RuPaul's Drag Race (season 6)


The sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race began airing February 24, 2014. Like the fifth season, the season featured 14 contestants competing for the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar". For the first time in the show's history, the season premiere was split into two episodes; the fourteen queens were split into two groups and the seven queens in each group competed against each other before being united as one group for the third episode.
Santino Rice and Michelle Visage returned as judges. Two new pit crew members, Miles Moody and Simon Sherry-Wood, joined Jason Carter and Shawn Morales. The winner of this season won a prize package that included a supply from Colorevolution Cosmetics and a cash prize of $100,000. This was also the first season where Absolut Vodka and Interior Illusions, Inc. were not sponsors for the show, more specifically for the Untucked episodes. The Interior Illusions Lounge was renamed to the Silver Lounge or FormDecor Lounge. The theme song played during the runway segment every episode was "Sissy That Walk" while the song playing during the credits is "Dance With U", both from the album Born Naked.
The winner of the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race was Bianca Del Rio, with Adore Delano and Courtney Act being the runners-up, and BenDeLaCreme being crowned season 6's Miss Congeniality.

Contestants

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ContestantAgeHometownOutcome
Bianca Del Rio37New York City, New YorkWinner
Adore Delano23Azusa, CaliforniaRunners-up
Courtney Act31Runners-up
Darienne Lake41Rochester, New York4th Place
BenDeLaCreme31Seattle, Washington5th Place
Joslyn Fox26Worcester, Massachusetts6th Place
Trinity K. Bonet22Atlanta, Georgia7th Place
Laganja Estranja24Van Nuys, California8th Place
Milk25New York City, New York9th Place
Gia Gunn23Chicago, Illinois
April Carrión24Guaynabo, Puerto Rico11th Place
Vivacious40New York City, New York
28Seattle, Washington13th/14th Place
Kelly Mantle'''37Los Angeles, California13th/14th Place

Contestant progress

Lip-syncs

Guest Judges

Listed in chronological order:
  • Adam Lambert, singer and actor
  • Mike Ruiz, photographer
  • Khloé Kardashian, television personality
  • Lena Headey, actress
  • Linda Blair, actress
  • Lucian Piane, music producer and composer
  • Sheryl Lee Ralph, actress, singer, and activist
  • Gillian Jacobs, actress
  • Heather McDonald, actress and comedian
  • Eve, rapper and actress
  • Trina, rapper
  • Leah Remini, actress
  • Lainie Kazan, actress and singer
  • Bruce Vilanch, writer and actor
  • Jaime Pressly, actress
  • Chaz Bono, writer and activist
  • Georgia Holt, actress and singer-songwriter
  • Paula Abdul, singer, choreographer and television personality
  • Neil Patrick Harris, actor
  • David Burtka, actor and chef
  • Bob Mackie, fashion designer.

    Special guests

Guests who appeared in episodes, but did not judge on the main stage.
Episode 4:
  • Our Lady J, musician and transgender icon

    Episodes

Controversy

After use of the term "Shemale" in the "Female or She-male?" challenge of led to complaints over transphobic slang specifically from the season contestants Gia Gunn and Courtney Act, as well as prevıous contestants Carmen Carrera and Willam Belli. Logo temporarily removed the episode from all platforms and stopped using "You've got she-mail" as the video message intro. Episode 4 was eventually put back up on streaming services with the "Female or She-Male?" mini-challenge segment removed.

Soundtrack

In this season the theme song for the series remains unchanged from the original season, only being condensed to a shorter length to allow for more show time. As in previous seasons, while RuPaul enters walking the runway before the judging each episode his song "Cover Girl" plays; an instrumental version of the song continues to play while he introduces the judges and celebrity guests. The main musical change-up of the season comes during the runway while each contestant struts, modeling their looks. As in each previous season the song changes to promote more album and/or single sales for RuPaul. The song this season played during the segment is "Sissy That Walk", from RuPaul's album Born Naked. Also from the album "Dance with U" plays at the end of each episode while the remaining queens dance on the runway, exiting the stage.
Born Naked essentially serves as a soundtrack for the season. Its release coincided with the season premiere, primarily for promotional reasons. However, in the time just after Logo's release of the season 6 "Meet the Queens" interviews, which announced and introduced the season's cast, an album entitled The CoverGurlz was released digitally presented by RuPaul, meant to promote the upcoming season. The single "Oh No She Better Don't" was also released during the season.

''RuPaul Presents: The CoverGurlz''

RuPaul Presents: The CoverGurlz is a 2014 compilation album by entertainer RuPaul, featuring the season 6 cast of his show RuPaul's Drag Race. The album was released on January 28, 2014. The album was only released digitally to iTunes and Amazon.

Background

Although previous winners and top-three contestants have been given the chance to collaborate with RuPaul either on a songJealous of My Boogie| or by performing in one of the artist's music videos, respectively, this album marks the first time in RuPaul's Drag Race history that an album has been produced which features every contestant from the season.
The compilation consists of 14 covers of songs previously released by RuPaul, performed by all of the RuPaul's Drag Race season 6 contestants. It features tracks originally from RuPaul's albums Champion and Glamazon, as well as his extended play SuperGlam DQ, and the 2013 non-album single "Lick It Lollipop". The album also features an outtake from Champion entitled "Let's Turn the Night", reproduced with new vocals by Jason Carter and Miles Davis Moody of the RuPaul's Drag Race. April Carrión's cover of "Sexy Drag Queen" also features Jipsta from the original version of the song.
As promotion for both the season's contestants and the, then, upcoming season, each contestant is also featured in a short music video for their cover ending with a montage of clips from their respective audition tapes. World of Wonder also produced a music video for the pit crew's song "Let's Turn the Night", which also promoted RuPaul's, then, recently released fragrance Glamazon, released as part of a limited edition make-up line with Colorevolution Cosmetics.

Release history

Before the compilation's release, RuPaul confirmed on Twitter that a new album, in which each of the Season 6 contestants covered a song from his catalog, would be coming out.

Reception

The week of release the compilation album debuted at number 6 on the iTunes Dance album chart.

Track listing

Future appearances

Adore Delano competed on the second season of '. She quit the competition and placed ninth overall.
In the third season of ', Milk placed ninth, while BenDeLaCreme quit the competition and placed sixth overall.
Gia Gunn competed on the second installment of the Chilean version of Drag Race titled The Switch Drag Race and finished as a runner-up. She also competed as one of the ten contestants of the fourth season of . She placed 8th overall.