RuPaul's Drag Race season 9 — Page 5

^All of this. Valentina is probably the most boring lipsync artist I've ever seen in person. She's GORGEOUS, and she's been doing well playing the same character over and over again, but she's definitely one of my least favorite queens this season. Heck, I'd prefer to watch Kimora talk about things she doesn't know. As much as the fandom seems to hate Alexis, I sympathize with her a little. The editors are going pretty rough on her, but I have to say that the majority of stuff that comes out of her mouth is TRUE (just no necessarily put the best way). That being said, Sasha, Shea, and Trinity are my girls, 100%.

I am finding this season more boring than most. I was rooting for Alexis, but that ship sailed. Now I think I am pulling for Trinity and I didn't think I would like her at all. I followed her on Twitter and she's hilarious.

Far and anyway the best episode of this season. The challenge wasn't too cringeworthy (and Sasha and Shea were genuinely fun) and that runway was fabulous. Definitely one of the best runways the show has ever had. And mercifully, no Very Special Moments in the workroom.

As for the elimination, personally my enjoyment of Valentina had been fading for a few weeks. She's clearly gorgeous, but beyond that I didn't get much from her. For me, trying to keep that mask on felt almost like cheating, and I can't believe she was so brazen as to not immediately take it off when Ru asked. Nina is a damn mess, but she knew the words.

I hope the rest of the season continues in this trajectory.

^ Alexis had the worst look by far last night. How could she be so pedestrian on the CLUB KID runway!? She should have been in the bottom two because of it, her nasty, self righteous, demeanor not withstanding.



I was rooting for Valentina. Ru nailed it right on the head, I thought she could have gone all the way but she got too cocky and/or gave up. That lip sync was truely mortifying.



Nina's runway make up was ON POINT but her maudlin attitude, and weak delevery in the challenges has landed her in the bottom for the last two weeks, If she's there again a third time (my hunch is bottom two next week will be Alexis and Nina, with a possible double elimination) she will definitely be out.

The problem with Alexis is that, despite her sour attitude, she is a talented queen. I don't love that she is sticking around, but based on the challenge it would have been absurd to put her in the bottom two.

I loved the episode. And no, I don't think Alexis should have been in the bottom 2 considering how badly Nina and Valentina did. I really want more drama

From last week's Untucked, it looked like Valentina had no idea that she might have to lip synch (which was silly of her), and didn't bother to learn the song or practice. It seems a small mistake (although she had never been near the bottom two before), but proved to be a bad one.

However, I've no doubt that the Valentina brand will be enormously aided by her performance on the show, and we can probably look forward to her on the next All Stars (if there is a next).

newintown said: "From last week's Untucked, it looked like Valentina had no idea that she might have to lip synch (which was silly of her), and didn't bother to learn the song or practice. It seems a small mistake (although she had never been near the bottom two before), but proved to be a bad one.

However, I've no doubt that the Valentina brand will be enormously aided by her performance on the show, and we can probably look forward to her on the next All Stars (if there is a next).



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This.

I got the same thing from watching untucked. Love her, but home gurl got cocky and thought her club kid lewk (while stunning) was enough to keep her safe from elimination, so she sat there and didn't bother to learn the song. Whoops. shudda lernt that song huntie.

I agree with the "star power" comment. Yes, Valentina isn't the best lip syncer I've ever seen (although I've been genuinely impressed by the youtube vids I've seen of her performing in clubs) and bitter Aja can come for her all she wants, but Valentina just has "it." You can't teach it, you can't learn it, you can't bottle it up and sell it, she just has it.

Its really too bad. I wanted to see more from Valentina, and I think she could have taken the crown this season.

Hope we do see her in all stars!!!

Wait, you mean the queens are given an entire season's lip-sync songs before they ever get to the workroom? Can that possibly be true??

Just once I'd really love to know just how much prior info the girls are given before each season's competition begins. We know they're given a list of the runway challenges since they all seem to come prepared for every outlandish lewk well in advance. And sure, every queen has got her Snatch Game impression locked down if she's smart long before getting on the show. Gee, have they already penned their Library Reads, just waiting to drop in the appropriate subject's name? For that matter, just how much time passes from the day they get the call that they're cast to the day they appear in the workroom? Does anyone out there know first hand?

I am 99% certain that's true. At the very least, they certainly get all the songs once they arrive for filming- I remember someone last year pointed out a queen listening to And I Am Telling You several episodes before it was used.

They get the list of songs (with the lyrics) for the entire season when they arrive, but the audio for only the song for that particular challenge is loaded onto the iPods as season progresses.

Updated On: 5/25/17 at 06:40 PM

Yep. The show's super predictable this season. Sigh. Also - the crew makeovers were actually quite funny. I'd love to see more of queen-crew interaction. The way Bob was tweeting last night makes me wonder how many inside jokes we missed.

^ while I agree from the look perspective that Sasha should have won, we got to see a very small excerpt of the lip sync performance and I think that's where Trinity might have outdone Sasha.