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ForDrag Races de facto resident composer is also one of the most prolific out gay musicians working right now.
Thats in addition to working on the music for HulusLove, Victorand QuibisGayme Show.
Doubtfire, The Birdcage, SNL,andMadTV.
If theres something that brings Lelands budding discography together, its his exploration of an expansive queer sensibility.
The fabulousness that runs through hisDrag Racesongs (sample lyric: Dont-dont-dont you wish you could be that bitch?
But you aint that bitch) complement the melancholy feelings he and Sivan unearth in their collaborations.
(The people danced to the sound of your heart, Sivan coos in The Good Side.
The world sang along to it falling apart.)
RuPauls Drag Race
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Youre always trying to write a catchy song.
No matter whether its a song for Selena Gomez or a song forDrag Race.
It doesnt happen every time.
So we will be given challenge ideas and then we take it and run with it.
But its very collaborative.
And, you know, the queens give a lot of input.
The goal is to always play to the queens strengths.
And then the fun part is finding vocalists, who can replicate these divas voices.
Were doing country for 45 seconds, then doing hip-hop for 45 seconds.
We take a stab at marry the pop sensibility with drag and Rus messaging.
And then the queens are responsible, typically when theyre writing their own verses, for making it funny.
Dont take it too seriously.
So I love helping when theyre writing their verses.
Because when were recording these theyre not usually in drag.
Give yourself something that youre going to be happy to perform.
Break Up Bye Bye (U.K.
It was beyond what I could have imagined.
Theres really not a lot of time to sit back and reflect on it.
That was really fun to see remotely, especially because we havent been able to go out.
And also very excited at Ru being on the song.
For most of the challenges and episodes that Ive worked on, Ru had not been involved.
[co-creators] Chris [Kelly] and Sarah [Schneider] are incredibly talented songwriters.
We just really played around with how drastic that was.
And that was really fun to shape, going from something wholesome to going too far.
and so itstry this!
try this!But we wanted to take that and go to the absolute extreme with it.
She and I started working together over the past year and a half.
We wanted to use it as an opportunity to spotlight up-and-coming LGBTQ talent.
And I had been working with Greyson Chance.
Andhaving Katya in that scenewas wonderful, and writing from Isaacs perspective was really exciting and genuine and authentic.
He can sing very high, and has a full belt.
RuPauls Drag Race Live!
But in the actual version for Vegas shes singing the verses as well.
When I got the call about this Vegas show, it was so exciting and scary.
But I had the team and the resources to help bring this to life.
I moved to the Flamingo in Las Vegas for a little bit while the show was being built.
Im so proud of it.
It was amazing the three weeks that it ran [before the pandemic shutdown].
The show was doing so well, too, and the cast was just iconic.
But it will open back up.
