![]() ![]() RuPaul will crown America’s next drag superstar on April 23, and she’ll be selecting from the strongest top four the franchise has seen in years. While a couple of the remaining contestants have avoided ever being in the bottom, Kandy’s redemption makes her own journey that much more exciting to watch, and that much more affectingly human. This was her third time in the bottom two, but Kandy was too confident (“fuckin’ delusional,” as she put it in her interview with RuPaul last week) to let a few near losses stand in the way of the finale. I cried happy tears watching her burst into an ear-to-ear smile, twirling with joyful abandon. But Kandy’s was by far the more triumphant performance, punctuated with a mid-routine release of confetti. ![]() Both queens gave it their all in a lip sync to Cher’s “Strong Enough,” turning lyrics like “You gotta go” into fun, shady moments. It immediately became clear that Bronx-bred Kandy, who had a panic attack while filming the gossipy backstage bonus show Untucked, wasn’t ready to go home. But they both had the chance to redeem themselves with the traditional tiebreaker - a lip sync for their lives. Neither their relatively one-note performances in the acting challenge nor their looks for a “Haute Pocket”–themed runway impressed the judges Olivia’s minidress was kind of boring, and Kandy’s fit, god love her, was just a big old mess. ![]() On Friday night, the hilarious and enigmatic Kandy Muse and sweet, smiley Olivia Lux found themselves at risk of elimination. Earlier this month I was self-isolating in my room - PMS’ing, cranky, hitting the same pandemic wall we all are - when a scene from the current season of RuPaul’s Drag Race shook me out of my funk with a moment of ascendant joy.īy Episode 13 of what’s been, by this point, an unusually long season (no complaints here - I’ve loved every minute), we were finally down to the top five. ![]()
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