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Lip-Sync Performances
Season 1
- The very first episode has Vinegar Strokes vs Gothy Kendoll (Goth-y Ken-doll), set to Dua Lipa's "New Rules." Vinegar describes her lipsync as "The Vinegar Strokes Show," and she lives up to that boast by jiggling her boobs at the judges, doing two wig reveals in a row to the beat of the song, nailing the words, serving camp, and generally steamrolling over Gothy.
- Blu Hydrangea vs Cheryl Hole, set to a remix of Cheryl Cole's "Call My Name." Blu gave it plenty of emoting and power - maybe too much - but Cheryl Hole was performing in front of her heroine, guest judge Cheryl Cole herself. As such, Cheryl Hole danced like her life depended on it, up to and including nearly snapping her leg in half with a death drop. See you on All Stars, Blu.
Season 2
- Bimini Bon Boulash and Joe Black's lip-sync to "Relax" immediately set the bar for the lip-syncs to come and made it clear that the lackluster performances from Season 1 weren't going to be repeated in Season 2, with Bimini sliding into the box splits all while lip-syncing on her head, and Joe giving face and camping the song up.
- Tayce vs Cherry Valentine, to "Memory" from Cats. The music was light years away from the typical songs used for lipsyncs, yet Tayce manages to give a performance full of passion using only facial expressions and limited movements. The shot of her face in full light, with an immaculate mug smeared in fake blood and pulling a Kubrick Stare, was an immediate reference for fan art.
- Tia Kofi beating dancing queen Asttina Mandella to "Don't Start Now" by Dua Lipa was certainly a moment, especially after Asttina had hyped up her dance skills since the minute she walked into the werkroom, and Tia was being criminally underrated by her fellow contestants.
- Ginny Lemon and Sister Sister's lip-sync to "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by Kim Wilde. Ginny quit the competition in her own classy, yet fabulously punk way by walking off stage as soon as the lip-sync started. As jaw-dropping as that moment was, the best moment goes to Sister Sister continuing the lip-sync all by herself and turning it out as if Ginny was still on stage. Needless to say, Sister earned a lot of respect from the other queens.
- Tayce and Ellie's lip-sync to "The Last Thing On My Mind" by Steps was incredible, with both girls pulling out all the stops, special mention goes to Ellie's cartwheel into a dip. Neither girl ends up eliminated and BOTH move on to the finale, with Ellie managing to claw her way to the end without a win and Tayce surviving her FOURTH lip-sync!
Season 3
- For the first time in Drag Race herstory, there were two lip-syncs on the premiere, with Krystal Versace and Victoria Scone battling it out for the first win of the season to Bonnie Tyler's classic "Total Eclipse of the Heart". With Victoria serving camp and Krystal serving impeccable emotion and face, it's a close call, but Krystal takes the win.
- The second lip-sync of the premiere is the bottom two - Anubis and Elektra Fence - facing off to Little Mix's chart-topper "Sweet Melody", and when Elektra boasted about her dance skills earlier, she wasn't kidding around. From doing jumping jacks on her ankles, to bouncing into gravity-defying splits and right back up again, Elektra showed that she's a force to be reckoned with and utterly flattened Anubis in the lip-sync.
- The two best dancers, Elektra Fence and Vanity Milan, going against each other to M People's "Moving On Up". Vanity felt the song hard, whipping her updo wig so the hair fell out and flowed down her back, while Elektra showed off even more impressive and energetic dancing than she did in her first lip-sync, unfortunately for Elektra, it may have been too much for the judges.
- The sixth lip-sync pits Vanity against Scarlett. While Scarlett manage to hold her own, Vanity absolutely owns it with various splits and twister-like spins. Vanity slays so much that guest-judge Alesha Dixon, whose Mis-Teeq track the girls were 'syncing to, gives her a standing ovation, and she of course goes on to win the lip-sync.
- Krystal Versace finds herself in the bottom two for the first time against Vanity Milan, to "Hallucinate" by Dua Lipa. Coming off a pretty rough roast challenge, Krystal reminds us that she can perform, and her lipsync performance is an impressive burst of energy that finally takes down Vanity, the undisputed lipsync assassin of the season.
Season 4
- Black Peppa and Jonbers Blonde find themselves in the bottom after 'The Squirrel Games' acting challenge, despite Ru calling both their runway outfits iconic. The song is "Some Kinda Rush" by Booty Luv. Neither queen is going quietly with gymnastics, airtight lip syncing, choreography and even a floor side down the runway to the front of the stage in unison. In the end it's the rare double save and both queens go on to slay another day.
Other examples
Season 1
- Scaredy Kat winning the very first mini-challenge. Repeat, Scaredy Kat - a 19-year-old bedroom queen - winning the very first mini-challenge. Talk about Beginner's Luck!Divina: Scaredy Kat. Is the winner. She just got birthed. What is this about???
- The Snatch Game nets Baga Chipz and The Vivienne a rare double-win, for their impressions of Margaret Thatcher and Donald Trump, respectively. Michelle actually called The Vivienne's Trump impression the best Snatch Game performance ever.
- During the girl group challenge, Divina's group is recording their vocals, and on a whim Divina sings the song's main riff in whistle tones. Producer MNEK completely loses his shit, and in confessionals he compares it to hearing Mariah Carey sing. When Divina was talking up her singing range, she was not fucking around.
- Divina gets fed up with The Vivienne not taking her seriously, and goes off on her with an epic "No More Holding Back" Speech during an argument. It instantly became iconic in the fandom.Divina: You clearly don’t value what I do as a drag queen. Tell me anybody else in this Werk Room who has a four and a half octave range! Tell me anybody else who can sing in five languages! Tell me anybody else who can do all that while doing the splits! Tell me anybody else who has fifteen years of directing production shows!
Season 2
- A'whora's "Lockdown Supershero" look in episode 7, easily one of the most polished looks to ever be made entirely in the Werk Room. Her win that episode was no surprise to anyone.
- This season's winner makes history. Lawrence Chaney is not only the first winner from Scotland, but (at least in English-speaking seasons) the first plus-sized girl to win!
- Credit should go to one of the runners-up. Prior to the pandemic break, Bimini Bon-Boulash was usually safe with one bottom placement, fading into the background a bit. After the break, she came back with a vengeance, got four wins in rapid succession and became a huge fan favorite. Probably one of the most epic glow-ups in Drag Race herstory.
- The other runner-up, Tayce, is a rare queen to survive four lipsyncs, the last of which was a double-shantay, which cemented her as one of the all-time great lipsync assassins in the franchise. It kept her afloat right up till the final three.
Season 3
- For the first time in the entire series of Drag Race, we have a cisgender woman (Victoria Scone) as a contestant. Despite what people's opinions on it may be (and there are many), it's such an incredible progression for the series and she received one of the warmest welcomes yet from her fellow queens after she entered the Werk Room, so her competitors are undoubtedly onboard. Victoria also went on to destroy the premiere episode, losing out on the win only due to a lip-sync twist, but the positive critiques and welcome she got from the judges only showed further why she belongs in this competition, opening the door for countless other talented AFAB queens.
- Krystal Versace, at only nineteen years old, winning the first two challenges back to back with incredibly polished looks, a tight lip-sync, and a hilariously over-the-top performance as a fitness instructor. Considering that most contestants in the franchise who competed under the age of twenty-one end up not lasting more than three episodes, let alone win a challenge, it's pretty amazing to see this teen queen thrive.
- Krystal's eventual crowning only hammers in the fact that she's a true drag prodigy.
- Notably, UK Season 3 is the first season ever to have two different queens (Ella Vaday & Kitty Scott-Claus) reach the finale without ever placing below safe.
Season 4
- Black Peppa in episode 1, winning both the mini and maxi challenge, would be impressive in itself, but to top it off, the big chocolate headpiece fell off her chocolate-themed runway, and Peppa still looked so good and sold it so well that she won the challenge anyway.
- The entire cast comes together to put on one of the best, if not the best, Rusicals ever seen with Lairy Poppins: The Rusical, which went on to become the highest-rated Drag Race UK episode ever (and one of the top highest across the franchise), with an IMDB user rating of 9.6. Special mention goes to Danny Beard, who, even in a great performance from the whole cast, puts forth a strong, standout performance, and then puts the cap on it with a Little Shop Of Horrors-inspired runway look that's easily one of the most elaborate runways in the entire UK series, easily winning the week.
- When the eliminated queens walk the runway one last time in the finale, Starlet - who went home second, mind you - nearly upstages the finalists with an absolutely massive ball gown, heavy on tulle and sparkles. It takes up a good chunk of the stage by itself.
- It's understated on screen, but Danny Beard's victory marks the first season win by a bearded queen in any part of the franchise. And it was well-earned - with four wins and never even sniffing the bottom two, Danny had the most dominant run of the UK series thus far. That's saying a lot, considering the other half of the final two was the legendary Cheddar Gorgeous, who had an incredible run in her own right.
Season 5
- The Dragiators Roast in the penultimate episode was described by Ru as the benchmark on how to do the roast challenge. It's easily one of the best (if not the best) in the whole franchise. Ginger Johnson's excellent performance alone could win almost any roast, until Michael Marouli pulls an utterly legendary move by tossing away her cue cards to start, almost immediately upstaging Ginger, and then tearing into the cast and judges entirely from memory. Thanks to her incredible showmanship, Michael just barely snatches the win for the week.
