Aura Mayari reveals why she was ‘limited’ in her Drag Race lip-sync
Drag Race star Aura Mayari has shared a bit of insight into the lip-sync smackdown that sent her packin’. While the Nashville-based entertainer tells GAY TIMES that she was “ready” to lip-sync that week, she said the musical stylings of Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa’s Sweetest Pie, lack of sleep and the construction of her runway ‘limited’ her performance. “The song was so hard to learn and I stayed up so late trying to memorize the rap.
Which I did, then I decided to go to bed because call time was very early in the morning,” she says. “I woke up that morning, put in my headphones, and totally lost all the words.
Also, my outfit was very limiting so I definitely couldn’t perform the way I usually do.” Aura fell into the bottom for the first time after underwhelming the judges with her acting abilities in a sitcom reboot of last year’s critically-reviewed and Emmy Award-winning acting challenge The Daytona Wind.
Although she received positive critiques for her puffer runway, Aura lip-synced for her place in the competition alongside Jax, who won another week after deploying her signature set of flips and kicks and splits. “I surely did have an idea that it was going to be me that was going to lip sync based off of the challenge,” she explains. “I did struggle with directions but I’m glad the final product was great.
