Drag Race UK star Tia Kofi serves Storm from X-Men in brand new video
Tia Kofi has released the “reflective” lead single from her upcoming EP. Written by Ian Masterston and Bright Light Bright Light, Get Better is an emotionally-charged electropop anthem about Tia’s “life experiences” since the “rollercoaster” second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.
The self-proclaimed “Taylor Swift of drag” tells GAY TIMES that the main inspiration was an “awful” and “hideous” breakup that occurred at the same time as season two, which saw Tia sashay away in seventh place.
Halfway through filming the season, the contestants memorably exited the series due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic – and it was during this period that Tia “found out a lot of information” about her dishonest former partner. “I just could not focus my mind back into that competition, because I was hurting so much.
I think, not being able to get back into that headspace, led to my downfall on the show,” she reveals. “I came back from that experience and realised that there was no way to work on that relationship.
