[singing] MTV.
I love every last one of you,
no matter how much I hate all of y'all.
If you don't have star quality,
then get the fuck out of here.
This is your moment!
Have it!
This is "Untucked,"
backstage of the competition
to become America's next drag superstar.
Girl, if you're not watching "Untucked,"
you're only getting half the story.
- Prep "Untucked" cameras on the main stage.
Copy.
- Rolling. - Rolling.
[dramatic music]
Loosey LaDuca,
Luxx Noir London,
Salina EsTitties,
Marcia Marcia Marcia,
Spice,
Malaysia Babydoll Foxx.
Ladies, you are safe.
You may leave the stage.
[tense music]
[Salina] Girl, I'm safe again.
Better than being in the bottom,
but it's definitely not the top.
I have no wins. I have nothing under my belt.
But she's still here, so there's hope for the Titties.
While country was not my first choice
for this challenge, I've kind of proven
that there isn't a task that I can't handle.
I haven't done a bad job at anything.
And I think that that is something
that the girls should look out for.
- Repo "Untucked" cameras to the Werk Room.
Send the queens in three, two, one.
Who wants to play ball, girls?
Safe ladies.
Oh, my God, are we drinking?
- I don't know about you guys, but this day has felt
like a football to the face.
I did a lot of work on our group's number.
I choreographed the entire thing.
So to not be considered one of the top contenders
in my group is a little frustrating.
I was like, huh?
And then I was just like, ugh, err.
Do you need help?
[gasps] Girl!
Ugh! [gagging]
- Loosey and RuPaul got on the same wig tonight.
I walked out, and I was like, wait,
Ru and I are wearing the same hair.
She might read me down 'cause hers looks
a little bit better.
- [laughs] - A little bit?
We have to talk.
What's everyone thinking? First thoughts.
- I'm kind of gagged that everybody in my group
is safe except Mistress.
So she might win it.
And then who else?
- I think that Robin could be in the bottom.
- But this time, she really did get to, like,
sing and, like, do, like,
fun little ad-libs and stuff like that.
So, like, maybe she is in the top
because it's, like, the most that they've seen,
like, from her in a challenge.
Girl, I just don't know.
I'm honestly a little surprised
that I was not in the top.
I'm surprised as well.
- I choreographed, like, 80% of our number.
Only thing I can accredit it to is that they probably weren't,
like, nuts about my look.
You love what you have on, correct?
- Mm-hmm. - You love it.
- Yeah. - That's you.
That's what you love.
And at the end of the day, like,
nobody could take that away from you.
- I know for me, being in the bottom last week,
being safe tonight, like,
I got to stop being safe 'cause I want to go far.
I've worked too hard in my life.
You feel me? All of us have.
We all want to be there at the top, right?
- I actually have a question for you, Salina.
- Yeah. - So, like, when we first were
all listening to the tracks, the hip-hop one came on,
and you, like, flipped the couch.
- You were bumping. - I was living.
- I was so shocked that your group didn't choose hip-hop.
- That would have been a very obvious choice for me.
But also, it's a group challenge.
So I had to look at my teammates.
- And I had a feeling-- - I bet Marcia would, like,
really go really hard and be really, like...
- Right. - Cool and tough.
Marcia would be really cool and tough and strong.
No, I felt like you were really scared
to be the white girl in the hip-hop.
- [laughs] - No, I would have done it.
- It's fun. - Don't you agree, on paper,
the grandmas doing hip-hop and breaking it and popping it,
- that's really funny to me. - It's hilarious.
- I think that's why we gravitated towards that.
- Right. - To me, I liked heavy metal
'cause that's the one I laughed at the most.
So it has that little gag with the demonic voice.
- Me particularly, I really wanted to do heavy metal.
And when y'all turned around, you said,
"We're doing heavy metal."
I was like, wait, wait, wait, no.
The reason why I stood my ground
is because I felt like their group...
- was being bullies. - And I love you for that.
- What do you guys have against country music?
You guys are gonna have to get really acquainted
with the genre, seeing that you're gonna be doing country.
I don't have a problem with country.
I have a problem with the reason
why y'all think y'all have a right to choose first.
- Exactly. - Like, what makes you think
that you're so Metallica fantastic?
- I don't think we should have to sell it to you.
I think the decision that we have to make now
- is who's gonna do it. - We already chose
that we're doing metal, so you just adapt
to the situation and make country fierce.
[squeals]
You and Sasha really stood your ground.
- And I really respected that. - Sasha almost gave in.
She was like, "No, w--" I said, no, we're not.
And I was like, in order for us to come to a conclusion,
we have to figure something out.
And the way that y'all was responding was like,
we not figuring nothing out. It's already said and done.
Y'all was like, oh, we're doing it.
It's ours, blah, blah, blah.
You already want to bully us and tell us, like,
"oh, this is what we want to do."
I think we stop using the "bully" word.
- I don't think it was bullying. - Um, but that's how I felt.
Like, that's how I felt.
You felt like we were bullying y'all
because we said that we wanted to do heavy metal?
- It was more so, "We're doing heavy metal, and that's that."
However, y'all were also pushing back
and saying, "Oh, well, no, we want to do heavy metal."
Just because we were saying, "We are doing heavy metal,"
versus y'all saying, "Oh, well, we want to do it."
You never said, like,
"we would like to do heavy metal.
Like, what is everybody else thinking?"
I don't think any of us intended
for it to come off as us bullying you,
saying that we were doing heavy metal.
I don't think it was that serious, if I'm being real.
You can call me several things.
You can call me cocky.
You can call me pretty.
You can call me gorgeous.
But I don't like to be called a bully.
Bullying is not something that should be taken lightly.
And me nor Mistress bullied anyone.
It's like, girl, calm down.
- Were you, like, upset with everyone as a whole?
Or just the overall vibe of--
like, you felt like it was, like, entitlement?
How is it entitlement?
Y'all were still giving us the same amount of pushback.
- After y'all had already, like, put y'all foot down.
- OK, I am--I'm sorry. I'm so sick of talking about this.
You can be sick of talking about it,
- but I'm talking to Luxx... - It happened, and it's over.
- Just because you're over it, you don't do that.
And please do not cut me off-- ever.
- OK, I'm sorry. - Do not disrespect me.
I've never disrespected you--
ever!
I've been nice to everybody in this competition.
And today, I will stand my ground.
I will not be disrespected.
- I'm sorry. - And I'm so serious.
OK. I'm very sorry.
Thank you.
- I truly was not trying to disrespect you.
I was just trying to, like, resolve things.
And I'm really sorry I interrupted you.
I did not mean to disrespect you--
It's not about you interrupting me.
You just told me that you're over
the conversation, you know.
It's disrespectful, because when you was venting
about how the judges said they didn't like your makeup,
or how you just felt like you were
supposed to be in the top, I didn't say,
"oh, girl, I don't wanna hear about that.
Like, I deserve to be in the top."
I let you have your moment,
and I let you feel how you feel.
Let me express myself and feel how I feel in this moment.
And don't tell me that what I'm feeling is not valid.
It really takes a lot for me to get to this point
because I hold in a lot,
and I just try to stay positive.
But I feel like throughout this competition,
I've been being poked at,
I've been being underestimated,
I've been being overlooked.
Yeah, we throw fun shade.
But sometimes in the shade, in the reeds,
it's a little truth that people are, like,
throwing out at you.
I'm not a pushover.
I'm just humble.
But I'm not a pushover.
When we were having that discussion,
it was just, like, the same thing going back and forth.
And I could not see an end.
There's not necessarily a resolution
to every discussion.
But it is important to have the discussion in the first place.
And if you feel attacked, I apologise.
But I felt very attacked in that moment.
And I reacted, and that's how I react.
- Yeah, of course. - I also think
that this challenge-- like, I don't know
if it was the same for everybody,
but, like, I feel like this challenge was very exhausting.
We have to get into your group,
because I was talking to Robin...
- Uh-huh. - Like, did y'all have,
- like, struggles? - I don't think
that we had struggles working together.
Like, there was no, like, snapping at each other.
But, like, this process is very hard.
I gotta say too, like, your group,
I loved that there was, like,
a throughline and a message of, like, sisterhood,
'cause I feel like that really goes back to, like,
our time with the old gays,
when, you know, someone asked, like,
"Are friends more important now than they were before?"
And they were, like, much more important.
OK, we're here for you,
so you can ask us absolutely anything.
[all affirming]
The old gays, they are the cutest,
sweetest little old men you've ever seen.
And my perspective is,
we have the old gays here for a reason.
Ru was showing us how a group
of older gay men band together as friends.
And that was the point of this challenge.
How do we write some lyrics
that tell a similar message throughout?
I wanted to know,
what is sex and dating like at this stage of life?
When you get a chance,
it's great.
[laughter]
- Are friends more or less important to you now?
Oh, much more important to me now.
I mean, if it weren't for these two friends of mine,
and others, I may not be here.
A core group of family
is just absolutely essential.
It is.
You know, within our own group,
we lost so many of our peers when we were of your age.
AIDS came along and brought about
so much tragedy.
Your friends are dying around you.
And you can't figure out what's going on.
I literally lost
my entire circle of friends.
I had no one left
by the end of the 1980s.
Learning that I too was HIV-positive,
diagnosed in 1987.
- I think we are still living in an AIDS crisis.
There are medications that are used to treat HIV.
But the best way is to stay negative.
Are there any aspects of queer culture
that you feel have been lost over the years?
The secrecy of which gay life used to be
brought a tighter-knit,
I guess you would say, of people.
But things are much freer and opener.
- Just in my lifetime, what I have seen evolve--
a broader acceptance.
This is an incredible revolution.
- There's still so many people trying to say,
who am I, what am I, where am I, why am I?
And you see somebody else and feel that you're not alone.
That's the way I was. I felt alone
because I had no one to talk to.
We will never go back.
I hope.
No. We will never go back.
- I think it's really vital for young people to make space
for older queer people to tell their stories.
These people have lived through a tremendous amount of pain.
So meeting someone on the other side of that
is a really valuable experience.
- Ladies, we'd like to leave you with some advice.
Growing old is not for the faint of heart.
- There's nothing like old friends to keep you young.
And whatever you do here,
don't fuck it up.
[laughter]
Have a good day.
[all] Thank you.
Y'all are icons.
You will be soon.
[laughter]
- "Untucked" cameras rolling in the Werk Room.
I have an idea. So I think we need
to lighten up the mood a little bit.
- Oh, God, what are we doing? - So I think that we should
play a little game of charades.
The category is, like, an animal.
And can I make noises or no?
- No. [laughter]
- OK, 'cause you know I will. OK.
- A chicken. - Chicken.
- A pigeon. - A hen?
- A parrot. - A fool.
[laughing] A fool.
A drunk bird?
A cock.
[both] "Walk That Funky Duck."
[laughter]
I was trying to walk.
I don't know how ducks walk, so.
[laughing] Not like that.
[laughs]
The girls are back.
- Oh. - Uhh.
- Uh-oh. - Hi.
- I see some smiles, I see some frowns.
Let's get into it, girls.
I'm excited to hear.
What's the tea?
We thirsty.
- I think I'm one of the top three for sure.
- Oh, good. - They really loved my outfit.
- This outfit, bitch, is one of my favourite things
- I've seen this entire season. - Thank you.
You know, growing up, I was made fun of
for, like, being feminine.
And back home now, just being in drag,
they literally call me, like, butch queen.
- Butch queen? - Yeah.
Sometimes they tease me about that.
So I'm like, I'm gonna fucking celebrate it
on the main stage, and this is why
I decided to do, like, a suit.
They were very, very happy
with my performance during our group number.
I'm just really, really happy from being, like,
safe every fucking week, you guys.
I was just so over it.
I was like, I have to do something.
Since I've been safe this whole time,
I feel like the girls don't see me as a threat yet.
But don't ever underestimate people,
'cause they might shock you.
- Mistress? - Well, they love the outfit.
They love everything I bring to the runway.
And they were saying that they loved our group.
I just stuck out as far as, like,
aesthetics and opening the show.
But of course, like, I have to attribute that
to y'all, especially you, Marcia.
- Thank you. - So--
You forgot about
RuPaul's note about Marcia.
[laughter]
I was gonna save that for later.
I didn't want to get on my sister.
And Ru told me to pass you a note that, um,
if you think you have enough makeup on,
keep adding a little bit more.
- So--but listen, listen, listen. - Oh, no.
- I'm just glad that my group got the choice we wanted.
We got country, which is what we wanted all along.
Cheers. [laughter]
- You are such a shit-stirrer.
[laughter]
I am definitely in the bottom.
- The bottom three is the rest of our group
with Anetra as well.
- Really? - Yeah.
It's hard. It's hard.
And it sucks that most of us in our team are in the bottom.
But I still stand by what we did,
and I had fun with you guys.
Aww.
Who do y'all think is, like,
gonna be the ones lip-synching?
'Cause I think for me, I feel like Robin and Jax
kind of had the more critiques than praise.
What did they say?
They think that I play it safe,
and that I need to, like, do more,
push myself more, get out of my box,
and take more risks.
I feel like it's looked at as a negative
to be a more reserved person, especially as a drag queen.
But there's levels to life.
Sometimes you're gonna be up here,
and sometimes you can just live here.
You just have to know when to camp it up a little bit.
And I think I might not express it
as openly as everybody else.
But I'm definitely trying to work on learning
how to have those levels.
- Queens, five-minute warning. Five-minute warning.
Oh, crap.
I'm gonna go listen to my song.
- Yeah, I'm gonna go listen to the lip-sync track.
Regardless of how this goes down,
I love both of you very, very much.
I don't want to lip-synch against either one of you.
- I know. - I mean...
- Likewise. - You do what you got to do.
- At the end of the day, it's still like, damn.
Bitch.
[laughter]
All right, we've got five minutes.
- Yeah. - Let's listen to this song.
[dramatic music]
I want to be here so bad.
And I've been faltering
and not able to show what I do.
And I'm ready to fight and show exactly
why I'm here in the first place.
It's game time.
- I'm really just thinking, "shantay, you stay,"
so that I can get in my zone and focus
for this fight that is inevitably about to happen.
- All right, queens, time to head back to the main stage.
Let's rock and roll.
Girl. Girl, you look so nice, girl.
[RuPaul] Welcome back, ladies.
I've made some decisions.
Jax, Robin,
you are both up for elimination.
The time has come for you to lip-synch
for your life.
Jax, shantay, you stay.
Robin, sashay away.
- [applause] - I love you, Robin.
[somber music]
- It's not a bad thing to be a more subtle person.
But I definitely could have took bigger swings
and pushed harder.
And I think that that, at its core,
is really the note--
to take chances when they arrive
and don't hesitate when a opportunity presents itself.
But it's hard to do in these quick moments.
I got a lot of shit to pack.
[laughs]
Ugh.
I didn't think that I would be leaving this early.
I wish I got the chance to take the notes that I got.
Not to play it safe.
I know what works for me.
I like what I do, and I think I'm very good at what I do.
But if I don't take risks,
I won't know what else I can do.
I mean, I made it through Snatch Game.
I made it through a improv challenge,
and I've never improv-ed a day in my life.
So I did it,
but not to a big enough extent.
And I definitely believe in myself,
but don't put limits on those beliefs.
OK.
Ooh, we have some letters.
This one is Jax, the bitch who sent me home.
"To my dumb slut."
Wow, we're starting this off real good.
OK.
"Words cannot describe how horrible I felt
"to lip-synch against my close friend here.
But you already know the love I have for you."
I love her.
"One day we will look back at this and laugh.
"But until then, I cannot wait to see you.
You will be the first I call."
Sad as I am, I am also still more filled with joy.
This is something that I've wanted for a very long time,
to share my gifts, my talents, my drag with the world
on this grand stage that is "Drag Race."
All right.
Some people, you really got to, like,
dig and peel back before you see the amazing gem
that's underneath all of the stuff.
Welcome to this era of fierceness.
And see you out there.
Bye, kids.
There are parts of me that I'm sure
that I have not unlocked yet.
And I think that's the essence of Ru's note
is to kind of unlock a deeper part of The Robin Fierce
so I can be an even better The Robin Fierce.
Bye.
I got to put my seat belt on.
[chuckles]
OK, I got the seat belt on.
Put the pedal to the metal.
[laughs]
- [singing] ♪ A little bit of love ♪
♪ Goes a long, long way ♪
♪ Lifting you up to a brighter day ♪
♪ A little bit of love ♪
♪ Goes a long, long way ♪
♪ Turn it around when you up and say ♪
♪ Everybody say love ♪
♪ Love, love, love, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Love, love, love ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh ♪
♪ Love, can you feel the love ♪