Taylor Dayne talks competing as a drag queen, her crazy TV mishaps, and new music on the way
The disco balls at gay bars have been spinning to the music of Taylor Dayne for three decades. We recognized the ’80s icon watching Electra Owl lip-sync for her life on Rupaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race episode 1.
You can’t hide pop legends from millennial gays! So, it was all the more surprising that she had to lip-sync for her life again in episode 2, this time being eliminated.
But, perhaps, it’s really a compliment to Dayne’s authenticity as a vocalist that she struggled with remembering to mouth the lyrics.
We caught up with Dayne to chat about competing disguised as a drag queen, her love for Donna Summer’s Last Dance, creating new music with Gregg Field, backstage shenanigans, and whether she noticed any classified documents at the Mar-a-Lago lobby (during the queer time period known as Before Raid).QUEERTY: Your drag legacy was short, but your music legacy lives on forever.DAYNE: [Laughs] And now my floor gyrations do, too!Now that you’ve done both: How does being a drag queen compare to being a pop star? I’ll stay a pop star.
