Comedy was the category for episode seven of Drag Race. The girls dusted off their improve chops and stopped by Ross Matthews talk show Bossy Rossy After Dark!
Icons honouring icons. Loves to see it.
We don’t know who Kylie Minogue is rooting for on this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race (or if she’s watched it at all), but if we had to place a bet, it’d be on Gottmik.
Over the weekend, the beloved contestant paid tribute to the Aussie icon with a lip-syncing, choreo-heavy extravaganza to Where Does the DJ Go?, taken from her acclaimed new album, DISCO.
It follows the latest maxi-challenge on the 13th season of Drag Race, where the contestants funked it up in a disco-dancing documentary.
“Kylie Minogue makes me want to be a disco queen ALWAYS,” Gottmik wrote in her social media caption, earning praise from fellow Drag Racers such as A’Whora, Adore Delano, Denali, Ellie Diamond, Manila Luzon and Olivia Lux.
On one level, I truly do love how
Drag Race takes its position as one of this moment’s biggest queer pop-culture products seriously and devotes time to topics and histories the team feel We Need To Discuss, from Black Lives Matter to Madonna looks and Warhol, and everything in-between.
On the other hand, sometimes it’s just a bit too didactic: I don’t really need to see Ru act incredulous that 20somethings don’t know about disco figures, as important as they are. It’s Frances Joli all over again; yes, it’s important to know your references (especially in drag, which is post-modern by design/ever referential blah blah blah), but the show tends to place too much emphasis on it, to the point where queens can get away with being purely referential, rather than genuinely creative.