at two hundred percent.
41:45Everybody's bringing
41:46their best game
41:47and their best drag
41:48and that's what makes
41:49season sixteen
41:50like really,
41:51really exciting.
41:52I am America's
41:53next drag superstar
41:54because I am ready
41:55to bring the crown
41:56to the plains
41:57of America.
42:03What?
42:04They're doing that?
42:05Whoa.
42:06What are they wearing?
42:08Oh my God.
42:09Everyone's so talented.
42:16Hey y'all,
42:17I'm Saphir Cristal
42:18all the way from
42:19Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
42:20My drag name is
42:21actually based on
42:22my birthstone,
42:23which is The Sapphire.
42:24I was born in September.
42:25And Cristal,
42:26which was one of my
42:27favorite champagnes
42:28before I became sober.
42:29The drag scene
42:30in Philadelphia
42:31is full of lots of
42:32different types of queens.
42:33We got our
42:34soap opera queens.
42:35We got our comedy queens.
42:36We got our spooky queens.
42:37And we got our
42:38fabulous fierce queens.
42:39I am the
42:40grand dame diva.
42:41I have big drag.
42:42I love everyone.
42:43They all love me.
42:44We're all
42:45great friends there.
42:46What makes me
42:47different from
42:48any other queen?
42:49Well,
42:50not only am I a
42:51singing diva,
42:52but I'm an
42:53opera singing diva.
42:54I can sing from
42:55the baritone
42:56up to the soprano.
42:57I do drag because
42:58it was the only area
42:59where I could do
43:00every single thing
43:01that I'm good at.
43:02I can sing,
43:03I'm funny,
43:04and I'm good at
43:05being an overall eleganza.
43:06I went to
43:07performing arts high school.
43:08I went to music school.
43:09And so,
43:10when I first saw drag,
43:11it was the spectacle
43:12that made me go,
43:13oh, this is going
43:14to be wonderful.
43:15What I've heard is that
43:16I'm a very intimidating
43:17presence,
43:18but I hope that I'm
43:19also a very warm presence
43:20because people are
43:21usually very happy
43:22to be around me.
43:23I am a winner
43:24of about 16 crowns.
43:25So, yes,
43:26I am very competitive.
43:27I kind of have been
43:28competing since
43:29I was very young.
43:30My dad is a trainer
43:31for the UFC,
43:32and he put me
43:33in tournaments.
43:34A queen would never
43:35come for me.
43:36They would know better.
43:37No one usually does,
43:38so these queens
43:39will know.
43:40I'm not nervous
43:41about anybody.
43:42I'm not nervous
43:43about anything
43:44except for me.
43:45If I stay out of my way,
43:46I should do very well.
43:47I started drag
43:48the year that
43:49Drag Race first aired.
43:51It was fast-paced.
43:53You want to dance,
43:54you want to sing,
43:55you want to do a duet,
43:56you want to put
43:57someone in makeup.
43:58It's all those things
43:59in one.
44:00It's the perfect show.
44:01I spent a lot of time
44:02auditioning
44:03for Drag Race,
44:04and I'm finally on,
44:05so get ready.
44:06I am America's...
44:07America's?
44:08Who that is?
44:09I am America's
44:10next drag superstar
44:11because I am
44:12the total package.
44:13And honestly,
44:14it's beyond
44:15the competition.
44:16It's the community,
44:17and I would love
44:18to bring my love
44:19into everyone's hearts.
44:26When the audience
44:27watches season 16,
44:28they're definitely
44:29going to be like,
44:30damn,
44:31them bitches look real good.
44:32Then look,
44:33queens are back, baby.
44:39Hi,
44:40I'm Tsunami Muse,
44:41and I'm from New York City.
44:42My drag name
44:43came from
44:44I really wanted to be
44:45like a superhero,
44:46and Storm
44:47is already taken,
44:48so I went with
44:49the next best thing,
44:50a tsunami.
44:52Muse comes from
44:53my drag mother,
44:54Miss Candy Muse.
44:56I think you're familiar
44:57with her.
44:58The drag scene
44:59in New York City
45:00is very, very competitive.
45:01It's very tough
45:02to stand out
45:03unless you're me.
45:04You know,
45:05it's very easy.
45:06Tsunami's style
45:07is very much
45:0890s supermodel.
45:09That's the references
45:10that I go for.
45:11I worked
45:12in the fashion industry
45:13for like over 10 years,
45:14so it was a lot
45:15of being girls
45:16on the runway,
45:17collecting the Vogues,
45:18the Harper's Bazaars,
45:19the V,
45:20just eating up
45:21the imagery,
45:22and then as soon as
45:23I saw Naomi Campbell,
45:24that's what I wanted.
45:25Head to toe,
45:26you know,
45:27the hair,
45:28that's very much
45:29a mix
45:30of who Tsunami is.
45:31What makes Tsunami
45:32different from
45:33any other queen
45:34is honestly
45:35her personality.
45:36There's not enough words
45:37to describe it,
45:38so you're going to have
45:39to tune in
45:40because it's an experience.
45:41The first moment
45:42I knew
45:43I was going to become
45:44a drag queen,
45:45I wore this incredible
45:46metallic trench coat.
45:47When I told you
45:49I felt my p***y
45:50on fire that day,
45:51that's when I knew
45:52that Tsunami Muse
45:53was going to be born.
45:54First impression
45:55when people usually
45:56meet Tsunami,
45:57they're intrigued.
45:58They crave
45:59more of Tsunami.
46:01The strangest thing
46:02for people to find out
46:03about me
46:04is that I'm actually
46:05a Pokemon master.
46:06Like I'm really good.
46:07If another queen
46:08were to come for me
46:09in the workroom,
46:10honestly,
46:11I would just look at them
46:12and laugh
46:13because nothing
46:14can come to this.
46:15I mean,
46:16look at me,
46:17can you afford?
46:18I like to say
46:19that I'm not
46:20very competitive,
46:21but deep down,
46:22I'm extremely competitive.
46:23That's kind of like
46:24my strategy.
46:25I say it's a
46:26I am from the year
46:27of the snake,
46:28after all.
46:29The thing I'm
46:30most nervous about
46:31is if they throw us
46:32a singing challenge.
46:33Do you hear this voice?
46:34That is not for me.
46:35I would say
46:36I'm most comfortable
46:37lip syncing.
46:38I've been a fan
46:39of this show
46:40since season one.
46:41I remember when
46:42it first got announced,
46:43they were like,
46:44it's this new competition
46:45with drag queens,
46:46it's going to be
46:47American Idol,
46:48Top Model,
46:49and Project Runaway
46:50all in one.
46:51I just got so hooked
46:52from the stories
46:53of each individual queen
46:54to the challenges
46:55of the competition.
46:56Are you kidding me?
46:57I've been obsessed
46:58ever since,
46:59and now,
47:00look at me here
47:01on season 16
47:02of Drag Race.
47:03I'm America's
47:04next drag superstar
47:05because I have
47:06the personality
47:07to match the look.
47:08Did that reveal
47:09gag you?
47:10Well,
47:11prepare for the future
47:12because the queens
47:13are runway ready
47:14like never before.
47:15NYC,
47:16see you in January.
47:17Period.
47:25♪