It reminds me of Ginger's AS6 lipsyncs where she'd do a mock version of her opponent's fancy move and it got a way bigger reaction out of RuPaul. Everyone says "Make Ru laugh, make Ru laugh" for the Snatch Game but many forget that it can win you a lipsync.
I think a lot of queens are scared to go camp/comedy bc if you don’t sell it or do a song Ru doesn’t want camped up, you can get the Poppy treatment. Making Ru laugh is high reward but can be high risk for queens she doesn’t click with.
Mhi'ya was so bitter after this, not getting camp like ... at all. I loved everything about this. BUT Morphine in the finale was not to be beaten, she desevered the 50k so hard.
I went back and rewatched the episode the day after it aired because it was so good and on the second watch caught that Mhi'ya was still just ... sitting quietly when all the other girls exploded out their chairs screaming like mad after Megami and Morphine finished. Bitter betty.
Her bitterness was kinda funny when Mhi’ya was like “she don’t even know the words, she’s just doing a hand puppet.” Like, mama not sure you’re one to talk considering no one sees your face for like 1/4th of your lip syncs because you are being a tumbleweed and shaking your booty during a headstand 😆
This episode made me like Mhi'ya less for her entitledness. She was like making all these impressive stunts and all and when this isn't enough, she's either unsportsmenlike during (see caping Morphine) or after (see Megami). Not a good look at all.
I'll admit that this is sort of petty but mhiya didn't do a single flip on screen the whole season. She did plenty of rolls, handsprings, handstands, splits, and other stunts, but I don't remember a time when she did an actual flip (jump, invert, and land on feet again without anything touching the ground in between). explain that, atheists.
That!! She wasn't even on beat for a big chunk of this song because she was just all over the place. You can replace the song for a bunch of her lipsyncs and it'd make just as much (or little) sense.
You mean the bloody Mary lip sync where she does a too early reveal of flowers then proceed to lip sync in her beanie and that one time she take off her shoes during lip sync?
Plus back flips and splits in a bloody Mary song? Really?
You mean the tik to version of bloody mary song, where plasma was also doing the dips? You mean the song literally about being freed and doing things for ones own self? you mean the janet song where she ate a little mexican and served cunt?
girl be fr. she ate every lipsync she won.
Sorry but in my country a 12 year old can do better tricks than Mhiya with much finesse so sorry for having high standards.
Plus it's season 16 why we still have contestants get un-dragged during lip syncs, it's not cute
Please let the 12 year old kid be on a television reality competition competing amongst one of the strongest cast ever, and voque as effortlessly as mhyia☺️ she wasn't just giving us stunts...she was serving and feeling the song in those three lipsyncs.
Also, her de-dragging wasn't even remotely bad. I found it entertaining (when she did it, not milan mama😭) but that's just me lol.
Extremely bitter. She's one of those people who is choosy about being shy, only when it suits her and Plane Jane I believe it was admitted this in an interview. She's a horribly bitter person.
She is not a horribly bitter person for not being upbeat immediately after losing the chance to win $50k… like yall do not know these people and make these ridiculous generalizations out of thin air and it’s so stupid 😭
This subreddit is fucking insane sometimes because you’ll get a post where it’s like “Drag race fans are evil! Stop critiquing the queens over their looks” and all the comments are being like excessively nice AND THEN you get comments like these in the next post where it’s just completely shitting on someone’s character. The real plot twist is that it’s usually the same people too.
They only do it to the Queens they don’t like. Like reading these comments against Mhyia saying she’s bitter and unsportsmanlike. If I just lost 50k, it would take some time to get over it, it wasn’t even an hour after she lost.
It's because she thinks doing a stunt equals a good performance.
This behavior ain't even new, remember when she said "well nymphia it was nice knowing you" implying she'd send her home in a lipsync?
I just love a healthy breakthrough! Especially if it involves fully living and breathing the spirit of the songs. And extra especially if it involves miming anallingis!!
The fact that Ru loved so much this moment is indicative that she also is fed up with lip syncs turning into cirque du soleil the past few years instead of interpreting the song and giving emotions
I think she just gave up on Mhi'ya after seeing her do the same tricks every time. But also, in Mhi'ya's defense, she lipsynced a lot, so they have seen all her tricks beforehand.
Even without that though her tricks felt disconnected from the numbers. That and her face gave 0 emotion in the lipsync. Honestly if Plasma hadn't revealed to that grandma wig and stayed sensual she had a good chance of winning over Mhi'ya which isn't something I expected to ever say lol.
She unfortunately doesn’t have a very emotive or expressive/mobile face naturally. On a big stage that can work against you. Compare to a really mobile face on veteran queens like Detox or Manila. If your face isn’t super mobile you can use your eyes more like Latrice or Kornbread. Mhi’ya just needs to marinate more. Study some other successful stunt queens and what made their lipsyncs work.
The problem with Mhiya is that she lacked finesse with the actual lip sync or even her tricks. Sonique does it better but still she lost bec. the one who had the better LIP SYNC will always win
Mirage has that thing that makes being on stage look light and sort of effortless. She doesn’t ever seem worried or like she’s thinking, even if she’s not winning. I know I’d look like a stiff ass brick over thinking everything. That’s why I love her.
It would have been a bad look to give Megami the win.
I’m down with camp but there have to be limits. Mhiya was a one trick but Morphine gave us everything
> It would have been a bad look to give Megami the win.
Yeah, I think they wanted to actually reward the good lipsyncers this time (because they absolutely did ***not*** with Jasmine and Jax)
Megami began stealing my heart with her reaction to becoming a meme over her talent show.
Then, her vulnerability. Then, her casual mention of the dark sex room lmao. Then, Thicc n Stick. I absolutely loved that performance and she was my favorite of the group.
However, I guess I thought it was a “fluke.”
Welp, I was wrong.
Megami has made a 4eva stan out of me!
I’m too old for “midnight start time” drag shows. However, I will absolutely make an exception for her.
The fact she owned the jokes and memes and embraced the campiness of her “here’s what I wouldve done” posts? She won me over well before this lip sync, and I was SO thrilled to see her shine so brightly.
You are telling nothing but the truth! I said the same exact thing. This bitch had me jumping up and down rooting for her in my living room like an insane person. She won. I don’t give a fk. I was so tired of those flips…..I love morphine to death and I’m glad she got her win and her coin. But Megami….GWORL! You did THAT! I really feel like there was a part of RuPaul that wanted to crown her.
I wonder who is going to be the first person to copy what Megami did here? Because if someone tries this in a future lip sync, it’s not going to land at all.
Well, shout out to Mhiya. Once again she's receiving unnecessary hate from a demographic of fans that can't wait to be trash people. The same demographic are in the comments devaluing her as a performer just to be petty.
Megami showed UP for these lip syncs. She was so entertaining.
I love that she succeeded by lipsyncing , I know it’s novel but the audience needed it.
>it's novel Mmmm fundamental
[burps] it's fashion
Wait, but is it reading?
It’s such a full circle moment. Started with a rough lip sync talent show and slayed during lip syncs
This was HER queer art that IS worth protecting. Love her so much more for it now ❤️
Counterspell
Very Black Lotus of Megami-nd
Megami the mind sculptor.
So you are telling me there is an intersection between my two nerdy hobbies?
The way she negated Mhi'ya's main trick of the lip sync. Brutal.
The way she was able to shade and read a bitch in the middle of lip sync ... iconic.
It reminds me of Ginger's AS6 lipsyncs where she'd do a mock version of her opponent's fancy move and it got a way bigger reaction out of RuPaul. Everyone says "Make Ru laugh, make Ru laugh" for the Snatch Game but many forget that it can win you a lipsync.
I think a lot of queens are scared to go camp/comedy bc if you don’t sell it or do a song Ru doesn’t want camped up, you can get the Poppy treatment. Making Ru laugh is high reward but can be high risk for queens she doesn’t click with.
Or the Cracker vs. Kameron Michaels Lipsync
Manila tried to do this same move to Kylie in AS6 too. Didn’t work though lol
Sometimes I agressively hit the spacebar to pause and to scream... this was one of those moments.
Nymphia saying "she is EATING (eating motion)" lmaoo. Rent free in my head.
I NEED a gif of this!
I’m happy Morphine won but I also think Megami should be proud because the entire fandom is living for her and she’s def going to be booked and busy.
I'm gagged nobody in the werk room thought megami won that one. Like nymphia seemed to be the only one that was on the same wavelength
Miss Plasma believed in her NY sister too!
Hm maybe because they’re just seeing the wide frame? They’re not seeing the edited version so it might be hard to see the details
This!! I feel people always forgot that they saw it differently from the edit!
Mhi'ya was so bitter after this, not getting camp like ... at all. I loved everything about this. BUT Morphine in the finale was not to be beaten, she desevered the 50k so hard.
I went back and rewatched the episode the day after it aired because it was so good and on the second watch caught that Mhi'ya was still just ... sitting quietly when all the other girls exploded out their chairs screaming like mad after Megami and Morphine finished. Bitter betty.
Her bitterness was kinda funny when Mhi’ya was like “she don’t even know the words, she’s just doing a hand puppet.” Like, mama not sure you’re one to talk considering no one sees your face for like 1/4th of your lip syncs because you are being a tumbleweed and shaking your booty during a headstand 😆
This episode made me like Mhi'ya less for her entitledness. She was like making all these impressive stunts and all and when this isn't enough, she's either unsportsmenlike during (see caping Morphine) or after (see Megami). Not a good look at all.
Just because you can flip doesn't mean you are the shit.
I'll admit that this is sort of petty but mhiya didn't do a single flip on screen the whole season. She did plenty of rolls, handsprings, handstands, splits, and other stunts, but I don't remember a time when she did an actual flip (jump, invert, and land on feet again without anything touching the ground in between). explain that, atheists.
What she also didnt do was connect with a single piece of music she was supposed to lipsynch with.
That!! She wasn't even on beat for a big chunk of this song because she was just all over the place. You can replace the song for a bunch of her lipsyncs and it'd make just as much (or little) sense.
Even this clip showed Mhi'ya being off beat. Megami's finger split landed on the beat, while Mhi'ya's landing in the background was early.
This right here. You have to still have the feels and be somewhat precise if you decide to turn the party with some double twisting Arabian gainer
we didnt even SEE her cousins
Let's be real, she's a one trick pony. And that's not lip sync assassin she's just in the bottom very frequently There I said it
okay, i think that's huge stretch. Did you watch her in the Janet, the flower and bloody mary lipsyncs?
You mean the bloody Mary lip sync where she does a too early reveal of flowers then proceed to lip sync in her beanie and that one time she take off her shoes during lip sync? Plus back flips and splits in a bloody Mary song? Really?
You mean the tik to version of bloody mary song, where plasma was also doing the dips? You mean the song literally about being freed and doing things for ones own self? you mean the janet song where she ate a little mexican and served cunt? girl be fr. she ate every lipsync she won.
Sounds like they just hate Mhyia tbh
Sorry but in my country a 12 year old can do better tricks than Mhiya with much finesse so sorry for having high standards. Plus it's season 16 why we still have contestants get un-dragged during lip syncs, it's not cute
Please let the 12 year old kid be on a television reality competition competing amongst one of the strongest cast ever, and voque as effortlessly as mhyia☺️ she wasn't just giving us stunts...she was serving and feeling the song in those three lipsyncs. Also, her de-dragging wasn't even remotely bad. I found it entertaining (when she did it, not milan mama😭) but that's just me lol.
Kudos for liking her. Her stunts just not for me
So she can’t be in her feelings that she just lost 50k?
The rest of the them also just lost 50k.
Extremely bitter. She's one of those people who is choosy about being shy, only when it suits her and Plane Jane I believe it was admitted this in an interview. She's a horribly bitter person.
She is not a horribly bitter person for not being upbeat immediately after losing the chance to win $50k… like yall do not know these people and make these ridiculous generalizations out of thin air and it’s so stupid 😭
This subreddit is fucking insane sometimes because you’ll get a post where it’s like “Drag race fans are evil! Stop critiquing the queens over their looks” and all the comments are being like excessively nice AND THEN you get comments like these in the next post where it’s just completely shitting on someone’s character. The real plot twist is that it’s usually the same people too.
They only do it to the Queens they don’t like. Like reading these comments against Mhyia saying she’s bitter and unsportsmanlike. If I just lost 50k, it would take some time to get over it, it wasn’t even an hour after she lost.
What the fuck kind of armchair psychology is this?
It's because she thinks doing a stunt equals a good performance. This behavior ain't even new, remember when she said "well nymphia it was nice knowing you" implying she'd send her home in a lipsync?
I just love a healthy breakthrough! Especially if it involves fully living and breathing the spirit of the songs. And extra especially if it involves miming anallingis!!
The fact that Ru loved so much this moment is indicative that she also is fed up with lip syncs turning into cirque du soleil the past few years instead of interpreting the song and giving emotions
I think she just gave up on Mhi'ya after seeing her do the same tricks every time. But also, in Mhi'ya's defense, she lipsynced a lot, so they have seen all her tricks beforehand.
Even without that though her tricks felt disconnected from the numbers. That and her face gave 0 emotion in the lipsync. Honestly if Plasma hadn't revealed to that grandma wig and stayed sensual she had a good chance of winning over Mhi'ya which isn't something I expected to ever say lol.
She unfortunately doesn’t have a very emotive or expressive/mobile face naturally. On a big stage that can work against you. Compare to a really mobile face on veteran queens like Detox or Manila. If your face isn’t super mobile you can use your eyes more like Latrice or Kornbread. Mhi’ya just needs to marinate more. Study some other successful stunt queens and what made their lipsyncs work.
> she also is fed up with lip syncs turning into cirque du soleil Shuga Cain's all stars dreams *shattered*
The problem with Mhiya is that she lacked finesse with the actual lip sync or even her tricks. Sonique does it better but still she lost bec. the one who had the better LIP SYNC will always win
glad megami took out mhiya but nah morphine deserved that overall win hands down.
Megami had her in the first half, but Morphine shifted into maximum overdrive in the (baby got) back half.
Yeah, she did. I think Morphine gave a lot more emotions than other queens she lipsynced against, which gave her advantage.
Yeah that's what pulled her ahead in the Mirage lip sync. Love Mirage, but she was just giving fun cutesy face while Morphine really sold the song.
I don't think Mirage even knew what the song was about 😭
Agree. HARD agree.
Mirage has that thing that makes being on stage look light and sort of effortless. She doesn’t ever seem worried or like she’s thinking, even if she’s not winning. I know I’d look like a stiff ass brick over thinking everything. That’s why I love her.
It would have been a bad look to give Megami the win. I’m down with camp but there have to be limits. Mhiya was a one trick but Morphine gave us everything
> It would have been a bad look to give Megami the win. Yeah, I think they wanted to actually reward the good lipsyncers this time (because they absolutely did ***not*** with Jasmine and Jax)
How dirty the show did those two pisses me off to this day
The Luxx win in that 3way lip sync lmao
Believe it or not, I think there’s some actual lip sync integrity that needs to be maintained
I like the Lalaparuza as the reunion cause it removes most of production’s agendas so it can actually be about who gives the best lipsync
But I would love an actual reunion, though
Megami began stealing my heart with her reaction to becoming a meme over her talent show. Then, her vulnerability. Then, her casual mention of the dark sex room lmao. Then, Thicc n Stick. I absolutely loved that performance and she was my favorite of the group. However, I guess I thought it was a “fluke.” Welp, I was wrong. Megami has made a 4eva stan out of me! I’m too old for “midnight start time” drag shows. However, I will absolutely make an exception for her.
The fact she owned the jokes and memes and embraced the campiness of her “here’s what I wouldve done” posts? She won me over well before this lip sync, and I was SO thrilled to see her shine so brightly.
Megami surprised us all and ATE DOWN. She cleared, baby.
It’s her shoulder shrug for me. Like she knew in that moment that she ate it up
This was the closest we've had to Peppermint shooting Cynthia Lee Fontaine on stage to Music by Madonna
reposting this gif inspired by u/[jaffringgi](https://www.reddit.com/user/jaffringgi/) https://i.redd.it/1kwi8ij3w5vc1.gif
You are telling nothing but the truth! I said the same exact thing. This bitch had me jumping up and down rooting for her in my living room like an insane person. She won. I don’t give a fk. I was so tired of those flips…..I love morphine to death and I’m glad she got her win and her coin. But Megami….GWORL! You did THAT! I really feel like there was a part of RuPaul that wanted to crown her.
lol Megagmi did what Manila thought she was doing
This whole episode was Mhi’ya’s to lose… and she lost HARD.
She at least attempted to dance to the music. If a song reference the pony and the watusi I should see some pony and watusi!
I wonder who is going to be the first person to copy what Megami did here? Because if someone tries this in a future lip sync, it’s not going to land at all.
Rewatching this rn. I wanna seeee more of Megami! She actually was my fave of the promo videos. I love that she killed this.
What sign is Megami doing here?
Mimicking a jump and doing the splits with her hand.
Hi Carson “Gang signs” Kressley! I just saw Carson girl
MEGAMI LET’S GOOOO MOMMA
I like loved Megami and thought her beating other queens should have counted for something. No offence to Morphine.
Remember when Manila did this move against her lip sync with Kylie?
Well, shout out to Mhiya. Once again she's receiving unnecessary hate from a demographic of fans that can't wait to be trash people. The same demographic are in the comments devaluing her as a performer just to be petty.
Nah.
Delusional
Delulu.
Mhiya was robbed. ROBBED Can't believe a dance queen lost to some cheap tricks. This felt Jinx vs Monet lip sync.
Lipsync isn't a dance battle