Drag queen impersonates Stevie and gets sent home
Last night on Rupaul's Drag Race All Stars was Diva Night. Rupaul assigned the queens Divas to impersonate. The queen that got Stevie loved Stevie but unlike the other divas Stevie is really hard to make funny and does not walk the stage dancing and singing. In the end they sent Stevie home. They made the other queens say funny lines. Its hard to make Stevie funny if you really want to keep the authentic character of Stevie.
Here is a sneak peak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntbJAnxhGOc |
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Stevie may have been a gay icon but not like Diana Ross and the others. In the late 90's when A Night of a 1000 Stevie's came out, Stevie did not embrace the idea. Around the second or third event Stevie said it was "really scary." So I get what the queen meant and tried to portray. In addition Stevie does her show not prancing the stage but in front of a wired microphone. |
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They should have let them have total creativity and let them create their own video to whatever song they wanted instead of having someone tell them what to say. The Stevie joke at the end "I am dizzy" really was not funny at all. |
God, that Stevie drag queen was awful!! And she ends with "Ru, I'm dizzy". ? Blech!
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Wtf!
Consideration for others would dictate that the OP would post the term (spoiler alert) in the Title after "Drag Queen Impersonates Stevie" and then post the result in the Message. It was rude and inconsiderate to post the result of the competition in the Title.
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Your comment reveals total ignorance to call someone rude or inconsiderate for someone to post and share a factual thread. You don't contribute to the board but criticize others for sharing a simple video? Please grow up. You have brought the board to a new low. |
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I am guessing Annabellee had not watched the programme yet...... She didn’t want to know who had been sent home.. That’s all, No big deal. Paleshadow is right, a warning could have been given. |
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That being said - I wasn't impressed with the Stevie inspired look. She played it safe - almost Halloween costume Stevie. As a clown, she should've camped it up some more. |
I did not like this interpretation of Stevie. You can see that the other contestants hammed up their performances but ultimately commanded the stage and paid tribute to the icons. This contestant appeared to be mocking Stevie the entire time, from the flailing arm movements to the "dizzy" bit at the end. I don't watch the show so I don't know how much control the contestant had if the voice track was prerecorded but I thought this was a real missed opportunity. Even the costume is a busy amalgam of many of Stevie's looks. If the contestant ditched the hat and added a microphone -even a cordless one! - the look itselfwould have been less distracting.
As for the criticism that Stevie does not have backup dancers and therefore there is less for the contestant to rely on... Stevie has had backup singers, particularly Lori and Sharon, for her entire solo career and they have been known to jam as wild as Stevie at times! Not to mention how Stevie grooves with her guitar players during the guitar solo in performances of Stand Back, for instance. I never realized how much Stevie relied on her dance background on stage.:laugh: What on earth was this queen doing with her fingers/hand??? Anyone who needs inspiration for Stevie's dance moves should look no further than the 1981 Gold & Braid video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9E03qFVxpk From the crazy tambourine clapping and twirling, to Stevie's signature high kicks and deep squat with the microphone, to Stevie rolling her shoulders and shaking her hips, you would think that these stage antics would be golden to anyone attempting to parody or impersonate her. Even though the Gold & Braid performance is not well known, you can see many of Stevie's signature moves in any live performance of Edge of Seventeen or Stand Back, her top solo hits. So I am confused about why this contestant felt Stevie lacked source material. Look at how much fun the other contestants are having! This contestant looks miserable but could have had so much more fun with this as well. |
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