*Finally someone in our scene (ballroom) telling it like it is. Ballroom can be for everyone but always do your history, learn the PROPER terminology, go to a damn ball.. No more SHABLAMS & DEATHDROPS when referring to a dip lol. Appreciation*

@ah2522

6 ай бұрын

okay white boy

@user-hx5le8ce2w

6 ай бұрын

Ballroom scene is for queer people of **colour**

@user-hx5le8ce2w

6 ай бұрын

And if you're noguing or fucking up voguing then you need to learn before showing it

@nachoalfonso2614

6 ай бұрын

Come through gatekeeping.

@tequilapapii5936

6 ай бұрын

@@nachoalfonso2614 how so by telling people to LEARN ABOUT A WHOLE CULTURE before trying to use their moves, LINGO, etc. ballroom is for everyone as i literally said. Just do your history PAST Paris is burning which is loosely based only 1 type of depiction. It’s a new year something else has to be going on.

The fact that DR Philippines, which Philippines does have a ballroom scene but nowhere near as big as the US, actually HIRED Nunoy Revlon for their vogue performance; the US version has no excuse.

I love when she talks about the scene ❤. She’s iconic

He makeup is so radically different from her initial ballroom realness days, to drag race, to after drag race. It's literally like skin on her now. So beautiful.

6:04 THEE Shannon Balenciaga??? the queen of face? idk why it never occurred to me that they'd be friends since they're both in the same house lol (im slow)

@jenniferclyde8911

6 ай бұрын

Yes! They’ve been friends since Mariah’s Atlanta days (I was low key obsessed with shannon after legendary lmao in a non-creepy watched a lot of lives on instagram way😅)

Mariah is and has always been one of the most stunning Queens in the franchise. It's great to see her every time she makes an appearance but, I've never heard her say so much in one sitting. She was so articulate, passionate and present while giving so much truth and sharing all that wisdom. Crowned or not, Mariah is Drag Race Royalty. CHEERS!💋

This circa 2008 Mug has given me the will to go on and achieve my dreams.

“It’s the dip not the dead drop” love it. Thank for the well explanation Miss Mariah ❤

So eloquent ❤

This interview is so prescious! Thanks ❤

I reaaaaally wanna see the whole interview, this is gold

I could listen to her talk for hours 😍 can we give Mariah a podcast about ballroom culture pls MOM???

@chanwinsern8814

6 ай бұрын

The history, the 101, her POV on Legendary HBO episode, the whole works! We👏🏼need👏🏼more 👏🏼Mariah👏🏼!

@AbsolutAlim

6 ай бұрын

Yes please!!

She addressed that so beautifully! What a great mentor she must be! ❤

love this interview and love thee mariah so much. an inspiration!

Such a great interview ❣️❣️❣️

You explained that very very well! 😂

Mariah is everything I’ve always loved her!

i love the respect n knowledge she has for the craft love to see her talkin about ballroom

It blows my mind how there hasn’t been more ballroom representation on drag race. Are ballroom queens just not auditioning or does the show not want them?

@merrymermaid

6 ай бұрын

the gentrification of drag

@slenderhulk4044

6 ай бұрын

More the latter. But also, there have been ballroom queens on and queens to go on and learn ballroom. Aja is a massive name in the ball scene. They generally get mistreated

@SpaceIsThePlace_

6 ай бұрын

@@slenderhulk4044 Olivia lux too. But it would be nice to have another established ballroom queen on the show and educate the kids on it, instead of some bar queen doing duck walks and “death drops”

@celinadepp

6 ай бұрын

Kennedy Davenport as well. She’s in the House of Ebony.

@sailorecume

6 ай бұрын

France S2 winner is a Ballroom queen :) Keiona

She is the moment and she has been since season 3. I love you!! Violet, Raven, Willam ,Mariah, Carmen and 16:33 Onyx are my best girls.

LOVE Mariah, one of my fav Queens ever ❤

Mariah always looks absolutely stunning, out of drag too! ❤

Omg Mariah’s skin is flawless!! ❤

Mariah doesn't get enough props for her mug 😍

@elijaheugene5727

6 ай бұрын

How can u get props for something u are. There’s no “her” mug when she IS THE MUG the ONLY MUG😂❤❤. But no forreal every mug of hers is so fucking stunning. Like that video of her and Olivia walkin face together like that MUG SHE HAD THERE MUAH CHEFS FUCKIN KISS my fav mug I seen her in she’s so stunning

Mariah is a genuine gem❤

Love her ❤

I don't know what she did her mug but she looks even more gorgeous than ever! 😍

She is so frikking stunning

Mariah!! Make a fan’s 101 of ballroom video! I know of it through Pairs is Burning and Drag Race, but would love to learn more from a veteran performer like you.

I came to realize she did not elaborate on Michelle Visage's expertise on ballroom and voguing 😂😋

Like Victoria Scon and her war with the word Fishy. A conversation and a history lesson would’ve enlightened her and made her sound less like a Karen

Love Mariah! We were robbed of her presence on as5

She could tell me stories all day.

Speak on it!!!!!!

After a couple months after the whole Aja / ballroom scene vs anetra I honestly think Aja was right . Yes did Aja need to go at her like that on twitter ? No but honestly after hearing how Mariah explained how the ballroom scene is and how protective over it , I don’t blame Aja and the ballroom scene being upset especially if she reached out to anetra to help her so I get it. But y’all don’t have to also attack anetra especially attack her character when y’all don’t know her .

@zyongli5760

6 ай бұрын

ESPECIALLY b/c now (even if unintended), Anetra created an entire fandom of young people who will type "walk that fucking duck" to anything they see that has a duckwalk now. It branded it as an "Anetra" thing, when it's not hers to begin with.

I have been interested in ballroom since 90s when I first saw it on tv. Where / how can I find out to respectfully attend (watch) ballroom? Or is it a closed community, you have to be invited by someone from the inside? In LA but have no one interested in drag to go with

@Adorenick

6 ай бұрын

It’s cool to hear you’ve had a longtime interest in ballroom. LA has a vibrant ballroom scene. I would suggest using social media to follow people who are in the scene. Balls are open to the public but you only tend hear about them if you are looking for them or in the know. Social Media makes it easier :)

HBO really should’ve cast Mariah as a judge on Legendary

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How can I watch the full episodes in europe? It says its unavailable in my region :(

@fightvale57

6 ай бұрын

use a vpn

Yall do know Akeria is in ballroom too

@j0sh_u_a892

6 ай бұрын

and now we have mhi’ya this season

@StallionDSDKaine

6 ай бұрын

@@j0sh_u_a892 that I didn’t know, thank you. Learned something new.

@Kahnstitution

2 ай бұрын

And Kennedy. She just got deemed legendary Drags Runway and Legendary Best Dressed-the Legendary Kennedy Davenport Ebony

I rather hear Mariah talk about the importance of Ballroom than Aja. JS #MUG4DAYZ

I could listen to Mariah tell stories ALL DAY LONG. She needs her own show. To add to her explanation on judging. The judges panel should be Ru, an expert of the challenge taking place, a former queen who’s been through what they are going through and a guest celebrity who’s there for neutral judging as in there to observe and critic based on their experience in entertainment. PERIOD NO ONE ELSE! It’s giving tired when they judge lately or should I say lack there of since the queens now judge themselves. Let’s see how long this last. It was awkward for the circle and it’s awkward for RPDR. My two cents. 💅🏽

Was she throwing light to Beyoncé?

@Guilherme-kk2tr

6 ай бұрын

No.

Boohoo. Americans LOVE that victim mentality. Don't worry, most people butcher French when trying to use ballet terminology. There are plenty of gatekeepers in ballet too, Russian VS American VS Italian. It's not a "black and brown queer" problem. If Leyomi is a legend in the ballroom world, by all means, borrow and make it better, because while she's consistent and has the longevity, her dancing just comes across chaotic to me.

@WikWar

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 best comment on thread 💜 the victim mentality is ReReREAL. Can you smell the delusion? Its that real 😂

Mind you anetra did it give ballroom the respect, she literally said she always wanted to go to a ball but there wasn’t no balls in Vegas, she didn’t have the money to travel to different states to go to ball so she could only learn about the scene from ballroom people on KZread and she has so much respect for the art and anetra said that ON THE SHOW, and still got hate, they don’t want to respect, they want to gatekeep, if y’all wanted Anetra to learn the fundamentals of the ballroom scene y’all should invite her and take her to a ball, people form the scene immediately start attacking her not once ounce of heart was shown.. im from ballroom and I think the reason Anetra got so much hate from the scene is because out of all the queens who isn’t apart of the ballroom, anetra was hitting some of her moves correctly, from her dips (except the 360 one at the finale) to duck walk, and people were mad she learned to do it well from youtube as many of us had to learn in person at the balls or by somebody in person

@Discretion234

6 ай бұрын

Well during the taping and afterwards, people threw balls in Las Vegas so why wasn’t she there? Even her drag race sister Tamisha Iman organized some. 😊 It’s not the task of the people of the scene to teach Anetra (or everyone for that matter who „deathdrops“) how to behave with the culture of someone else. This should have been her top priority to educate HERSELF how to behave with the culture, which she didn’t do. And to come at people like LEIOMY and Aja is not the way she should have gone, had she really wanted the respect and acceptance of the ballroom community.

@SMAnthonyW

6 ай бұрын

@@Discretion234 am I missing something? She never came for leiomy or Aja, she has always stayed quiet

@pelayo341

6 ай бұрын

@@Discretion234 drag "balls" arent the same as ballroom. as far i know tamisha is not in the scene. but there is a scene in vegas and in pretty much every state and internationally in almost every country

@pelayo341

6 ай бұрын

there is a scene in vegas. i think anetra just didnt want to get into it bc there is no money in ballroom, u just do it because you have a passion for it

Adding to the idea, something that pisses me off is how most of the time those people that have done ballroom inspired moves or performances on and out of Drag Race don't even have the respect of doing them correctly (Denali's duck walk is bad, whatever Willow was doing on I Hate People was an insult, Anetra's hands performance is very unpolished). You wanna do an element of vogue? Okay, go ahead I guess, but at least TRY or don't do it at all.

@AshleyMillionaireMitchell

6 ай бұрын

Denali - yes was crunchy but never claimed that she was the authority on ballroom. Could’ve called her in instead of calling her out, but whatever. Willow - yes wtf was that Anetra - y’all are giving bitter. Again, Anetra never claimed to be the authority in vogue, just said she liked to do it and did her best (which was very good). Maybe not all of her elements were 100% but do you have to do everything perfectly every time to be allowed to do it? Should people not go to balls and try because they’re not good starting out? Everyone has to start somewhere and Anetra was showing her vogue talents at the place she was at currently. I’m sure she’s better now, but after the constant call-out instead of call-ins and judgements made about her character and her as a person (which you cannot deny a lot of the ballroom scene was doing this) I wouldn’t be surprised if she stopped altogether, which is what I think y’all wanted. I don’t mind y’all not wanting her in the scene, but just say that instead of making it seem like she’s making a mockery of vogue bc that is a STREEEETCH. It just seems disingenuous 🤷‍♂️

@Manuelcolon24

6 ай бұрын

@@AshleyMillionaireMitchell I don't even wanna read, I'll just say that this is not about claiming to know or not, I don't really care if you are in the ballroom scene or not, what I said is that they should learn how to do it.

@bbfifi1991

6 ай бұрын

When Aja reached out to Anetra via DM to try to learn more about her knowledge in vogue, instead of having a conversation Anetra just shut off and blocked Aja which doesn't show her desire to learn more about the voguing and is being disrespectful to it. And of course instead of acknowledging it the Drag Race fans just call it gatekeeping when Aja is mad that her effort to educate and show Anetra the actual ballroom scene were treated poorly. Which in retrospective it is not surprising when Anetra did the same thing when she ghosted her booking gig and not being responsible or professional about it - she is just someone who only care about herself and do everything in a closet. I think it's totally fine if their technique aren't there to begin with - everyone has to start somewhere and might not have the access to the proper ballroom scene. As long as they are willing to learn more about voguing beyond that and treat it with respect, it's the attitudes that are matter the most.

@joyangel4475

6 ай бұрын

@@Manuelcolon24if u want ballroom go watch legendary, otherwise drag race ain’t for u, no one has to learn anything they do it bc they enjoy it

@Manuelcolon24

6 ай бұрын

@@joyangel4475 let's applaud and celebrate mediocrity 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 let's do a mockery of a culture just for fun 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Ballroom really isn’t for everyone! The founders of ballroom are rolling over in their graves over the ball held in Mexico geez

That scene seems so pretentious.

@pelayo341

6 ай бұрын

it is

@fightvale57

6 ай бұрын

it's not pretentious it's a safe haven. People are protective of their choosen family. These people come together to navigate rejection from everyone,even others in the queer community. Usually being the most under represented marginalized groups with nothing else to rely on. When they see people profiting of their legacy or representing it incorrectly then branding themselves with it in error. They are protective. Everything is a kiki or a trend. Some things are cultural staples or community based. Being protective of people trying to siphon your culture is totally normal. It's not some elitist group,its pelple rejected by sometimes other queer people. Some shit is sacred and ball saves people's lives sometimes.

@pelayo341

6 ай бұрын

@@fightvale57 do you think cis women can be drag queens?

She looks goooooooooooooooooood

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