Kylie Minogue has shared her ideas on the ‘Padam Padam’ lip-sync within the Drag Race season 16 finale. (Getty/YouTube/@RuPaulsDragRace/Canva)
Aussie pop sensation Kylie Minogue has voiced her opinion on the “Padam Padam” lip sync within the RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 finale, and it’s truthful to say she’s a fan.
Within the sickening ultimate episode of season 16 on Friday (19 April), the highest two contestants – Taiwan’s Nymphia Wind and congenial queen Sapphira Cristál – went head-to-head to Kylie’s viral, Grammy-winning 2023 observe, “Padam Padam”.
Nymphia Wind set a brand new inventive bar in terms of lip-sync reveals, as she walked on stage dressed as Taiwan’s signature drink, a bubble tea, solely to take the garment off mid efficiency and reveal a dozen balloons.
The balloons represented tapioca pearls, generally present in bubble tea drinks.
Nymphia proceeded to vogue earlier than delivering a second costume reveal whereas mid-cartwheel. Although Sapphira put up a valiant combat, conducting her personal outfit and wig reveals, she didn’t fairly match the gag-worthy twist and turns that Nymphia pulled out of the bag. Finally, it was Nymphia who took the crown, plus a $200,000 money prize, house.
But it’s the participating and giving Drag Race followers a correct present that basically counts, and even “Padam Padam” hitmaker herself Kylie has agreed that that’s precisely what they did.
Writing on X/Twitter, the 55-year-old “Rigidity” singer expressed her pleasure at watching the drag icons lip-sync to her observe.
“Nicely, nicely, WELL!!!! Simply AMAZING,” she wrote, together with half a dozen exclamation marks.
It appears she simply can’t get the efficiency out of her head.
Final yr, “Padam Padam” turned one of many greatest hits of Kylie’s close to four-decade profession, giving the star her first high ten UK hit in over a decade. The tune additionally turned her highest charting US hit in 20 years.
It was the tune that soundtracked 100 queer events, Delight parades, and LGBTQ+ music festivals, and one yr on, its impression stays clear.
Kylie Minogue’s music has turn out to be one of the crucial steadily used for Drag Race lip-syncs, along with her 2020 tune “Supernova” getting used twice for Drag Race finales – in Drag Race UK vs the World season one, and on All Stars 7.
Most not too long ago, her 2000 hit “Your Disco Wants You” was the finale tune for Drag Race UK vs the World season two, with Tia Kofi beating Hannah Conda within the lip-sync and profitable the crown.
The pop celebrity appeared through video hyperlink within the first season of Drag Race Down Beneath, however is but to make an in-person look on the judging panel – although it’s one thing she’s beforehand expressed her want to do.
She’s not the one music megastar to get pleasure from season 16 both, with “Born This Approach” singer Woman Gaga not too long ago commenting on a TikTok about how a lot she is in “love” with season 16 winner, Nymphia Wind.
“Work” hitmaker Rihanna additionally not too long ago expressed her adoration for Drag Race, explaining that it’s certainly one of her present “obsessions”.
In the meantime, the Drag Race prepare rolls on with affirmation that All Stars 9 might be hitting screens subsequent month – and if the rumoured forged record is something to go by, followers are in for a deal with.