Lalaparuza Smackdown: Will the real lip sync assassin please stand up?
What happens when one lip sync assassin meets another? That’s the question Drag Race poses on its latest episode. After whittling the pack down to a final three, the show has called back all of the eliminated competitors for one final challenge: a lip sync Lalaparuza.
The prize: a guaranteed $50,000 in cold hard cash (minus taxes) as well as the title of She Done Already Done Had Herses. There’s a funny thing about this fandom and the title “lip sync assassin” over the years.
As time has gone by, like many terms, it has sort of lost its meaning. These days, any person who makes it through two or three lip syncs is an “assassin,” when in reality many are simply survivors.
On a season that’s boasted an alleged three “lip sync assassins” (that would be Geneva Karr, Mhy’ia Iman LePaige and Morphine Love Dion) the notion is really put to the test.
