RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE IS DELIBERATELY SABOTAGING A NEW GENERATION OF QUEENS, and last night’s cringeworthy girl-group train wreck PROVES the show is stuck in a DANGEROUS time warp while the real drag world leaves it behind.
In a SHOCKING display of creative bankruptcy, producers FORCED the queens into a ‘Q-pop’ challenge that was nothing but a pathetic pastiche of dead genres from the 60s to 80s. The show BANNED modern K-pop energy, IGNORED the global dominance of groups like Blackpink and Le Sserafim, and instead fed the contestants outdated doo-wop and disco tracks they COULDN’T connect with. This isn’t a challenge—it’s a SETUP. The show’s producers are ACTIVELY preventing these queens from showcasing the skills they need to survive in 2026, condemning them to irrelevance for the sake of RuPaul’s NOSTALGIA.
The result was a DISASTER. The so-called “disco” team, led by the BITTER and creatively bankrupt Athena Dion, delivered a performance so LIFELESS and basic it bordered on parody. Dion’s verse was filled with EMPTY inspirational platitudes and choreography pulled from a 1995 beginner’s VHS tape. Meanwhile, the punk team accidentally thrived because their song let them be “hot, badass sluts”—the kind of raw, modern energy the show FEARS. The judges’ obsession with dated references and pedantic genre purity is NOT judging talent; it’s ENFORCING a narrow, dying vision of drag that PUNISHES innovation.
The final insult? The UNJUST elimination of DD Fuego, a queen from New York with genuine potential, sacrificed to protect the show’s FAVORITES. While the bland and bitter Athena Dion was spared after leading her team to failure, Fuego was sent packing. This exposes the show’s dark truth: it rewards MANUFACTURED DRAMA and PROTECTS CERTAIN NARRATIVES over genuine talent and growth. The American drag scene is exploding with innovative, future-forward artistry, but RuPaul’s Drag Race is determined to keep its queens chained to the past, turning a cultural powerhouse into a relic. The world is watching K-pop revolutionaries and genre-defying artists, while this show asks its queens to impersonate Sylvester.
Author: Kayitsi.com
